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Special Note: We have calls
every week about receiving online payment for dates booked
online.
But ... think
very carefully before going down this route. Are you
sure you don't want to vet your clients properly before
letting them stay in your beautiful cottage, Villa or
Lodge? Do you really want stag and hen parties to trash
the place? Do you know if a small cottage for 2 persons
will have 4 extra folks sleeping on the floor as well?
Did you really want 3 dogs to be eating the furniture
while your clients are out?
If this still seems like a good idea then read on ...
FOR: Bed & Breakfast / Daily /
Weekly Holiday Home Booking Flat File Calendars
FOR: SQL Daily & Weekly
Calendars [but will only direct payments to a single
Paypal account]
NOT FOR: Instant Calendars
('cos they don't have prices!)
Insert this script in the same location as your other
calendar scripts and a Paypal
link will automatically be created for Deposit and
Full payments on the email that goes to the person making
the booking. This means that you can take Online Credit
Card Payments for your property. From Version 3.00 of
the calendar scripts this script will also create Paypal
payment buttons on the Calendar "Return Page". This
addon script does NOT autoupdate the
calendar availability after payment has been made.
PLEASE NOTE Paypal script currently only accepts payments
in US
Dollars, British Pounds, Euros.
Please contact re: other currencies.
You can purchase
this script at the same time as purchasing the calendar
script or by a separate purchase on the buy page.
Before you go down this route
you will have to think carefully about whether it will
be worth it. You will need a Merchant
Account that accepts
Online payments.
You will then need a Payment Gateway provider. We have
worked with
Protx
Worldpay
Barclay Card
Secpay
1. user selects dates from there Availcheck Calendar.
2. user fills in their contact details and the dates
and price information are encrypted before being sent
thru to the Payment Gateway. A booking email is sent
to the calendar owner and the booker.
3. user fills in their Card details
4. If the transaction is authorised, the users is taken
back to your site, a confirmation email is sent to both
parties and the calendar availability is auto-updated.
Please Note: As you can
image, there is quite a bit of work involved in setting
up this sort of system. We will be quoting for several
hours work for the coding plus extra time for testing
after the payment system has gone live.... just so you
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