igumbi Online Booking

igumbi is a simple and fast online booking tool/ internet booking engine (IBE) for a hotel, apartment or holiday rental website (also an online hotelsoftware/ PMS and a revenue-/ yield-management system).

Stripe can be used to charge the guest via creaditcard or other payment methods automatically at the time of booking.

Used by hotels, bed and breakfasts, apartments, holiday rentals: apartments or holiday houses.

The plugin makes the booking tool (IBE) available to your WordPress site, without the need to manually manage free rooms and prices. You will use the igumbi backend to handle your daily business and reservations, send emails via email-templates like offers and confirmations, create invoices, assign rooms, check in and register your guests, track deposits.

The igumbi booking tool (IBE) gives your site visitors dynamic room/ apartment prices based on revenue management methods, which also implement an upselling strategy. This helps you, as the property owner, to earn more and pay less OTA comissions for your online bookings. To connect to other booking portals/ OTAs, like booking.com, HRS or expedia igumbi can be connected to a channel manager. igumbi sends the prices, rules and availabilities to the channel manager. igumbi fetches the reservations (booked, modified, cancelled) from your connected portals via the channel manager. your daily pricesare sent from igumbi to the channel manager and then to the portals/ OTAs.

The plugin is free to use, but you do need an account with igumbi.com.

Create your igumbi account

A 30 day free trial account is available at igumbi.com/trial.
Then go the settings page and get the 7 character hotel code to hook up the online booking tool with the wordpress plugin.

Before you set the booking tool live on your site, ensure that you have entered all reservations into the igumbi backend (at least for the critical dates) so that the correct daily availability can be calculated.

Display the booking tool where you need it

With the new plugin architecture, you can now leverage the flexibility of the shortcodes to display the elements of the igumbi booking tool in your pages or on your widgetized areas (sidebar, footer, header).

Tune the colors of the booking tool by adjusting the CSS

You can overwrite the CSS generated by the igumbi booking tool to match the look and feel of your sites theme in the igumbi backend or via the WordPress igumbi Settings Page.

Check out the official site for details and screenshots.

Talk to us to get Stripe set up

There are a few options of how the booking process can be set up with stripe.com to automate invoiceing and payments:

With Stripe as a payment provider:

• Full payment with an invoice issued at the time of booking.d
• Deposit (percentage of total) and a second payment before arrival – usually used by more expensive rentals like longer stays or villas.
• Only take the card details for optional charging later.

Witout Stripe:

• Set up the system so that the guests get an email to pay via banktransfer (deposit or full amount)
• No payment information requires – higher conversion but risk of late cancellations and noshows.

Depending on your desired setup, the email templates that are sent out after booking to the guests need to be customized. We will help you to get this set up properly in a support call.

Embed the Availability Calendars

Availability calendars for the next calendar year are generated for each productcategory. Embed the calendars on your sites page describeing the categories. This is especially useful for villas, holiday rentals and apartments.