I just found a link to a booking.com page that features a lot of info in one single location just just wanted to share that with you. This might help for you own site !
I am pretty sure there are MUCH BETTER integration examples out there… but these are the ones recommended by booking.com.
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Search boxes
This is what YOU control. This can be hosted on your site and tweaked by the plugin I’ve built. This is the first thing you can do to get started in the affiliation business.
- Booking.com branded search box
- Fixed Size Booking.com branded search box
- Booking branded destination searchbox
- White label searchbox (English)
- White label hotel search box (NL)
- White label City searchbox (city generated in the url)
- Hotel Availability Check
Everything listed here is covered by the plugin I created. Also, you will not find examples of multiple searchboxes on one single page… as this is not supported by the booking.com scripts.
Want more ?
Once you start getting some traffic, you can put requests to the Booking.com online team. If you don’t have a minimum of 100 visitors a day, I doubt they will even care about what you ask.
You can’t achieve the implementation examples below on your own. They are relative to your partner ID and hosted on the booking.com servers. Again, the more traffic you get, the more chances you have to have it done in a relativelly short timespan.
More than 100 visitors a day : Booking.com + co-branded
As you can see, the affiliate brand is “integrated” into the design of the regular booking.com pages. Yes it is ! Look closer, top right ;).
More than 100 visitors a day : IFrames
- White label excluding booking.com logo
- White label including booking.com logo
- White label, iframe wide
- White label, iframe narrow
In this example, the affiliate site loads the customized booking.com page in a “wide” iframe. Customers feel like they are on one site only but essentially this is 2 sites showing up on one page. It has a lot of pro’s (you still own the integration) and con’s (double scroll bars, security certificate won’t show up, look and feel is weird at times).
More than 100 visitors a day : Complete Style Copy / Header-Footer
The Booking.com online team need to set you up here.
To work on your chances, make sure you look at the examples below and know EXACTLY what you’re looking for. The cleaner your request is, the higher the chances they’ll pay attention to your request.
To work on your chances, make sure you look at the examples below and know EXACTLY what you’re looking for. The cleaner your request is, the higher the chances they’ll pay attention to your request.
- Powered by Booking.com logo, Header and footer, wide
- Powered by Booking.com logo, Header and footer, wide
- White label, Header and footer, wide
- White label, Header and footer, wide (CNAME)
- White label, Header and footer, wide
- White label, Header and footer, Narrow
- White label, complete copy of style, wide (CNAME)
- White label, Complete copy of style, Wide
- White label, Complete copy of style, Narrow
More than 1000 visitors a day : Database Dump
This one is relatively rare and I’m not convinced there’s any updside to it.
More than 1000 visitors a day : XML
An XML integration is real deal. While it is a bit more costly when you’re just starting into the affiliation business, this is definitely a sign that you are serious about what you want to achieve. There is a cost on the booking.com side to set you up and they will gladly make you pay for it. Also once this is in place, you better be sure to have some good traffic coming your way… a site redesign might force you to rework it all over again.
- XML (Booking.com reservation process)
- XML (including reservation process)
- XML (including reservation process)
- XML (including reservation process)
- XML (including reservation process)
Hope this helped, feel free to send me your own suggestions !
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