Look at this hotel booking website; it's made with Munshi10. In front of you is the website, and there's a slider where multiple photos of yours are scrolling.

And then there's a form, a booking form. Along with this, there's an introduction to the hotel, then the different room types of the hotel, their rates...

...and then more details about the hotel, the hotel's address is showing, a map is showing, and the details of the hotel's services are showing.

The privacy policy link is there, and the hotel's email is there. When the guest has to book a room, they will press the 'Find' button after entering their required information.

Then, the room types will become available to them. You can see that it says 'All rooms booked' here on these dates.

No room in this property is available for booking. Along with the room type, its description is shown...

...and this detail is shown, then photos are shown. There can be multiple photos.

If the guest wants to see more details, they will click on 'Room Detail', and the features of that room will appear in front of them.

This entire website is rendered from the data you have entered in Munshi10.

How to enter this data in Munshi10, I will tell you in this video. When you log in to Munshi10, in the Home tab...

...you will see these menu options, which you can use to configure the booking engine.

If you go into Settings, you will set up your hotel's basic information.

You will configure the hotel's name, its email, website, address, city, country, phone, mobile, and all such information here.

You will set the booking engine to yes or no.

If you want to list on an OTA, you will also set that to yes or no, however you wish to do it.

The reservation department's phone number, which is then displayed on the website, will appear.

The mobile number will appear, the email will appear. Whenever a guest makes a reservation from the booking engine, you will get an email at this email address that this reservation has been made.

And your reply will also go from this email. In CC, the reservation email will be CC'd. Similarly, there is BCC. Then the designation of the reservation head will appear, their name will appear.

Then the hotel's phone number will appear. Besides this, there is other information that is not related to the booking engine.

In Theme, you can select the color that is closest to your marketing website.

From here, you can select black, blue, green. These are Bootstrap's color schemes, and we have implemented Bootstrap's colors in our booking engine.

So, whatever is the closest color, select it, and the colors of the booking engine—of the buttons, the header, and the text—will change accordingly.

Then comes the booking engine's content. You have to add an introduction.

You have to add 'About Us', you have to add the terms for reservations, what they are. These will be displayed there for you.

In this, you can also add your banking information. And then the email signature that will go in the email to the guest, you can add all these details in that as well.

The late check-out policy, payment instructions—how the payment is to be made—your privacy policy.

Then, if you want to display the Booking.com rating on the booking engine and want to display Booking.com's reviews, you will enter that here—what the number of reviews is.

You will have to update these manually whenever you need to change them.

Then, your social media presence—you have to specify its links here.

You also have to provide the Google Maps URL, and where the Google map is embedded, you have to provide the iFrame code for that here as well.

If you have YouTube videos, you can mention those here too.

For formatting a lot of the information in this, you can use HTML.

Very basic HTML is needed. Or you can use Markdown.

With this, if you want to make any text italic, bold, or create a heading for it, you can do that using your HTML tags or Markdown tags.

When you have completed your settings, then you define the properties' features from the checkboxes here—what the features of your property are.

You define those. After that, the room types of your property—whatever kinds of rooms there are—you get a list of existing room types here.

If you need to add a new room type, then look, this 'Add Room Type' form is appearing. You can add a new room type from here.

To edit an existing room type, you can click here and edit it. The rooms within that room type will also be visible to you below.

In this, the value for adults and children is very important because the maximum number of adults and children shown on our booking engine is based on this.

If you have given two adults and two children, and a guest searches for a room for three adults, then this room will not appear in that list.

Similarly, for any room type, the description you provide will be visible on your booking engine next to that room type. As you can see here...

...we have typed the description here. You can see, this whole description is appearing. I'll make this box a little bigger.

So this description will appear on your booking engine's website.

Here, if we come to the booking engine, you can see this description here. This description...

...has been typed here. So it's very important for you to understand how you have to type this description.

And in this description, you can see that the formatting has been done with Markdown syntax. For example, two asterisks have been used, so this is bold.

And here you can see how it's bolded and how the normal text appears.

And how we have done it here. Similarly, if you want to mark some detailed features of that room, you will press the 'Features' button. This screen will appear in front of you...

...for that room type, and you will check whichever features apply to it and update it.

After room types, you can define rooms if your rooms are not defined. And you can also add a new room, and you can also change an existing room.

After this comes the Gallery. Here you upload photos that you want to show in your booking engine.

This includes photos of your room types, as well as photos of the elevation and the reception area, which are displayed in the slider at the top.

To add a photo, you will click 'Add New Image'. From here, you will select what type of photo you want to add.

And if it's a room type photo, you will select the room type, otherwise you will leave it blank.

In what sequence you want to display the photo, you can specify the sequence here. And if you want to add a description, you can add that too.

Then from here, you can upload any photo, and that photo will be attached to that image type and room type.

If you want to change an existing photo, you can edit it from here.

Any of them... now I'll open this one. This is a room type photo. If I select a new one from here, this one will be removed and the new photo will be attached in its place.

You can also filter all the photos that are appearing in the gallery. For example, if you want to see elevation photos, you will select 'Elevation', and it will appear for you.

If you want to see reception photos, the reception photos will appear for you.

Or if you want to see room type photos, you will get the room type photos. From here, you can also get photos of a specific room type.

After updating the gallery, you will come to Rate Plans. Every room type has at least one rate plan; there can be more than one.

But since you are doing the initial setup, define only one rate plan for each room type. In fact, Munshi automatically defines one rate plan for each room type.

For instance, when I click this, a rate plan has been added called 'Best Available Rate'.

Everything is shown in it, like what the maximum number of guests will be, what is allowed for breakfast, lunch, dinner in this rate plan.

What is the room rate, what is the adult rate, if there's an extra adult—meaning if they say they need a mattress, what rate you have to apply.

In this way, you can update all this information and save it here.

If you want to add another rate plan for this same room type, you can add a second rate plan from here.

A single room type can have multiple rate plans in the sense that you can define a refundable rate plan, which will have a higher rate, but if the guest cancels, you will refund them.

And there can also be a non-refundable one, which will have a lower rate, but it will not be refundable.

The room types that appear on the booking engine, the rates that appear with them, are picked up from the rate plans here.

When you have set the rate plans, your booking engine configuration is complete. Now, the calendar configuration is optional.

What can you do with the calendar configuration? You can set date-wise rates. For that, you will come to the calendar and click 'Bulk Update'.

From here, you will select any rate plan, and its rates will appear here for you for the weekdays.

For any Friday, Saturday... if you want to increase the weekend rates or decrease the weekend rates, you will do that here.

Then you will specify the date range—in which date range these rates should apply—and in that date range, your rates will be applied.

Similarly, you can do a stop sell. For example, if you have a busy week coming up, then for Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, for three days, you want no bookings to come from your booking engine.

So you can check this box, and for whatever date range you want to apply this, you give that and do a bulk update stop sell.

Then on those dates, a guest cannot add a reservation on the booking engine.

Through promo codes, you can give discounts to your loyal guests. In the promo code, you have to give a code number, a description.

You have to specify the percentage—whether you want to give a percentage discount on the room rate or a flat amount discount, and what its value will be.

If it's a percentage, if it's 10%, you will write 10. If you are giving a 1000 Rs discount, then you will set it to 'Flat' and write 1000.

Then, if you are creating a promo code for an agent and need to give them a commission, then you can define whether you want to give them a percentage commission or a flat commission, and you can enter the value of their commission.

And you can also specify from which date to which date this promo code will be valid.

After entering the promo code information, you also have to check 'Active' so that this promo code becomes active.

Sometimes it happens that you have defined a promo code, but at some point, you want to disable it, so you will uncheck this, and your promo code will be disabled.

OTA/Booking Engine Tutorials

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