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How to customise the design of the Booking Engine

Set up your Amenitiz booking engine: choose what guests are asked, when you stop taking new bookings, the messages guests see, and the layout and cover image.

Overview

Your booking engine settings control what guests are asked when they book, when you stop taking new bookings, and how your booking engine looks. They are split into three tabs: Options (guest details, booking limits, custom messages), Design (layout, cover image, header) and Booking engines (extra booking engines for your property).

Before you start

  • All booking engine settings are under Booking engine → Settings. The page opens on the Options tab.

  • Your layout options depend on your plan. If your plan includes the Website Builder, you can choose between the Fullscreen and Sidepanel layouts. If your plan includes the booking engine only, such as Sales Pro, the layout is always Fullscreen and you can show or hide the header instead.

  • The Options and Design tabs each have their own Save button. Save one tab before you move to the other.

How to customise your booking engine

Set up the options

  1. Go to Booking engine → Settings. The Options tab opens.
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  2. Under Custom message, write your Custom message if no rooms are available. Guests see it when nothing is available for their dates. You can write it in each of your languages. If you leave it blank, guests see the default message.

  3. Under Customization options, choose:

    • Capture the guest full address? – choose Yes, I want to capture the full address, or No, I only want the guest to select a country.

    • Pick the number of people you want to appear in the selector of your Booking-engine – choose the highest number of adults and children guests can pick. This only changes what the selector shows. It does not stop guests from booking more rooms.

    • Allow linking of a room to a specific cottage – choose Yes to link a room to a cottage so they share availability. This option only appears for some property types.

  4. Under Limit new bookings, choose Yes for Do you want to prevent new bookings past a certain date? Then set the Time limit: Stop accepting bookings a number of days before the arrival date, at the time you choose. For example, 1 day before at 12:00 stops new bookings for a date at midday the day before. The time follows your property's time zone, shown next to the setting.
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  5. Write your Custom message if you are not accepting any more booking for the day. Guests see it when they pick a date you have stopped taking bookings for.

  6. Under Danger zone, choose whether to Limit the number of possible bookings to the number of rooms in the category. Choose Yes so guests can never book more rooms than you have in a category.

  7. Click Save.
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⚠️ Warning

If you switch Allow linking of a room to a specific cottage back to No, every link you have made between rooms and cottages is deleted.

Configure the design

  1. Click the Design tab.

  2. Under Booking Engine Format, choose Fullscreen to open your booking engine across the whole page, or Sidepanel to open it in a panel at the side of the page, with your website still visible. If your plan includes the booking engine only, this choice does not appear and the layout is always Fullscreen.

  3. Activate Custom Cover Image to replace your booking engine background with your own image. Drag your image into the upload area, or click Browse File. If you don't upload an image, the background stays the same. This option only appears with the Fullscreen layout.

  4. If your plan includes the booking engine only, go to Format Settings and activate Show header to show a link to your website (if you have one) and your property's details at the top of the booking engine. This helps guests feel confident they are booking with you.

  5. Click Save.
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💡 Tip

Choose a cover image that matches your website, so guests recognise your property as soon as the booking engine opens.

Add more booking engines

In the Booking engines tab, you can create extra booking engines and choose which accommodations each one shows. To set this up, see How to set up multiple booking engines on your account.

Important rules

📌 Note

Your booking limits and design settings only apply to your Amenitiz booking engine. They do not change your availability on OTAs such as Booking.com or Airbnb. Update those listings separately.

FAQs

Why can’t I choose the Side panel layout?

The layout choice is only available on plans that include the Website Builder. If your plan includes the booking engine only, such as Sales Pro, your booking engine always opens in Fullscreen.

Why don’t I see the Custom Cover Image option?

It only appears when the Fullscreen layout is selected. Choose Fullscreen under Booking Engine Format and the option appears below.

I changed a setting but nothing happened. Why?

The Options and Design tabs are saved separately. Click Save on the tab you changed before you move to the other tab or leave the page.

Will limiting new bookings affect my listings on OTAs like Booking.com or Airbnb?

No. The booking limits in the Options tab only apply to your Amenitiz booking engine. To restrict availability on Booking.com, Airbnb or other channels, update those listings separately.

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