ResNova, our innovative booking widget, is designed to seamlessly integrate your ResRequest availability and rates into any part of your website. Offering versatile formats, it allows you to present your information either as a sleek calendar matrix, a rapid quick search feature, or a dynamic combination of both! What’s more, ResNova smartly adapts to the user’s device, ensuring optimal display and functionality even on smaller screens.
As you delve into the ResNova back office, a world of possibilities unfolds. Here, you can tailor your widget to fit your needs. Whether you want to display only availability or empower your customers to complete bookings and payments, ResNova connects smoothly with various leading payment gateway service providers. The process is straightforward: create your widget in the back office and then embed it on your secure (https) website with just a simple copy-paste of the embed link code.
But that’s not all! Your ResNova widgets are incredibly customisable. They can be fine-tuned to mirror your website’s branding, presenting availability in a visually appealing manner that resonates with your brand identity.
The synergy between ResNova and ResRequest is seamless. When a booking is made through your ResNova widget, it automatically reflects in your ResRequest system, tagged with your chosen source code. To enhance your guest’s experience, a beautiful confirmation document is sent out, complete with your properties’ contact details, alluring photos, and detailed descriptions.
With ResNova, you can transform your website into an efficient, user-friendly booking portal, and watch as it enriches the booking experience for your guests and streamlines your reservation management. Welcome to the future of online booking with ResNova!
While building ResNova, mobile responsiveness was top of our mind as we know most of your guests access the internet via their mobile devices and we wanted to ensure that their user journey is optimal and user-friendly. Your guests will be able to book rooms in a simple and accessible way, no matter the device that they’re on.
ResNova now has extended search functionality, allowing the guest to filter the properties they would like to see results for on the matrix view or filter for exact date matches on the search view.
If you’d prefer to only allow your customers to see availability, then limit their view and add a ‘Contact us’ button for customers to request a quote or booking. On the matrix view opt to show your actual availability or limit your availability to display only if you have availability or if there is no availability.
Spice up your widget and entice interest in your properties by loading images and property descriptions in ResRequest for the information and booking popups in ResNova. See the ResNova setup tutorial for instructions.
Choose to show your rates in the room information popup. The rate displayed will be for the average pax set for that room (normally 2 pax). The matrix view gives you the option to show your rates. Two rates will show automatically, one rate for a single pax, and the other for the average pax set for that room (normally 2 pax). ResNova can only display an Adult & a Child rate group. Please keep this in mind if you work with multiple rate groups.
It’s up to you whether or not you would like to enable bookings to be made from the widgets. These bookings will automatically be created in ResRequest and will appear in the ‘Req Received’ section/report, provided the ResNova user is linked to a user group not setup as ‘Consultant’. These bookings are the same as any other bookings made through our API, see our Manage online bookings tutorial to see how to handle them in your ResRequest system.
ResNova enables you to keep track of where your bookings are coming from. Sources usually include marketing channels, which could now help you understand guest trends and focus on sales.
Sign up with one of ResRequest’s Payment Gateway partners to activate payments from your booking widget. The Pay Now option will prompt the guest with options to pay the full amount owing (as per the accommodation folio), any amount as stipulated by payment plans set up for the user in your ResRequest system, or, if set in the back office, you can allow guests to choose to pay later, or allow them to ignore the payment plan and pay the full price upfront.
ResNova is offered to ResRequest customers for use on their website and is subject to terms and conditions.
Apart from a 3-4 hour setup fee for the account (charged at our standard hourly support rate), the use and hosting of ResNova is totally free! You will also have to consider your web developer’s charges for creating and maintaining the widgets.
Your ResNova account is linked to a User in your ResRequest system – this enables you to set up specific user permissions and rates for the widgets as they are linked to this user. Bookings can be located in the ‘Requests Received’ report. If you allocate a source code to the booking, you will be able to track exactly how much business is coming through your ResNova widget as these bookings will be created in ResRequest with the relevant source code.
To keep up with all the latest features for ResNova, take a look at our ResNova Announcements page.
