October brings a new way to manage GetYourGuide bookings in WP Travel Engine, more flexibility with custom booking links, and fixes for a few issues reported by users.
Here’s a closer look at what’s new.
GetYourGuide Integration Add-on
Selling on GetYourGuide brings you more travelers. But each GetYourGuide booking had to be added to WP Travel Engine by hand, and seats had to be updated in two places. If one update was missed, the same seat could be sold twice.
That’s why we built the GetYourGuide Integration add-on.
Bookings made on GetYourGuide now come into WP Travel Engine. You can manage them together with your website bookings from one dashboard.
You choose what to sync for each trip package. Turn on seat sync, price sync, or both. Only seats and prices are sent, and your photos, descriptions, and itineraries on GetYourGuide stay as they are.
For example, if a traveler books the last two seats of your Paris City Walk on your website, GetYourGuide shows those seats as sold. The last seat is sold once, not twice.
The GetYourGuide Integration add-on requires the Trip Fixed Starting Dates add-on.
Custom Booking Link Add-on
Until now, the Custom Booking Link add-on applied to all your trips or none of them. When it was on, every trip sent travelers to your custom booking link. When it was off, every trip used the standard WP Travel Engine booking form.
With this update, you decide which trips use which. Use your custom booking link for some trips and keep the standard booking form for the rest. You can also set one global link for most trips and give certain trips their own link.
Bug Fixes
- Razorpay UPI and Netbanking payments no longer send duplicate booking confirmation emails.
- The datepicker field now shows dates in the format set in WordPress settings.
- Conditional logic now works as expected in the waitlist form editor.
128+ Payment Gateways via PayLexer
You now have 128 payment gateways to choose from in WP Travel Engine through PayLexer.
Here are some of the new payment gateways:
Coming Next: A New Booking Experience
You may have seen our posts about the upcoming changes in the WP Travel Engine Facebook community. We’ve been working on updates across the entire booking experience, from checkout to booking management.
This includes a new checkout flow, an updated traveler’s dashboard, and changes to manual bookings, the booking list, and booking editing. These updates aim to make booking management easier for tour operators and create a better booking experience for travelers.
The new booking experience is scheduled to launch by the end of November. We’ll share more details as we get closer to the launch!
We also took a week off to celebrate Dashain, Nepal’s biggest festival, and spend some time with family. We’re back and looking forward to sharing more updates with you next month.
Conclusion
This month’s updates make it easier to manage GetYourGuide bookings and give you more flexibility with custom booking links.
Update WP Travel Engine and your add-ons to the latest version to get started. If you have any questions along the way, our support team is here to help.
