Why We Love QloApps (And You Should, Too!)
With the rise in internet usage, many task have become easier and convenient to end users. Now people can carry out unlimited number of functions using internet within the four walls of their room. These varieties include online shopping to online payments, ticket bookings to Hotel bookings. Now, user do not have to take pain to go physically to shops or hotels to make purchase or book rooms.
Internet plays a vital role in the Hotel Industry as Online Hotel Reservation System helps end users to book rooms from their homes. Online hotel booking offers end users all the info that they need to know even before boarding on an expedition. End Users can have information about the several rooms and their price lists and even about the packages, deals and discounts being presented. Moreover, most of the hotels have their particular websites that provide an elegant view of their hotels and rooms. It’s necessary to facilitate your customers by giving them supremacy to book their rooms anyplace and anytime just by using the specific hotels websites.
Qloapps is a Complete Open Source Platform to launch your explicit and elegant Hotel Booking website. The best part of Qloapps is that it is completely free of cost and due to its open source code you can easily customize it as per your need. Qloapps is developed for the Hoteliers who are facing issues in launching their Online Hotel Booking Website. It covers almost all the basic features required by an Online Hotel Booking Website.
Your Hotel Website is the major source of your hotel marketing and most like the first impression of your customer so there are some of the must have features which your website should fulfill as per the new technical innovations and modernization -
- User — Friendly Interface ->End Users are very Impatient !! They need to find everything as soon as possible on the website so it is very necessary that your website should have User — Friendly interface. If end user find it difficult to search rooms, room types or prices for their desired time period then they will not prefer to visit your website at all. Ultimately there will be high bounce rate.
Qloapps do follow this concept and provide a very User -Friendly Interface so that end users do not bounce back from the website easily.
2. Responsive Design ->Due to new technical innovations various newest development has been done and the most popular development is the Mobile. Mobile has given a very large influence on the website design. It has become an essential part of the website to be responsive in nature, as all the end users are now using mobiles, tablets etc. to visit the website. If website is not responsive in nature then ultimately it will break on opening on any mobile device and yet again you will have higher bounce rate.
The Qloapps website theme has been developed in such a manner that it is compatible to all the devices such as laptop, mobile,tablets etc. Despite of the use of system, website can be open anywhere and anytime easily.
3. Visual Content -> Most important factor is whether you are giving a proper view of your hotel to your customers or not? As a person I can tell you that if I am living 1000KMs away from my holiday destination and looking for hotel to book room then I would like to have a sneak view of the hotel and hotel rooms so that I can have an Idea even before visiting and staying in Hotel.
Qloapps provide you proper panels in your Hotel Reservation system to manage the visual content of your hotel as well as your rooms. You can attract more customers to your website if you are transparent in each and every manner and the best way to do the same is by providing proper view of your hotels,rooms and luxuries.
On Qloapps home page an hotelier can show case his own gallery where he can provide the images of his hotel, the event took place there etc. This will help user to know more about the hotel.
Not only this, they can provide a sneak view in their room so that User got to know where he is going to stay and for what he is paying the room rent. It will help him to make right decision while booking room.
4. Social Proofs : Testimonials and Reviews ->While Ordering food online or making purchase from online store or anything else in which a user has to invest their income they always look forward for what other think !!
So, the case of hotels while booking rooms end user need some kind of proof whether the hotel data is authentic or worth to spend or not Providing reviews or testimonials will always increase the trust of the end user on your hotel.
Qloapps, help you to have both the functionalities. You can show the testimonials provided by your customer on your website home page so that as son as user visit your site they can have some reviews about your hotel.
You can even show the reviews on room pages to let them know whether the room is good to stay or not..The amenities listed in rooms are available or not…etc. As a person you will agree with me that we always make our decision based on the reviews provided by others.
4. Contact & Location ->Another most important feature on a Online website of Hotels is the easy navigation option. Hotel Location matters for most of the users as they always want to stay in the place nearer to their work place or sometimes the travelers want to have centralized located Hotels.
Not only that if Traveler is visiting the Hotel then they need a proper navigation system as well as contact number to avoid the worst situations.
Qlo provide you option to add your hotel location on google map as well as display as many contact details as per your need.
5. On-desk Bookings ->If you have a Hotel Reservation System then it is necessary for you to manage your on-desk and offline bookings easily as you will get the bookings from the walk-in guests as well as online guests.
A beautiful interface at Owner end can resolve this solution. With this Owner can book the rooms from back-end to manage its on-desk bookings and accordingly the availability of room will be managed online. Qlo do also provide an essential feature it it i.e. Hoteliers can swap or reallocate the rooms to buyers in case there is need from buyer to do so.
6. Multiple Language and Currency ->The website is accessible from anywhere and End User might be from anywhere which means that the website should be that much flexible that it can be view in different languages and the room prices can be viewed in several currencies.
7. Special Functionalities ->
Till now we have listed some of the most important features needed by a Hotel Reservation System. In Qloapps you will find some interesting features apart from the basic ones which will definitely attract more customers :
>> Partial Payment -> Guest will get advance booking option i.e. They need not have to pay full amount to book rooms. You can allow them to pay partial amount only and they can pay the rest when they visited the hotel. Hotelier can complete their booking from back-end.
>> Order Edit -> Owner has ability to edit the order. It is a very suitable function in case a guest want to extend their stay then admin can edit the order for the customer and book the room as per the availability.
>> Partial Order -> If guests are not getting any option for the whole time period then they can book rooms for the whole trip partially which means one room for some time and then other room for the rest.
Guests can book multiple rooms or hotels in single order for different time periods easily.
Conclusion -
Above mentioned points are important part of an Online Hotel Reservation System but do not forget to have social profile also and you can add these social profiles on the website home page also.
As people are buying more and more from the internet, you need to prioritize your website to be the first and most important selling point of your product. If you do not have buying possibility on your website, visitors leave it, by going to some other hotel or portal can book room and you will lost your potential client.
Make sure, visiting your website should be an enjoyable process for your visitors and giving them relevant information is very necessary.
