You can create your own booking engines either to place them on your own site (on the Home Page or on "section" pages), onone of your landing pages or to deploy them on partner sites (an organiser of a major event, a tourist office, the airport site, etc.).
How do I set up a Booking-Engine (BE)?
In your Network Head, click on Modules,
Click on Create this Module:
either to create a Booking Button
or to create a Booking Engine
You can also :
Modify an existing button or booking engine
Delete an existing button or booking engine (irreversible action)
Once you are in the booking engine settings screen, you can access the different colours of the widget's text and buttons by clicking on Advanced settings (colour, transparency, etc.):
You can also :
Give your button or booking enginea name (1),
Define the types of accommodation (2) and activities (3) you wish to distribute (seethe breakdown of types in the BE widget below),
Set theorder of the results (4) from your engine or button: random (default), highlighted promotions, ascending or descending rates, etc.
You can activate (5) the sale of Gift Cards and Click&Collect products from your elloha accounts or their promotional codes via a dedicated tab,
Specify whether this button or this engine "picks" from one or more selections or from all your accounts (6),
In the latter case, bear in mind that if you use all your offers, they will be filtered anyway according to the restrictions defined in steps (2) and (3)
Select the main language (7) of the Booking-Engine,
Add thelink to the terms and conditions of sale for your channel (8) and/or the website on which the BE is integrated (link to your page indicating your general terms and conditions of use, privacy policy (RGPD) and cookies policy); in the BE payment form, the customer will have to activate the corresponding tick box (the second link in the block to be validated corresponds to the terms and conditions of the elloha account in the basket):
Enter the link for the BE return page, usually the URL of your website (9),
For activities only, specify whether the names of participants must be entered (10),
Don't forget tosave your settings (11)
Access the graphical settings for the colour and transparency of the BE buttons (12) (seen at the beginning of the article),
You can copy and paste the Responsive widget code to send it to your partner orinstall it on one of your sites ( 13),
You can check your changes at any time by testing the widget at the top of the page or via theURL of your booking engine (14)
Download the module's QR code for print (15)
If necessary,integrate the tracking codes of your partners (Google, Facebook, other...) (16),
Note the migration from Universal Analytics to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) on 1 July 2023 and new management of the elloha Booking-Engine audience and e-commerce events (individual accounts or TDRs) cf. Integrate Google Analytics 4 into your elloha Booking-Engine.
What about the BE id (idBookingEngine)?
In the widget's HTML code or by right-clicking "Copy link" on the URL of your booking engine, you can access the BE's publication id (or BE id), which will be useful to your web agency if it queries the elloha availability APIs
What types of listings are compatible with the elloha BE?
Product type | Elloha account type | Services |
Hotel | Accommodation | Offers |
Rental - Bed and breakfast | Accommodation | Offers |
Rental - Furnished accommodation and gîtes | Accommodation | Offers |
Rental - Tourist residence | Accommodation | Offers |
Rented accommodation - Gîte d'étape ou de séjour | Accommodation | Offers |
Campsite | Accommodation | Offers |
Sports Leisure | Activities | Resources & Packages |
Cultural Leisure | Activity | Resources & Packages |
Tasting | Activity | Resources & Packages |
Monuments and Cultural Heritage | Activity | Resources & Packages |
Great Spaces and Natural Heritage | Activity | Resources & Packages |
Training | Activity | Resources & Packages |
Parties & events | Activity | Resources & Packages |
Transport | Activity | Resources & Packages |
Restaurant | Restaurant | Appointments & Coupons |
Retail & Services | Business & Services | Appointments & Coupons |
There are also"Cruises", "Car parks" and "Ski resorts" for connectors dedicated to third-party publishers.
"Itinerary" and "Stay" are not listed above because they are descriptive files (SIT) that we advise you to exclude from your TDR BE.
The types of elloha accounts that you can select in the settings are broken down in the BE widget as follows:
Accommodations :
BE menu name | Elloha account type |
Hotel | Hotel type |
Bed and breakfast | Rental type - Bed and breakfast sub-type |
Flat, villa or gîte | Rental type - Furnished accommodation and Gîte sub-type |
Tourist residence | Rental type - subtype Tourist home |
Collective accommodation | Rental type - Gîte d'étape or de séjour sub-type or Holiday Village type |
campsites, chalets, mobile homes | Camping type |
Holiday Villages | Holiday Villages type |
Type of activity
Sports Leisure |
Cultural Leisure |
Tasting |
Monuments and Cultural Heritage |
Great Spaces and Natural Heritage |
Courses |
Festivals & Events |
Other types of elloha accounts
Transport |
Restaurant |
Trade & Services |
have their own tab in the BE elloha widget:
If the breakdown of elloha account types and their presentation in the elloha BE widget do not suit you, you can always ask your web service provider to create a "custom" BE based on theelloha API detailed here: