Hi all
Does anybody know whether it is possible to add a booking system, so that users can book different hotels from my wix website?
How do I intergrate wix’ and the hotels’ booking system?
Hope that you can help!
Thanks…
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#Lana are you using external “Booking system”?
Hi junaid
Thank you for helping…
I believe that it is an external booking system. Lets say that I would like my users to be able to book rooms in Scandic hotels. How does this work?
I am aware that wix allow booking on your own/one property, but how I would like a booking system like www.hotels.com.
That is okay if you are wanting to keep everything all in house so to speak as it does it all through the Wix Hotels app itself, see the link below to see how it works, you have to enter all your details into the app.
https://www.wix.com/web-lp/wix-hotels/how-to
https://support.wix.com/en/hotel-booking-system/setting-up-wix-hotels
To use Wix Hotels with an external booking system you will need to follow the Wix Support pages here.
https://support.wix.com/en/hotel-booking-system/connecting-external-services
However, note that there is a fee if you use a particular option.
https://support.wix.com/en/article/wix-hotels-channel-manager-fees
Also, be aware that if you are using Wix for free, then you will need to upgrade to premium to access all of the Wix Hotel’s app features
https://support.wix.com/en/article/upgrading-wix-hotels-1525304
Currently, you can’t integrate Wix Bookings with another platform for example, however you can vote for it, so you would need to keep everything within Wix Hotels app.
https://support.wix.com/en/article/request-syncing-wix-bookings-with-additional-calendars-or-other-booking-platforms
https://support.wix.com/en/wix-bookings/setting-up-wix-bookings
If this isn’t suitable for you then, as you state that you believe it is an external booking system, whoever is providing this for you should have their own API that you can use through Wix.
So you can simply use Wix Fetch or Wix HTTP Functions to expose your site to them etc.
https://www.wix.com/corvid/reference/wix-fetch.html
https://support.wix.com/en/article/corvid-accessing-third-party-services-with-the-fetch-api
https://www.wix.com/corvid/reference/wix-http-functions.html
https://support.wix.com/en/article/corvid-exposing-a-site-api-with-http-functions
This would be the best and most secure way of going through the booking process as it will all be secure in the backend of your website.
However, you can always just see if your bookings provider will give you a simple chunk of html code that you can simply place into a html frame on your page and resize it to fit, which displays their booking form and sends all the inputs back to them.
https://support.wix.com/en/article/using-iframes-to-display-visible-content-on-your-site
They may also give you two chunks of html code for that, so you would need to put the first piece in the head section in a new took in tracking and analytics and the rest again in a html iframe on your page.
https://support.wix.com/en/article/embedding-custom-code-to-your-site
Although please note that using the html code option will be a whole lot less secure and Wix won’t provide you with support for code supplied from third party providers as they have not had the time to test it all works fully for example.
Important:
Wix does not provide support for technical difficulties associated with third-party code snippets. If you are experiencing an issue with your code snippet, please contact the provider directly.
Important:
*We cannot provide support for external codes that were not created or tested with Wix. If you are experiencing an issue with your code snippet, please contact the provider directly. *
Hi givemeawhiskey
Thank you so much for your thorough answer - much appreciated. I will look into every option that you have listed 
Have a great day.
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