
No doubts, that No shows and last minute cancellations affects any hotel business. It’s not a problem for a big hotels as they have agreements with banks to authorize and process the cards. But for the small property owners as B&B, guesthouses, home-stay and apartments it might be a problem . . . Read more

In this article, you will find simplified step-by-step tutorial, how to connect channel manage to your hotel with minimum downtime without stress and hassle I. Initial Setup 1. Register your account here. If you are not experienced user, then watch a screen cast how to do it. 2. Configure your . . . Read more

Effective Tours works perfectly with integrated payment gateway but not all our clients use it. Even if you are using our gateway there is situations when then guests want to buy an upgrade for the room or he settle the rest of the bill after arrival. Another case if you . . . Read more
According to your requests, we release a new feature called Internal Agents – you can use them as a source for the reservation. You can assign an agent to any non-channel reservation at the bottom of the reservation card. Standart account allows you to add up to 250 agents. To . . . Read more
iCal is a very popular format within many OTA to sync reservation information with others. Airbnb. Booking, Tripadvisor and many others are using it. One of the main disadvantage of ical is lack of information about the reservation and the guests. We decide to change it and happy to announce . . . Read more
We are happy to announce a new powerful feature – Rate & Inventory Preview. Multiple rates, various MIN and MAX Length of stay, reservations, discounts, markups – all of this features are very important to market your property well. We are humans and the more features we use, . . . Read more
We are happy to announce long awaited rates manager update. . This update brings new flexibility in rates manipulation. You can update the rates by day, or use Batch set prices to update a period.
We are happy to introduce the new Web-hook functionality in the Triggers & Actions. Depending of web-hook setup, Effective Tours will send a JSON payload to the url provided. You can fire up the web-hook for new reservations and cancellations, before and after the check-ins and check-outs. Since now you . . . Read more
I bet you already read a lot about channels managers for the hotels. The impact of the channel managers is hard to overestimate, it’s definitely worth a try one of them. I’m sure that within few months you will realise that your sales are boosted and you have much more . . . Read more

Setting up a new service is always hard, that’s why our CEO, Alex Novikovs decide to record a learning videos by himself, how to set up the Effective Tours from scratch, step by step. Tutorial #1 – Register and Initial Set-Up Tutorial #2 – Setting Up rates & Discounts Tutorial . . . Read more