Category: how-to

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
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

All hoteliers are dreaming about the 100% occupancy. And we definitely wishing you that. But managing the rooms allocation in this cases became quite complicated. Each new booking, increase the chance of creating a new gaps between the previous and the new booking. As a result, when you are nearly . . . Read more
Not quite often, but sometimes you need to amend the existing booking from the OTA without notifying the guests. So let’s say you need to close the room for the urgent repairing and the guest arrives in few days and there is no more rooms available in this category. In . . . Read more
By the request of our valuable customers, we add the functionality to amend the predefined colors for the channels and for the direct agents. Since now, there will be no problem after the migration from your old-school spreadsheets with reservations to the Effective Tours. Simply open your company configuration, and . . . Read more
Private villas and small hotels with an average capacity of 6 bedrooms, usually prefer to rent out the full property rather than individual rooms. It’s much better to host one big group, instead of daily check-ins and check-outs. There is many factors influencing your sales strategy – low season is . . . Read more

If you still have old-school agents, who prefer to work with Excel spreadsheets, or you need to give a hard copy of your rates to particular agent, or you simply want to have your own, offline copy of the rates and inventory, then you have to request us to activate . . . Read more
At first you have to register at Effective Tours. While registering, you have to choose your company role: Coach Service – if you provide only the transfers/taxi service, then this is the right choice for you. You will be able to add different routes and provide transfer rates depending of . . . Read more
Well, I suppose you are here because you are somehow involved in the tourist industry. Then you are in a right place. Welcome ! 😉 Effective Tours is a cloud based solution which aims to connect all the players on the tourist market in to one big community. As a . . . Read more