The business requirement
Dorset Cottage Holidays needed a WordPress integration that connected property presentation with SuperControl availability, pricing and booking information.
Development and integration
The custom plugin handled amenities, dates, stay length, discounts and fees so visitors could see the relevant total before continuing to checkout on SuperControl's servers. The work focused on the booking journey as well as the transfer of property data.
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Original project detail
SuperControl API Development to WordPress Website
Impact integrated SuperControl booking and channel manager to a WordPress Website for Dorset Cottage Holidays, who advertise 60 properties through their website.
In this API integration we pull all accommodation information from SuperControl such as property description, amenities, availability, and pricing, to display on the WordPress front end.
We also carry out a number of calculations to show a variety of discounts (based on date ranges, no of nights requested etc) in area and date search results. We also add in internal fees and bookings fees, to ensure the customer sees the correct price advertised on the web front-end.
On booking, the customer carries out the transaction on SuperControl's servers, making it a secure transaction and GDPR compliant.
This time the work was done using the WordPress Plugin framework, however on other projects this has been done as a PHP Chron Job or as a .net server app.
