New: Link your booking engine to your mobile website!

2012 has been a good year.  After a few delays, we were excited to bring InnsMobile and all that it offers to the PAII national and Mid-Atlantic regional innkeeping shows.  In addition to bringing the most competitive mobile product available on the market to innkeepers throughout the country, we were able to get a lot of great feedback.  You asked, and we’ve listened.

Add online reservations to your mobile website!

After much deliberation, we threw the switch.  InnsMobile users may now activate their online reservations link on their mobile site.  To do this, simply log into your account, visit the Create/Edit My Listing page, and then select your homepage for editing.  About halfway down the page, you’ll see the following:

Booking engine interface at InnsMobile

Do note that if you’re fortunate enough to have a booking engine with mobile capabilities, you may want to ensure that you do not need to use a separate web address for the mobile version.  For more on booking engines and the dangers of using a non mobile-friendly booking engine with your mobile website, click here.

Official Word Press Plugin

For our InnsMobile users with a website built fully in word press, we have a simple solution for automatically detecting mobile visitors and delivering the appropriate mobile friendly page to them: InnsMobile Official Word Press Plugin.  This easy to install plugin will allow you to plug your redirection code into your word press driven website.

Download the [self-hosted-plugins slug=innsmobile-redirect]

InnsMobile users can now automatically send visitors to their website to their mobile site

Our recent reveal at the 2012 PAII National Show in Little Rock yielded a lot of valuable feedback from our customers.  By far the most inquired-about item was browser detection.  After all, you already put a lot of money and effort into having your website listed as high as possible on various search engines and directories.  When people on a mobile phone find you in that manner, it’s only natural that you’ll want them to automatically see your mobile website rather than having to look around for an icon to click.

We have your solution.  Current subscribes can log in and navigate to their “Innkeeper Resources” page to find a snippet of code which can be copied and pasted into the header area of your website’s homepage.  If you’re unsure of how to do this, your webmaster will be able to help without issue.  This code can also be fed into our Word Press plugin for full word press sites, making it easy for you to redirect new traffic directly into your mobile website.