Many members are very concerned about their profitability with the large commission levels charged by OTAs such as b**king.com. Additionally, this is forcing up room rates for those that use this service, making them less competitive against those B&Bs that don’t. Depending on membership full or associate our typical levels of commission are either FREE… Read More »
Due to our policy of developing websites for specific regions if the membership warrants it, we have just launched https://dingle-bnb.com for our 30 members in the Dingle Peninsula Area. remember this is to help you get commission free or low cost bookings, so please help us promote this on social medial by mentioning this new… Read More »
NOTIFICATION OF BOOKINGS We now notify that a booking has arrived in 3 different ways BY EMAIL – not the most reliable BY SMS TEXT – not available in all countries BY PUSH TECHNOLOGY – if you are using Chrome, Firefox or Opera web browsers to surf the web, you will receive a notification that a… Read More »
As our membership grows we are adding new websites or directories at a town, regional or country level. This past month we have added https://kenmare-bnb.com for the B&B Owners in Kenmare Ireland and https://bnb-italy.com for our growing membership in Italy. We hope our members will get behind these websites, mention them in their correspondence and promote or… Read More »
AS you all know by now we have updated both the “My B&B’ dashboard and the way we display your room rates. These changes require you to read the new documents in https://bnbowners.com/tutorial/ We have had praise and criticism for this move forward and we understand that people don’t like change. I will try to… Read More »
For many of you, you room rates and data has been transferred to our new calendar display system. The data has lead to some inaccuracies on your webpages and web sites. A new tutorial on how to set up rooms and rates is now available You can find it here https://bnbowners.com/tutorial/NEW-ROOM-RATES.pdf All new info leaflets can… Read More »
From now on we shall be calling the My B&B Admin Panel – the “My B&B Dashboard” – just to bring it into line with current Internet terminology. We have now released a new dashboard that will provide mobile phone and tablet users a better user experience. During the transition from old to new, members can… Read More »
Registered or not, if you are not using the STRIPE payments system – read the new info leaflet https://bnbowners.com/tutorial/STRIPE-PAYMENTS.pdf Now available in these countries – Save time and money taking payments Michael – B&B Owners Association
A Happy New Year to all members of the B&B Owners Association from your support team Michael, John, Owen and Peter. The last few weeks have been pretty quiet for bookings. However, things always change dramatically in the New Year so don’t forget to check your admin panel for incoming bookings https://my-bnb.com. There will be… Read More »
As part of our continuous improvement programme, we upgrade our full members websites FREE OF CHARGE every 3 or 4 years. We are now ready to upgrade full members to what are known as fully responsive websites. These work with smartphones, tablets (iPads) and desktop computers Plus the added advantage of a free SSL Certificate… Read More »