There is something like this already available. There is an ‘affiliate program’ and ‘Booking.com for Travel Agency’ program already available. ‘Booking.com for Travel Agencies’ is what would suite you the best as it allows you to find and book properties on your guest’s behalf and get commission for this.
Unfortunately, only thing intresting to guests is ‘how far away from the city center they are’. I tend to believe that is what they think of when B.com asks them to rate the location. It is always frustrating to see this affect your review score, but at the moment there is nothing we could do. I do hope they change this soon. Sometimes our guests’ review scores are low because they are complaining about a nearby restaurant service, etc. which is definitely out of our control. I figured guests sometimes think that the review they are writing is about their stay overall (accommodation+destination review) which it is definitely not. I do hope you excell in other parts so that location reviews won’t make a difference. :)
If you are a cash only property, you can opt-in to ‘Payments by Booking.com’. This means that B.com will facilitate the payments on your behalf which means that, in case there is a no-show, they will charge it from the guest and pay to you next month. If you have the ability to charge credit/debit cards via a EFT POS system then you can, after each booking, check if the credit/debit card is valid and then, in case of no-show, you will be able to charge their credit/debit card.
A third option would be requiring prepayment (deposit) immediately after booking which would protect you from no-shows.
There is something like this already available. There is an ‘affiliate program’ and ‘Booking.com for Travel Agency’ program already available. ‘Booking.com for Travel Agencies’ is what would suite you the best as it allows you to find and book properties on your guest’s behalf and get commission for this.
Unfortunately, only thing intresting to guests is ‘how far away from the city center they are’. I tend to believe that is what they think of when B.com asks them to rate the location. It is always frustrating to see this affect your review score, but at the moment there is nothing we could do. I do hope they change this soon. Sometimes our guests’ review scores are low because they are complaining about a nearby restaurant service, etc. which is definitely out of our control. I figured guests sometimes think that the review they are writing is about their stay overall (accommodation+destination review) which it is definitely not. I do hope you excell in other parts so that location reviews won’t make a difference. :)
If you are a cash only property, you can opt-in to ‘Payments by Booking.com’. This means that B.com will facilitate the payments on your behalf which means that, in case there is a no-show, they will charge it from the guest and pay to you next month.
If you have the ability to charge credit/debit cards via a EFT POS system then you can, after each booking, check if the credit/debit card is valid and then, in case of no-show, you will be able to charge their credit/debit card.
A third option would be requiring prepayment (deposit) immediately after booking which would protect you from no-shows.