After quite some time discussing with folks around me I decided to start writing a plugin to make it easy entering the Affiliates business.

Sometimes folks might have great ideas on paper. Things just tend to become difficult when it’s time to implement on a website. Leveraging the whole WordPress architecture, this plugin should considerably make things easier for booking.com affiliates willing to start moving the needle on their online sales.

What does this plugin do?

• Take the booking.com search box and add it to your site within any widget-ized area.
• Customize that search box with all the booking.com recommended settings. No black magic, just playing by the rules:
  • Affiliate ID
  • Default destination
  • Search box Label (for your booking.com reporting)
  • Width & Heigth
  • Text & background color
  • Language
  • Widget title (customize, add or remove)
• Lightweight

What this plugin doesn’t do (yet?)

• In the making
  • Support short codes
  • Enable multiple widgets with individual configuration (i.e. different destination)
  • Support dynamic links
  • Customize your landing page (embed the booking.com results on your site)

• Out of scope
  • Auto applying to booking.com affiliate program. Here’s how you get your affiliate ID.
  • Booking calendar
  • End to end hotel rooms management solution

Let me know if you have any additional suggestions.

Cheers

Greg