Panda Multi Resorts 9 - Hotel Booking System & CMS for Multiple Hotels

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Panda Multi Resorts is a complete hotel booking system in PHP for hotel groups, resort operators, travel agencies and destination websites that sell several properties. Rooms, rates and availability, online booking and payments, platform calendars, guest reviews, activities and a beautiful responsive website: everything you need to sell your rooms directly, in one product installed in minutes.

Version 9: a complete rewrite

Version 9 is rebuilt on Pandao CMS 8 for PHP 8.2 to 8.5. Buyers of version 8 download it from their Downloads page, then import their hotels, rates, bookings, pages and customer accounts in one go, passwords included, keeping the addresses of their pages and their search rankings. Read the upgrade guide.

A booking experience your guests already know

Designed like the major booking platforms: guests search by destination and dates, compare the hotels on a list or a map, book several rooms and offers at once, add extras and activities, and pay online or at the hotel. The price shown always includes taxes and mandatory fees.

Everything hotel managers need

A rates calendar per hotel, a visual planning, a booking editor for phone bookings, payment and deposit rules per hotel, calendars synchronised with Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo, verified guest reviews, and owners who manage their own properties.

A complete, international website

Your site opens on a complete hotel website: slideshow and stay search, featured hotels and destinations, activities, blog, contact and legal pages. Translate it into any language, right-to-left ones included, and show your prices in the currency of each visitor.

Easy to install, secure and well documented

An installation wizard, a diagnostic screen that checks your server, automatic tasks with or without a cron job, database updates in one click, and a complete documentation with screenshots of every screen.

Features

Catalogue

• Unlimited destinations, hotels, resorts, villas and rooms, with photos, videos, facilities and themes
• Room types with their room numbers, occupancy limits and sizes
• Maps of the hotels with OpenStreetMap, no API key needed, and directions
• Activities and tours with their sessions, places and pages, booked with a stay or alone

Rates and availability

• Rates calendar per hotel: prices per night, weekday prices, minimum and maximum stay, arrival and departure days, closed rooms
• Seasons on a timeline, and the copy of a season to next year with a price change
• Guests included, extra adults and child prices by age, set for the hotel, the room or the period
• Rate plans: non-refundable, breakfast included, early booking, last minute, promotions with dates
• Taxes and fees: VAT, tourist tax per guest and night with a minimum age, fees per room, values per hotel
• Mandatory and optional services, promo codes
• Prices shown in the currency of the visitor, at the reference rates of the European Central Bank

Booking engine

• Search by destination, dates, adults and ages of the children, with filters by category, budget and theme
• Several rooms and offers in one booking, the best room preselected, a live total, prices taxes included
• Availability calendar with the full nights; nearby dates, other hotels and a request to the hotel when it is full
• Instant confirmation or confirmation on request, hotel by hotel
• “Complete your booking” card and payment reminders
• Online cancellation during the free cancellation, with automatic refunds
• Customer account with the bookings and details of the guest

Payments

• Stripe Checkout (cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay), PayPal, bank transfer, check and payment at the hotel
• Deposit as a percentage, the first night, a fixed amount or the whole stay; rooms held during the payment
• Stripe and PayPal accounts per hotel, for a multi-vendor website

Platform calendars (iCal)

• Import and export of the calendars of Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo and any iCal platform, room by room
• Imported stays shown in the planning and the bookings, conflicts detected and flagged
• Safeguards against broken feeds, alerts by e-mail

Administration

• Dashboard with alerts, planning with drag and drop (mouse and touch), booking editor for the hotel’s own bookings
• Hotel owners who manage only their properties, and owner applications from the website
• Guest reviews invited after the stay, moderated by the site and answered by the hotel
• Diagnostic screen, automatic tasks, updates of the database in one click
• Administration in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian and Turkish

Website

• Responsive theme with widgets placed from the administration: stay search, featured hotels, destinations and rooms, slideshow, banners, blog
• Unlimited languages, right-to-left languages, translatable texts and e-mail templates
• Your logo and brand colours set from the settings
• SEO: clean addresses in each language, title tags, sitemap and robots
• Privacy: cookie banner with “Reject all”, privacy policy completed for you, account deletion, invisible reCAPTCHA v3

Requirements

• PHP 8.2 to 8.5, with the curl, dom, fileinfo, gd, mbstring, openssl, pdo and pdo_mysql extensions (intl advised)
• MySQL 5.7 or later, or MariaDB 10.3 or later
• Apache with mod_rewrite, or IIS with URL Rewrite
• HTTPS for online payments; a cron job is advised

What’s included

• Pandao CMS 8 and Panda Multi Resorts 9, ready to upload, PHP libraries included (no Composer needed)
• Installation wizard and complete demo content: hotels, rooms, rates, pages, articles and photos you may keep
• Import tool for Panda Multi Resorts 4.0 to 8.1
• Complete documentation, also online

Already have a website of Pandao CMS 8?

The same booking engine is sold alone, without the CMS: Multi Resorts, hotel booking add-on for Pandao CMS. It installs from the Extensions page of your site and changes nothing for your visitors until your first property is published.

Upgrading from version 8

Version 9 is installed beside your current site and imports its data: settings, languages, destinations, hotels, rooms, rates, services, activities, customer and owner accounts with their passwords, bookings with their payments, pages, articles, menus and media. Your old site is never modified, and you switch your domain when you are ready. The procedure is described step by step in the documentation.

Support

We answer through the Support tab of this page. Item support comes with your purchase for 6 months and can be extended to 12 months. Include the report of the Diagnostic screen in your request: it tells us everything about your server, without any password.

Changelog

Version 9.4.1

• With Pandao CMS 8.4.1, whose installation wizard accepts database names that contain a hyphen, as some hosts create them

Version 9.4.0

• With Pandao CMS 8.4.0 and its new page builder, PageFlow 2: pages are edited as the site shows them, on a computer, a tablet or a phone, with settings for each block, ready-made sections, layers, undo and copy-paste
• The sign-up form of the My account page speaks the language of the site, and says why it refuses a sign-up: a password under 12 characters, a failed anti-robot check, or too many sign-ups in an hour
• The site keeps a single home page, chosen with the house icon in the list of pages, after a confirmation
• The settings now ask for reCAPTCHA v3 keys: with v2 keys, every protected form is refused, bookings included

Version 9.3.0

• With Pandao CMS 8.3.0: every page opens on the hosts that run PHP as CGI or FastCGI, where only the home page did
• A booking request, in a hotel that confirms each booking itself, is no longer sent to the payment page: the prepayment is asked once the hotel accepts the request
• The import of an old site also takes a Panda Resort 4 to 8 site: its property becomes a hotel, with its rooms, rates, bookings and reviews
• A Panda Resort site that receives the files of the add-on becomes a Multi Resorts site, and keeps the address of its Rooms page
• An imported site no longer keeps the contact details of the demo company; one period closed by Airbnb is counted in the singular

Version 9.2.0

• Installed on a site that has its own content, the extension changes nothing for its visitors until the first property is published: no demo content, no sample rewritten; the dashboard offers the first property, or the demo catalogue to try
• The import of a version 4.0 to 8.1 site goes into a new installation only, tells what it replaces with the numbers before it starts, and opens again from its menu
• With Pandao CMS 8.2.1: a disabled extension leaves the menus, the sitemap and the pages of the site; “1 comment” in the singular and the rating stars of the comments on the blog
• Multi Resorts is also sold alone, as an add-on for an existing website of Pandao CMS 8.2

Version 9.1.0

• A new site opens in English and French, with the language selector, like the demo
• While an update waits for its click, visitors see a temporary maintenance page instead of “page not found”, and every screen of the administration shows the Update now button
• Demo content: the right facilities on each hotel and room, seven new facility icons
• Compact cookie banner on phones, featured articles of equal height, readable maintenance page
• The blocks of every page stand at the same distance from each other, and the texts of the slides read on any photo
• Search of the website across its pages and articles, with or without accents, and a header strip that keeps one line on phones
• A site shown in a frame, such as this live preview, keeps its bookings and its administration in every browser, Safari and private windows included

Version 9.0.0

• Complete rewrite as an extension of Pandao CMS 8, for PHP 8.2 to 8.5
• New rates calendar, seasons, copy of a season, children by age, rate plans with promotion dates
• Booking of several rooms and offers at once, extras, activities, promo codes, all-inclusive prices
• Stripe Checkout and PayPal, deposits, reminders, accounts per hotel, online cancellation with refunds
• Planning, booking editor, requests when full
• Platform calendars (iCal) room by room, with conflicts and alerts
• Verified guest reviews, customer accounts, hotel owners and their applications
• Currencies at the rates of the European Central Bank, maps without Google, right-to-left languages
• New theme, widgets for the home page, complete demo content
• Import of a version 4.0 to 8.1 site

Credits

Photos of the demo content: CC0 (StockSnap, WordPress Photo Directory) or owned by Pandao, all included, except the first two photos of the slideshow of the live demo, shown for preview only. Icons: Phosphor Icons (MIT). Fonts: Rubik and Urbanist (SIL Open Font License). Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. The licences of every library are listed in the documentation.