Panda Resort 9 - Booking CMS for a Single Hotel

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Panda Resort is the hotel website and booking system in PHP of one hotel, resort, villa or guest house. 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, without commission, 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, with the booking engine of Panda Multi Resorts. Buyers of version 8 download it from their Downloads page, then import their rooms, 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 choose their dates on the home page, compare your rooms and offers on the Rooms page, book several rooms at once, add extras and activities, and pay online or at the hotel. The price shown always includes taxes and mandatory fees.

Everything your front desk needs

A rates calendar, a visual planning, a booking editor for phone bookings, payment and deposit rules, calendars synchronised with Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo, and verified guest reviews that you answer.

A complete, international website

Your site opens on a complete hotel website: slideshow and stay search, featured rooms, 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

Your hotel and its rooms

• Your property with its photos, video, facilities, contact details and map, on the Rooms page of your site
• Room types with their room numbers, occupancy limits, sizes and facilities
• Maps 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: 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 or per stay
• 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

• Stay search with dates, adults and ages of the children, leading to the Rooms page
• 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 and a request to the hotel when it is full
• Instant confirmation, or confirmation on request
• “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
• No commission: the payments go straight to your own Stripe and PayPal accounts

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 phone bookings and changes
• Guest reviews invited after the stay, moderated by you, with your answers
• Accounts for your team, with their roles
• 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 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 Resort 9, ready to upload, PHP libraries included (no Composer needed)
• Installation wizard and complete demo content: a hotel on the caldera of Santorini, its rooms, rates, pages, articles and photos you may keep
• Import tool for Panda Resort 4 to 8
• Complete documentation, also online

Prefer the engine alone?

Already have a website of Pandao CMS 8? The booking engine of Panda Resort is sold alone, without the CMS: Panda Resort, single hotel booking add-on for Pandao CMS. It installs from the Extensions page of your site and changes nothing for your visitors until your property is published.

Upgrading from version 8

Version 9 is installed beside your current site and imports its data: settings, languages, your hotel, its rooms, rates, services, activities, customer accounts with their passwords, bookings with their payments, pages, articles, menus and media, with the addresses of your pages. 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.

More than one property?

Panda Resort runs on the booking engine of Panda Multi Resorts, made for hotel groups and travel websites. The day you open a second hotel, add Multi Resorts, the add-on for Pandao CMS: upload its files over your site, which becomes a multi-hotel website and keeps all its data. Nothing to reinstall, nothing to import.

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 new logo of Panda Resort, on a new site
• 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

Version 9.2.0

• Complete rewrite as an extension of Pandao CMS 8, for PHP 8.2 to 8.5, on the booking engine of Panda Multi Resorts
• A Rooms page that shows your hotel and every room with its offers, at the address of version 8, and a home page whose stay search leads to it
• 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, online cancellation with refunds
• Planning, booking editor, requests when full
• Platform calendars (iCal) room by room, with conflicts and alerts
• Verified guest reviews and customer accounts
• Currencies at the rates of the European Central Bank, maps without Google, right-to-left languages
• New theme in the colours of Panda Resort, widgets for the home page, complete demo content
• Import of a Panda Resort 4 to 8 site
• The move up to Panda Multi Resorts with its add-on, for several properties
• Panda Resort is also sold alone, as an add-on for an existing website of Pandao CMS 8.2

Credits

Photos of the demo content: CC0 (StockSnap, WordPress Photo Directory, Wikimedia Commons) or owned by Pandao, all included, except the first photo 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.