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Every feature
The full Hydra Booking Engine feature list
Beyond the highlights — everything the widget and dashboard do, organized by category.
Hydra Booking Engine v1.0
Booking Widget & Guest Experience
- Self-contained embeddable widget — no iframe, no external CSS/JS dependencies, scoped styles that won't clash with the host page
- Multi-room cart — up to 8 rooms per booking, each with its own occupancy
- Scarcity messaging shown only at 3 or fewer rooms left — never exposes raw inventory otherwise
- 3-language UI (English, German, Hungarian) with auto-detection and a guest switcher
- Booking reference codes with a hotel-configurable prefix (e.g. HYD0001)
Pricing & Revenue
- Season-based pricing synced from PMS rate codes, including year-wrap seasons
- Dynamic yield pricing by live occupancy band, dashboard-overridable
- Per-person occupancy surcharges for extra adults, teens, children, and infants
- Promo codes with usage caps, minimum-stay rules, and date-validity windows
- Direct-channel revenue tracking with a commission-saved-by-going-direct calculator
Payments
- OTP SimplePay integration — Hungary's dominant gateway, HUF-native, no third-party SDK dependency
- Sandbox and production modes, switchable per hotel or platform-wide
- Four payment policies per rate code: hold, deposit, full charge, or bank transfer
- Automatic hold release on cancellation; capture always requires an explicit refund action
- Abandoned-checkout recovery email and automatic stale-hold expiry
Hotel Dashboard
- Staff accounts separate from the PMS license key, with self-service password reset and login rate-limiting
- Send guests real quotes for groups and flexible dates, with an expiry and an accept/decline link
- Promo code and upsell management, effective immediately with no PMS sync needed
- Rate and room-type content editors — descriptions, photos, cancellation policy — layered on top of PMS pricing
- Manual reputation log for staff-entered reviews
PMS Integration & Sync
- Bidirectional sync: rate codes, room types, and seasons pushed on change; availability pushed every 5 minutes
- Auto-registration on the first sync call — no separate signup step
- Confirm/reject workflow for pulling web bookings into the PMS, with idempotent guest confirmation emails
- Multi-room bookings map to a single PMS reservation when supported
- Two-way cancellation reconciliation — a guest self-cancel releases the room in the PMS, and vice versa
Compliance & Guest Rights
- Consent banner plus a required, client-side-enforced checkbox at booking submission
- Consent recorded per booking as part of its own audit trail
- No-login guest data export (immediate) and deletion request (staff-reviewed)
- Staff dashboard for pending deletion requests, with a true-anonymize action that preserves accounting history
Multi-Channel & Branding
- Custom domain support — guest-facing links run on the hotel's own domain, including the payment redirect
- Per-hotel accent color on the widget
- CORS allowlist so the widget only runs on approved domains
Direct Booking Engine
Hydra Booking Engine
SimplePay-native booking widget with live Hydra PMS sync