Set up your booking engine
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Adding Flip.to to your booking engine requires two snippets of code:
The first is added to every page of your booking engine.
The second is added to the confirmation page.
Before you begin: you'll need your unique IDs, which you should have received by email. If not, ask our Customer Success team.
If your website and booking engine are on the same domain, the instructions below apply only to your booking engine pages. A different snippet is required for your website pages.
The following snippet should be modified to pass in the appropriate values (tokens are typically set in place of the actual values), and should be included in the <head> tag of every page of the booking engine, including the confirmation page.
For single page applications, this snippet should only be loaded at application start, not on virtual pageviews.
bookingEngine
companyCode
The internal Flip.to company code.
code
Internal property code used by the booking engine. Set your own internal code used by the engine, and let your account manager know this code.
language
The following snippet should be modified to pass in the appropriate values and should be included in the <head> tag of the confirmation page to run once the guest has completed their reservation.
Most booking engines support dynamic tokens (i.e. %FirstName%) that allows the hotel to display the confirmation page with the guest’s details. If you’re not sure what these tokens are, please contact your booking engine’s support team or introduce our Customer Success team to them.
The confirmation page should include both the Every page snippet and the Confirmation page snippet (the order doesn't matter).
bookingEngine
confirmation
Guest’s confirmation number.
loyalty
Guest's loyalty program number, if any.
first
Guest’s first name.
last
Guest’s last name.
Guest’s email address.
phone
Guest’s phone number.
startDate
Guest’s check-in date.
This should be formatted as 'yyyy-MM-dd' (i.e. 2025-05-15).
If you prefer a different date format use the dateFormat field.
endDate
Guest’s check-out date. See start date for specifics.
guests
The total number of guests.
adults
The total number of adult guests.
children
The total number of children guests.
type
The guest’s room type, if available. Otherwise leave it blank. This should include the booking engine internal code, and not the room type description.
rateCode
The guest’s rate code, if available; otherwise blank
groupCode
The guest’s group code (or block code), if available. Otherwise leave it blank.
promoCode
The guest’s promo code, if available. Otherwise leave it blank.
language
currency
amount
The total pre-tax amount used for the room purchase based on the defined currency. Amount should be supplied as a valid number including a decimal point if appropriate.
flightAmount
Optional
The total pre-tax amount of the flight portion of the purchase. This can be omitted or set to null if booking engine does not support purchasing flights.
Amount should be supplied as a valid number including a decimal point if appropriate.
addonAmount
Optional
The total amount used for any add-on products and/or services. Amount should be supplied as a valid number including a decimal point if appropriate.
dateFormat
Specify a different date format for the startDate and endDate parameters. All date fields should be set using the default format:
'yyyy-M-d'.
However, you can define your preferred format instead with this field. For example, if you want to use 12/31/2025 the dateFormat should be set to: 'M/d/yyyy'.
_ga-ft
Page persistent access to the value of the _ga-ft url parameter. Used as a fallback in case the _ga-ft url parameter is removed by the booking engine.
enableAdobeCrossDomain
Flag denoting whether Flip.to should attempt to add adobe analytics cross-domain parameters to outbound links. Used to enable cross-domain tracking for Adobe analytics.
Confirm the trigger for the Website GTM Tag is firing on all pages of the website, but excludes firing on all pages of the TravelClick engine. The tag triggers should look like this:
The Flip.to string to define the booking engine used. Please contact if you need the name to use for your booking engine vendor.
The language ANSI code the engine currently uses to display text.
For English use 'en', French 'fr', etc. Refer to the . Use the ISO 639-1 Code for the language parameter.
Optionally, a culture name can be used as well. For example, this can be set to 'en-US' or 'en_US'.
The Flip.to string to define the booking engine used. Please contact if you need the name to use for your booking engine vendor.
The language ANSI code the guest has used to make the reservation.
For English use 'en', French 'fr', etc. Refer to the . Use the ISO 639-1 Code for the language parameter.
Optionally, a culture name can be used as well. For example, this can be set to 'en-US' or 'en_US'.
The 3 character currency code the guest has used to make the purchase. A complete list of currency codes can be found . For instance 'USD' for US dollars.
