Post-stay email

Add a banner to your post-stay email to invite guests to share their stories about their stay.

A dynamically generated, linked image can be added to your email template that is unique for each guest and can be easily tweaked from your Flip.to account, including size, messaging and styling.

The image can also easily be toggled on and off. When off, a transparent 1x1 pixel is served.

The basic structure of the linked image to be added is:

<a href=”LinkURL”><img src=”ImageURL” alt=”ImageDescription”/></a>

LinkURL

Points guests to their story submission page: https://flip.to/property/poststay/email/link

ImageURL

Loads the image asset that invites guests to submit their story: https://flip.to/property/poststay/email/image

ImageDescription

Makes sure your image is screen-reader friendly and compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Add in the alt attribute directly in the tag.

We suggest the following alt text for the post-stay email image:

alt=”We'd love to hear about a favorite moment from your stay. You can also join fellow guests and enter your story in our story contest!”

Sample
<a target="_blank"
href="https://flip.to/property/poststay/email/link?companycode=XX&code=YY&pmsnumber=12345&crsnumbe
r=CRS56333&loyalty=70344&first=John&last=Smith&email=john@flip.to&startdate=2021-12-14&enddate=2021-12-
16&type=AB&ratecode=ABC&groupCode=Wedding&promoCode=flipto&language=en&currency=USD&amount=1234.45">
<img alt="Share about your upcoming trip with friends and family and they can unlock a special
bonus towards a future stay with us."
src="https://flip.to/property/confirmation/email/image?companycode=XX&code=YY&pmsnumber=12345&
crsnumber=CRS56333&loyalty=70344&first=John&last=Smith&email=john@flip.to&startdate=2021-12-14&
enddate=2021-12-16&type=AB&ratecode=ABC&groupCode=Wedding&promoCode=flipto&language=en&currency
=USD&amount=1234.45"/>
</a>

Parameters

Below are the parameters that should be appended to both the LinkUrl and ImageUrl. All values should be properly URL encoded.

NameValueDescription

companyCode

Your Flip.to company

code

Please check with your Customer Success Manager if needed and replace XX with your own companyCode.

code

The property code used by your booking engine

Replace YY with your own property booking engine code.

crsnumber

The reservation CRS number,

if available

pmsnumber

The reservation PMS number, if available.

loyalty

Guest's loyalty program number, if any

first

Guest's first name

last

Guest's last name

email

Guest's email address

In cases that there may be more than one possible email available, this can be populated with a pipe (|) delimited list of emails.

For example: email=user@gmail.com|user@me.com

startDate

Guest’s check-in date

Dates should be formatted as yyyy-M-d

For example: 2028-5-15 or 2028-05-15

endDate

Guest’s check-out date

If this is not available please see the nights parameter under advanced configuration below.

type

The guest’s room type, if available

This should include the booking engine internal code, and not the room type description.

rateCode

The guest’s rate code, if available

groupCode

The guest’s group code (or block code), if available

promoCode

The guest’s promo code, if available

language

The language ANSI code the guest has used to make the reservation

For English use en, French fr, etc. Here’s a complete list of ISO 639-1 language codes

Optionally a culture name can be used as well. For example this can be set to en-US or en_US.

currency

The 3 character currency code the guest has used to made the purchase

Here's a complete list of currency codes. For instance USD for US Dollars.

amount

The total amount used for the purchase based on the defined currency

Amount should be supplied as a valid number including a decimal point if appropriate.

Advanced Configuration

NameValueDescription

nights

Optional

The number of nights that the guest has stayed at the hotel. This should be set as a number.

If endDate is not available, this field can be set to the actual or estimated (i.e. the average night stay) length of guest stay.

dateFormat

Optional

Specifies a different date format for the startDate and endDate parameters.

By default dates should be specified as yyyy-M-d. However, you can change the default format by entering the appropriate format here.

For example, if dates are entered as 12/31/2028 the date format to be specified is M/d/yyyy.

mobile

Optional

Setting to true indicates that the mobile version of the image should be displayed. Default is a desktop image.

This is only supported for the ImageURL.

overrideImageUrl

Optional

Overrides the default image with a custom image.

When using custom images, one should use the https protocol, and might want to create a unique image per language.

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