Virtual credit cards
Booking.com creates a virtual credit card (VCC) — a unique, randomly generated number that functions as a digital version of an existing credit card. This eliminates the need to pre-authorise and validate credit cards yourself. When Booking.com sends reservations, they will specify if the payment card used is a VCC.
Little Hotelier accepts updates to payment card information on reservations, modifications and cancellation. The following fields can be updated:
Payment type
Balance
Activation date
Deactivation date
We recommend reading Booking.com's policy for charging VCCs.
Booking.com pricing models
Booking.com offers two pricing models:
Standard pricing
Occupancy-based pricing (OBP)
If you want to change your Booking.com pricing model, contact our support team. After a minimum of three days, they will enable you to set the mapping with the new pricing model.
Standard pricing
With the standard pricing model, each room is assigned a daily price regardless of the number of guests staying in it. The reservation total depends on the number of days — not the number of guests — booked for the room.
Example: If a guest books a room with a maximum occupancy of three people and the price per night is AUD 100, the price will stay the same whether one, two, or three guests stay in the room.
You can set a Single guest discount for one-person reservations when mapping. The value is filled automatically by default from the room rate’s Single guest discount.
To override this setting:
Click on the lock icon
On the drop-down menu, choose either:
Amount: Enter a fixed amount as a discount of the daily price
Percentage: Enter a percentage value as a discount of the daily price
Click Save
Occupancy-based pricing (OBP)
With the occupancy-based pricing (OBP) model, Booking.com allows you to vary a room’s nightly price depending on the number of guests staying in it.
Example: If a guest books a room with a maximum occupancy of four people and the price per night is AUD 100 with an Extra adult rate of AUD 20 for additional guests, the pricing would be:
Two guests: AUD 100
Three guests: AUD 120
Four guests: AUD 140
When using the OBP model for Booking.com, you need to enter additional information in the Occupancy details section while mapping. The following settings are inherited by default from their room rate and require clicking on each lock to override them:
Included occupancy: The number of guests included in the rate set on your inventory
Maximum occupancy: The maximum number of guests who can stay in the room
Extra adult rate: The amount charged for each extra guest
Single guest discount: This option is for one-person reservations (this will not be available if our platform has been enabled for Occupancy-Based Pricing, whereas Booking.com has not)
If you want to modify the above default settings, you can change their values directly via the room rate.