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Add powerful sections and widgets to your elloha website

Turn your website into a powerful tool for attracting and converting customers by activating features that reassure and engage your futur...

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Written by Valentin elloha

📌 This article answers the following questions:

  • How do I add a widget to my elloha site?

  • How do I display a calendar, gift voucher or social media feeds on my site?

  • How do I enable or disable a section on my site?

  • Why isn’t my widget displaying correctly?

For an accommodation provider, your website is your most valuable showcase. But for a visitor to become a customer, they need reassurance and practical tools. By adding relevant widgets (calendars, gift vouchers, social media, etc.), you:

  • Reassure your guests with verified reviews.

  • Make booking easier for them with direct access to the availability calendar.

  • Boost your turnover by offering gift vouchers or exclusive deals.

Follow the step-by-step guide

Step 1: Access your website’s settings

To customise the look of your website, follow these steps:

  1. In the left-hand side menu on your screen, click on Website.

  2. Click on ‘Customise’ in the top right-hand corner.

Step 2: Access the widget management section

Click the ‘Widgets’ button in the left-hand menu.

This allows you to view the full list of widgets available to enhance your hosting site.
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Step 3: Activate your widgets

Widgets allow you to add specific features to the pages of your website.

  • The booking engine

This widget displays a booking module on your homepage and adds a ‘Book’ button to your navigation menu.

📌Good to know: The booking engine is also automatically integrated into each of your property listing pages to make it easier for guests to book your accommodation.

  • Manage your availability calendars

The calendar centralises your accommodation’s booking periods:

  1. Home page: an overview calendar displays your upcoming availability as soon as you log in.

  2. By listing: each listing has its own specific schedule

  • Offer a newsletter subscription

This feature allows you to add a field for collecting email addresses at the bottom of the page:

  • Visitors can sign up to receive your news.

  • The data collected enriches your contact database for your future marketing campaigns.

  • Display your customer reviews (Booking, FairGuest, Tripadvisor)

This feature allows you to display your ratings and customer reviews at the bottom of the page to reassure your visitors.

  • Integration of reviews from Booking.com, FairGuest and TripAdvisor.

  • Ratings are automatically displayed on your booking pages.

⚠️ Please note: Depending on the widget used, you may need to enter a specific ID or enable synchronisation for the data to display correctly.

  • Offer gift cards and vouchers

This feature allows you to display options for purchasing gift vouchers in several places on your website:

  1. A dedicated section in your navigation menu.

  2. A call-to-action button located below your booking engine.

  3. A specific section on your homepage.

⚠️ Please note: to display this widget, your booking engine must first be activated.

  • Add a YouTube video to your homepage

You can replace the photo gallery on your homepage with a video hosted on YouTube:

  1. Identify the YouTube video you wish to display for your accommodation.

  2. Copy the video ID (the alphanumeric characters following ‘v=’ in the URL).

  3. Paste this ID into the field provided for this purpose in your configuration settings.

  • Enable WhatsApp chat

Enable your prospective customers to contact you instantly via your booking engine by adding a direct messaging button.

  1. Enter the mobile number linked to your WhatsApp account.

  2. Save your changes to make the button visible on your interface.

To ensure the link works correctly, enter your number in international format (e.g. +33 for France), without spaces or full stops.
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  • Display your personal details

These details allow you to identify yourself to customers visiting your website:

  • First name and Surname

  • Job title

To update this information, go to your ‘My Account’ section.
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Step 4: Check how it appears on your website

Once your widgets have been activated, they are immediately operational. Follow these steps to check that they are live:

  1. View your website from a visitor’s perspective to see the final result.

  2. If the changes are not visible, use the refresh or publish button in your elloha interface to force the latest settings to take effect.


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