Change link on “Book now” button

Hello,

Thanks for sharing the link to the Book Now page on your website. That page is generated by a Shortcode that you’ve published in your “Book Now” page, and honestly, there are no links there. That’s a page showing a booking form that will start the booking process.

If you are looking for a way to customize certain pages of VikBooking, then we invite you to follow our technical instructions on our website about how to create overrides. The overrides are copies of the original layout files of each page generated by our plugin (Shortcodes or Widgets) that you can customize at your own needs without losing the changes by installing future updates. The goal is always to avoid editing core files, and so the native functions should be overridden through override files or through plugin hooks in case you need to customize Models or Controllers.

Please get in touch with our team through our website in case you have specific questions about a certain customization.

If you are looking for a way to allow large groups of guests to send a contact request before making a booking, then our suggestion is to link a contact form on your website. The only alternative solution available in VikBooking is to enable the “Request Information” parameter at room-level so that guests can send inquiries about a specific room. There are also other solutions available in our plugin, such as publishing the “Search Form” widget with the “Booking Inquiry” layout which will serve as a way to collect pending reservations according to the requested stay dates.

We hope this is helpful!

The VikWP Team

On step number 3. Options, there’s a book now button at the bottom right corner. I want to put a different url there for payment. In my region we dont have stripe/woocommerce payments, so the local payment gateway has provided a url that redirects guests to pay on their portal.

Thanks for sharing the details, but that is not a link, nor is it a modification you could achieve so easily, I’m sorry.

The step number 3 is the final step of the booking process, and it’s called “booking confirmation”. What you are talking about is actually a form, not a link. It is technically impossible to change the action attribute of that form, because it points to the Controller that is responsible of actually storing the new reservation. If you were to change “link” (it’s not a link, it’s a form), then you would break the whole booking process, and no bookings will be saved.

Also, VikBooking is a stand-alone plugin and does not rely on WooCommerce in any way. The same thing goes for any other third-party plugin. This was just to say that VikBooking has got its own payment framework, which can be extended by creating WordPress native plugins that declare the proper hooks for VikBooking in order to install a new payment method with the instructions about how to start a transaction and how to validate the payment response. WooCommerce has got nothing to do with VikBooking in this case.

What you need to do in order to implement a direct connection with your local payment gateway is actually to code a custom payment plugin for VikBooking. There are no links that should be modified or overrides that should be created. You need a custom payment plugin for VikBooking and your local bank that is capable of starting a payment transaction and to validate the payment response.

We invite you to follow the instructions for developers on our website that explain how to code a custom payment plugin for VikBooking. This is the only way to achieve your connection with your local bank.

We hope this was helpful!

The VikWP Team