Announcement banner

An announcement is a styled, time-limited banner shown on your public booking site. Open the editor from the Announcements tab of the promotions page (Configurations > Promotions): click Add announcement for a new one (New announcement), or the eye icon on a row to edit one (Edit announcement). An announcement carries no discount — discount codes and pricing rules are managed on the other promotions tabs. Every visitor sees the same banners; an announcement cannot be limited to a client group. Where and how clients see it is described in Promotions in online booking.

Status and validity

Use the status switch to set the announcement online (Promotion is online) or offline (Promotion is offline). A new announcement starts offline, so switch it online before you save when it should appear. Clients only see announcements that are online and within the Valid from / Valid until dates; leave a date empty to leave that side open. Valid from starts at 00:00 on that date, and Valid until ends the banner at 00:00 on that date, so that day itself is no longer included.

Name

Give the announcement a Name for internal reference — at least 3 and up to 50 characters (the field shows a character counter). Clients do not see the name.

Icon

Pick an optional Icon shown at the front of the banner. There are five choices: Information, Warning, Discount, Event and Announcement.

Texts

Enter the banner copy — Heading, Sub heading and Description — for each of your organisation's languages. Clients see the text in their own language.

Banner styling

The Banner section controls the look: pick the Background color, Border color and Font color, the corner rounding (Corner rounding — none, Small, Medium, Large or Rounded) and the Border width (Small, Medium or Large). The Preview shows the text in your Font color, but the booking site shows it in black or white, whichever reads better on your Background color — so the text colour clients see can differ from the preview.

You can also add an image to make the banner stand out. The booking site uses the first image only and lays a dark gradient over it so the white text stays readable. How to upload and replace images is described in Add images and promotional video.

Preview

The Preview card shows the banner as it will appear — icon, colours, image and texts — and updates as you edit.

Saving and deleting

The save button in the top-right corner is enabled once you have made a change and the name is at least 3 characters long. If you close the editor with unsaved changes, you are asked whether to discard them. On an existing announcement, click the delete icon in the toolbar (tooltip Mark for deletion) to mark it for deletion; no confirmation is asked. The form then shows a "Marked for deletion" banner and locks, and saving removes the announcement. Click the delete icon again, or close the editor, to cancel the deletion.

When clients see a change

A saved change reaches the booking site once the dashboard has synchronised it; a client who already has the page open sees it after reloading. A client who closed a banner with its close (X) button does not see that announcement again in the same browser, even after you edit it. To bring a changed message back to everyone, create a new announcement and set the old one offline.