Wix Bookings Ideal

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Hi there,

I made a website for a client via wix, to rent out his apartment in the Netherlands. I used wix hotels for the bookings. The website is completely done.

But now I want to connect ideal. (which is a dutch e-commerce payment system)
Ideal is supported for wix stores. But it’s there is not yet a connection for Wix Hotels.

Because 90% of the Netherlands uses Ideal it’s verry important to make sure people can pay on the website with Ideal.

So is there a way to make this connection? Maybe via stripe, Mollie or another payment provider.

Thanks in advance!

Kind regards,
Wiljan

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So, I found an article from stripe to accept IDEAL with some coding:
www.stripe .com/docs/payments/ideal/accept-a-payment?platform=web

is this possible in Wix?

Thanks in advance!

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Hi @wiljan66807 ,

We’ve did a similar integration for our client.

You can use the Wix Bookings frontend API to allow user select a slot, then use the Stripe Checkout API / Payment Intent / Checkout Session to do so, after payment is completed, mark the bookingId as paid.

You can also check out the Velo examples related to bookings API for custom booking process.

Does it give you a direction to code?

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@certified-code @wiljan66807

Wiljan is using Wix Hotels, not Wix Bookings. Unless things have changed, Wix Hotels is regarded a legacy app and receives no more updates. It has no Velo API it’s a closed environment.

I have worked with Wix Hotels for several years and the only (ugly) approach I see possible is this (but please Wiljan, investigate first):

  1. add Wix-pay to your license. Wix Pay should support IDeal
  2. Wix Hotels sends out 2 emails on a new reservation, 1 to client, 1 to hotel owner
    3)set an Inbox polling (listener) on that email Inbox (Zapier has one, so has Integromat/Make). If it’s a gmail account, this possibilty has been stripped a year ago, but there is documentation on Integromat/Make how to autorize this listening manually
  3. use a Zapier/Integromat html-parser to retrieve relevant data from the hotel owner email
    5)with this data, create new email to client (so he will receive 2) with a link to a Wix Pay page on the same site

I investigated this a long time ago, and there was something that was blocking this, possibly that the email to the hotel did not hold enough info, but that I do not remember, so please investigate first.

In short, it’s not possible with Wix Hotels or the link Wiljan provided, Wix Hotels is Velo agnostic. The only possible way is what I described ( client receives 2 emails, 1 saying “thanks for reservation, you will receive second email with payment info” and 2 saying “you can pay using Banktransfer (example), credit card or iDeal. In this case, click here” with link to Wix-Pay page.
Not beautiful, but it could work.

Hope this helps.

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Thanks a lot for the information! Verry helpful.
I probably will use an other booking system with an iframe.

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@wiljan66807 There’s a ton of other booking systems out there, you’ll find something. Cloudbeds is one of the most popular, but I do not know if they support iDeal directly (some of them do, but thru a third party, charging up to 5% per transaction). Most of them can run inside an iframe, but other have full API’s or they offer a booking page which mimics they style of the customer’s site. In latter case, URL in browser bar changes to theirs, so have a good look what client wants.