In 2010, Agoda.com launched a free booking button (BE3) that plugs into a hotel’s existing website, allowing customers to make bookings directly from the hotel’s page.

Once installed, the booking button links customers directly to an easy-to-use white-label booking form available in 30 different languages, with all bookings free of fees and commissions.

Its free booking engine has been adapted and expanded to integrate with Facebook, enabling properties to offer their fans convenient direct booking via their Facebook profile page. The free booking button for Facebook can be implemented and installed by hotel managers using a simple set-up manual provided by Agoda.com.

Hotels can register at Agoda.com via https://ycs.agoda.com. Existing YCS Hotel Partners can install the booking button to their hotel’s website or Facebook profile simply by logging into the above URL and completing the 1-step integration process.

Here’s what some hotel partners of Agoda’s free booking button for Facebook have to say about the feature:

Broadway Hotel Budapest: ““Ever since we installed the Agoda.com BE3 button on our Facebook page, we have spotted a significant increase in the number of bookings – these come from our Facebook page visitors – as well as more people liking our webpage. We find it very useful that guests are able to book a room straight from our Facebook profile, as nowadays this is one of the most popular communication channels.” – Mária Majoros, Sales and Marketing Manager

Hotel de Point in New York: “The BE3 booking button is a great way to keep us connected through social media.  It offers our fans a convenient, direct way to book a reservation while they are on Facebook,” – Natalie Serse, Director of Sales

The Sandi Phala Resort, Bali: “The Agoda.com booking button gives me more exposure and saves me time in responding to inquiries via Facebook,” – I Putu Budiarta, Room Division Manager

Rasuna Icon Residence, Jakarta: “We have been using the BE3 booking button for almost one year. I must say that it is the most effective, efficient and easiest booking button I have ever used. I receive on average 10 room nights’ of bookings every day and almost no cancellations on those bookings,” – Hengky Lukita, Owner

Hotel LBP, Hong Kong: “The Agoda.com booking button let us save on costs while setting up our own booking engine. It supports 30 different languages and the interface is simple and user-friendly,” – Quest Wu, Assistant Operation Manager

Express Inn, Cebu, Philippines: “We are very delighted with the Agoda.com booking button. It helps us promote both our hotel website and our Facebook page. It also provides convenient and easy booking to our guests;  the Agoda.com booking button is a very useful tool for any hotel marketing,” – Rian G. Duhig, Head of Operations