• Online room reservations
  
• Interfaced to Agilysys Visual One
• Choose from three distinct User Experiences (UX) featuring different page lay-outs
  • only one User Experience can be active at a time
• Reservations for new and returning guests
  • new guests are those who have not booked on chameleon™ previously
  • returning guests are those who have booked on chameleon™ previously
• Changing and Cancelling reservations online, or disabling of either
• Taxes pulled from Visual One
• Visual One Buildings accommodated; all rooms can be offered, or selected rooms can be offered
• Tariff reservations. Functionality includes:
  • Tariff Yielding. Supported Restrictions include:
    • Closed
    • Closed to Arrival
    • Closed to Departure
    • Minimum Nights Stay
    • Maximum Nights Stay
    • Override package yield (if tariff is attached) flag
  • Tariff extra person charges.
• Package reservations. Functionality includes:
  • Package Yielding. Supported Restrictions include:
    
    • Closed
    • Closed to Arrival
    • Closed to Departure
    • Minimum Nights Stay
    • Maximum Nights Stay
• Packages with a Tariff attached. 
• Seasonal package extra person charges
• Seasonal components
• Per person surcharges
• Daily Info Restrictions. Supported Restrictions include:
  • Closed to Arrival
  • Closed to Departure
  • No Sell Through
  • Minimum Nights Stay
  • Minimum Nights Stay Through (note: this is not based on arrival date)
  • Oversell
• Group reservations. Functionality includes:
• Group cut-off dates
• Group free sell functionality
• Pick-up online functionality
• Omitting specific Room Types
• Tax exemptions per Booking ID
• Suppressed Rates on groups
• Omitting credit card requirement when suppressed group rate flag is selected
• Gathering all Room Types across numerous Room Group into a single tab for individual groups
• Defaulting to a tab for an individual group
• Custom Terms & Conditions per Booking ID
• Group soft pick-up 
• Room Type functionality includes:
• Tax exemption by building type
• Customized grouping of Room Types into Room Groups; required for properties with more than 15 Room Types
• Maximum of three room images per Room Type
• Suite Logic: room numbers making up the Suite are removed from inventory
• Accessible Rooms: marks the Guest Preference in Visual One
• Withholding availability by Room Type from the engine only
• Overselling Room Type functionality
• Run of House (ROH): non-bedded Room Types for Group Booking IDs only
• Five occupant groups, as set up in Visual One
  • Adults, children, youth, other 1, other 2
• Mobile responsive
• Customization of required guest information fields
• Customization of page header links
• Hiding of unavailable Rate Plans in User Experience #2
• Not requiring credit card details, property wide
• Display Resort Fee separately from general taxes
• Notification of failed reservations to designated email address(es)
• Confirmation, change, cancellation emails automatically sent to all guests who have booked online
• styling of a common email template for confirmation, change, cancellation
• custom Terms & Conditions per date, Room Type, Tariff, Package or Booking ID
• dynamic room images: image on the email can match the engine (only 1 of 3 images per room type can be included on the emails).
• inclusion of deposit taken and remaining balance if payment gateway is enabled
  
• Transfer of credit card information to Visual One
• compatible with Freedom Pay (rGuestPay), Shift4, Elavon Fusebox
• Choose to automatically charge a deposit if payment gateway is enabled
  • deposits can be taken by Tariff, Package, Booking ID, date range and Room Type
    
• Styling of the booking engine based on the property website
  
• Custom Message banners based on Room Type, Rate Type or date range
  
• Access to the b4checkin Admin Site to manage selected configurations 
  
• Two free hours training on the Admin Site
• Google Analytics tracking code on the booking engine
  • code must be provided by the property web team; b4checkin places the code in the engine
• Ability to create direct booking links by Tariff or Booking ID to eliminate need to type in promo code
  
• Group Convener page for all groups with a valid Group Contact password
• Branded URL available as add-on
• Social media login shortcuts to bypass creating a username and password
• Multi-lingual functionality
  • current languages available: English, French, Spanish
• Link to currency converter
• Sale of billable Options can transfer to the Comments field or be linked to Inventory items
• Sale of uncharged Preferences can transfer to the Comments field or be linked to Inventory items

Unavailable

• b4spa appointments within the room booking process
• Automatically limiting the number of rooms sold to a particular Rate Type
• Items not used in the OTA Monitor: 
  • Floor Limits
  • Code Routing
  • Per Person Surcharges
  • Group Routing
  • Hotel Codes
  • Rate Plans by Room Type
  • The “description” field on Rate Plans
• b4golf tee time booking within the room booking process
• Activity bookings as a stand-alone booking platform
• Group importer
• COMP logic
• Booking more than one room at a time
• Reserving a specific room number
• Assigning a room number to a reservation (unless utilized through suite logic)
• Placing more than one guests' information on a single reservation
• Refunds for online cancellations
• Charging a cancellation fee
• Tax exemption based on segment code
• Omitting the requirement of credit cards per Tariff, Package or Booking ID
• Non-bedded room types (unless ROH is used under a Group Booking ID
• Selling Room Types from two PMS instances (separate Visual One databases) on one booking engine
• Displaying specific Visual One restrictions in calendar legends
• Email related items: 
  • Marketing emails (e-blasts, promotions, etc)
  • Ability for a property to modify the email templates
  • Emails by date range (all templates)
  • Emails by Rate Type (all templates)
• Restrictions not available:
  • Close Tariff based upon occupancy
  • Maximum to sell; closing a Tariff for a specified date range if the total number of rooms already booked for this Tariff meets or exceeds a specified limit