Archive for the ‘New Features’ Category:
08 Feb 10
NEW FEATURE: Free-sale bookings
Our IT Team is releasing great features more quickly than we in the business team can manage to tell our suppliers. Therefore we will be introducing new and important features in short articles here!
New feature: Free-sale bookings
What is it: Suppliers that have free-sale bookings enabled don’t need to confirm bookings. Normally, for on-demand bookings, suppliers needs to confirm new bookings within 48 hours. Otherwise the booking will be cancelled automatically. On-demand bookings is the default setting for all suppliers. Continue reading
24 Jul 09
The problem with online payments
Since the early days of the Internet before the 2001 Dot-Com-Crash one big issue always troubled e-commerce: How to receive payments?
Although much has changed in how payments are handled and the general eagerness to pay online has drastically increased thanks to big players such as eBay & Amazon, I would like to argue in this blog post that online payment systems still lack essential features that are needed for the further developmet of state-of-the-art e-commerce solutions. Continue reading
10 Jun 08
New Frontpage Design
Today we introduce to you a new frontpage lay-out and design. While convincing the first guides to join GetYourGuide, we grew aware that our concept so far has not clarified enough the underlying transaction scheme of our website. Consequently, we tried to pay more attention on informing our users about key topics such as “How it Works” and “Quality”. However we also emphasized the notion that users that already know us and come back to the site can start looking for tours or create their own offers right away.
