More than one location: sites, properties and meeting points on Sóley

Written for the person who runs bookings, not for IT. Menu names are given as they appear on screen.

Many operators work from more than one place: two guesthouses, a show in two towns, a tour that leaves from two meeting points. Sóley has one rule for all of them.

The rule. One company is one business on Sóley, however many places it works from. Every place is a site on that one business: a second theatre, a sister house across town, a meeting point. You add each site with its street address to the business you already have.

Adding a different company is something else. If a place is run by another legal entity with its own kennitala, that is a different company. It has its own register entry, so you find its listing on soley.travel and claim it the way you claimed the first. The last section says how.

Before you start

Your listing is claimed. Find your business on soley.travel, click Claim this listing, and verify with company e-ID or a verified email on your company domain. Until then the map card says to claim a public registry listing first and offers nothing to add.
You know the address. You type it and pick it from a list. A map you can click is the fallback, and coordinates are optional.

Sites: every venue on your one business

Open Settings in the portal and scroll to Traveller map locations.

Click Add location.
Location type. The form starts on the type your business is: Venue or site for a show, an attraction, a restaurant or a café, Property for a place to stay, Meeting point for a tour departure. Change it if it is not right. The list offers only the types your licences allow, and Office is there for an office travellers may visit. Every claimed listing may add a venue; the other three come from the licences the register holds for your company.
Short label. What travellers should read, for example "Second theatre, Víkurbraut 5" or "Meeting point at the Skaftafell terminal".
Street address. Type the street and number and pick the address from the list. The map moves to it and the town is filled in. Drag the pin to the exact entrance if you like. If the address is not on the list, click the map or use Enter coordinates.
Town. Every site has a town. It comes from the address or the map. If it cannot be found, pick it from the list, or tick Not in a town for a highland hut or a glacier meeting point. A site with no town shows Town missing and keeps the location tick open.
Which is this? Choose This is another site. The other option, "This is our registered address, shown more precisely", corrects where your registered office appears on the map; only one point per listing may do that.
Save location. The site shows on your public listing at once, marked "Operator-provided" with the date, and the "Location on the map" tick on your listing status turns green once every site has a town.

Twenty sites per listing is the cap. Edit or delete a site at any time with the pencil and bin icons. Nothing in your booking system or your other channels is touched.

What a site does. Sóley stores the region of each site as well as its town. After you save a site in Vík, a search for Vík or for its region, Suðurland, finds your business on the soley.travel list and map, in the registry API and in the assistants' licensed-operator register, and it is told which site matched. Your public page names every town you are in, for example "Reykjavík · Vík", and lists each site with its address and town. A route search finds the business from any site inside the radius.

Tying a service to its site. In Services, each service has a Where does this happen? choice. Pick the site, for example your Vík theatre, or leave it at the business address. Search on soley.travel and in the assistants then places that service at its site: a search for Vík finds a show you tied to your Vík site even though the company is registered in Reykjavík, and the pin on the map sits on the site with a note saying so. A service left at the business address is searched from your registered position, as before. You can only pick the sites of a listing you have claimed, and a site cannot be deleted while a service is tied to it: move the service first.

Accommodation: Godo or Beds24

One invite code can cover several properties. Under Property access in Godo or Beds24, choose the properties you want on that business, and Sóley imports every one's room types as private drafts for you to review and publish. So every house of one company lives on one business, connected once, whichever town it is in. One connection is stored for each booking system on a business. If a second house sits in a different account of the same booking system, write to us below and we will help. Full guide: soley.travel/en/operators/help/beds24.

Tours and activities: Bókun

One Bókun account holds every site's experiences, and the Sóley connection is stored per business. Connect it once under Settings → Calendar → Bókun, install the Sóley app or paste your API key. Then, in Services, add each show or tour sold at each site and, in its Bókun panel, choose the experience for it; the list is read live from your account, so every site's experiences appear, pick the right one. Sóley shows the start times it found so you can see the right experience is mapped. When you add an experience from Bókun and the start point Bókun holds for it matches one of your sites, Where does this happen? is filled in for you to check before you add it; nothing is set without you. Full guide: soley.travel/en/operators/help/bokun.

Adding a different company

Your login can hold several companies. Once it does, the portal shows an Editing switcher at the top of the left menu, with Add a different company at the bottom of it. Use it only for a company with its own kennitala.

Find and claim its listing on soley.travel, the same way you claimed the first. Alternatively, signed in, open soley.travel/en/operator/onboarding?add=1 and the onboarding wizard starts blank for the new company. The switcher appears once your login holds more than one company, so the first time you go to the address directly. Nothing you already have is touched.
Switch to it in the Editing switcher. Everything you do next applies to that company only.
Settings, once per company: business information, cancellation policy, and the operator agreement under "Open for bookings". The terms are the same for every company: your prices, your guest, you are the seller; Sóley charges 10 percent of what you collect on bookings made through Sóley, invoiced monthly to the invoice address you give.
Connect its booking system, add its rooms or services with at least three real photos each, and set up Settings → Payments again. One acquirer account can serve every company; the credentials are stored per company. Guide: soley.travel/en/docs/payment-setup.
The first booking. One test booking together with Sóley's card, confirmed in your booking system, then cancelled. The company is live.

Good to know

Same team, every company. Under Settings → Team you invite colleagues as editors per company. Editors update content and never see payment, billing or tax details.
Bókun's fee is Bókun's. Bókun charges 1.5 percent on bookings made through its API, per connected account, however many Sóley companies use it.

Questions: ragnar@soley.travel, 787 0886.