Your questions, our answers
Pricing, how packaged stays work, integration with your website, data security: what establishments ask us before getting started.
General
What is Flexibook?
An online booking engine for thalassotherapy centers, spa hotels and wellness centers: your customers build a package stay (treatment programme, room, board, add-ons), book accommodation only or a treatment, and pay on your website. You manage services, prices, stock, offers, quotes and teams in a back office.
Who is Flexibook for?
Thalassotherapy centers, spa hotels, wellness centers and multi-site groups that sell stays combining treatments, accommodation and catering. Establishments in other sectors, theme parks and holiday centers also use it for their package stays.
How long does it take to go live?
From a few days to a few weeks, depending on your catalog: we create your account when you activate it, you enter services, prices and stock (or we import them), you add a line of code to your website, and you are ready to go. Content is translated automatically.
Do I need to rebuild my website?
No. Flexibook integrates with your existing website, whatever the CMS or development technology, via a button or direct links. If you do not have a website, you can sell through a Flexibook portal in your brand colors.
Pricing
What is an establishment?
Un institut, un hôtel ou un restaurant. Une thalasso avec son hôtel et son restaurant compte trois établissements : c'est le plan Package. Un groupe ou un établissement multi-sites est en plan Multi, avec 100 € HT par établissement.
How is the commission calculated?
Sur le montant TTC de chaque vente réalisée via Flexibook : 4 % si Flexibook encaisse pour vous avec Stripe, 2 % si vous encaissez avec votre propre solution de paiement. Tous les frais sont compris : transactions, traduction, IA, serveurs, support, maintenance.
What does “Without Stripe” mean?
Nous encaissons vos clients avec votre propre solution de paiement (Axepta, Monetico, Systempay…), branchée sur Flexibook. Vous gardez votre contrat bancaire et vos conditions ; la commission Flexibook passe à 2 % (sous réserve de faisabilité technique).
Is there a commitment?
No. The activation fee is paid only once, there is no subscription, and you can stop whenever you wish.
Can I change plans?
Yes. Adding an establishment to your account moves you to the next plan; contact us and we will activate it.
Why is there an activation fee?
It covers opening your account and helps us avoid registrations that do not proceed.
What commission applies to a direct sale?
4 % avec Stripe, 2 % avec votre propre solution de paiement, sur les ventes faites via Flexibook. Rien sur les ventes des plateformes.
Features
Can a stay have a variable duration?
Yes. A programme can accept a fixed duration, 4 days for example, or a range of 3 to 7 days; the price follows the number of days and the associated services.
How is stock managed?
Each service has daily stock, which is deducted when a booking is paid and restored when it is cancelled. Bulk editing adjusts entire periods.
Can a room be sold without a programme?
Yes, as accommodation only, with its own arrival restrictions and minimum stays. This is the purpose of the Spa Hotel page.
Can I sell the hotel without the center?
Yes. Accommodation only and catering only can be sold independently of treatments, with their own arrival and duration rules.
Are extra beds managed?
Yes: adult, child and infant capacities per room, an extra child bed or baby cot, with the corresponding prices.
Does Flexibook replace my PMS?
No. Flexibook sells online and can feed your PMS via a connector; reception keeps its own system.
Can an advisor book for a customer?
Yes, in advisor mode: they build the package stay, apply a discount or a custom line item, and send the quote; the customer pays online.
Can an account be restricted to one establishment?
Yes. Each account can be linked to one or more entities; it only sees their bookings and statistics.
How are payments distributed?
With Stripe, each center, hotel or restaurant can have its own seller bank account: payment for a package stay is distributed between them.
Can a gift voucher pay for part of the stay?
Yes: the voucher amount is deducted and the balance is paid online.
How long is it valid?
You set it by card type; the back office tracks dates and balances.
Can a gift voucher or gift box be sent by post?
Yes. By default, the PDF is sent by email as soon as payment is made; you can also offer several postal delivery options (premium printing, box set, luxury gift box with your products, etc.), each with its own photo, flat fee plus a per-card price, and countries served.
Can treatment vouchers be booked online?
Depending on your settings. For bookable treatments, the customer chooses a date in the calendar and pays the price for that day. With treatment vouchers, they buy an undated voucher valid for one year, indicate their preferred availability, and the establishment calls them back to set the appointment.
Integration and connectors
Can I keep using booking platforms?
Yes. Connectors share your prices and availability with the platforms; direct sales are added, not substituted.
What is a direct link?
A booking funnel URL with parameters: stay, dates, number of people and add-ons. You create it from the Integration tab in the back office.
Are connectors paid?
No. They are included in all plans and activated by Flexibook upon request, subject to technical feasibility.
Which PMSs?
Connectors are developed on a case-by-case basis; Opera Cloud and Mews are under consideration. Contact us with the name of your PMS.
Can I query prices myself?
Yes, via the public API: package prices, offers and treatments, using a token issued in the back office.
Security and data
Where is the data hosted?
In France, at Datacampus (Niort), on servers powered by renewable energy, with daily backups, replication and a disaster recovery plan. No data is transferred outside the European Union.
Is Flexibook GDPR compliant?
Yes. For your customers’ data, you are the data controller and Flexibook is the processor: processing only on your instructions, hosting in France, confidentiality, assistance with requests to exercise rights, and return followed by deletion at the end of the contract. The “Data Protection” appendix to the GTC details these commitments.
Who owns my customers’ data?
You do. Flexibook does not use it for its own purposes or transfer it to anyone. You can export it from the back office at any time, including at the end of the contract.
Are payments secure?
Les paiements sont traités par Stripe ou par votre propre prestataire (Axepta, Monetico, Systempay…) sur une page sécurisée avec authentification forte. Flexibook n'a jamais accès aux numéros de carte.
Another question? Let’s talk about it
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