Live availability, re-checked at pay
The proprietary calendar API is queried at payment time (with a short safety cache) to reduce the risk of confirming a place that is no longer available.
A booking engine that understands the tour
The booking requirements went beyond a standard product checkout: deposits rather than full payment, live availability from a proprietary API, coupons, affiliate credit, per-vehicle rules for the self-drive tours, and age tiers per tour. So we built the checkout ourselves — the rules held as data, the money handled properly, and the availability re-checked at the moment of payment so a booking confirms cleanly or fails friendly.
From available places to confirmed bookings
Tour-specific booking rules connected to the existing availability API through a WordPress proxy.
Deposit payments over JWT
Customers pay a deposit to reserve, with the payment session signed and verified — the reservation only completes once the payment and availability both clear.
Coupons & affiliate attribution
A coupon engine on the total, and affiliate credit carried through the booking — every existing affiliate URL preserved through the migration, because that is where the bookings come from.
Self-drive vehicle rules
For quad and buggy tours, the checkout validates vehicles against drivers and passengers, shifting the price tier to match — driver-only or driver-plus.
Age-tier validation
Adult, child and infant counts cross-checked against each tour's rules, validated inline before payment is ever attempted.
A tour-finder quiz
A guided quiz — when you'd like to start, preferred time of day — that routes visitors to the right tour instead of a category wall.
Welcome visitors in six European languages
Yippee's customers arrive from across Europe, so the whole thing is multilingual on Polylang — English plus French, Italian, Spanish, Polish and German. Not just the marketing pages: 254 translated strings covering every tour page and its sunset version, the boat trips, the group and private tours, the quiz and the entire checkout, so a German visitor books in German end to end.
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