Samba has four widgets. All of them show live availability and open your Samba checkout. To put one on your site, see Add a booking widget to your website.
Widget | Shows | Best for | Experience |
Button | A call-to-action button, optionally with a "from" price | A trip page you already wrote on your site | Optional |
Upcoming Departures | A paged list of one trip's bookable dates | Trips with a few fixed dates | Required |
Calendar | A month grid; picking a day lists that day's departures | Trips that run often | Required |
Product List | Every published trip, as cards or a list | A "Our tours" page | None |
Button
With an experience, it opens that trip's departures page or its trip page. With a folder, it opens that folder's trip list. With neither, it opens your full trip list.
You pick an experience or a folder, not both.
You can set the label (up to 60 characters), icon, size and color. The color starts as your workspace accent color.
The "from" price is off by default. It is hidden when the trip has no bookable departure or no paid price. With a folder, it shows the cheapest price in that folder.
Upcoming Departures
Day tours show the date and start time. Multi-day trips show the date range.
Page size sets how many dates show before Show more: 5 by default, from 1 to 20.
From price and Seats left can each be turned off.
Calendar
Shows one month at a time. Visitors can move forward as far as the month of your last scheduled departure.
From price and Seats left can each be turned off.
Product List
Layout is a card grid or a list.
If you use folders, the widget leads with them as cover cards. Visitors open a folder to browse its trips inside the widget. Tick Skip folder navigation and list every experience individually for a flat list.
Pick a Folder to show only that folder's trips. There is no filter per experience.
Each card shows the next departure date, "Available on request", or "No upcoming dates".
Settings every widget has
Setting | Options |
Open in | Fullscreen modal (default), a smaller modal, or a new tab |
Language | Auto, or one of your workspace's enabled languages |
Auto-apply discount code | One of your currently valid codes, applied at checkout without the visitor typing it |
Button and Product List also have On click, open: the trip's upcoming departures (default) or its trip page.
Which prices visitors see
Button and Product List show the trip's "from" price, the same one as on its trip page.
Upcoming Departures and Calendar show each departure's own price. If you priced that departure differently, visitors see the new price with its label as a badge. The regular price is struck through beside it only if you turned on Display original price for that departure.
How does Auto language work?
How does Auto language work?
The widget uses the language of the page it sits on, then the visitor's browser language, then your workspace's default language. It only ever uses a language you have enabled. A fixed language forces both the widget and the checkout it opens. If you later disable that language, the widget goes back to Auto.
What happens if the discount code stops being valid?
What happens if the discount code stops being valid?
Checkout checks the code again. A code that has expired, hit its limit or does not fit the chosen departure is dropped without a message, and the visitor pays full price. If you change a widget's experience, Samba clears a code that only applied to the old one.
What do visitors see for trips that take booking requests?
What do visitors see for trips that take booking requests?
Upcoming Departures adds a "pick any date" option and Calendar adds a toggle. Picking a date starts a booking request. A trip with no scheduled departures shows the date picker straight away. If you set request start times on the trip, the visitor then picks a time.