IOS Reservation Feature Questions

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Hello everyone,

It's me again  I have so many questions about Elexis IOS Reservation System before I make the big decision to purchase the product, the only way I
can ascertain if it is OK for me is to ask you people here on this forum who have used it or are using it as well as reading the manual, since there is no full demo version of the product for people to try out (this really would be a good idea if you want people to buy it!)

So here goes my first of many questions:

[7.1] Offline Status: So will this allow the system to be used on a stand-alone basis, where lets say it's only in one hotel who does not have Internet access they can use it as their in-house booking system?

Credit Card: "If you enable this option then the users will have to enter their credit card information in order to complete a reservation."


From the above statement, we can stop spam or fake bookings, where a booking will only be accepted if credit card details are completed.Is this true?

More questions to come....

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Credit Card: "If you enable this option then the users will have to enter their credit card information in order to complete a reservation."

If the cretid number is not  valid then the reservation cant complete .. in that case the spams comes to almost 0% but the hotel owner have to check always the credit of the credit card and then to confirm.

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Thanks for your reply,
If PP has already verified that the CC is valid and payment has already been made, then what else can the hotel owner do to see if the card is valid?

QUESTION 3:

[7.2] Front-page
What is the front page? Is it literally the front page, the index or home page of the site? I don't want this front page? I want a flash front page so must I use this front page? What if I want to use the front page as the second page?

So what if I don't want this front page? Ideally I would like a nice flash movie on the front page with a simple basic search. Can I do this?

Question 1 is still unanswered.

Thanks

[nikos65]

Question 3 .. This is on your hands to use what ever you want .

If PP has already verified that the CC is valid and payment has already been made, then what else can the hotel owner do to see if the card is valid?

Usally take approve from the bank by the phone or by the credit machine

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[7.1] Offline Status: So will this allow the system to be used on a stand-alone basis, where lets say it's only in one hotel who does not have Internet access they can use it as their in-house booking system?

no..
system goes Offline for all fronted users and is accessible only it's control panel from adinistrator...
for maintenance, updates,  reconfigure etc....

ios reservation can be setup from administrator area  to work in two modes
multi hotels
single hotel

ios reservation main purpose is to sevice online reservations especially for hotel portals .. multi-hotels mode!
where all it's benefits are enabled!

creditcard option is not for pay but works as a guarantee and a way to check customers(bank services) information!
so to be sure that is not fake and we have info to ask our money if someting goes wrong....
in greece for example many hotels ask and write down information from drive licenses etc.
credit card option works exactly the same way!

to check if credit card information is correct , use any way that bank offer ... ask your bank if and how can access that info!
 

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no..
system goes Offline for all fronted users and is accessible only it's control panel from adinistrator...
for maintenance, updates,  reconfigure etc....
....
ios reservation main purpose is to sevice online reservations especially for hotel portals .. multi-hotels mode!
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creditcard option is not for pay but works as a guarantee and a way to check customers(bank services) information!
so to be sure that is not fake and we have info to ask our money if someting goes wrong....
in greece for example many hotels ask and write down information from drive licenses etc.
credit card option works exactly the same way!

Yes, BUT I want to use PayPal CC to actually accept payments of the hotels.

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QUESTION 4:

[7.3] Comments:
I want only guests who have paid and stayed in a hotel to be able to make a comment and no one else, so if I didn't stay in a hotel then I shouldn't be able allowed to leave a comment.

Is this true? If not, again it can lead to spamming and other mis-use where and Tom, Dick and Harry can leave a comment.

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Yes, BUT I want to use PayPal CC to actually accept payments of the hotels.

use it ! who stops you?

paypal is other option ...  and credit card option is another option too!

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what about comment question?

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well... if you find a way to give elxis the ability to recognize your costumer( face , voice ?)  that would be great!

thing a little about this question !

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Right, so can we limit who is allowed to leave a comment?

Since IOS R claims to be like booking.com or based on booking.com then maybe you can check out the comment section of booking.com or expedia.
Maybe a more expressive commenting module can be done for the new version?

You know what, I'm thinking of making a new thread: Features Users Would Like In The New Version of IOS R!

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Change Status: What if it says approved because of successful payment, but not approved from the hotel manager because there's no room.


Is the hotel manager's page accessible from the front end? As in can all visitors see this log in screen?

The hotel manager's access page, should not be visible to users who browse the site or users who book a hotel, this is a function that shuold be back-end? No?

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QUESTION 6

[7.7 Google map]
I want to use a map for each hotel but the country I will do the hotels for does not have good google maps. So how can I include maps? I will draw my own maps. Is it possible to use this feature, or shall include it as an image? Is there anyway of using this module to bring up maps, but my own ones? Don't think so, I now it can be via a php script.

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8. Locations: This seems like a brilliant feature that I would like to use. It says on the manual:

The upload icon will pop-up a new window with an image upload form to upload a characteristic image to use as a location image.

I'm hoping to be able to use a map created in Adobe Flash for each area, will this be possible or is it just images (jpeg, bmp etc?)

I still have lots of questions

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Hotels: What if I want to add, apartments and other types of accommodation, which may not be star based? Is this possible?

This really is a feature to consider for the next version of IOS R.