IOS Reservation Feature Questions

[de-active]

Hi,

I was reading the wiki on IOSR and came across this:

IOS Dialects technology. Each title, description, and everything else can be entered in up to 4 languages.

Can you clarify this for me in more details. So the above information can only be entered and displayed in 4 languages only?

So Elxis supports unlimited number of languages, but IOSR can only display 4 different languages? Could you increase this please as some sites need many many more. If you look at Expedia or Booking.com they have lots of languages.

[datahell]

As you know Elxis is a multilingual CMS and supports unlimited number of languages.
IOS Reservations is also a multilingual application built for Elxis and also supports unlimited number of languages.
So, IOS Reservations interface can be displayed in unlimited number of languages.
Each database driven item in IOS Reservations can be entered in up to 4 languages.
This means: hotels title and description, locations title and description, rooms title and description, payment methods, add-on services, hotel/rooms facilities, etc. For each of these items there are 4 columns in the database instead of one.
Here is a sample on how you enter multilingual titles for a room:
http://wiki.elxis.org/wiki/IOSR_admin_edit_room

One language is the main language, this is set automatically to the site default published language. You can select 3 more languages to display from the list of your published languages (if you have more than 4). The database driven data for the rest languages will be displayed in the main language. IOS Reservations v2.x works like this. IOS Eshop and other components work also like this.

You might think that 4 languages are not enough, but this is not true. This limitation is not a real problem, the site can still be multilingual. Here is  working example to better understand this.

Site "A" has 6 languages published: english (main), greek, italian, spanish, german, french.
The default language is english.
IOS Reservations other 3 languages are: greek, italian and spanish.

For users having selected the english language:
Elxis interface will be in english
IOS Reservations interface will be in english
IOS Reservations data will be in english

For users having selected the greek language:
Elxis interface will be in greek
IOS Reservations interface will be in greek
IOS Reservations data will be in greek

For users having selected the italian language:
Elxis interface will be in italian
IOS Reservations interface will be in italian
IOS Reservations data will be in italian

For users having selected the spanish language:
Elxis interface will be in spanish
IOS Reservations interface will be in spanish
IOS Reservations data will be in spanish

For users having selected the german language:
Elxis interface will be in german
IOS Reservations interface will be in german
IOS Reservations data will be in english

For users having selected the french language:
Elxis interface will be in french
IOS Reservations interface will be in french
IOS Reservations data will be in english


IOS Dialects system is extremely easy to use. I built it for simplicity and easy to use. I could add the option to have unlimited languages for each element but this would make data entry much harder and complex. Believe me that simplicity is a very important factor. Most of the web users, and especially hoteliers, can not understand complex systems. So I am forced to create easy to be used applications. People use this system for more than 1 year in many different applications and no problem has been reported.

[de-active]

Great! So any languages on top of the three ((4) as English is default) chosen languages published on the site, will have both Elxis and IOSR interface in the CHOSEN language but IORS Data, will be in English. 

So what's IOSR Data? Is this the back-end applications, such as the DBs etc? Or does this include front-end aspects such as booking confirmations etc?

Thanks for the clarification in advance.

Yep...makes sense

[datahell]

I think my answer was clear enough. Interface is in unlimited languages, database data are in 4 languages maximum.

[de-active]

From the wiki of IOSR Adin Edit Hotelier:

On the hotelier edit page IOS Reservations also displays you some statistical data for the hotelier. These are: number of hotels and rooms managed by him, number of reservations received from all of his hotels (total, confirmed, unconfirmed), reservations amount total and paid fees total.

This is for multiple hotel mode, but what exactly is "paid fees total"? Is this the amount the hotelier pays to the website administrator for hosting the hotel? Or is this the fee for the payment system or something else?

Also will any other statistical data be included? Can other data be collected? Let's say the site administrator wants to know the nationalities of those who booked in the month of January. Please see an earlier post on this topic in this thread.

Thanks

[msti]

These are two features that I find useful:

1) The hotel manager will be able to set a 'stop sales' period. (will not accept reservations for this period)
2) Add pricing options per person and per child

Will these two be included in the new version of IOS Reservations?

Kepp up the good work datahell!

[mgrc]

Extra (optional) field on the reservation page for guest to enter their loyalty card, or a special offer discount number.
Also the ability to easily change or remove "VAT ID" on the reservation page from backend (for non European hotels). 

[de-active]

Recent research shows that one of the key factors in driving users to actually make a booking for a hotel is to provide rich media content including videos. So video (Whether posted on youtube or not) maybe a nice feature to add? Just another idea

[datahell]

Video is very easy to be added, even now that the development is almost complete. Note also that you can add anything you wish in the hotel description as you have the Elxis editor to edit the hotel's description.

[de-active]

In the current version of IOSR: Gallery, one can only upload one picture at a time (or is there another way that i don't know of?). This is very cumbersome and time consuming if there are lots of pictures for each room, and each hotel and each location. So it would be a good idea in the new version if it was possible to upload several pictures at the same time or even a complete folder in one go!

Also why is only one picture limited to each room (current version)? Will the new version have the facility to have more than one picture of each room?

[de-active]

What might be a really good idea, is for IOSR to come by default with several different css templates so that user can choose which design they want to have their front pages displayed in.

[rentasite]

What might be a really good idea, is for IOSR to come by default with several different css templates so that user can choose which design they want to have their front pages displayed in.

Don't forget that you are able to add more css templates ever after the installation.

[de-active]

Yeah your right....

I understand that IOSR has it's own special Front Page module, are we able to add other Elixis component to the IOSR Front Page such as 'Poll' or 'SMF show thread' via Elxis?

[rentasite]

Yeah your right....

I understand that IOSR has it's own special Front Page module, are we able to add other Elixis component to the IOSR Front Page such as 'Poll' or 'SMF show thread' via Elxis?

Yeap you can. By using Elxis Module positions u can show other components also. Beyond the Reservation's frontpage.

[de-active]

when you mean "beyond the reservation page" - do you mean after the reservation page (so not on it) or in addition to the reservation page (i.e on the reservation page)? Thanks for the clarification.

Oh yeah, I remember you can, there was that Wiki showing the different type of box (module, component) positions...sorry for that question...

However, next question, will the new version still come with SEO Pro?

thanks