IOS Reservation Feature Questions

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Can you make a more complex pricing schedule, say, if  a hotel or room hasn't been rented out in a while, you dynamically change price or give discount? Is this possible? Will this be considered for the new version? This will give hoteliers more flexibility.

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Other amenities or services to be added: What if hotels provide breakfast or other facilities at a charge, can IOS cater for this? Example, per night it cost $100 but breakfast can be added for $10 or to have a hotel with balcony use will cost another $5?

Again, another features to be considered?

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Reservation Form: Can I change the reservation form layout and style?

I want to put my logo on it as well as the logo of the hotel the reservation is for?

Would this be possible?

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Can you make a more complex pricing schedule, say, if  a hotel or room hasn't been rented out in a while, you dynamically change price or give discount? Is this possible? Will this be considered for the new version? This will give hoteliers more flexibility.

machine intelligent?  you will trust it? me never!

Other amenities or services to be added: What if hotels provide breakfast or other facilities at a charge, can IOS cater for this? Example, per night it cost $100 but breakfast can be added for $10 or to have a hotel with balcony use will cost another $5?

Again, another features to be considered?

exist on new version

[yiannisK]

de-active can i ask you something?
Why r u asking sooooooooooo many questions!!! This component costs ONLY 75 euros and it is really really very good.
You don't buy a house, or a car it is a component man! 

It is not the end of the world if there is something that not fits your needs. Take it, work it, and as all of us, propose what is missing!!

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1. Maps: you have to modify the component or create a custom module. I thought google maps covers the whole world...
2: Just images
3. You can change layout and style everywhere.
4. Complex prices: Already developed for Reservations 2.5

I like this one: 

de-active can i ask you something?
Why r u asking sooooooooooo many questions!!! This component costs ONLY 75 euros and it is really really very good.
You don't buy a house, or a car it is a component man! 
It is not the end of the world if there is something that not fits your needs. Take it, work it, and as all of us, propose what is missing!!

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This might be a silly question but how do the big guys such as expedia, lastminute and booking.com know or check the availability of hotels (rooms) across the globe or those on their system? Are you telling me all these hotels are connected to the their system? Is there a system such as the airline ticketing system of Saber etc for hotels?

Interesting....because my idea will not work unless I can have live, real-time availability of rooms for multiple hotels.

To manually confirm each booking by calling the hotel up is not an option, as this will clearly not make the customers happy, since we are all use to booking online and once paid, that is a confirmation of the booking - i.e no one waits around for the a confirmation of booking. We are in the information age?!!!

[ks-net]

Above topic merged here!

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please do not post all over the forum new topics about the same subject!

[datahell]

de-active IOS Reservations is a booking system for mass usage. It was not built to cover mine or yours special needs. To do things like those you said you need custom solutions and special applications built just for you. I can built anything and I can bridge the online and the hotel system but such work needs a lot of time and the custom solutions are too expensive. Who can pay such money? booking.com provides bookings for thousands of hotels all around the world. Don't compare your site with booking.com. I would be stupid if I compared my company with Microsoft or Apple. You can get IOS Reservations with just 75 euro. The same software if was built just for you, it would cost you about 5000 euro. Don't you see the difference? This is the goods of the mass software development and of the open source platform. The bad things is that you loose customizations (except if you know how to do them).

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Thanks guys, got the answer to my question GDS, Sabre etc. I understand what you are saying...thanks for all your help 

A very important question: Can if I buy the software do I get full access to the source code, isn't it open source, or is that only IOS? Can I change it or customize it for my needs? Even if customization can't be done by Elexis or is not supported by Elexis, can I do my own?

Thanks

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A suggestion for the new version of IOS:

Maybe send SMS/Fax to the hotelier of a confirmation of booking because not all hotels use emails.

I'm not sure how difficult this would be and what it would entail? Who would pay for the SMS? Free online services?

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because not all hotels use emails.

If a hotel, needs an online reservation system they MUST use & have email.

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What if it's not the hotels that are using the online reservation tool?  Say a travel agent? 

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Wait a second, you didn't get it.

We have:
Side A - (hotel or agent) Services, offering Online information & order

Side B - Customer, Online Customer seeking to buy / order a service

and "Side A" doesn't offer to take an online order, or to contact the customer via email ?

Sorry but if I were the customer and I had seen a service online (never mind who put it online, agent or hotel or advertising company) I would expect them to be able to communicate online. Otherwise I would choose another company.


All this is my point of view, as a customer & provider of services for many years.

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There are many gateways out there that can forward an e-mail to a mobile phone, as an SMS message, or to a FAX device. Check for example clickatell.