IOS Reservation Feature Questions

[nikos65]

Please check the Tripadvisor review system is the only one who works and i get the experience.

What I strongly disagree is to allow any Joe Public, someone who has never ever been to that hotel or even stayed there a night, but has registered on the site to be able to make a comment. That is fundamentally illogical.

In my site the review is free to all and i like it a lot beacause some of the features customers make prebooking questions .

At your site you can use it only for register users ..

[de-active]

hey I'm learning a lot from your experience Nikos65 and I think much of what you are saying is good because it's the ground reality....so it's good what u r saying but....

I'm saying how is it possible, that you can make a review of my hotel but you have never stayed or travelled to my hotel? You understand what I am saying and where I'm coming from?

In your system, how can you prevent or stop competitors from making a comment on your hotel, which will not be true and always be negative.

However, if you have a system, which ONLY allows people who have stayed at your hotel then that is fair comments because you can stop false comments from people who don't like you or want you in the business.

As for prebooking questions and queries you can have a email, chat, forum, phone number or anything else.

[nikos65]

I thing is something to ask Datahell to be included !! 

[de-active]

Glad you finally agree and see the logic! 

[datahell]

In your system, how can you prevent or stop competitors from making a comment on your hotel, which will not be true and always be negative.
However, if you have a system, which ONLY allows people who have stayed at your hotel then that is fair comments because you can stop false comments from people who don't like you or want you in the business.

IOS Reservations 3.0 does exactly this. You can set only registered users to post comments or users that have already stayed in the hotel to post comments (recommended). Also the commentary system now became a review system. IOS Reservations in order to find out if a user is a past hotel guest it checks his reservations and the checkout dates. If it finds a checkout date older than the current date it considers this user as a hotel guest and allows him to review the hotel.

http://wiki.elxis.org/wiki/IOSR_Hotel_page#Hotel_comments

[de-active]

Hi Datahell,
Hope you enjoyed your much deserved break!

Yes, but can the HOTELIER respond back to the comment. This is important especially for a negative comment/experience from a guest. With a review system like this, it becomes more trustworthy than tripadvisor because the latter allows anyone (including those who have not stayed in the hotels - so a competitor can make a comment).

Any other major updates you want to disclose? like...

[aiden11]

How about on this version we can have an option for hoteliers to add a a booking form that is linked to ISO main website.
for example, if a hotel has got 12 rooms and can place the code somewhere in their website, customer can search from there and then redirected to the main website to complete the booking ?

[datahell]

This can be done quiet easily by a third party PHP developer. I am responsible for the development of the central reservations application, not for external connectors and bridges. If you wish to have a mother site with IOS Reservations and have availability/booking forms on several other web sites then you have to hire a developer to create for you a bridge with IOS Reservations. I have created many free plug-ins for Elxis that work as bridges between, even totally, different applications (Elxis - SMF, Elxis - Wiki, EDC browser, Flickr API, etc). You can take these as examples on how you can connect Elxis with other applications, even if they are not under the same server.

[de-active]

Do you have a free plugin/bridge for the SMF forum for Elxis or can this be integrated into Elxis out of the box?

[datahell]

You question is not relative to the post's subject. You will also find the answer if you search the forum.

[aiden11]

This can be done quiet easily by a third party PHP developer. I am responsible for the development of the central reservations application, not for external connectors and bridges. If you wish to have a mother site with IOS Reservations and have availability/booking forms on several other web sites then you have to hire a developer to create for you a bridge with IOS Reservations. I have created many free plug-ins for Elxis that work as bridges between, even totally, different applications (Elxis - SMF, Elxis - Wiki, EDC browser, Flickr API, etc). You can take these as examples on how you can connect Elxis with other applications, even if they are not under the same server.

Thanks for taking your time to answer my post.
Looking forward to the new version

[peppemania]

for each Hotel/B&B

Can show phone number? YES/NO
Can show email address?  YES/NO
Can show personal website ? YES/no

contact email only with form (no show email client or phone number for owner hotel - only administrator).
Administrator have always a copy of email.

- price for person or for room
- category hotel/b&b/etc..

[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!

[de-active]

I was just reading the FAQs on IOSR and found out that, those who have already purchased an older or current version of IOSR will not get a free upgrade (as they normally use to), but a "huge discount" could you, if you are able to, tell us roughly how much version 3 would be as well as percentage discount current clients can expect to get?

Given that X% is left to complete will the "Estimated release date for v3.0 is September 30, 2009"  be met? How realistic is this? Will this target be met or .....

[datahell]

Free updates for all versions of the same generation (i.e. 1.x)
https://www.isopensource.com/software/ios-reservations-system.html

Versions 2.0/2.1 and 3.0 are of a different generation. Version 3.0 has nothing common to v2.x, as the component re-built from scratch. That's why you can not update, you can only install the new version. Most probably people having already v2.x will be able to buy v3.0 with a great discount. Nothing is certain yet as v3.0 is still under development. Prices and update information will be announced from Is Open Source web site on time.

Current development status
The front-end control panel for the hoteliers was just completed. The component is almost fully functional. All the main features and pages have been completed. What is missing: some informational pages in administration area, more payment methods, the installer, clean up of language files, css and code, online testing, build of a demo site, completion of the user manual, support pages. I believe that it will be ready by the end of September but I don't guarantee that.