IOS Reservations 4.x feature requests

[QAZI]

Dear sir

please find the Indian holiday calander  on this website http://india.gov.in/calendar

Qazi

[datahell]

You have all these public holidays in India? If this is true then you stay home more days than those you work!
What's the difference between "Gazetted Holiday", "Restricted Holiday" and "Observance". If this info is correct then I will only add the Gazzetted holidays. I need dates where shops or schools are closed in the whole country, or there is something like a memorial date for the whole India.

[QAZI]

Dear sir
please add only gezetted holidays as it is observed in all over india and all establishment are closed on gazetted holidays .
please reply is there any option for extra adult in sharing same room and how can we add charges

qazi

[datahell]

OK, gezetted will be used and 3 national holidays you have.
Note: IOSR 4.x provides public holidays (static and movable) for 22 countries.

Extra beds should be handled as a hotel extra service.
In room description write if extra beds are allowed and how many on each room.
In the hotel terms write your extra beds/children cots policy.
Add an "Extra bed" extra service on the hotel with charge type "per room, per day".
Guests will be able to pick this service if they want for the rooms provide this option.

As long as you have clearly stated your extra beds policy even if the customer makes a wrong choice you have the right to fix the reservation later.

[QAZI]

Dear sir

thanks for your valuable reply one more point  arises in my mind is it possible that instead of keeping owner we can keep reservation manger  as many hoteliers object us for keeping owner name  but with out having his personal no. and if we keep owners no on IOS RESERVATION no more booking will come on our site.as they  they encourage customer not to book online but do directly with the hotel. we want a relief in this problem in IOS RESERVATION 4.X keeping an option for owner and Reservation manager a screen short is attached for your kind consideration. AS A TRAVEL AGENT it is a big problem for us to keep owners no on front side if we keep it hidden the customer has again and again to go at contact us form please solve this problem  in new version   that will help us to do a good buiessness .


Regards

qazi     



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[openita]

hello,
I tried the demo of IOSR4. I ask, why was not expected to indicate the age of the children?

[datahell]

You can define the age of children for each hotel. The default value is 2-12 years old.
During booking there is no option for the user to write the actual children ages but it is not requered, the only thing you need is that they are within the years range you have defined in hotel's settings. In this case the children discount policy is being applied.

[openita]

okay. is clear. I call the age of the children during the programming for each hotel. but if the policies of a hotel has different prices for children of different ages ? example: 1 child 0-5 years 80% discount. 1 child 5-12 years 50%. in the booking the customer indicates 2 adults + 2 children. if the IOSR4 not know how old they are children, such as calculating the price of the room? and the reservation emailed to the administrator and the hotel has indicated how many children but not their age. how do you know the hotel the age of the children ? I hope I have explained the problem well.

[datahell]

Different discounts for children based on their exact age is not supported.
There is 1 setting for children ages and its default value is 2-12 (0-2 are not charged in most hotels except for baby cots).
If a child's age is within this years range then children discounts will be applied.
When the customer says "2 children" he means that he has 2 children within the "2-12" years range.
If he has a 3rd child of age 15 then this is not within the 2-12 range so it will be considered and charged as adult.
I think it is clear and simple, don't make it hard.

[openita]

Hi,
demoadmin in the Italian language, many parts are not translated. the admin part and the program will stay that way or will be fully translated as iOS3?

[openita]

that is, I would say, in what time iOS4 admin will be complete as iOS3?

[datahell]

IOSR 4.x is not yet translated into Italian. Translations will be added after the initial release.
Currently IOS Reservations and IOSR Hotels are available in English, Greek and Portuguese (thanks to Luciano Neves).

IOSR 4.x is already complete, these days I write the documentation and make small additions (eg. today I added Credit Card offline payment method and yesterday Super APIs and 3 new REST API tasks).

IOS Reservations 4.x core documentation for users is ready.
IOSR Hotels 1.x API documentation for developers is ready.
IOSR Hotels 1.x documentation for users is still in progress.

[bledi]

Hello,
First question:
since we have 300 hotels already at IOS 3, descriptions, photos,rooms, seasons and prices, any help how to move all this staff to the new version? The xml files of IOS3 will it be exported at new IOS 4??
Second question:
I am sorry, i again about children, i just want to be sure. is it possible to add another Chd 2-12 discount option? So the existing one Chd (1) 2-12 and Chd (2) 2-12, just like the attachment added???

[datahell]

You cannot transfer data from IOSR 3.x to IOSR 4.x, they are incompatible versions and for different Elxis generations.
There could be a converter script that would do the most of the work but currently there is not.

IOSR Hotels has a single entry for children ages and discount policy. But instead of the global setting of IOSR 3.x in version 4.x this setting is per hotel.
So you can now set the children age range on each hotel separately. If you need more flexibility you can use the hotel add-on services option to charge children outside the base children range differently. You should write this in your hotel's terms and conditions section and make clear to the customers that there is a different charge for children of ages 13-16 for example.

My recommendation is to keep it as simple as possible.

[bledi]

OK, thanks datahell.
Will it be possible to buy 3 License package, with a discount, like IOS 3?