IOS Reservations 4.x feature requests

[peppemania]

contact form:

NO email to hotel !!! only at administrator (or the administrator can choose who to send email).

many people (90% in my site) send email with phone number. in this way the websites that works with the percentage are excluded from the negotiations.
I am forced to put my email in all the hotels. but then, the hotel does not receive email reservation.



see this: https://forum.elxis.org/index.php?topic=7171.0

[datahell]

The recommended option is to send the email to the hotel owner.
What you did is something custom and should be avoided by others.
Why? Because you might ignore the email, delete it, send it to spam, or never receive it, without notifying the hotel owner.
It should be the owner's responsibility to handle his hotel contacts, not the administrator's. If you don't want people to contact him directly you can disable this feature and drive customers to the general site's contact form.
 
If you want to make it work differently you can change it but this is not something to propose to others.

[peppemania]

I understand but not really agree.
the concept is perfect for websites of individual hotels or hotel chain, but not for websites such as booking, venere, expedia ...

Almost all major hotel booking sites do not make contact with the owner.
who has experience with this type of system, you know that all the people call or send email to the owner. Reservations through IORS are reduced by 90-100%.

example: on my site a hotel pays me to have the phone number and email. Result: 0 reservation for this hotel through IOSR.

I understand that the software is addressed to a wider audience, but I'm hoping for an option to disable this fuature easily. 

[datahell]

You can disable the contact form, IOSR allows that. But I didn't said that.
I said that in case you display the contact form the e-mail should be send to the hotel owner, not someone else.

[datahell]

A screenshot of IOS Reservations 4.0 control panel can be seen in my Twitter account.
Click for a large image.

It is important to notice that IOSR 4.x is fully modular. The hotels booking system is now an IOSR 4.x extension. Booking cars can be an other extension. You can install IOSR extensions at any time and extend IOSR features. Someone might not want hotels booking but just car rentals, he can buy and install only the IOSR car rental extension.
An other related feature and extremely cool is that if you use Elxis multisites you can manage IOSR extensions separately on each subsite. For instance you can enable the Hotels booking extension in the main site and in a sub-site and the car rental extension on 2 other sub-sites.

[nikos]

Excellent News!

[juanon]

GREAT!!

is still januaty the month to be available? I often check isopensource.com to see the development process and the bars never move...

Take your time, my friend, I just need to have an stimated date for starting a project I´m thinking about.

Regads

[datahell]

The project's size change almost every day, so it is hard to evaluate its final size and estimated release date from now. This is why the bars move very rare.
The best you have to do is to check my Twitter account. I update it much more often.

Some info on my progress.
Yesterday I completed managing IOSR extensions (install, update, uninstall, synchronize, enable, disable) on administration. It works great and gives you the option to manage IOSR extensions (eg. Hotels and Cars) separately on each sub-site without having to login to the sub-site if Elxis multi-sites are used. Today I started working on the frontend section. The administration section is about 70% complete. The frontend design (layout and functionality) is something that needs a lot of thinking because people use IOSR in many different ways, some have 5 hotels, others have 1000. Their needs are very different and so IOSR needs to be flexible in order to function well and look well in all cases. I have to admit that I have many thoughts and I haven't decided yet which is the best option.

[how]

Congratulations datahell,
do you think IOSR Hotels, IOSR Cars, IOSR Packages will be delivered almost at the same time?

[how]

Hello, happy holidays to all...

I would say to add in your future developements with IOS Reservations a ''booking'' item transfers booking.
It would be a great feature to be offered with a hotel booking the option of booking a transfer..

You can take an idea how could be here : http://www.zakynthosonline.com/Transfers.aspx?lang=en

I was just looking above link and I noticed they are missing two important fields from it .. number of passengers and number of baggage..

Thank you in advanced

[peppemania]

it's possible to insert microdata? 

Code: [Select]

  <div itemprop="offers" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer">
    <span itemprop="price">$55.00</span>
  </div>


Code: [Select]

<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
  <span itemprop="name">Google.org (GOOG)</span>
  <div itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress">
    Main address:
      <span itemprop="streetAddress">38 avenue de l'Opera</span>
      <span itemprop="postalCode">F-75002</span>
      <span itemprop="addressLocality">Paris, France</span>
</div>
    Tel:<span itemprop="telephone">( 33 1) 42 68 53 00 </span>,
    Fax:<span itemprop="faxNumber">( 33 1) 42 68 53 01 </span>,
    E-mail: <span itemprop="email">secretariat(at)google.org</span>

</div>

[juanon]

Hi

Any news about IOSR 4.0?

Thanks a lot

[datahell]

IOSR 4.0 is going great. It is a very big project and needs a lot of work to finish.
I am working on the frontend section now but I can't get into much details. The new version does make extensive use of geodata (and related features such as nearby hotels, distances, travel time, etc) and also microdata has been added. I read your comments and your feature requests. You can continue post your requests.

[juanon]

Great !!

Do you have a date in mind for the release?  April, May, June ??

Thanks again

[datahell]

2-3 months, maybe more. It is too early to announce a release date.

Here is a full scale preview from IOSR 4.x (hotels extension) hotel details page.
The hotel's data are 100% fictional and the page is under heavy construction. So the styling and features shown are not the final ones.
The left column shown is a help sidebar generated by IOSR it self. It has nothing to do with the site's template. Most of the layout can be configured by related settings in IOSR Hotels. The CSS is mostly generic in order to match the site's template. The screenshot is with the default Elxis template (Delta).