IOS Reservations 4.x feature requests

[webgift]

The hotel look like... princess! 

[juanon]

Hi,

If you still accept  I would like to ask for these things:

- Some kind of GDS facilitties for hotels that need it.
- Minimum number of ratings for the average rating to be shown. Because showing one only bad rating for a hotel can ruin its reputation.
- wigets to insert one hotel search module and several hotel searh module in external sites.
- maps and distances from city center and main attractions of the city.
- posibility to include hotels of the cities nearby in the search, just using a field for the manager to specify the maximum distance.
- posibility to write a word to search and the system will show all possibles matches: cities, hotels, etc.
- google map for HOW TO GET THE HOTEL from a given adress.
- qr codes for hotels
- trip advisor comments and ratings but not in an iframe, it ruins the template

Just sime ideas.

Thanks a lot!!!!!

[juanon]

Please don´t hate me. Everyday I come out with new ideas. Tell me when you stop accepting requests and I will close my mouth.

- autoconfirm option for some payments like offline credit card
- javascript confimation popup before deleting sesions, rooms, etc
- only 1, 2 or x rooms left message
- not refundable rooms message
- last booking module for any hotel, not show if empty
- coupons, offers and discounts (and modules to show them)
- send automatic email to customer after x days to ask for a review
- step process for reservation

Thanks a lot

[jraulc]

Hello, I hope you still accepting requests...  I would like the next options:

at Reservations, some filters like:
-Reservations Type (Online/Offline).
-Payment Status (Paid/Not Paid (I mean pending for pay)).
-Payment Type (Paypal, Credit Card, Bank Transfer, etc.).
this options and more at Ordering filter option.

Reservations report:, the same options above plus below:
-Schedule generate report and delivery by email to the owner of each hotel or when the Administrator requires.
-If the report are downloaded, then the file name should include more info like the filters used to generate it, and if were the case and could be possible a format for the xls file, like some fonts, cell color, width, etc., titles, names like owner of the hotel who should recibe the report. 

At this time that's all, if later I can think other I'll post too...

Thank you very much...

[datahell]

I attach a screenshot from the hotel's page and especially the rooms selection for booking. Note that the page doesn't have its final styling and functionality.

Some notes on rooms selection to get an idea on how IOS Reservations 4.x works.

- The user selects the check-in and check-out dates and optionally the number of rooms he wishes to book. He also selects the number of adults and children for each room (IOSR 3.6 had only a global option, not per room).
- IOSR finds the proper and cheaper rooms for him and displays a "Recommended rooms for you" with a direct booking button.
- The user can freely pick other rooms from the available ones below (he can pick mixed room types too, eg. 2 single bedded and 1 junior suite).
- The total amount for each room is calculated automatically after the user changes the booking options.
- A: stand for Adults, C: stands for Children
- Unlimited images per room are allowed (IOSR displays an image gallery in a lightbox window for each room).

[juanon]

Very interesting!!

I wonder if you have read our other suggestions and what do you think about them

I have also thought about some kind of setting for comissions ans some way for us to get a pdf invoice for hoteliers....

Thanks a lot for your effort, keep the good work

[datahell]

Yes, I read all the feature requests.
 I am not yet able to discuss much details as I have still large parts of IOSR to develop. In the future we will discuss more some specific areas like the ones you say.
In the meanwhile keep posting your requests. BTW many of the feature requests posted here are already supported in version 3.6!

[datahell]

A new screenshot from IOSR 4.0 Hotels.
You see the location page on Hotels extension.

Note that the page is under development and many features are missing (paging, booking options, ordering, etc).
An option that has been requested many times has been already implemented: order hotels by price. IOSR 4.x Hotels has several ordering options for the hotels and by price ordering is the pre-defined one.

[datahell]

New screenshot from IOS Reservations 4.0 - Hotels
One click - hotel quick view in a lightbox window.

[jraulc]

Hi, it's me again, I'm sorry if I write something repeated, I think this features too.

•   Individual Cancelation days for each hotel.
•   For tour operator, individual Hotel Autorization and Discounts for override general tour operator hotel discounts.
•   More options for Advanced Search, by Services, type, classification, etc.
•   Reservations Panel with hotels and discounts (for tour operators)
•   Destination main image with link to the gallery.
•   Multi-hotelier hotel (more than one hotelier per hotel with differents opcions for each one).
•   User Register/Login full HTTPS
•   Hotel Option for show/hide availability calendar from non-hoteliers/tour operators
•   Annotations of local festivities/celebrations (with links) on calendar per destinations.
•   Send automatic email and sms to hoteliers for remember review the reservations for the next week (something like facebook do with the friends birth day)

btw, the IOSR 4 looks simply awesome...

[datahell]

Individual Cancelation days for each hotel. Already done
For tour operator, individual Hotel Autorization and Discounts...  Discounts per hotel, tour operators are global on site
More options for Advanced Search, by Services, type, classification, etc. Already done
Reservations Panel with hotels and discounts (for tour operators)  Tour operators dont have a key role in IOSR, they only have an extra discount option. They can see their bookings via reservations history as all the other users.
Destination main image with link to the gallery. IOSR 4.0 introduces country pages. Country and locations pages have changed a lot. Galleries are much better in IOSR 4.0 and easier to implement.
Multi-hotelier hotel... No, I consider this as a bad option
User Register/Login full HTTPS . Already done, supported in IOSR 3.x too. BTW booking process in IOSR 4.x is much faster (less steps) and there are also XML and JSON APIs for remote bookings (IOSR Connector is integrated)
Hotel Option for show/hide availability calendar from non-hoteliers/tour operators I can do that
Annotations of local festivities/celebrations (with links) on calendar per destinations. Already done. IOSR 4.x displayes already lpublic holidays for 14 countries. More can be added at any time. See attached image
Send automatic email and sms to hoteliers for remember review the reservations for the next week (something like facebook do with the friends birth day) It can be done easily

I think IOSR 4.x will be great. I have several goodies for you, you might don't expect. An idea? Mobile ready (IOSR 4.x is based on the upcoming Elxis 4.1 Poseidon). An other? Integration with expedia, agoda, booking.com, and more... As the project is huge the first version might misses some small parts as I don't wont the development period to take too long. But it is not yet time to discuss such things. I still need about 2 months to have a first test version ready.

[mgrc]

Hi,
I am not sure exactly what jraulc had in mind with Multi-hotelier hotel idea.
On the other hand multiple users per hotel would be a nice feature.
Hotel assigns user names to reservation staff to know who entered the reservation (useful if reservation was phoned in or e-mailed and entered via admin).
Like the streetview feature btw.

[aiden11]

I think IOSR 4.x will be great. I have several goodies for you, you might don't expect. An idea? Mobile ready (IOSR 4.x is based on the upcoming Elxis 4.1 Poseidon). An other? Integration with expedia, agoda, booking.com, and more... As the project is huge the first version might misses some small parts as I don't wont the development period to take too long. But it is not yet time to discuss such things. I still need about 2 months to have a first test version ready.

WOW

[William88]

Hi! DataHell, I am your new user. After reading the new features coming up, I felt very excited to see those features. One things, you may change your name to Dataheaven instead as the Heaven has blessed you with brilliant ideas and skills to come out fantastic features.

May be considered to come up an extension for mod booking search app which incorporate mobile phone incl iPhone, Samsung etc. and iPad as well and also affiliates. We want to reward affiliates

[datahell]

Several times I have thought of developing mobile apps, especially for android and firefox OS, but my free time is zero.
IOSR 4.x Hotels will have an XML/JSON API that will make easy for a third party developer to connect it to any other software/application.