IOS Reservations 4.x feature requests

[kyomar]

Hello Elxis team & forum members,
I am new here and I have just started to play around with Elxis4.0 and I am indeed very impressed. I used and am still working with joomla but will definitely move to Elxis. The combination CMS und Reservation System is awesome and that's how I found Elxis in the first place while searching for a hotel reservation script for joomla. I hope IOS 4 will be ready soon (I am also interested in translating it into Japanese).

Just my thoughts about IOS:
- besides number of adults and children there should also be the option "infants"
- I hope IOS will be okay for single hotels, B&Bs etc. as well

Thank you!

[datahell]

IOS Reservations 4.0 plus IOSR Hotels 1.0 have reached 1.8mb in size (without counting modules or anything external).
The project is growing fast!

[jraulc]

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.

Hi, and yes, that was exactly my idea...

[dmg16]

Hi Datahell,

First of all thanks for the great product.  Looking forward to the IOSR 4.  Just one question regarding integration with expedia, agoda etc.  Does this mean we can pull hotel listings that we like from their system (and get commission on sales from it) ?  Thanks.

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.

[dmg16]

Oh and another followup question, for example with Expedia will this be through their Expedia Affiliate Network (EAN)?  So its going to be white label integration (no expedia branding anywhere)?  Thanks

Hi Datahell,

First of all thanks for the great product.  Looking forward to the IOSR 4.  Just one question regarding integration with expedia, agoda etc.  Does this mean we can pull hotel listings that we like from their system (and get commission on sales from it) ?  Thanks.

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.

[datahell]

Does this mean we can pull hotel listings that we like from their system (and get commission on sales from it) ?

No, the goal is the synchronization of your bookings and your data.
No, the integration is via a third party company but YES it is fully transparent (white label).

[dmg16]

Sorry for the additional question (just trying to get a clear picture on this): if it means synchronization of bookings and data, does it mean iosr4 will be connected to a GDS?  So we can pull listings from a GDS?  Thanks.

 

Does this mean we can pull hotel listings that we like from their system (and get commission on sales from it) ?

No, the goal is the synchronization of your bookings and your data.
No, the integration is via a third party company but YES it is fully transparent (white label).

[datahell]

In a full integration yes but this does not mean that you will have this functionality in IOSR 4.0 (we will see).
Please don't ask too much details about how specific features work. IOSR is still under development, features get added and change every day.

[datahell]

I currently work on hoteliers control panel which is the last big section of IOS Reservations 4.0 still undone.
The hoteliers control panel has a responsive design which makes easy for hoteliers to manage their hotels with their mobile phone or tablet.

[andreatravel]

I would like to ask if this time you can handle the age and discounts of children per room.

[datahell]

No, discounts are on hotel basis.

[andreatravel]

No, discounts are on hotel basis.

Okay, that's fine too, the important thing that we can set the maximum age of the child. It is only in Europe, which by default is 12, other countries do not have an age of default.

[datahell]

Child age is just a text in language files.
You can modify the language string and change the default "2-12" to anything you want.

[dmg16]

For the tripadvisor ratings, is it possible to add the hotel rank on tripadvisor, the overall rating ( ex.  4 out of 5 based on 500 reviews)?

[jraulc]

•   Reservation date: and some minimal info in integration with something like google calendar, for those who like me, use an online agenda with google calendar and that way can have everything sync. (I know, this is ask too much, and may be nobody else than me will use it)

•   Tourist atractions module: for each destination/hotel something like the actual hotel Addon Services, so a client can choose a destination by the atractions offered, but with much more info, details, pictures, prices, durations, maps, coments, rating, etc, this, for the option below.

•   Key role for tour operators: this is because, in my particular case, I have more probabilities to get group reservations from tour operators (actually travel agencies) more than individual reservations, so, a tour operator can sale an all included package, hotel, food(don’t matter if the hotel dont have a restaurant, they can sub contract with some local restaurant, this the idea from my locations hotels) atractions (from the module above, and don’t matter if the hotel dont have a bus for a tour, they can sub contract from a local tour operator too) etc. This because, the most hotels dont offer things like this, and if somebody want to go to a new destination it’s more easy to decide wich pick knowing what atractions can include in my reservations, and the same for travel agencies, and a reservations report options and not only for the hotelier, another option that I think could be cool is include details about my client(if I’m a tour operator) and send to him a sms and email notification with the details of the reservation, this could make a better comunication betwen tour operators and their clients, I hope have been clear with my explication (not like the “multi hotelier” funtion instead of say “multi user”, for the reservations team, not always is the same person recieving the reservations.

•   Different email address: the contact email address and the email address for notifications could be different? This because some hotels have at least two, one b.e. info@myhotel.com for messages from contact hotel section, info, etc, and number two b.e. reservations@myhotel.com for the reservations team and receive here the notifications of reservations.

by the way, I am very anxious to see the version 4 of IOSR, I think the same the other users.