IOS Reservations Hotels - Features requests

[datahell]

The development of the next version of IOS Reservations Hotels is in progress.
If you have any request for a new feature, or anything, you can post it below.

[wieyoga]

Affiliates program feature request ,
-example - partners.agoda.com | booking.com/content/affiliates.html

 this will become most killer feature for IOS, as long i know those company can boost their revenue using affiliates program

[datahell]

I am very interesting in integration with other systems but almost all of them are very closed, like secret projects and costs a lot of money. I believe all big players they don't want integrations, they only try to have as many customers they can and force them to leave other companies. It is like google that tries to make internet its own business. I found some channel managers that they provide integration with multiple platforms but they are not what I want.

As for affiliates it is not what IOSR is for. The goal is not to link somewhere go to agoda, make a booking there, and someone get a fee for the reservation. IOSR Hotels is a booking system not an iframe integration of booking.com or a link to agoda or other similar platforms. If I find a serious company providing a good open API (like XML) for bookings I will surely implement it in IOSR Hotels. I could make a "black hat" integration with any system but this wont be a reliable system.

[vardaris]

Hi Datahell,
I've bought IOSR Hotels and I'm very happy with this Extension.
I'd like at the new update to make attributes as
Meals (All,Room Only,Breakfast,Halfboard,Fullboard,All Inclusive)
and a specific form where the Hoteliers can start their Registration.

Another basic would be reviews and comments about the hotel and
a module ''My last viewed properties''.

Thanks, nice work !

[datahell]

@Vardaris Why don't you use the hotel extra services for meals? For reviews/comments: From the moment Tripadvisor stop XML reviews service I see that the alternative widgets by Tripadvisor are not so good and I will see how I can develop something better. For last viewed: This is easy and I will do it.

For your information: After some requests I implemented something very cool. In IOSR Hotels 2 and on rooms charged by number of persons you can set the price of the room separately for 1 person, for 2 persons, for 3 persons, ... , up to 6 persons.

So on a triple room you can now set the room price to:
50 EUR for 1 person
90 EUR for 2 persons
110 EUR for 2 persons

Only the first price (for 1 person) is required. So if you omit, for example, the price for 3 persons then this will be the price for 1 person X 3 (50 X 3 = 150). This also provides as backwards compatibility with IOSR hotels 1. Screenshots will be published soon.

I also think of turning back the Single Hotel feature that was on IOS Reservations 3.x series. This will make the system usable also to those have a single hotel.

[vardaris]

Why don't you use the hotel extra services for meals?

I'd like to be as a service of the Hotel because most of Hotels include the BB/HB at the same (Total) Price , they don't have it as an extra service. It's more useful I think, especially when a visitor use the search filter 

[datahell]

I don't see where is the problem... If you don't want it as extra and it is included in the price, then write it in hotel's description and/or select it in standard hotel facilities which are searchable.

[wieyoga]

From my opinion is better to add special tab navigation to create or remove promotion.

Promotion Update request Ability to add promotion on specific room type.
Ability to add promotion discount more than one on same promotion ( for example if The guest book 30 days in advance willl get 10% discount & if book 60 days in advance will get 20% etc )

[juanon]

Hi,

I agree with vardaris it would be great prices with meals but I understand it can be a hell of prices and I think it is something really hard to achieve...

I have a lot of ideas, some of them are really a must, others will help our business to grow without a doubt. Please have a look:


API
- Ready made code for hotels to include a "search box or book now button" in their websites, average people don´t know how to make this... some kind of widget.

COMMENTS AND REVIEWS
- Built in system, with mode auto or previously moderated by admin
- Email reminder to leave a review after X days after the stay.
- Ability to disable comments until X comments have been submitted so a single bad comment can not ruin the hotel reputation.
- Ability for administrator to edit, disable, or even create new comments with a fake name.
- Ability to sort hotels for punctuation.
- Ability to sort reviews by date, age, etc.

DESING
- Hotel template option with big slideshow for pictures.

ROOM PRICES
Not refoundable price for any season and any room. Very important nowadays!!

SEARCHING
- Powerful search module for searching also for type of accomodation, etc.
- Reverse sorting when clicking again in the sort item (hotel listS).

MAPS
- Ability to add tourist points to the city maps and search and sort hotels for distances to airport, city centre etc.

CHECKOUT PROCCESS
- Numbered Step proccess
- Right column autoscrollable with the booking resume always visible.
- Validation in booking form (example: telepohone must be 9 numbers, Regexp?)
- Subscrite to newsletter checkbox in booking form

OFFERTS AND DISCOUNTS
- Discount Coupons similar to IOSR Cars
- Discounts per room
- Badgets for hotels to mark offers
- Personal banner per hotel to show offers, etc. They just must upload a picture with a fixed size.

MARKETING
- Built in newsletter system for the users to sign up
- Share buttons for facebook, twitter, etc.
- Tell a friend form for hotels

HOTELIER
- Graphical analytics, pie charts, etc (Perhaps google integration)
- Admin login page. Hotelier don´t like to log in from the same module of users and click a link, they would prefer to log in from something like www.myhotelportal.com/adminhotel
- PDF Invoices with logo and company details selector ready to be sent.
- Admin rooms from mobile.
- Various hoteliers per hotel with restricted permissions.


OTHER OPTIONS
- closing days for the hotel, all vacancy is overwritten to 0 for these days for all rooms
- Ability to disable "Recommended room for you"
- Ability to hide calendar for rooms in user view
- Company logo in emails and faxes
- Photos for extra services
- Icons for facilities
- Empty fields for hotels/rooms for the admin to create. For example create number of baths and being able to look for that from the search module.
- Nearby cities limited in number of distant kilometres.
- Ability to Set a hotel as featured so it always appears before in search lists (just in default sorting, of course).
- IMPORTANT!! Enable Browser back button to work, in order to be able to go back from a hotel page to the search results without the browser shows "expired document".


Thanks a lot in advance.

[jesusto]

Hello,

I need a script to autocancel bookings made with direct payments not confirmed-paid after some time.

I mean something we can trigger with cronjobs and where we can select what payment methods are taken into account and how much time after the reservation was made for it to work.

Thank you very much.
 

[datahell]

@juanon : I can't answer in details because you write too many things. I will see what can be done for all of them.
@jesusto : Most probably your wish will come true.

I attach a screenshot from the price rates editing window on IOSR Hotels 2.0
You can see that you can charge freely based on number of persons or rooms (up to 6).

Note: Update from IOSR Hotels 1.x to 2.x will be free. Also note that this is a big update, all modules, plugins, etc, for IOSR Hotels 1.x will have to be updated inorder to become compatible to IOSR Hotels 2.x.

[datahell]

I attach a screenshot showing a new feature in IOSR Hotels 2.
You can now set the room's reservation acceptance status to one of these 3:

- Normal (process bookings - default)
- Stop sales (No reservations)
- Inquiry form

[datahell]

Last added features on IOSR Hotels 2.0, most of them were requested by IOS users.

- Not refundable discount.
- Included meals in price.
- Promotion text for rooms.
- Reviews and rating system for hotels.
- Automatic cancel not-confirmed bookings after X days.
- Log everything important (bookings, delete actions, reviews, etc...)

All the above features are currently are under development.

[wieyoga]

  Great Job datahell

[jesusto]

Amazing!!

I would like the automatic cancellation of not-confirmed bookings to be triggered every 30 minutes... Is is possible?

I would also like an option to decide if cancellations requested by the users are automatically cancelled if they are in time,

Regards