IOS Reservations Hotels - Features requests

[juanon]

Great news the autocomments!!

Regarding myallocator, perhaps you could think about developing an integration as an addon, for a price. I'd be happy to pay for it.

Thanks for listening and turning our ideas to real.

[jesusto]

Hi,

I would also like a repeating email field in booking form and telephone number fields with some format (reg.exp).

Regards.

[vardaris]

. Is possible for the administrator to place a property in 2 different locations? (Location & Sublocation too)..
For example, when I place a hotel to Athens Airport (as sublocation), a customer who searches a hotel in Athens, this property isn't shown at Athen's hotels.
.. Another good idea would be, to ask the customer at the same "review e-mail", what's his opinion about a property and place it to a specific category (beach vacations, winter vacations hotels, congress/convensions hotels, city hotels, hotels for honeymoon, agricutlure hotels etc.).. 

[metee]

Please change the way to upload images from one by one image to multiple images like facebook did.

I'm very happy that single hotel mode is back.

[datahell]

@jesusto The email gets validated already. The second field wont solve the possibility of entering wrong email address because most of the people will just copy-paste the email to the second field or select the email their browser provides them with the auto-complete feature.

@vardaris If you pick the "flexible" option it searches in all nearby locations.

@metee The more images you upload at once the more possible is the upload to fail. This is because of the maximum upload filesize limit in php (which in some servers is just 2mb) and because some people upload images without resizing them first (directly from a camera).

[metee]

@datahell

I think people who want to be travel agent needed to invest in server and me too. No limit for server owner it's very easy to tune up server.

User friendly interface is valued to invest.

Please give this feature like optional feature

[metee]

Hello,

I had a feature to request (you may sell it separate add-on) I would like IOSR hotel allow every agent had their own sub website (or something like timeline ) and url like http://iosrhotel.main/hotelname which allow agent to custom something like header or select theme.



Thank you
Metee

[webgift]

Hello @metee,
You can use Multisites features as freely provided by Elxis CMS 4.x series. IOSR Hotels support this feature anyway! You could also read a relative article on Elxis Documentation area.

[openita]

Sorry, I put this post in the other session. But I think this is the right session.
Hello Datahell
I would suggest this implementation to IOSR4. I think it's very important.
Thanks

Start Vacation
I try to explain the problem:
many hotels and residences in Sardinia, accept the beginning of the holiday only on certain days of the week.
For example, only on Saturday and Sunday. Or Saturday / Monday / Tuesday or Wednesday only
In every day of the year or only in certain periods (June-July-August for example).
This characteristic is especially created to match discounted ferry (only on Wednesdays, for example) to stay at the hotel.
The primary requirement is to publish the rooms but to stop booking on arrival day NOT ALLOWED.
At the same time show the rooms to the customer to sell them on other days.
After this short explanation, we thought suggest this implementation of IOSR:

1.
During the management phase of the rates of the rooms, selecting a period in the calendar,
is shown the window of prices, as shown in picture 1;

At this point you may enter "Days arrivals not accept" (see Picture 1), where we indicate the days of the week
where entrances are not permitted. Saving and making updates we can get the calendar in this way (Picture 2):

Where the days highlighted in blue are the "Day arrivals not accept" (Picture 3).

During the booking if the customer requires, for example, from June 2, 2014 al June 8, 2014
must appear a signal similar to this (picture 4).
Which indicated that in the period rooms are available. But the hotel accepts the start of the
Holiday only on certain days of the week. In this way the customer can change
dates and request a different period accepted by the hotel. Picture 4

IOSR in response to yellow (Picture 4) captures the day requested by the customer (Monday, Jun. 2, 2014)
It captures for the calendar (Pictures 2) days allowed for the Stay (Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday)
In this way "builds" the response to the client.
The purpose is also to prevent the automatic booking of the customer on Thursday (for example). But in any case show the rooms as available. Only on different days from those of the initial request. Giving a chance to sell more at the hotel. But a extra opportunity to the customer to book.

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This is more or less how the mechanism should work.
I hope I have explained well.
thanks

[juanon]

Hi,

I think nowadays hoteliers try to find a complete solution for their business that include booking engine, pms and channel manager...

I know something like that is still far away for what IOSR tries to achieve but I think it will be great for our business to give some posibilities that hoteliers demand:

- Easy Myallocator (or something similiar) integration.
- Tripconnect integration.
- Google analytics.
- Facebook integration of the booking box

Thanks a lot

[datahell]

First, I post a screenshot that I also posted yesterday on my Twitter, it is from IOSR Hotels 2 (location/search page).

I won't kneel in frond of booking.com, trivago, hotels.com, tripadvisor, google, facebook, twitter, amazon, microsoft, or any other "big player" that tries to occupy the internet. I believe in free internet and de-centralized services. The software I develop is around this believe. Integration is a custom job. IOSR Hotels has already the tools you need to build any integration you want, this is the existing XML/JSON REST API which will become even more powerful in version 2. I think that interesting services for IOSR are provided by Myallocator only -at least from the list of companies for which I have made a research till now.

Think of this scenario.
A hotelier has his hotel(s) listed in IOSR. He has also his hotel(s) at booking.com. To create an integration between IOSR and booking.com he will have to also create an account to Myallocator. His life becomes harder than easier. Now he has to work daily with -minimum- 3 different services. He will also have to deal often with compatibility issues (eg provider X changed the integration code and now the integration is broken) and with network issues. I will not provide him support for services provided by third parties and third parties will not provide him support for IOSR. He must have his own development/support team if he wants to keep his services running and in good condition all the time.

Think of this scenario.
A hotelier has his hotel(s) listed in IOSR. Via the API displays his hotel(s) in unlimited other sites. He can accept bookings from everywhere and manage everything from IOSR. He doesn't have to deal with external companies, pay additional fees, etc.

[juanon]

Ok Datahell,

I understand your opinion and I know IOSR Hotels is A REALLY GREAT PIECE OR SOFTWARE and nobody can ask for more for the price it has.

It was just a suggestion for what I hear everyday when speaking to hoteliers, they want it all but don´t want to spend the money it takes.

Sadly Booking.com is a must for them (80% of reservations come from that site), but at the same time it is killing their business because the high commisions...

Reagarding this "A hotelier has his hotel(s) listed in IOSR. Via the API displays his hotel(s) in unlimited other sites. He can accept bookings from everywhere and manage everything from IOSR. He doesn't have to deal with external companies, pay additional fees, etc.", perhaps you could provide an standard code (some kind of widget for non elxis sites) for hoteliers without computing knoledge to include a search form in their website, facebook page and so on... it will be great.

Do your best.

Regards

 

[datahell]

I will implement all the features I have planned and then I will see what more can be done. But if something is too big to be implemented I will leave it for a future update. If I implement all people needs the development will end on next summer! No one will wait so long. So it is better to proceed with small steps and focus on most important things first. The new features added in v2 are already too many, the interface has changed a lot and it is very friendly to mobile devices. I believe you will like a lot the new version.

[jesusto]

Hello Ioannis,

I don´t know if I´m still in time for requests...

I have 4 suggestions:

1- This one is for Elxis CMS. I would like very much a suscribing module for Mailchimp because it is free and very usefull. A checkbox in IOSR booking form to autosuscribe at the time of making a reservation will be really owesome.
2- I would like subsites have a different main configuration file for IOSR Hotels, so we could choose a different css file and options in any subsite.
3- I think that using autoconfirmed payment methods like paypal and offline credit card no emails should be sent before the payment is made (I mean in next version, with the new autocancel after some time feature). So hoteliers won´t get any unuseful email and if you are using interfax won´t waste any money.
4- I need an option to autoconfirm cancelations, I mean the reservation is automatically deleted when the users asks for it.

Thanks for listening.

Really excited with the new version.

[webgift]

Please don't mention features for Elxis CMS at this topic.