IOS Reservations Hotels - Features requests

[jesusto]

Sorry Webgift,

I left it here because of this part:  "A checkbox in IOSR booking form to autosuscribe to mailchimp at the time of making a reservation will be really owesome"

Thanks mate.

[datahell]

@jesusto

1. I don't integrate Mailchimp, it is not an Elxis extension.
2. Supported in v2.
3. A booking does not always require payment in IOSR Hotels. Also a payment can be repeated. So payment and booking are different processes and you should receive separated email notifications.
4. No, this is a bad idea. Consider this: I book 10 rooms, reserve these rooms from others and 1 day before the checkin I cancel them just for fun. If this cancellation gets auto-confirmed you will end with 10 empty rooms.

[jesusto]

Ok Datahell,

Thank you

[webgift]

Don't worry, @jesusto! I want to separate these two softwares.

[juanon]

Hi,

I´m speaking to a developer about developing a bidirectional integration between IOSR hotels and myallocator. He´s studing IOSR API and will give me a price. Do you think is it better to wait some months for v.2.0?

If I get that done, I will only need some more PMS features, so I can sell the product as "The only tool you need to manage your hotel":

- Calendar board for all rooms (I attach image), so hoteliers can see all the rooms and availability with a look.
- Some kind of Clients manager to keep data and know who has already arrive, who is going to arrive today...
- Some other basic features of PMS.

Do you have plans for something like that?

Regards

[datahell]

If I get that done, I will only need some more PMS features, so I can sell the product as "The only tool you need to manage your hotel":

By saying "sell the product" I hope you mean "sell the services your sites provides" and not sell IOSR as software because this is totally illegal. You don't own IOSR to sell it as software, you have a license to use it and just that.

Regarding your requests:
- Calendar for all rooms. Bad idea. I have clients with hundreds of rooms. Listing all rooms in a page will create a mess and nothing else.
- Clients manager. You can already search, filter and re-order reservations in many ways. It is easy to locate reservations for any date.

IOSR Hotels v2 is a huge improvement in comparison to v1. I need time to complete it, test it thoroughly, write documentation, etc. IOSR is very complex software and I have to be sure that the new features will function properly before I release it to public. I can't tell yet when it will be ready.

[juanon]

Of course, Datahell, I mean sell the "Services", my english is not very good...

Thanks anyway

[bledi]

Hello!
I am not really an expert of the internet marketing, but i was thinking about the Hotel Pages url.
Is it important to have: SEO Friendly URL, instead of ID number?

Thanks

[datahell]

@bledi: I might do this although I believe it has zero effect on SEO. It will only make the URLs longer.

[timalsina]

Also have an option to manually type in hotel name for better URI replacing hotel ID in URI with hotel name. That way if the system generated URI seems too long, administrator has an option to make it shorter by manually typing in shortened URI having a hotel name.

[datahell]

99% I will do it. But I will also leave the current URLs (with the hotel ID) for backwards compatibility and other reasons. So there will be a small duplicated URLs issue.

Current (v1) hotel page URL:
http://www.example.com/reservations/hotels/gr/cyclades/mykonos/45.html

New (v2) hotel page URL (old URL will also work):
http://www.example.com/reservations/hotels/gr/cyclades/mykonos/blue-lagoon-hotel.html

Notes
1. If you have only hotels extension enabled then the "hotel" part is removed from the URL:
http://www.example.com/reservations/gr/cyclades/mykonos/blue-lagoon-hotel.html
2. If you have enabled the option to hide countries from URLs then also this part is removed from the URLs:
http://www.example.com/reservations/cyclades/mykonos/blue-lagoon-hotel.html
3. This also works since v1 (sorter possible URL):
http://www.example.com/reservations/45.html
and so this will also work in v2:
http://www.example.com/reservations/blue-lagoon-hotel.html

[timalsina]

Excellent @datahell

99% I will do it. But I will also leave the current URLs (with the hotel ID) for backwards compatibility and other reasons. So there will be a small duplicated URLs issue.

For a new site with fresh 2.0 installation, let's only have hotel names based URL (without the hotel ID) to overcome the duplicate issue.

Best.

[wieyoga]

Hi datahell,
On deposite payment & cancaltion policy can you add number of room night instead of %  and amount

For example 1 night deposite require to secure the booking

Thanks

[datahell]

SEO titles for hotels implemented in under development IOSR Hotels v2.

[bledi]

Great, thanks for that.