IOSR Hotels v2.3

[datahell]

Just for your information: an updated version (v2.3) of IOSR Hotels will become available in the next days.

[wieyoga]

Wow great news,

there is another issue for default rate that we set in IDR if the price more than IDR 10,000,000 the price become IDR 9,999,999.99

If consider, please fix it in this version as there is few 5 star hotel & villa price more than IDR 10,000,000

[juanon]

Hello,

Perhaps some of my prayers will be heard?

THANKS

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Hi Datahell,

Regarding next IOSRhotels version I´m waiting so bad I want to remind you about my need of a "non bother the hotelier, please" option

- I need autocancelation if the customer ask for it (and he is in time, of course), without hotelier intervention. Perhaps a register can be written in logs to mark that.
- I need the reservations not paid to autocancel in 5-10 min (Now it is only working with full days).
- So it will be great that a user can book a maximum number of rooms in one single operation.
- I think emails shoud be sent after payment only... you have explained how the system works but I think it is something strange, mate. Booking and appointment scripts I have worked with of course do a "temporal reservation" during the booking process but items are not really booked and emails are not sent till the user makes the payment or choose a non online payment like bank transfer and confirm.

These are the features I need so bad to start my business and for whom I´m waiting for. I will be a happy man just with that!!
Besides I have some other ideas (some of them taken from other users in this forum) and, I do insist, for me are not so important. Anyway I left them here:

- A beautiful slider with images and transitions in hotel pages, similar to iosslider or this one: http://bookingarab.com/reservations/hotels/makkah/38.html
- Logo field and banner field for each hotel to show a logo and a banner for offers/deals. They will be shown in hotel page if the hotelier want to and they can be changed anytime they need.
- Filter also for room features in location pages.
- Strikethrough prices with new ones and "only x rooms left" messages also in location pages. I think it is much better for marketing.
- Show a module in hotelier panel to leave notes, or even better personal messages between hoteliers and admin.
- Hotelier login panel homepage could be customizable to show rooms calendar (of the first hotel if he has more than one), charts, and so on. Hotels I know prefer to see rooms calendar always...
- Google Map with All hotels also in a flexible destination.
- Pictures for extras and a more flexible system. What about if I only have 5 bicycles to rent?
- Validation for user form fields.
- Price always visible in checkout page, autoscrolling it with javascript or something like that.
- Non refoundable and discounts per room and season not per hotel.
- Different prices for the same room with and without meals.
-... and the even more difficult, implementation for some channel manager like myallocator to bring in hotels used to work with booking.com and so on.

I know I´m asking for too much, please don´t say no to all of them

I still haven´t used IOSR hotels in a production site but I´m willing to pay again if you consider these features deserve a new big version.

Waiting for your answer, mate.

As always, thanks a million.

[datahell]

Version 2.3 is a small update in order to support some specific features. Most probably a major update will follow soon (v2.4). I will read more carefully your requests tomorrow to see if I can implement anything in v2.3.

IOSR Hotels v2.3 requires IOS Reservations 4.3+ (mostly because of SMS library update).
IOSR Cars v1.1 requires IOS Reservations 4.3+
All IOSR software family was updated.

• IOS Reservations v4.3
• IOSR Hotels v2.3
• IOSR Cars v1.1

[datahell]

- I need autocancelation if the customer ask for it (and he is in time, of course), without hotelier intervention. Perhaps a register can be written in logs to mark that.
OK. I work on it right now. I added a configuration option to select what to do on reservation cancel: just notify the hotelier or delete the reservation?

- I need the reservations not paid to autocancel in 5-10 min (Now it is only working with full days).
Cannot be done because these checks run once per day. To do so I must set these checks to run every 5 minutes which is a very bad idea as will slow down IOSR a lot.

- So it will be great that a user can book a maximum number of rooms in one single operation.
What do you mean? You can already do so.

- I think emails should be sent after payment only... you have explained how the system works but I think it is something strange, mate...
No, this is a bad idea. You will not get notified about unpaid reservations and you will end with no availability of your rooms.

[juanon]

Hi, thank you.

- THANKS A LOT FOR THE FEATURE.

- Then would you tell me how to hack Elxis to achieve this, please? I dont want someone to book a lot of rooms choosing offline payment card method and never give the
card data.... rooms would´t be available till next day....

- I don´t think so. If I have 10 available rooms anyone can book them all in a single operation... I Think in older IOSR versions he administrator could limit this.

- Would you tell me how to hack that too? I´m not going to deal with unpaid reservations, The only reservations my customer wants are the ones that make the reservation paid: offline credit card, paypal and so on... Perhaps it is posible a selector to choose when to send the emails, fax, and so on: Imagine someone makes a reservation and email is sent, fax is sent, and sms is sent, but never give card data and the reservation autocancels.... to much confusion and money spent for nothing...


Thanks again

[datahell]

@juanon The feature was added. You can now (v2.3) enable the option the customer to delete bookings on cancellation.

@wieyoga It is a matter of database design, not IOSR code. The price fields are of type DECIMAL(9,2) Which means 9 digits including 2 decimals. So the maximum number it can accept is 9999999.99. This is why it doesn't store greater prices. Go to phpmyadmin and change all price fields from DECIMAL(9,2) to DECIMAL(10,2)

IOSR Hotels prices for rooms are in database table "elx_res_prices". Modify columns: price, price2pax, price3pax, price4pax, price5pax and price6pax

SQL commands:
ALTER TABLE `elx_res_prices` MODIFY COLUMN `price` DECIMAL(10,2) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT '0.00';
ALTER TABLE `elx_res_prices` MODIFY COLUMN `price2pax` DECIMAL(10,2) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT '0.00';
ALTER TABLE `elx_res_prices` MODIFY COLUMN `price3pax` DECIMAL(10,2) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT '0.00';
etc...
Change "elx_" with your database prefix if it is different. These commands will not affect your existing data.

[wieyoga]

Great @datahell is work perfect now 

[juanon]

Hello Datahell,

I sent you a private message through the isopensource chat but I´m not sure if you get it.

I have been thinking about my second need and I think I would be easy for me to set a cron task to execute a php file that erase not paid reservations after a few time. Would you code it for me?

My third need is easy to achieve and I think is a good idea for everybody not let anyone to book all your staff in one single booking...

The last one is more difficult but perhaps we can find a way...

Don´t want to be a pain but this morning I had a new meeting with a local hotel association to start a hotel portal and they need this kind of automatic service.

Please, give me an answer. As said before I´m willing to pay.

Thanks again.

Regards


 

[datahell]

I got your mail but I didn't had time to answer, I would answer you later. I did your 2nd wish, autocancel can now be set from 15 minutes up to 30 days. If autocancel is set to less than a day cron jobs run multiple times per day. For example if you set autocancel to 30 minutes cron jobs will run each 30 minutes (48 times per day instead of 1). With 15 minutes cron jobs run 96 times per day, instead of just 1. This may slow down your site a little. I dont recommend setting this option less than a day but you can now do so if you like.

Today is good Friday, and we have Eastern in Sunday (orthodox, greece, cyprus, russia, serbia, bulgaria, etc). You might have to wait to get a reply to your mail.

[datahell]

IOS Reservations updated to version 4.3
IOSR Hotels updated to version 2.3
IOSR Cars updated to version 1.1

Read this announcement for more

[jesusto]

Hi Datahell,

I'm testing new version and... great new features!!

However I'm having some issues with autocancel in 15 minutes. It is not working properly or I dont fully understand how it works.

I have some not confirmed reservations and I go into the site every few minutes to trigger the cron but it takes hours to autocancel the unconfirmed reservations.

Could you please have a look?

Thank you and good work!

[datahell]

Where are you testing automatic cancel? As I have said several times, for both Elxis and IOS Reservations, scheduled tasks are triggered by site visitors. You need an online site with visitors for this feature to work properly. The more visitors your site has the most accurate scheduled tasks will be.

[jesusto]

Hi,

Yes I´m checking in an online site.

I also visit the site every few minutes to trigger the cron but unconfirmed reservations are not deleted in 15 minutes, it takes hours most times.

Thanks

[datahell]

Don't make me repeat the same things, you don't test it properly.
After having passed 15 minutes from the reservation time go to a country page and refresh that page at least 4 times.
IOSR Hotels adds an entry in logs on each auto-cancel event.

IOSR time scheduled tasks work perfect on LIVE SITES WITH VISITORS, WEB ROBOTS, ETC.
DONT TEST THEM ON YOUR LOCAL OR UNDER CONSTRUCTION SITE.