So, what is to come? The main focus for at least during 2011 will be on the availability module. Enchancing and polishing. Monitoring feedback and tuning performance. There’s so much to do.
So, interactive booking and online payments for visitors is not likely to come before the avaliability module is not yet considered “out of beta”.
- Availabilities module
- Verifying bookings against existing.
- Record locking to avoid simultaneous changes by multiple users at a time.
- Choose whether to show your visitors availability calendar or should they first enter a desired date range, so you could get better statistics
- Unconfirmed bookings: visitors can can see which bookings are not finally confirmed to check same dates again after unconfirmed booking expires.
- Waiting Lists: in case of fully booked house, visitors can put themselves to a waiting list, they will be notified if desired room becomes available (due to unpaid bookings or cancellations)
- View availabilities in your Google Calendar (iCalendar .ics format)
- Bookings module
- Add easy booking option to your website, confirmed bookings affect instantly availability module.
- Option to book entire house. Manager can set up dates, during which only entire house may be booked.
- Payments
- Prepayment for a room can be made online, which will confirm the booking instantly
- Invoicing
