The hottest aheadWorks Co. news of today is the long-expected release of the Booking and Reservations extension. We have analyzed the necessities, requests and wishes of our customers and implemented the asked-for features in the new version. The main of them are:

• Price rules (seasonal pricing). The extension allows setting different prices for different time periods, e.g. you can specify prices for hotel rooms to be higher in summer and lower in winter. There is also a possibility to make prices rise or reduce gradually during some period of time. The automatic character of prices calculating and displaying saves much of your time.
• Excluded days. You can specify the days or periods when the products/services are not available for booking.
• Reservation details in cart and orders page. The customers have a possibility to view the details of the reservation in their cart.
• Ability to switch off shipping for exact product. The Booking and Reservations extension allows you to disable shipping for a specific products/services.

To observe the whole list of features please visit the extension page.

Stasia News, Updates Booking and reservations, Extensions

We are happy to present you a remarkable opportunity to look at the work of our three extensions — Booking & Reservations , Follow Up Email and Help Desk Ultimate — from the inside. The extensions in this Admin Panel Demo can be used practically without any restrictions as if they have been installed on your store.

Within the demo you will be able to log in to the Admin Control Panel and examine for yourself all the options that are available to administrators. Demo allows to work with different data including products, users and their orders. That’s why we strongly recommend to input only fictitious titles, names, addresses, dates and any other information.

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Stasia News Booking and reservations, Follow Up Email, Help Desk Ultimate

We are glad to announce the release of our most complicated and anticipated by many users module – Booking and Reservations. Despite there are many things are to be implemented in the future versions, the first release is stable and suitable for many industries.

Booking and reservations extension introduces a new product type, which as follows from its name allows you to create all kinds of bookable products – tickets, tours, attendances, all kinds of scheduled services, rentals, workshops, lectures, hotel rooms etc.

Some of current features are:

• Integrated admin interfaces – new “Booking” tab when editing a product, orders overview page, orders overiew calendar widget
• Integrated customer interfaces – visual calendar and busy/free time periods for easy ordering, customer orders view page
• Day or hour billable periods
• Date/time/date and time based products, e.g. hotel room/consulting attendance/rental
• Specify available time frame, e.g. 8 AM – 6 PM, all reservations can only be in this period
• Specify date period of product availability
• Quantity for the same time, e.g. car wash with 3 boxes would allow 3 reservations on the same time period
• For admin: instant orders review on the product edit page using the calendar widget; separate orders page with

Extension page: http://ecommerce.aheadworks.com/extensions/booking-and-reservations.html

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