Booking and Reservations 1.3

Looking at the needs of customers for whom booking-related services is the crux of their business, aheadWorks Co. introduced Booking and Reservations – a feature-rich Magento extension that helps you efficiently manage your booking and reservation work. Check out its features and how they can make a difference to your business.

Features

• Set flexible price rules: you have the option for setting different prices for different days, different times and different types/variants of the same product
• Offer gradual/ staggered pricing (increasing or decreasing): good for those who wish to increase or reduce prices nearer to the actual occurrence of an event.
• Promote your booking\reservation products by pricing items differently when higher quantities are purchased.

• Flexible "exclude days" rules: Similar to ‘blackout’ days with airlines, prevent bookings/reservations for certain dates
• Option to set billable periods by “day” or “hours”: makes this extension suitable for date-time-date and time-based products, e.g. hotel room/consulting attendance/rental products
• Set available times for bookings and reservations, e.g. reservations can be made only from 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM
• Specify date and time period of product availability, making this extension useful for products that are available for limited time periods such as a particular play or movie
• Allow multiple reservations for the same time based on available quantity of the bookable product: for example, a car wash with 3 boxes could allow 3 reservations in the same time slot

• Dynamically changing price with AJAX while changing reserved period at frontend
• AJAX calendar loading and navigation
• AJAX Cart Pro 2.x extension by aheadWorks support

• Integrated admin interface covers new "booking" tab when editing a product, orders overview page, orders overview calendar widget
• Ability to switch off shipping per product
• Instant orders review on the product edit page using the calendar widget; also has a separate orders page with all bookings and reservations
• Booking period is displayed in Order details and invoice
• Ability to specify how many days the booked item is kept in abandoned cart
• Ability to define the number of calendar pages displayed on the product page

• Integrated customer interface offers visual calendar and busy/free time periods for easy ordering; customer can also view their bookings and reservations on an “orders view” page
• See booking/ reservation details in the shopping cart before placing the order
• Check the reserved period in the recieved invoice
• "Live" price change while changing custom options
• Booked period is shown as unavailable for reserving even without being checked out