Event Calender Pro for B&B room booking??

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4/8/2010 8:50:36 AM
andyc
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Event Calender Pro for B&B room booking??

Hi all,

I had my first 'serious' look at mojo portal yesterday and was totally blown away by the functionality it provides right out of the box - amazing job by Joe and subsequent contributors and a huge thanks for making this available as open source so us mere mortals can learn from the code! smiley

I am currently undertaking the building of a website for a B&B for a friend and would very much like to use mojo portal for ease of development (I am not a full time developer and tend to find it takes me ages to remember how to do stuff I haven't done for a while - very frustrating - think I will be buying Joe many beers in the future!).  Anyway, one feature I need to provide is a room booking system for the B&B which currently has 5 rooms so I either have a calender booking facility for each room that will show if/when it is available and the cost of booking and provide a booking facility (via paypal for now at least).

Not sure on the best way of doing this (developer head not in gear yet) - it would be easy enough to do a page per room to show availability etc but I would also like the ability for a search on availability and/or display of a summary page so all 5 rooms are displayed as free/booked for any given day.

I was hoping that I could perhaps buy a copy of Event Calender Pro to do the majority of that but wonder how I will fair with adding any additional features I need to provide for! lol 

Any suggestions of the best way to go about this and how much ECP would enable me to cover would be very much appreciated, to be honest at this early stage if anyone has seen a similar booking system that they think works really well that would also be of interest.

Cheers

Andrew

4/8/2010 8:54:21 AM
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Re: Event Calender Pro for B&B room booking??

Sorry, should also have mentioned that I wondered about adding all 5 sets of info to one calender page but thought it might get crowded, especially if they add other rooms (are considering conversion).

4/8/2010 9:07:48 AM
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Re: Event Calender Pro for B&B room booking??

Hi Andrew,

While it would be great if you purchased Event Calendar Pro, it was not designed to be a room booking system, at some point I may implement something that would be more suitable for that use case.

You "could" use different instances of Event Calendar Pro to represent rooms but there is not really a way for you to extend it and add features to meet your needs fully. While the source code is available in the Enterprise License, my add on products are not "open source", the license does not allow making derivative works, source code is only available for security audit purposes. So the add on products are not meant t be forked and extended. I will continue to enhance Event Calendar Pro over time but if I make something for booking resources it will be a separate feature. While it would use some similar UI components, conceptually it would work much differently than an event calendar.

Best,

Joe

4/8/2010 9:12:31 AM
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Hi Joe,

Thanks for the speedy reply - looks like I will really have to get the bits of grey matter that used to know how to code fired up again if they want the full works! lol surprise

Cheers

Andrew

4/8/2010 9:25:11 AM
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Re: Event Calender Pro for B&B room booking??

Wonder whether something like this might be a good starting point - http://www.bestsoftinc.com/bsi_advance_hotel_booking_system.html - anyone used it by any chance?

On a similar note how easy is it to add pages to the admin section of Mojo - i.e. if I add something like this is it easy enough to add an admin feature - first impressions are that it will be more complex than a similar task if blogengine is the CMS?

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