General Set Up

  • Resolved TheMarshmallow

    (@themarshmallow)


    9 years, 1 month ago

    Hey everyone,

    I’m sorry to bother you again (especially you, Jan) but it is kind of hard for me to set up the plug in general. I read the decription, but it is hard to understand for me (I guess it is a good combination of bad language and techical skills) So I brought myself to ask the internet.

    I’m setting up a website for/with a friend of mine (who does know less than me about it). There is one apartment for rent. Normaly you have to stay for three days except for the summer, there you have to stay for one week.

    I’ve set up a contactform

    [booking]

<p>Ihr Name (Pflichtfeld)<br />
    [text* your-name] </p>

<p>Ihre E-Mail-Adresse (Pflichtfeld)<br />
    [email* your-email] </p>

<p>Anreisedatum (Pflichtfeld)<br />
    [date* start_date id:start_date date-format:dd/mm/yy min-date:today+7 first-day:1]</p>

<p>Abreisedatum (Pflichtfeld)<br />
    [date* end_date id:end_date date-format:dd/mm/yy min-date:today+8 first-day:1]</p>

<p>Personen (Pflichtfeld)<br />
[select* number_of_persons id:number_of_persons "0" "1" "2" "3" "4" "5" "6"]</p>

<div class="total_amount"></div>

<p>Betreff<br />
    [text betreff] </p>

<p>Ihre Nachricht<br />
    [textarea your-message] </p>

<p>[submit "Senden"]</p>

    You can see it on the here https://ostseestrandbad-prora.de/#Buchen
    The first box is an empty box, I guess it comes from including the [ booking ] tag, but since there is just one apartment, I have nothing to choose from.

    When I choose a date, it shows me “No room available for these dates or number of persons” despite there should be no booking. Also it would be great to know where I can change the text.

    For the Prices: I know, i already had an excel tabel fot it, but I can’t find nor recreat it. I downloaded the XML file, but I am not able to work with it. I understand the unquie parts of it, but it seems to be very unpractical to create one with ongoing numbers for the date, but fixed numbers for the prices. Maybe someone can send me a screenshot or an example table.

    I’m so sorry for that many questions, but I tried it a few times now and thought, maybe someone is so kind to help me.

    Thank you so much in advance. Best regards

    Anna

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/jm-avail-booking/

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  • Plugin Contributor Jan Maat

    (@jan-maat)

    Hi Anna,

    Please install the version 1.6.1.4 It may solve the “No room ..” issue.
    I am a bit in a hurry now. I promise to answer in more detail later today or tomorrow.

    Regards,

    Jan

    Thread Starter TheMarshmallow

    (@themarshmallow)

    Hi Jan,

    thank you very much, I appreciate your effort.

    I will update the plugin.

    Regards

    Anna

    Plugin Contributor Jan Maat

    (@jan-maat)

    Hi Anna,

    You want to have a minimum stay of 3 days except for the summer. This one or the other is not yet possible in the plugin.
    For the first you need the “Day Reservation” and for the second the “Week Reservation” Both may exist next to each other, the user selects in the CTF7 the booking type.
    There is an option to block months for booking but this is a general option valid for all booking types. I put it on my ToDo list to make this option different for each booking type. I do not promise a release date but somewhere in the coming month.

    So with or without the selective block months you need to setup the “Day Reservation”,the “Week” reservation and some general settings.
    Let’s go through the settings page.

    The Display section. The options in this part are straight forward and controls the way the calendar is displayed on the page.

    The Amount Calculation. The same. Be aware to set the “Default occupancy” If no value is set a default of 2 is used.

    The Bookings section.
    In your case to must set:
    “Minimum Nights” to 3.
    “List of Rooms” to aurum (the name of your appartment?)
    “Day booking” is settings
    “Week booking” is set
    “Week Checkin Day” select the checkin day
    “Week Checkout Day” select the checkout day

    ContactForm7 section
    Select the status for the booking with CTF7

    Admin Defaults section
    Only if you want to send automatically a notification message when you change the status of a booking you need to enter the related data.

    “Default Currency” select the default currency
    “Default Country” select the default country for entering a booking with the Admin “Add new booking”
    Idem for the “Default language”

    Do not forget to click “Safe Changes”

    The ContactForm7 setup.
    I only mention the fields relevant for the plugin. In the Description you find a list of fields that can be stored in the database. I assume you use as name of the appartment aurum.
    You have only one appartement so use:
    [booking aurum]
    <p>Anreisedatum (Pflichtfeld)
    [text* start_date id:start_date]</p>
    <p>Abreisedatum (Pflichtfeld)
    [text* end_date id:end_date ]</p>
    If you include the <div class=”total_amount”></div> in the form price information is given when start_date, end_date and number of persons is entered.

    With version 1.6.1.4 I hope the “all busy” and the “No room available for these dates or number of persons” issues are solved.

    To change this last text you need to add a new language or edit the German language.
    The German language is partly available.
    If you install the “Loco Translate” plugin you are able to do the translation.

    With the “Week Reservation” set you have at the “Add new Price” a form with all the possible prices.
    First the name of the object, in your case the apartment aurum.

    The “Date”
    The prices entered in the form are valid form this date till the next (later date) price info for the room. So if there are 2 entries in the price list with the dates 2016-01-01 and 2016-02-03 the prices given in the first entry are valid from 2016-01-01 till 2016-02-03.
    This is 100% true for the day price. For the other prices read the comment on the form.

    I hope this will help you. If there are more questions please ask.

    Regards,

    Jan

    Thread Starter TheMarshmallow

    (@themarshmallow)

    Thank you, Jan – you helped me a lot.

    One further question and then it should be it for now:

    Can I adjust the size of the shown calender on the website?

    May I make two suggestions for the further plugin development?

    There is a checkbox for “show last day as free” – I would like to have the Option to mark the date as “half free” (half of the date is colored maybe)

    and the second one: It would be great to choose how many month are displayed and not only between 1,3,6,9 and 12.

    Thank you so much, again. you’re doing an awesome job

    Regards,

    Anna

    Plugin Contributor Jan Maat

    (@jan-maat)

    Hi Anna,

    To can adjust the width of the table by adding to the page:
    <style>.table_pos {width:250px;}</style> (change the value 250 to your choice)

    I put your request on the list.

    Regards,

    Jan

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