Booking Manager and Availability Calendar plugin v0.1a

Posted November 20, 2006 // Tagged as Plugins // 26 Comments ↓

Newer Version: A updated version of this plugin is available here

Availability DownloadI’ve just made available the initial release of the Clearskys.net Booking Manager and Availability Calendar plugin.

It can be downloaded by clicking on the Download button on the right hand side of this post.

Instructions on Installation, setting up and using the plugin can be found here.

This version has been tested on Wordpress v2 and Wordpress MU v1.

Please ask any support questions, or functionality requests for this version as comments below. Try to be as descriptive as possible with any problems and I’ll try to answer them as quickly as I can.
Update: I have added some instructions on styling your calendar.

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26 Responses

  1. Johan

    November 21st, 2006 at 11:18 am

    Wow! This is exactly the plugin I have been looking for!
    Unfortunately I cannot get it to work properly… I have added the calendar to the following page: http://algarve-apartment.eu/availability/
    The problem is that it does not show the test booking I made (21-28 december).
    I have used this tag:
    Any ideas on how I can fix this?

  2. Barry

    November 21st, 2006 at 1:02 pm

    Aha, a vital part missed off my instructions. Sorry - my fault.
    The plugin by default does not style the tables, as I didn’t want to enforce any style on peoples sites.
    Add a style to your stylesheet (or include in the page content) along the lines of:
    td.booked { background: #FF0000; }

    or, in the options, change the “Booked Date” setting from class=”booked” to style=”background: #FF0000;”

    (The first option is probably best).
    Your bookings should then show up as Red squares.

    I will add more details on this to the instructions in a short while.

  3. Johan

    November 21st, 2006 at 7:03 pm

    Excellent! It is working now!

    Thanks for the great plugin!

  4. Tom

    February 10th, 2007 at 11:52 am

    I might be being a bit of a fool here.

    I am able to insert the calender into my wp site. But is it possible for users to book a slot using the site.

    If so how? Any help would be much appreciated

  5. Barry

    February 11th, 2007 at 10:38 pm

    The booking manager and availability plugin is designed to display the calendar and let you (and your staff) administer the bookings.
    The enquiry and contact plugin will allow users to “book” a slot in the calendar.

  6. snowsh

    March 8th, 2007 at 3:10 am

    This is similar to somthing we are developing. take a look at http://www.localglobalmarket.com to get a sneak veiw of the front end engine. Similar to WP except it is custom designed ground up for property rental. BTW its going to be free!

  7. Barry

    March 8th, 2007 at 2:19 pm

    Many thanks for the link. I can’t quite get the grasp of the scope of your site? Is it a management system for a single website that is fully controlled by the property owner/agent or more akin to a property portal where the details and calendar are all centrally managed? If the former, then please get in touch and we could discuss what open standards you will be using and possbily a two way API.
    If the later, then I’m afraid that is the exact opposite of how I envisage the development of our system to work. The idea is that every owner/agent can have a distinct completely self controlled site. Which, through the adaption of standards and API’s can communicate with other sites and central portals to update information.
    The aim is to make the portal the distributer of property and availability information, not the owner. Why should I link to my availability calendar on someone elses site, when I can have my own (which updates the other site anyway).

  8. snowsh

    March 8th, 2007 at 3:31 pm

    No, its exaclty as you say. The booking app available for free download, installs on the clients webspace (its a full management suite as well) it then keeps our central portal up to date every time a change is made to the booking calendar plus allot more. As soon as its ready i will let you know.

  9. Barry

    March 8th, 2007 at 3:39 pm

    Excellent, look forward to seeing it.
    If you have an open API for updating the main site, I would love to have a chat. I’ll send you an email seperately.

  10. snowsh

    March 8th, 2007 at 3:42 pm

    Barry, how are you making the availability data available to your portal?

  11. Barry

    March 12th, 2007 at 4:51 pm

    Snowsh: at the moment we aren’t…
    There will be two approaches, the first using our API, which will pass full booking details across, the second is to use the iCal feed from the calendar plugins to pass information across.
    This is really my next big task, as a couple of other things I am working on are about to reach the stage where integration becomes needed.

  12. snowsh

    March 13th, 2007 at 4:00 pm

    Barry,

    We have a set of standards to present the availability etc. drop me a line.

  13. Michael

    July 10th, 2007 at 3:53 am

    do any of you have it up and running yet I want to see if I can replace my globekey pos.

  14. Heather

    September 1st, 2007 at 3:47 pm

    When will the multiple property functionality be available? I have a client who could really use it.
    Please put me on your mailing list and keep me posted. Thanks.

  15. sNOWsh

    September 9th, 2007 at 3:56 pm

    Hi Barry, well we finally have it finished, it was a pretty big project. Take a look at in all its BETA glory! http://www.snowsh.com

    Get in touch if you still want to discuss open standards etc..

    Nick

  16. Barry

    September 27th, 2007 at 12:15 pm

    Hi Nick
    Thanks I will pop you an email later today
    Barry

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  18. sNOWsh

    October 25th, 2008 at 5:58 pm

    Quick update, we have now finished coding a new hosted client for users not ready to install the app to their own sites. Drop us a line. Barry, if you are still up for it we can discuss openstandards and XML formatting…

  19. marc

    December 3rd, 2008 at 9:12 am

    hi

    where i can download this plugin? i’m very interested in
    “booking manager” but the download link is down.

    greets
    marc

  20. Barry

    December 3rd, 2008 at 3:30 pm

    @marc -
    See here:
    http://blog.clearskys.net/2008/08/16/updates-changes-and-downloads/

  21. SHain

    December 26th, 2008 at 7:40 am

    Its Not working, out of date,

  22. Barry

    December 26th, 2008 at 5:39 pm

    @SHain -
    That’s why there is a newer version :) - Have a look at the link in the comments of the plugin page.

  23. jdabney

    January 5th, 2009 at 8:25 am

    I am having real problems setting up the availability calender on my wordpress based website. I cannot get the bookings manager to recognise the multiple properties, all bookings being dumped onto a single property. Can you advise me what I should do to get the calender to recognise the separate page id’s?
    Thanks
    jdabney

  24. alex.beston

    January 11th, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    Hey there - this looks good will try it out on a small site - is there a donate button?

    Alex

  25. alex.beston

    January 11th, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    sorry - if there is a button, please let me know the address, thanks,

  26. Simon

    June 5th, 2009 at 12:06 pm

    The install instructions page is not working, can anyone help me installing this plug in?

    Thanks

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