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I’ve spent the past eight days single handedly looking after a friends property management business whilst he and his wife were away, and I can honestly say, hand on heart, I don’t know how anyone does it. I’m at breaking point already!!!

So, let’s use this post to start a wish list. What functionality do you absolutely need in StayPress to make your life easier? What functionality would be nice and what would be a dream come true.

I’ve already made a few notes myself inbetween screaming and hair-pulling bouts and will be getting these altogether in the development roadmap, so now’s your chance to get something I haven’t considered in there as well…

Tags: aargh, property management, staypress, wordpress

Introducing StayPress

After a great deal of work, I am pleased to introduce a sneak peek at the new StayPress system.

StayPress is a collection of plugins that will turn a standard vanilla installation of WordPress or WordPress MU into a property management and bookings system. Of course when I say Property, I actually mean any bookable resource of which there is a finite availability. So the StayPress system will be able to manage property rentals, hotel room rentals, conference rooms and centres, B and B’s, training rooms, bands, etc…

The new StayPress system takes over from the previous clearskys.net collection of plugins and brings everything together into a more manageable and co-ordinated group.

Whilst there will obviously be a downloadable version of the StayPress plugins, we are also planning a hosted version of the system for those who do not want the trouble of running their own website.

If you would like to be kept informed of updates and our release dates then please subscribe to either this sites RSS Feed or visit StayPress.com and subscribe to the StayPress only blog.

StayPress is in no way affiliated with Automattic or WordPress, other than being built on one of the best web CMS systems around.

Tags: availability, booking, calendar, mu, property management, staypress, wordpress

Small Property plugin - sneaky look

This blog and support forum have been a little bit quiet over the past fortnight as I have been concentrating on the development of our new family of Property and booking management plugins.

I have decided to take a more radical approach with the latest versions and have scrapped a large amount of the existing plugin code. The new approach is based on an MVC model and should get rid of a lot of the complexity caused from developing each area as a separate plugin, and mean the entire system will function within a single, coherent interface.

This also means that a large portion of the code-base (namely the user-interface) is completely platform independent. I already have the currently developed code running on both the WordPress and MODx systems.

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Tags: bookings, development, modx, plugin, property, property management, rental, small, wordpress