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Bookings now supporting payment gateways

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:45:05 +0000

As we have many years of experience integrating payment gateways in some of our other plugins we thought that Bookings Pro could benefit from this as well. So we’re happy to announce that the latest release of Bookings (1.4.0) now supports payment gateways. The first payment gateway to be available is Paypal. In combination with the newly introduced Products & Services concepts, you can now start selling your products or services online!

Besides Paypal, a number of other payment gateways will be available as well, we’ll inform you as and when they become available.

So, why wait any longer, go get your Bookings Pro right now!

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admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 02:53:36 +0000

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Form Builder version 1.1.0 released

admin — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:46:16 +0000

Version 1.1.0 of the From Builder plugin for WordPress has been released. This new version now supports WordPress 3.3.1 and we’ve also added a new ‘Submit’ button allowing you to customise the behaviour of the form on submission, for example by sending an email alert to a predefined address.

Bookings 1.4.0 introduces Products & Services concept

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 08:53:50 +0000

With the release of Bookings 1.4.0, we’ve added the new concept of Products & Services.

With Products & Services you can be sure that Bookings is even more fit for your business.

Each Product (or Service) has the following characteristics:

Time span
Linked resources: can be all or selected ones
Price

A customer to your site will have the option to select:

a Product: e.g. a 45 minutes mud bath, if you have 2 linked mud bath resources, the system will see which one is available
or a Product and Resource: e.g. a 30 minutes feet massage by John
or a Resource and Product: as above, except that the resource is select first, so John and a 30 minutes feet massage

In a further release, there will be the option to link multiple required resources to a Product, so for example you could have defined resources to represent your massage rooms and resources to represent the masseurs, you could then say a 45 minutes massage requires room 1 or room 2 + masseur X or masseur Y.

This applies to many industries, for example, take a garage providing car maintenance and services. Your resources are your skilled mechanics. Customers come to you to get a yearly service, having new tyres put on or something more substantial. You will have a list of services, for example:

Yearly service:

time: 4 hours
resources: any mechanic

Tyre replacement:

time 60 minutes
resources: mechanic X or mechanic Y

In addition you can create resource to represent the work spaces in your garage, maybe you only have 1 tyre calibration machine, you can then link that resource to your ‘tyre replacement’ service.

So you can see this concept can apply to many industries and will take the Bookings solution a step further.

Bookings version 1.3.2 released

admin — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:31:15 +0000

Version 1.3.2 of our Bookings software has just been released. This is a minor update but including a few useful features.

Now you can set reservations to be subject to approval. The reservation remains in status ‘pending’ until it has been approved by an operator. We also added the possibility to send an email to the administrator/operator in case a new bookings has been made (Pro version). SMTP settings have been added so you can have the confirmation emails sent out directly from your own email address rather than via the default Zingiri email (Pro version).
And finally we made a few improvements and fixed a couple of issues:

Improved role management (admin vs operator)
Added display of region in setup panel
Improved usability by auto redirecting after admin update
Removed date link from front end calendar
Removed grey background from admin screens
Removed encapsulating html table from admin screens
Fixed issue with front end month selector not working on some themes
Centered day headers on front end calendar
Removed donations reminder

Make sure you update as soon as possible!

Bookings now with mobile sync

admin — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 08:43:52 +0000

We’re happy to announce the addition of a new mobile syncing functionality to the Bookings Pro plugin. This allows you to sync your reservations with your iPhone, iPad, Android device, basically any device that supports CalDAV calendars. Very handy for when you’re on the road! You can change and delete reservations from your mobile as well as add new ones and ensure that your online calendar will be updated in real time.

This feature is available to our Bookings Pro subscribers as of version 1.3.1. If you haven’t subscribed yet, now is the time!

The Slider plugin for WordPress released

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:06:34 +0000

We’re happy to announce the release of The Slider plugin for WordPress.

Showing off the best content of your website or blog in a nice intuitive way will surely catch more eyeballs. Using an auto-playing content slider is the one of techniques to show your featured content. It saves you space and makes for a better user experience, and if you add a pinch of eye candy to it, then there’s no looking back.

The Slider is a catchy featured content slider ideal for showcasing your products and services. Go get it now!

Documentation & Support

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:40:46 +0000

Check out our documentation to get you started. If you encounter any issues, you will most likely find the answer by searching or posting on our forums. And if you’re really stuck, you can always sign up for our priority support plan. Finally, if you need custom development, just contact us.

Bookings version 1.3.0 released

admin — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:17:24 +0000

We’re happy to announce the release of version 1.3.0 of Bookings, our popular online reservations plugin for WordPress. In this version we’ve added the possibility to define a minimum time between bookings for each resource, this makes it easier to include pauses in between bookings for your resources. We’re also introducing a new templating system so you can easily define your own emails and override the default checkout text shown to your client (Bookings Pro only). Besides that we also made a few minor adjustments and fixed a couple of issues:

Fixed issue with double body tag appearing on some pages
Always show registration form, even for registered WordPress users
Updated Italian language translations
Removed wrapping tables styling
Changed bookings template=link parameter, ‘resource’ should be specified instead of ‘schedule’
Fixed ‘per page’ and ‘cancel’ links on resource page
Fixed issue with captcha element on forms not working properly

Our next major releases of Bookings Pro will include mobile syncing and payment portals such as Paypal, 2Checkout, etc. With every new major feature release, the price of Bookings Pro will increase for new subscriptions, so don’t wait any longer and lock in Bookings Pro at a discounted launch price.

Bookings Pro Paypal integration coming soon

ebo@zingiri.com — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:16:42 +0000

As we have many years of experience integrating payment gateways in some of our other plugins we thought that Bookings Pro could benefit of this as well.

So we’ve decided to be adding Paypal integration to Bookings Pro over the next few weeks. Besides Paypal, a number of other payment gateways will be available as well, but more on that later.

We’re planning to release this before Christmas. With this release the price of Bookings Pro will be increased for new signups so make sure you lock in our launch price now!