Graeme Posted September 28, 2010 Report Share Posted September 28, 2010 Hello All, I'm helping a friend with a site for his Villa. He would like to start and rent it out. Is there anything available to set up an online booking page or is it specialist developer stuff? I'm not thinking about booking online just yet but say something to say if dates are available and a general enquiry. Thank you as always, Best wishes Graeme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newseed Posted September 28, 2010 Report Share Posted September 28, 2010 Well it depends what he's looking for. You can use an ecommerce software in which you will make some custom programing changes to allow the following: 1. Available dates 2. Schedule/register for a room 3. Accept payment 4. Confirmation Depending on what he is using to make reservation it's possible to integrate it with this so that when when rooms come available it updates the site automatically. Of course this is something not for those that are thin with their budget. Otherwise, I do not know of anything else out there that you can use other than just use some email form submission and he then just have to call them to confirm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyle Undefined Posted September 29, 2010 Report Share Posted September 29, 2010 You could use Google Calendar, updating the availability and having a form that the user could submit would be easy as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkencreative Posted September 29, 2010 Report Share Posted September 29, 2010 I second the calendar idea. Assuming the Villa is just one location that can hold just one group at a time, it seems like that is really all you need. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted September 29, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2010 Hello, Thank you for, can I incorprate Google calendar int the web site? If so are there any tutorials? Best wishes Graeme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrea Posted September 29, 2010 Report Share Posted September 29, 2010 http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=15296 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted September 29, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 29, 2010 Hello, I like th idea of the Gogle calendar, especially as I can embed it into the site. Am I right in thinking that say someone would enquire about a booking by e-mail, then I wuld enter the booking into the calendar and re-embed it onto the site? Thank you, best wishes Graeme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virtual Posted September 29, 2010 Report Share Posted September 29, 2010 There is this site which shows pricing and availability when you hover over the dates. You just link to it from your site and update it online. http://www.rentalcalendar.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkencreative Posted September 29, 2010 Report Share Posted September 29, 2010 I like th idea of the Gogle calendar, especially as I can embed it into the site. Am I right in thinking that say someone would enquire about a booking by e-mail, then I wuld enter the booking into the calendar and re-embed it onto the site? I imagine that you would only need to embed it once. If you needed to make changes (add dates, remove dates, etc.), you'd log in to the Google Calendar system, make your changes, and the changes should show up automatically on your website. I imagine the calendar is embedded using an iframe or something similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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