OS Calendar
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- Category: Components
- Published on 10 October 2012
- Written by Dang Thuc Dam
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OS Calendar provides availability calendar feature for properties of OS Property component. Many customers have asked if it would be possible to set availability dates and rates per listing that work with OS Property - we answered with our custom reservations system OS Calendar. This allows site administrators to set rentals rates for individual listings as well as set rate calendars for holiday rates. In addition to the flexible rates and dates management, OS Calendar also offers the ability to set down payment rates and accept payments (Paypal and Offline payments) via a user friendly and Ajax front end layout. Interactive, color-coded calendars display reserved dates, and available/unavaiable dates and allow users to click the desired reservation... - Work with OS Property
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- About product
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OS Calendar work with OS Property, so you should have OS Property (version >= 2.0.3.3.0) installed.
After installing OS Calendar, you need to select to integrate OS Property and OS Calendar
Figure1: OS Property configuration. Select to integrate with OS Calendar
After that, you can manage the rental information for each your property. Agent can manage those information from the frontend.
In the backend of OS Calendar
Figure2: After integrate with OS Calendar, in the Properties manage list, you will see the link to go to the manage rental infomration for each property
Figure 3: Manage avaiability calendar of one property from backend
Figure 4: Manage rental information for one property from backend
In each property, you can manage 3 additional information
1. Rental information: They are important information for reservation. It includes default price, tax, deposit amount, payment method or auto approval the booking request.
Tip
Default price: In case you do not have the special price for one time amount, the system will use the Default price when it calculate the total cost. The default price is the price for one rent day of current property
Auto Approval Booking Request: If you select this option, the booking request on this property from customers will be approval automatically and the customers do not need to pay for you
Disable Payments: If you do not want to use any payment methods, please select Yes in this option
2. Special prices: If you have the special price for the holiday or something like that, you can manage them from this task.
3. Avaiability Calendar: In this page, you will have the general view about the availability for each property. You can see the days that the property has been booked, the days that property is not available. You can also manage the available/unavailable status of the property in each day.
4. Payments: You have 2 payment gateways, Paypal payment and Offline payment
Other important points in OS Calendar
Manage Orders (Booking requests): From this page, administrator can manage the orders, select to change the order statuses or remove orders
Figure 5: Manage orders (Booking requests)
Figure 5: Manage email templates
Frontend:OS Calendar has the default menu "Booking list". This menu is for agents. It list all the booking requests of properties of agents in the frontend.
From frontend, agents can manage the rental information of their properties like in the backend.
Figure 7: Manage availability calendar for property from frontend
Figure 8: Availability form in property details page
- Installation
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Installation steps:
1. Please download the package that you receipted after purchasing, install component com_oscalendar.zip
2. Make sure that you have the latest version of OS Property. Go to backend > OS Property > configuration. Select to integrate with OS Calendar.
3. Go to OS Property > Properties manage to manage the rental information of each property
4. Manage email templates, text translation from OS Calendar component
- Get Supports
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If you have any questions regarding the plugin, you can choose one of following ways to get the best supports:
1. Login to your account and submit a Support Ticket
2. Drop me an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. '; document.write(''); document.write(addy_text46217); document.write('<\/a>'); //-->\n This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
3. Contact me via Skype, YM or Gtalk for instant chat. You can find my contact information below:
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