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New feature highlight: Rate plan’s Min/Max quantity

One of the new features in the upcoming Complex Tariff plugin v1.5.0 is the ability to set Min/Max quantity, as can be seen in the screenshot below:

With this new feature, it is now possible to create a special rate plan for those who book from X to Y rooms. Having a flexible pricing structure is a great way to attract more guests, and our Complex Tariff plugin is your solution.

Apartment layout preview

Solidres has established itself as a versatile booking system and we are proud of that. Over the years, apart from traditional accommodation/tours & activities booking, we’ve seen many interesting Solidres’ use cases that we did not plan for them initially: 4G USB, yacht, cat boarding… It brings many exciting challenges for us.

Apartment booking is the second most popular use case. Unlike hotel (room-based) booking which is quite complicated as Solidres does support multiple rooms + multiple rate plans booking, apartment booking is much simpler, that’s why we decided to make a tailored layout to optimize the apartment booking flow.

As you can see in the preview video, the new apartment layout is clean and clear, featured the new Nano Gallery plugin, it is very responsive as well. The preview video was made with Solidres v2.12.0 and Joomla 4 Beta 7 (Bootstrap 5), we’ve also made a lot of code refactoring to support Joomla 4 better in the upcoming releases. The new apartment layout also supports multiple rate plans (if you have more than one rate plan, there will be a rate plan drop down on top of the booking form), custom fields, extras like the generic property layout.

We are working very hard to release v2.12.0 and the associated extensions, please stay tuned.

Filter module improvement for better responsiveness

In previous versions, the Filter module is pretty hard to be used in small screen devices because it is pushed down further the screen, make it irrelevant to the current property search page. It is no longer the issue with the latest version, please see the improvement in this short video (made with Joomla 4 Beta 6):

Solidres app is now free for all users

At this time last year, the Solidres app was officially featured in the Android Play Store, and now we are very happy to announce that it is officially available in the iOS App Store. But it is not just the only great news: the Solidres app is now free for all Solidres users (both Android and iOS platforms).

That means to use the Solidres app, you only need to make sure that your Solidres for Joomla is upgraded to v2.11.1+, and follow some little extra steps in our tutorial to make sure that you are all rightly set before using the app.

We, as a software developer for the hospitality/F&B/tourism industry, are suffering a lot this year, just like you. The COVID-19 pandemic forces us to change a lot, but it could not stop us. We are looking for a better 2021 year ahead, for everyone.

Stay safe and healthy!

Solidres for Joomla 2.11.0 released

Solidres for Joomla 2.11.0 has been released, it is a major version which has many new features, bug fixes and other improvements. Details can be found below:

Solidres for Joomla 2.11.0

  • New Summary module to show a summary of the reservation process for guest, it helps to improve the usability of the reservation process and make it more user friendly
  • New option “Allowed checkin days” for Check Availability module, this option is useful when the property has fixed checkin days and it could make the availability search faster by only showing the available checkin days for guest
  • New room type selection layout, it is improved for better responsive, tested also with Bootstrap 4.
  • New option “Default rate plan visibility”, this is requested by many users when they want to display the rate plans in front end, but hide them by default and the rate plans are only showed when guest click on button “Rates”
  • Improved Bootstrap 4 and Joomla 4 support
  • Property list in backend: now filter by parent categories will also show the results of sub categories
  • Add Dompdf library installation status to Solidres System Page
  • Hide the Standard rate plan when Complex Tariff plugin is enabled to avoid confusing users
  • PHP 7.2+ is required for this version
  • Amending reservation: when changing the dates, the previously booked rooms should be available
  • Fix several hard code reservation status and payment statuses
  • Deposit: fix option “Deposit includes extra cost” does not work with “Deposit by stay length”
  • Fix message “Last chance! We only have 1 room left!” should only be applied for room types with multiple rooms
  • Fix typo in translation files
  • Payment: fix card form does not show for default payment method
  • Extra: fix inconsistency in price calculation for extra’s charge type “Percent of room rate”

Experience 1.6.0

  • Send email when changing reservation status
  • Translation: change the term “Total due amount” to “Balance due”
  • Support option “Force user registration” like property
  • Use different icon for “Transportation”
  • Fix height of Participant field in front end book form
  • Remove duplicate base/end location in exp single view
  • Fix responsive issue with mixed columns in exp info box
  • Improve responsive for Joomla 4 and Bootstrap 4
  • Remove hard code payment statuses
  • Fix minimum advance booking days

Hub 1.11.0

  • Add overlay support for Filter module, make it works better in small screen devices. This improvement is similar to the recent Summary module development
  • Apply Hub Custom URL setting for view=search
  • Improve support for Joomla 4 and Bootstrap 4
  • Fix typo in es-ES translation
  • Fix incorrect partner_id filter
  • Fix incorrect HTML in default_navbar.php
  • Fix PHP notice errors in search results layout
  • Fix width issue of star icons in search view
  • When search view has no price to show, hide the empty DIV contains the prices
  • Fix duplicated Geo State field in property edit form in partner dashboard
  • Hide standard rate when Complex Tariff is enabled
  • Remove hard coded reservation and payment statuses

Experience Invoice 0.8.3

  • Use the same calendar type with Solidres component

Experience List module 0.7.1

  • Fix incorrect HTML for list layout

iCal 0.9.0

  • Import format: now it is possible to import iCal entries as reservations or as limit booking items
  • Import: use the iCal description field for importing if available
  • Fix CLI issue: undefined getTemplate() or undefined setUserState()

Invoice 1.3.4

  • Translation: change the term “Total due amount” to “Balance due”
  • Remove hard code reservation and payment statuses
  • Improve responsive for Joomla 4 and Bootstrap 4
  • Fix incorrect active filter in search tool

Braintree 0.1.1

  • Fix broken payment flow when using production API keys
  • Use FontAwesome icons only

Location Map module 0.6.0

  • Add ability to show full width location map
  • Fix broken map when the location name has spaces

Advanced Search module 1.3.1

  • Improve Joomla 4 and Bootstrap 4 support

Complex Tariff 1.4.0

  • New Interval and Limit Checkin per date for rate plan with Mode = Day
  • Add new fr-FR translation
  • Add ability to link Solidres rate plan with channel manager rate plan’
  • Rate plan’s Valid from and Valid to fields are now required
  • Improve Joomla 4 and Bootstrap 4 support
  • Fix incorrect label for Rate per room type per stay
  • Show rate plan’s Interval in list view
  • Fix cache issue for AJAX request in IE/Edge
  • Fix untranslated calendar in rate plan edit screen

Limit Booking 1.1.0

  • Add new es-ES translation
  • Improve responsiveness in list view for Bootstrap 4

Discount 0.8.0

  • Add new es-ES translation
  • Improve responsiveness in list view for Bootstrap 4

Feedback 1.1.6

  • Improve responsiveness in list view for Bootstrap 4

Statistics 1.7.2

  • Fix hard code text in quick booking form
  • Fix incorrect date displayed in widget Upcoming reservations
  • Fix responsive issue related to the text “Choose a date range above to generate the chart”

Assets module 1.0.1

  • Fix duplicate element ID issue when publishing multiple module instance in the same page
  • Fix broken setting Total Items in circle slider

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Update notes

  • Check our documentation for more details about upgrade notes
  • Make sure that you install Dompdf plugin as it is required for all PDF functionality since v2.8.0. Old Tcpdf is unsupported now.
  • Solidres is now required PHP 7.2+. Please make sure that you upgrade your PHP version first before upgrading to new Solidres version.

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