Experience

Alongside Solidres 4.5.0 come 36 releases of add-ons, modules and the Lumina template. Hub partners get the new reports for their own properties, two new plugins arrive (Reports and Conversion tracking), the Channel Manager drops MyAllocator and takes in the Inventory grid, and Stripe works on Joomla 6. Above all, every Solidres add-on now updates through Joomla’s own updater.

Alongside Solidres 4.4.0, eleven add-ons and the Lumina template have new releases. Three more add-ons now install as Joomla packages, the Hub and the invoices take up the new tourist tax, iCal sync stops losing imported dates when a download fails, the Experience booking form is rewritten, and Lumina now works in right-to-left languages.

We are very happy to announce two new important releases for Solidres: Infinity Joomla template and Solidres v1.7.0. Infinity is the first Joomla template that was designed with support for both Accommodation & Tour booking, it is also the first template that fully implement the new configurable media sizes feature. We also release updates to other plugins and modules, please see change log below for more details:

We’ve added a new feature for Experience plugin so that it allows booking per time slots and per resource. A resource is a general term and the exact meaning depends on your business type. If your business is about travel, then resource could be your tour guide. If the system you want to build is for dental appointment making, then resource is the doctor. There are many use cases for this new Experience feature.

Since Experience plugin v1.4.0, we added a new feature to allow experience owner to insert their custom tabs, this feature is very useful if you want to show extra content in front end to end users in separated new tab without having to modify the layout files. To use it, first make sure that you are using Experience plugin v1.4.0+, then edit your experience item > Custom tab and add new tab there.

Since Experience plugin v0.9.0, we added a new modal window that shows a list of available dates of an experience item for user selection. This new UI works best when your available dates are sparse, user will be able to select their desired booking date easier and faster. You can choose your favorite layout in your experience – tab Publishing.

At Solidres, we’ve spent a lot of time to research and improve the overall booking UX, after successfully added 02 new layouts for accommodation booking about 1 year ago, now it is time for a change in Experience plugin. Our research found that users have different ways to interact with the accommodation and experience booking engine, that’s why we came up with different layouts for them right from the start, but of course there is still many rooms for improvement and in the below screenshot you can see the latest layout for experience booking. The new layout is optimized for responsive and removes most unnecessary spaces in your site, it also has a new simple slideshow at the top to show different picture about your experience item to attract your visitors. We also add wish list and social network sharing feature just like our Hub plugin (this feature is available for Hub subscribers).

The new layout will be available in next Experience release v1.0.0, please stay tuned!

We’ve just finished a new feature that allow you to change the default ordering of your asset and experience’s payment methods in front end. The UI is very simple to use, just drag and drop to change the order, then save your asset/experience to save the new order and it will be applied in front end.

We’re excited to announce the latest addition to Solidres – seamless integration with Stripe Connect!

This new feature makes payment management simpler and more flexible than ever, especially for multi-property booking portals built with Solidres.

With Stripe Connect, each property owner on your platform can receive payments directly into their own Stripe account. That means no more manual fund transfers, complicated revenue splits, or bookkeeping headaches. Solidres now automates the entire flow — from customer payment to fund distribution — while keeping full transparency for both the portal owner and individual property managers.

Four Solidres add-ons have new releases: Hub 2.2.0, Experience 2.1.0, Feedback 2.1.0 and Rate Plan 1.1.1. The biggest change is how three of them install: Hub, Experience and Feedback now each come as one Joomla package. There is also a new Hub module, partner sign-up for new visitors, tour booking in every language and a long list of fixes. All four need Solidres 4.3.0.

As announced earlier, we are happy to welcome REVIVE, our brand new Joomla template powered by the Helix Ultimate framework. Live demo can be found here.

We’ve been building our Joomla templates based on Warp framework. However, Warp is no longer updated and it lacks many features that our users constantly request, we decided to switch to Helix Ultimate framework for our new templates, and REVIVE is the first one that applies it. We think our users will get familiar with the new template faster because many of them already have experience with Helix Ultimate framework.

Revive, a unique template for Experience (Tour & Activities) booking portal site, has been updated to support Joomla 4 and Joomla 5 as well as Solidres 3.2.0+. It is now available for download, please don’t forget that there is a 35% discount for active SINGLE, BUNDLE, HUB, and DEVELOPER subscribers.

The Revive template quickstart is also updated with Joomla 5.2.0, Solidres 3.2.0 and Experience 1.11.0, with the quickstart package you can get started in just a couple of minutes.

Solidres 3.4.0 Stable with Stripe Connect support is now available for download. Below is the detailed changelog:

We are very excited to announce the latest releases: Channel Manager plugin v0.2.0 and Experience (Tour & Activities) plugin are officially releases, both are brand new plugins and they require Solidres v1.2.0. Change log are below:

The Travel & Tourism industry is no doubt a huge global market, according to the statistics from Statista.com, in 2015 this industry has contributed directly 2.23 trillions U.S. dollars into the global economy.

In such huge market, there are a lot of chances for everyone from traditional tour companies to a new trend called tours by locals.