I promised for weeks to some users to release a new version of ab_booking. Only a few seconds ago, I did it!

New revision 0.5.0 is online in TER (TYPO3 Extension Repository) and on forge.typo3.org.

There are some tiny bugfixes and several new features, I am using on my site. Now it's p ossible to make prices depending on the duration of the booking.

For example you could enter rates for a double as follows:

• 1 night: 90 € + 10 € for room cleaning
• 2 nights: 2x90€ but no extra charge room cleaning
• 3 nights: 3x80€
• 7 nights: 7x(90€-20%)

You can achieve this by entering the following code into the price database field:

90,D:3:80,D:7:20%

Read (comma separated):  It costs 90 per night. A discount ("D") is offered after 3 nights and the new price is 80. Another discount ("D") is vallid after 7 days and you pay 90 minus 20%. And so on...

The same with the room cleaning. If you want only an extra charge for people comming one night, you enter in single component:

10,D:2:-1

Read: It costs 10 per stay. A discount ("D") is valid after 2 days and the price is removed (-1). You could of course write as well:

10,D:2:5,D:7:-1

In this case the customers pay 10 for one night, 5 for 2-6 nights and no extra charge for more than 7 nights.

Or you can offer optionally breakfast and the customer may deselect it or not.

7,D:3:10%,O

Read: It costs 7 per person. A discount of 10% is applied after 3 nights. The customer may deselect this option ("O").

With 0.5.0 you may also influence the minimum stay for the customer. E.g. if you like to set a minimum stay of 3 nights for bookings more than 8 weeks in the future you can set:

3,W:8:2,W:1:1 

Read: The minium stay is three nights. 8 weeks before booking start it is reduced to 2 nights. And in the last week before arrival it is set to 1 night.

There is an other view which is quite useful in my case: a check-in overview. Now you can put on an internal page a view with the coming arrivals and depatures for the next 4 days (sorry, not configurable at the moment). And you have a simple calendar field to jump to any date in the past and future!

Now ab_booking is much more flexible but for sure still not flexible enough for everybody. Please feel free to test ab_booking at ab_booking.bigga.de and to install it to your TYPO3 website.

I just released version 0.4.5 of my TYPO3 extension ab_booking. This extension is used e.g. at Weltcafe Dresden for the booking of the guest rooms.

But also on several sites around the world, the extension is used now. I updated the reference list on the demo site ab_booking.bigga.de. Unfortunately, a lot of people use the extension but don't report it. And it's rather difficult to search for it.

I should implement a backdoor.... NO, I won't do such nasty things! So please, just let me know, if you want to see your project on the reference list!

What's new?

Some bugfixes and two new features:

• You may add a minimum stay period to the prices table. There is currently no global setting for this.
• Additionially you may set a period of days which will be appended to the booking. This is useful if you want to have 1, 2 or more days to clean the room or the caravane or whatever.

There are plenty of feature requests by myself and people sending it by mail. It's better to send it via the forge bugtracker! Then everybody can comment it and can follow the development.

Maybe, I should now start refacturing the codebase? Let's see.

Today, a new bugfix release of my TYPO3 booking extension is online. Starting with this version, a demo-page is setup to allow you to play with it. You may book rooms, check availability and have a look at the booking calendar.

There is a read-only access to the TYPO3 backend which makes it more easy to understand the site structure and the configuration of the extension plugin. Just try it!

ab_booking.bigga.de