Hi there,
Here is another candidate for Gold.
Docs locked away and RSVP demo kinda "rudimentary" (no backend access?), I've been trying to study what's there and searched the forum for some keywords. Here my Q's left open so far. Your briefest replies will be highly appreciated.
FYI, I'm on a project for a client selling tours each over multiple days, from/to/across multiple locations (a tour = an event).
1. Event "ownership":
I see that JEvents allows individual ownership with all the perks and consequences. However, in this case it's not needed, not even wanted: it'll be only Admins with a certain minimum Joomla access level entering/maintaining events in the system, though it will be multiple users. An event must then not be "owned" by just one, but accessible etc by all these admins, system email for all comm, etc. Possible?
2. Event categories:
A. Are nested/sub categories possible?
B. Can one event be assigned to multiple categories?
3. Locations:
A. A tour (event) can cover multiple locations. So, can multiple locations be assigned to an event?
B. Then, when coming from a location listing and displaying details of a location, upcoming events with this location assigned are shown? (Seems so... just double-checking...)
4. Pricing / "Room Types" / Capacity:
There will be 4 different room types (like Superior Double, Standard Twin, etc), each type having a different capacity and price, where both capacity and price is per person (with 2 persons = "spaces" per room).
Actually, the tour (event) price will only depend on the guests' choice of room type. No problem from what I saw. But:
A. I need to be able to enter a max capacity (number of "spaces" ) per room type. And display the actual number of "spaces" remaining capacity: in event listings "total" (= sum of all remaining spaces per event), in event detail page "groups of types" (e.g. = sum of remaining spaces in Superior rooms, and sum of remaining spaces in Standard rooms), or instead but latest in the booking form "per room type" (e.g. = sum of remaining spaces in Superior Double, ditto for Superior Twins, etc).
If it sounds confusing here, sorry... then maybe think of the equivalent of max capacity and remaining seats in 4 different areas of the event venue.
It may take some very simple PHP/HTML trickery in the individual views which I'd be well able to do, but is it generally possible to enter and maintain the capacities ("spaces" ) per room type?
B. You saw it coming: there must be an option for "single occupancy" (as opposed to default "sharing" ). Means, indeed, a single guest being able to book an entire room (= 2 spaces) for himself alone, resulting in (#1) effectively two spaces being taken by one guest instead of the usual one space, and (#2) the guest being charged two spaces minus x%.
The option is available ideally per guest/room type, or at least per booking.
And, of course, only for room types where remaining capacity >= 2.
In guest lists and elsewhere (like emails?) the booking is marked e.g. as either "sharing" or "single occupancy".
Again, at least part of this might require some custom PHP/JS in the view and, again, no problem. But here and now it would help if you could indicate how simple - or tricky? - it'd be to make this work.
5. Deposit:
Generally no problem, I see.
A. Can the guest be given the choice of "deposit" or "full payment"?
B. If deposit was paid, can the remainder payment be made on-line as well? (Guest logs in, finds a "pay due amount now" link or similar, and can easily make the payment from a pre-filled form...)
C. If event start date is less than X days from today, can it be made "full payment" only, no more deposit option?
6. Add'l guests:
If the person doing the booking enters additional guests and e.g. the add'l guest's email belongs to another user already existing in the system, or being added later - security concerns aside - is that utilised to any effect? Or vice versa = add'l not a registered user yet, can an invitation email be sent, or so?
If it helps, CommunityBuilder will be on the site as well, and if only due to the awful lot of user profile fields being needed for this specific case...
7. Invoice:
From what I saw it seems that for the simple act of generating and emailing an invoice an extra shopping cart system is required. True? Really?
Well, that was a lot. Sorry.
Many thanks in advance for your reply! The sooner the better, of course...
Here is another candidate for Gold.
Docs locked away and RSVP demo kinda "rudimentary" (no backend access?), I've been trying to study what's there and searched the forum for some keywords. Here my Q's left open so far. Your briefest replies will be highly appreciated.
FYI, I'm on a project for a client selling tours each over multiple days, from/to/across multiple locations (a tour = an event).
1. Event "ownership":
I see that JEvents allows individual ownership with all the perks and consequences. However, in this case it's not needed, not even wanted: it'll be only Admins with a certain minimum Joomla access level entering/maintaining events in the system, though it will be multiple users. An event must then not be "owned" by just one, but accessible etc by all these admins, system email for all comm, etc. Possible?
2. Event categories:
A. Are nested/sub categories possible?
B. Can one event be assigned to multiple categories?
3. Locations:
A. A tour (event) can cover multiple locations. So, can multiple locations be assigned to an event?
B. Then, when coming from a location listing and displaying details of a location, upcoming events with this location assigned are shown? (Seems so... just double-checking...)
4. Pricing / "Room Types" / Capacity:
There will be 4 different room types (like Superior Double, Standard Twin, etc), each type having a different capacity and price, where both capacity and price is per person (with 2 persons = "spaces" per room).
Actually, the tour (event) price will only depend on the guests' choice of room type. No problem from what I saw. But:
A. I need to be able to enter a max capacity (number of "spaces" ) per room type. And display the actual number of "spaces" remaining capacity: in event listings "total" (= sum of all remaining spaces per event), in event detail page "groups of types" (e.g. = sum of remaining spaces in Superior rooms, and sum of remaining spaces in Standard rooms), or instead but latest in the booking form "per room type" (e.g. = sum of remaining spaces in Superior Double, ditto for Superior Twins, etc).
If it sounds confusing here, sorry... then maybe think of the equivalent of max capacity and remaining seats in 4 different areas of the event venue.
It may take some very simple PHP/HTML trickery in the individual views which I'd be well able to do, but is it generally possible to enter and maintain the capacities ("spaces" ) per room type?
B. You saw it coming: there must be an option for "single occupancy" (as opposed to default "sharing" ). Means, indeed, a single guest being able to book an entire room (= 2 spaces) for himself alone, resulting in (#1) effectively two spaces being taken by one guest instead of the usual one space, and (#2) the guest being charged two spaces minus x%.
The option is available ideally per guest/room type, or at least per booking.
And, of course, only for room types where remaining capacity >= 2.
In guest lists and elsewhere (like emails?) the booking is marked e.g. as either "sharing" or "single occupancy".
Again, at least part of this might require some custom PHP/JS in the view and, again, no problem. But here and now it would help if you could indicate how simple - or tricky? - it'd be to make this work.
5. Deposit:
Generally no problem, I see.
A. Can the guest be given the choice of "deposit" or "full payment"?
B. If deposit was paid, can the remainder payment be made on-line as well? (Guest logs in, finds a "pay due amount now" link or similar, and can easily make the payment from a pre-filled form...)
C. If event start date is less than X days from today, can it be made "full payment" only, no more deposit option?
6. Add'l guests:
If the person doing the booking enters additional guests and e.g. the add'l guest's email belongs to another user already existing in the system, or being added later - security concerns aside - is that utilised to any effect? Or vice versa = add'l not a registered user yet, can an invitation email be sent, or so?
If it helps, CommunityBuilder will be on the site as well, and if only due to the awful lot of user profile fields being needed for this specific case...
7. Invoice:
From what I saw it seems that for the simple act of generating and emailing an invoice an extra shopping cart system is required. True? Really?
Well, that was a lot. Sorry.
Many thanks in advance for your reply! The sooner the better, of course...