Refactor email templates: now email templates are responsive and look much more professional. All email templates also fully support template overrides. No need to worry about your custom changes being lost each update.
All front end reservation forms support template overrides too.
Add logo field for asset, this logo field is intended to be used with email and invoice templates.
Show extra’s description when clicking on extra’s titles.
Add new CSS class for availability calendar to separates past days and today.
Now clicking on each room type in module room type will redirect user to that room type directly (instead of the general reservation page).
Add more currency format options with space between currency code/symbol and number.
Add option to disable coupon in front end.
Add new option to choose whether to show currency code or symbol in front end.
Make optional fields in reservation form more obvious to avoid confusing users.
Add extra’s cost into email’s templates.
Show full reservation’s info in email that sent to asset’s owner.
New features (will be available in next 0.7.0 release, we hold them back because they need more refinement)
Add article and image field for Extras.
Add article and image field for Coupons.
Auto create new Joomla’s users after finishig reservation.
Add VAT field.
Improvements
Popover tooltip of payment methods are now shown on click for better mobile experience.
Update to new version of all JS libraries bundled with Solidres.
Improve upgrade process: No need to update version by version like before, now you are able to upgrade to 0.7.0 from all lower versions. In addition there is no need to backup email/invoice templates.
Correct several language strings.
Bug fixes
Force user to select an asset when they create a new menu item (Show a single reservation asset).
Force user to enter standard tariff when create/edit room type.
Fix custom payment method not showed in invoice/email templates.
We also release several Beta version for plugin Hub, Invoice & PDF, Complex Tariff, Statistics, all of them require Solidres 0.7.0 to be functional, please don’t install them in other Solidres versions.
Plugin Invoice
Invoice and PDF’s templates are now fully overridable.
Remove unused fonts and make the installation package’s size reduced from about 3MB to 945KB.
Improve performance: now generating pdf is sligthly faster than previous version.
Plugin Statistics
Now the calculation does not take trashed/cancelled reservation into account.
Face lift.
Support multiple assets and plugin Hub.
Plugin Hub
Fix issue when uninstallation does not remove Themes’s table.
Add support for Statistics in front end user’s control panel.
Add support for the new multiple tariffs feature.
Plugin Complex Tariffs
Date picker: auto select “valid to” based on “valid from”.
Force user to always enter tariff’s values.
Improve layout and make it responsive.
Add limit checkin field to support multiple tariff feature, now you can sepecify which days in a week that check in is allowed. It is helpful when you sell your room as a package.
Please use these Beta versions for testing purpose only, do not install it in your live website. Solidres 0.7.0 Beta is only available for Solidres’s subscribers, we will publish it once it gets stable.
Solidres 0.7.0 EAP is now available for all subscribers, for more information please read our previous blog post.
If you are a Solidres’s subscriber, there will be a new topic in your dedicated forum where you can download Solidres 0.7.0 EAP and Complex Tariff plugin (v0.3.0). If you’ve not subscribed, let’s get one of our subscription levels and start testing now.
As you all know that we are working very hard on the upcoming 0.7.0 release, this release contains an exciting new feature called “Multiple Tariffs” which means that with 0.7.0 and the new Complex Tariff plugin it is possible to allow your guests to choose between several tariffs/rates/packages (or whatever terms your business is using). In addition, Complex Tariff plugin is upgraded to give you an ability to create “package” type as well as specify allowed check in days (Mon -> Sun), with the new 0.7.0 and Complex Tariff plugin, you will be able to create the following (examples):
Standard rate with breakfast/Standard rate without breakfast.
Standard rate refundable/Standard rate non refundable.
Free Sunday: check in from Saturday and get Sunday for free. Check in must be Saturday.
Book 2 get 3: book 2 nights and get 1 night for free.
So instead of having your guest being forced to select only 1 tariff, now it is possible for them to choose, the more tariff options your guests can choose, the more likely they will book!
We are going to release an early preview release for our subscribers this week so that we can collect feedback to refine it before official release. Please check back regularly for more information.
This is a maintenance version, all Solidres’s users are recommended to update.
New features
Add default field for payment methods: now you can configure which payment method is pre-selected in the front end.
Improvements
Imrove the update procedure: now it is no longer required to re-install Invoice plugin after each update. In addition, email templates are also backup. More information will be provided in the screen after you installed 0.6.2.
Auto publish user plugin so that you do not have to publish it manually.
Bug fixes
Blocked rooms by Limit Booking plugin are not showed in availability calendar.
Missing translation for “COM_SOLIDRES_N_ITEMS_CHECKED_IN”
Hide the child’s quantity drop down when room type’s child quantity is 0.
Currency format pattern is different in room type form.
Unpublished limit booking items still have effects.
Incorrect fax number.
We’ve also released new versions for Paypal, Limit Booking and Cielo plugins, change log for them can be found in our Download section.
Make sure you are using Solidres 0.6.1. If not, you need to update your Solidres to 0.6.1 first. The same goes to all others version: for example if you are using Solidres 0.5.4, you need to upgrade to 0.6.0 then 0.6.1 first.
Download 0.6.2 and install using Joomla Extension Installer, it will automatically update your 0.6.1. Or you can update using the built-in Joomla Updater.
If you are subscribers, make sure all plugins/modules are compatible with 0.6.2 by installing latest versions of them (Paypal, Limit Booking and Cielo).
Make sure that you edit your asset, then specify which payment method is the default.
After the initial release of BlueBee, we are glad to release BlueBee 2.0.0 which includes several improvements and a new color scheme (Classic). If you are an active subscriber, you can download it from our Download area, if not, become a subscriber now.
New features:
Classic – new color scheme.
Module variations.
Improvements:
Remove some unused CSS rules.
Use font icons instead of images for address module.
