2015 has been going well for us. There are still 4 months to go with many exiting things ahead and today we’d like to give an overview of them:
Channel Manager: yes we are working on Channel Manager feature for Solidres and it will be a killer feature for Solidres’s users, especially for those who have been waiting for a long time. We hope to introduce a beta phrase soon, please check back regularly for more news.
TripAdvisor Instant Booking: the beta phrase is still opened, if you want to join, we still have some available slots for you. The beta phrase is opened for all active Solidres’s subcribers, just contact us via our email.
Subscription and Commission feature for Hub plugin: these new features will help you to monetise your partners through subscription packages or commissions rates that you defined.
New Solidres.com website: with the joining of Solidres for WordPress, our current website becomes too small to host a party for 2 great friends like Joomla and WordPress, it needs a major overhault. The work on the new website is still in progress and we hope to launch it within this year.
New Joomla template for Solidres: our new Joomla template has been gone through the development stage and it is being tested before launching. It will join a great collection of Joomla templates developed by Solidres.com and our template partners.
Download 0.9.1 and install using Joomla Extension Installer, it will automatically update your current version. Or you can update using the built-in Joomla Updater.
If you are subscribers, please make sure all plugins/modules are re-installed for best compatibility with new version.
If you are using a 3rd templates that have override files for Solidres, make sure they are compatible with new version.
We’d like to announce the upcoming change regarding our product pricing, please find the details below:
Subscription level
New pricing
SINGLE
$79 / 6 months
BUNDLE
$119 / 6 months
HUB
$229 / 6 months
DEVELOPER
$449 / 24 months
Why this change is needed?
Our product keeps growing steadily in term of: new features, platform (both Joomla + WordPress), complexity and user base across the world. In order to maintain high quality product and service and improve it further, we need to increase investing into our staff by hiring the best possible developers and designers as well as improving our infrastructure. We have a lot of idea for implementation and our user requested feature list is also increasing which need more resources to make them come true.
Despite this pricing change, Solidres still has the most cost effective pricing in our market.
When will this change take effect?
The pricing change will take effect from September 01 2015. It means that you can still subscribe or renew with the old pricing until September 01 2015.
Solidres v0.9.0 is the release that took a lot of time to get stable enough for public release, this version contains a lot of major and minor new features, bug fixes and improvements:
New features
Back end reservation creation
Support booking per night and per day
Support single use supplement
Support min and max people limitation
Add deposit by length of stay
Add search box in Media Manager
Allow editing asset’s coordinates directly in map
Add new system event: onTariffAfterCompute (see plugin Sample for usage instructions)
Add new system event: onSolidresAssetViewLoad
Add option to toggle multilingual support for better performance
Add Falang content element for currencies
Add option to hide room type form fields like adult number, child number, guest name
Add option to show tariffs only when guest enter check in and check out
Add new translation: Arabic, Polish, French, German
Improvements
Add new options to handle adjoining tariffs and overlapping tariffs better.
Add new option to specify how child room cost is calculated (per age range or per quantity)
Update translations: Italian, Greek, Russian
Improve date handling
Change the order of Next and Back button in front end
Detect when User plugin need to be reinstalled
Bug fixes
Add missing icon for asset with rating 0
Fix PHP notices messages related to Facebook Open Graph in front end
Fix issue that asset can not be saved without tax
Fix issue with Hub pagination
Fix delete issue between room and Limit Booking plugins
Fix language strings in country edit/add screen
Fix incorrect order of post code and city name in front end
Fix incorrect number of child max quantity in Check Availability module
Fix asset’s theme can not be saved
Fix date picker incorrect dates when option “Min days book in advance” is enabled
Fix regression that custom payment method’s message is cleared too early
Fix room type copying: rooms/standard tariff/complex tariffs are now copied too
Fix issue that room type can not be deleted because of facility
Fix cancel buttons because of recent change in Joomla 3.4+
As usual, we also release updates for many commercial plugins and templates, more details below:
Plugin Hub v0.4.0
Add option to show/hide carousel in hub search page
Add option to show/hide sorting bar in hub search page
Add option to show/hide each filter section in Filter module
Improve search in multilingual site
Support search by category and search by asset’s name
Add filter row for asset listing view in front end
Add missing smoking option and show child options in front end
Fix JS issue with template compression.
Fix broken link in asset edit screen – tab room type
Plugin Complex Tariff v0.5.0
Pre-select field Limit Check in to
Add support for booking per day
Support min and max peple limitation
Plugin Feedback v0.1.0
This is the inital release of this plugin, this plugin allows you to collect your guest’s feedback after they checked out. You can also manage your feedbacks and show feedback in front end with module Feedback.
Plugin Advanced Extra v0.2.0
Fix incorrect SQL updates
Add support for booking per day
Plugin Discount v0.1.0
Fix issue with multiple discounts applied together
Update Greek translation
Add support for booking per day
Plugin Invoice & PDF v0.3.1
Fix date not show correctly because of time zone
Update Greek translation
Plugin Offline payment v0.1.1
Fix card form not showed when this payment method was selected before
Fix credit card validation rules
Plugin User v0.9.2
Fix customer group filter and close button
Add support for booking per day
Add pl-PL translation
Fix various PHP notice messages
Fix link powered by Solidres can not be turned off in my reservation view
Module My Recent Searches v0.1.0 (New)
This is the initial release of this new module which show a list of your recent viewed assets in front end. This plugin requires Hub plugin.
Also, we are packaging our latest template L’Amour, it will be available soon while the new version of our Statistics plugin needs to be delayed because we are having some regressions with the quick booking form.
Download 0.9.0 and install using Joomla Extension Installer, it will automatically update your current version. Or you can update using the built-in Joomla Updater.
If you are subscribers, please make sure all plugins/modules are re-installed for best compatibility with new version.
If you are using a 3rd templates that have override files for Solidres, make sure they are compatible with new version.
Thank to many useful feedback on the first Beta, we’d like to announce the availability of Solidres v0.9.0 Beta 2, Complex Tariff v0.5.0 Beta 2 and User v0.9.2 Beta 2. All subscribers can download from menu Download – Show all downloads.
There are many fixes, new features and improvements since the first Beta, there is a new tab Tariff in Solidres Options which allow you to configure how you want Solidres to handle adjoining and overlapping tariffs.
We are also making a great progress on the brand new Feedback plugin, the first Beta version of it will be available soon for testing.
