We’ve spent the first 3 months of 2018 in the most energetic way, the big thanks to our users, you pushed us so hard with your valuable support, your endless feature requests and ideas for improvements and many bug reports. You always amazed us with many creative ways to use Solidres. You are the source of inspiration for our continuous development on Solidres. In this month we have made a big release with Solidres for Joomla 2.6.0 and release many new updates to Solidres modules/plugins/templates, we also released 03 new payment plugins for Experience (Authorize.net, Stripe and PayPal Pro). We are also working new Alipay payment plugin which should be released soon. Today we’ve just released 02 new WordPress themes (7Start and BlueBee) for our WordPress users, all of our Joomla templates are also updated to support latest Solidres releases.
For Experience users, we are working on an exciting new feature to allow booking per time slots (for tour/activity happens multiple times per day), each time slot is assigned a “resource” and they are used to check for availability of an experience. A “resource” could be used in different ways, for tourism industry a resource could be a tour guide, the actual definition of a resource dependent on your business type and we believe this new feature will expand a lot of possibilities to use Experience (appointment booking or facility booking as some examples).
Please check our blog regularly to get updated on our development, if you have any questions please make sure to let us know in forum, support ticket system or email us.
Solidres for Joomla version 2.6.0 is now available for download. This release introduces many new features, enhancements, bug fixes and other minor improvements.
Solidres 2.6.0
Refactor date picker: new unique style for date picker. Also add ability to show unavailable dates in date picker (requires Complex Tariff plugin)
Refactor media manager to make it load faster and more responsive
Refactor coupon system to support multiple assets/experiences
Add new option to allow free reservation (price = 0), in previous version it is considered as no availability when price is 0.
Initial support for Joomla 4 is added
Add new hook for payment cancellation event, make it more extensible
Add ability to send email when payment status is changed to both owner and customer
Add new feature to download Solidres System Info as JSON
Fix an incompatibility issue with Nginx
Fix an unauthorized deletion of room
Fix incorrect tariff adjoining related to min length of stay limitation
Now payment method base rate adjustment is calculated on the real pay amount instead of the total amount (when deposit is enabled)
Fix CSS issue in Firefox related to extra item toggle bottom border
Use hand cursor type for date picker field
Fix overlapping issue between session expires modal and some Joomla templates
Fix CSS issue of modal window heading
Fix room type option “Is Private” is not retrieved correctly in JS file
Fix discount on number of booked rooms is not applied while amending reservations
Fix hard code translation for “Renew” button in session expire modal
Availability calendar should not show trashed reservations
Fix issue that prevent changing customer during amending reservations
Fix display issue with custom field date type in guest booking form
Fix child age validation and price calculation in some cases
Refine translation regarding the empty “Accepted card” error message to avoid confusion
When amending reservation, use the system calculated tax amount for discount calculation
Fix issue with option “Show tariffs” when option “Disable online booking” is enabled
Fix coupon validity check for tariff “Package” type
Fix min room type price must take single supplement value into calculation
Hub 1.7.0
Add support for new coupon system in front end partner dashboard
Improve commission list view
Add new option to show/hide unavailable assets in front end hub search view
Auto apply the default currency when there is not previous currency selected
Now the price range filter use the average price per stay, not the total whole stay price
Fix incompatibility issue with Nginx
Fix subscription form issue with Joomla cache
Fix some incorrect mandatory form field in front end partner dashboard
Fix 404 issue with reservation links in dashboard
Fix permission check for sub menu Feedbacks in front end partner dashboard
Fix incorrect permission check for menu My Experiences in front end customer dashboard
Fix incorrect pagination for menu Commissions, add 02 new buttons for easier navigation between Assets and Experience commissions
Fix embed form issue in some sites with missing required libraries
Fix menu metadata is ignored in hub search page
Fix searching assets in multilingual mode
Experience 1.0.0
New layout for experience single view
Add ability to search for date range
Add coupon support
Add Messenger/Wish list/Share buttons for Experience (requires Hub plugin)
Add initial support for Joomla 4
Add support for “min/max days book in advance” options
Add support for payment method base rate adjustment
Add option “Deposit includes extra cost”
Add ability to translate payment method front end/success message using {lang} syntax
Improve CSS and layout
Fix incorrect price calculation with some extra item charge types
Fix price display in email
Fix reservation cancellation issue
Re-organize price display in email layout
Show loading indicator for book form only
Fix empty gallery path could break extra item description in front end
Fix error “Your selected date is invalid, please choose other dates” when multiple experience has different available dates
Enforce input length for field short description across different languages
Fix duplicate experience.css loading in front end
Delete all related extras items when an experience is deleted
Apply option “Show price with tax” into showing price in front end
Fix experience deletion issue because of constraint with invoice and guest info
Fix searching by transportation in experience list view search tools
Consolidate filter by category in both front end and back end
Add link to search for experience by transportation from experience single view
Fix searching experiences in multilingual mode
Statistics 1.3.0
Improve field Customer in quick booking form
Fix JSON_ERROR_UTF8 error in statistics dashboard for some specific languages
Fix dashboard reload button for custom date range searching
Fix quick booking creation for custom date range in dashboard
Fix incorrect month returned when using dashboard navigation button
Fix quick booking validation issue “Please fill all required fields”, make it easier to use
Show the full room type name when hover room type in dashboard
ACL 0.4.0
Fix incorrect permissions check for sub menu Categories and Limit Booking in front end Hub dashboard
Fix 403 Forbidden when using quick view experience reservation.
Custom Field 0.9.1
Fix issue that customer can not be changed during amending reservations
Fix display issue with Bootstrap 3 for field date and radio
Fix multilingual issue for field country and title in user profile page
Update German (de-DE) translation
Add initial support for Joomla 4
Consolidate the layout structure
Show the custom field title in the original language, not the user languages
Discount 0.6.0
Fix incorrect attribute “require” in XML manifest form
Fix option “stop further processing” for discount type “On number of booked room”
SMS 0.2.0
Fix wrong reservation code in SMS message
Add German (de-DE) translation
Add new SMS gateway “Sparrow SMS”
Invoice 1.0.0
Add new feature to allow customer to make later payment
Show booked room type names in invoice layout
Show guest number in invoice PDF layout
Add customer company name into invoice layout
Channel Manager 1.0.0
Fix sync issue when saving tariff and room type sync mode is “Availability only”
Add German (de-DE) translation
Offline 0.8.0
Fix issue that front end message can not be translated with {lang} syntax
Add German (de-DE) translation
PayPal 0.9.0
Add ability to configure custom cancellation message and a redirect page for cancellation
Add German (de-DE) translation
PayPal Pro 0.4.0
Add warning about empty username/password or signature
Add ability to send email when user finish payment from front end user dashboard
Google Analytics 0.3.0
Add German (de-DE)
Add support for Experience
Facebook 0.2.0
Add German (de-DE)
Add support for Experiences
Availability module 0.1.0
Initial release: this module can show availability calendar of a room type. It can be published in any Joomla module position to show your room type availability calendar in front end.
Coupon module 0.7.0
Add support for new coupon system
Add German (de-DE)
Camera slideshow 0.8.0
Fix broken slideshow in experience’s associated assets
Feedback 1.0.0
Update layout for review widget
Feedback module 0.6.0
Show feedback without reservations attached
Experience Invoice 0.5.0
Fix incorrect price and tax in PDF invoice
Fix PHP Fatal error related to SRCurrency in back end
Fix PHP Notice: undefined customer_middlename
Update German (de-DE)
Experience List module 0.6.0
Do not show price in front end if “Disable online booking” is enabled
Add ability to show upcoming reservations
Assets module 0.9.0
Update CSS for list style
Add new option “Show feedback”
Stripe payment plugin for Experience 0.1.0
Initial release
Authorize.net payment plugin for Experience 0.1.0
Initial release
PayPal Pro payment plugin for Experience 0.1.0
Initial release
Limit booking 0.9.1
Fix incorrect require=true attribute in XML file
User plugin 2.0.0
Add new Invoices menu in front end customer dashboard
Improve custom field support in customer edit form in backend
Use color to indicate booking status in front end customer dashboard reservation list
Auto send email when customer cancel a reservation via Custom front end dashboard
Hide the form to ask for user to register if Joomla is configured not to allow new registration
Fix Joomla user’s group is reset when Solidres saves a customer entry
Fix PHP notice error related to missing VAT number
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!
Date picker is one of the most important elements in Solidres. It is being used everywhere from front-end to back-end by end-users and administrators. In the upcoming Solidres for Joomla v2.6.0, we include a revamped date picker with a refreshed look and an ability to show unavailable dates right in the date picker (applied for tariff’s date picker). Combined with Flex Search plugin, Solidres now makes booking process a lot easier and more convenient for guests. Happy guests will lead to more booking for your business!
We’d like to welcome Infinity theme (live demo) to join our WordPress theme family with Adora, L’Amour, Luxuria, Orient and Emerald. This theme has 5 different color schemes and is fully optimized for Solidres plugin.
A full Infinity download includes:
Theme package for installing into existing WordPress site
Theme quickstart package which is a full WordPress installation and Solidres installation, everything is pre-configured. The quickstart is installed like a normal new WordPress installation, after installed you will get an exact site like our demo
Documentation: full documentation for theme configuration and usage instructions
PSD design source file with full layers
All active WP BUNDLE subscribers can download the new theme from our Download page. Or subscribe a WP BUNDLE subscription now to get started.
