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Created: 21/01/2016 | By:Magenest| Email: [email protected]

Introduction

Hotel Booking extension for Magento 2 by Magenest is a solution for hotel service providers, healthcare service providers, travel agency,... to efficiently manage bookings and customers. 

For more information, please visit: Hotel Booking

Features For Admins

• Admin can view hotel booking orders.
• Admin can create hotel services (hotel features, included services, cancel policy, important policy).
• Admin can create hotel room types and packet for each one of them. Each packet contains features, included services, cancellation policy, important policy, capacity, price per night, number of available rooms, extra services, enable/disable from to.
• Admin can modify frontendUi (wallpaper).
• Admin can create price rules for all packets (special dates, recurring time).
• Admin can setup new booking orders status, email templates (sended to admin, customers when new hotel booking orders placed).

Features For Customers

• Customers can view hotel booking orders (order status, packet name, ...)
• Customers can customize search options for hotel booking with guests, check in date, checkout date, filter search options (price, features, rating).

System Requirements

Initial Configuration

In order to get your extension up and running properly, we highly recommend that you make some configurations right from the beginning

Order Configuration 

Firstly, from backend of Magento 2 > Stores > Hotel Booking > Magenest > Hotel Configuration, this is the place where you define the email template and sender identification of the email. 

• Default Order Status: specify the default status of newly placed booking orders.
• Email Sender: specify the identification of the sender. You can define this in tab General > Store Email Addresses.
• Template Configuration: these are email templates for each booking status of an order.

Here are some template variables that you canembeedin your template:

• customer: customer email
• customerName: customer name
• store: store name
• itemName: name of the ordered item
• bookingStatus: new booking status of the item
• specialDate: will be available if there is any special date
• bookedDate: booked date
• start: start time
• end: end time
• staffName: staff name

Price Rules

We have implemented 3 kinds of price rules: Staff Price Rules, Special Date Price Rules and Recurring Price Rules. These rules will add some versatility into the effort of better evaluating price of bookings. With Staff Price Rules, go to Staff Price Rules tab in Appointment Booking menu.

Rule Amount is defined so that if a staff of one type is selected on frontend by the customer, a corresponding amount will be added to the total (we will illustrate this in a later section). We recommend you to add a default type with Rule Amount set to 0 to prevent any abnormal functionality of the extension. 

Then we have Special Date Amount, which will add or subtract a certain amount of money when a certain date is selected.

Another price rules - Recurring Price Rules allows admins to create recurring price rules for Time Activity such as every day, every week, every month, every year.  

Main Features

Define Product Schedule

The extension added a new product type called Appointment Booking into the system, so you need to add a new product of type Appointment Booking to get started.

In the product detail page, go to Advanced Settings > Appointment Booking.

You will see a row of inputs which defines a schedule for the current product. You can click on Add Schedule to add a new schedule row. All saved schedules will be sorted by weekday, in ascending order.

Click on Save and your newly filled schedules will be saved. You can also delete an existing schedule by clicking on the Delete button. Oneremind here, the schedule will not be saved if one input is not properly filled.

Define Staff Information

Go to Backend of Magento 2 store > System > All Users > Add New User button to add staff into stores. 

At Staff Management tab, you will be taken to theusers list. From now on, you will be able to make an admin user a staff. In detail, you can add some informationof the staff as below.

You can also add working schedule for the staff. This is nearly identical to the discussed product schedule.

Note that, go to User info tab to reconfirm password when you make any changes.  

Lastly, the user can view booked orders in which the staff has been chosen.

Usage Procedure

When a customer is on a frontend detail page of a product of type Appointment Booking, he will be able to select a date with a date picker input field as shown.

When a day is selected, the system will check if thereisany product schedules available that day and display them. It will also check if the selected day is within a special date range as formerly specified.

Then if a schedule is selected, the system will now check the staff with the corresponding schedule. Some information about the staff will also be displayed.

Then when the customeraddthe product to cart, he will be able to view the product options which are also booking options.

When the order is successfully placed, this is what it will lookslike on My Orders page in customer's My Account.

For easier management over bookedappointments, the customer can also check the My Booked Appointments tab.

From admin's perspective, he can view all booked appointments in Booking Orders tab in Appointment Booking menu.

Now the admin can view all booked appointments in Full Calendar mode, just by pressing the View in Full Calendar button above.

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