Introducing Tours - Tours Search, Booking and Management in Drupal
Here at Roomify our long-term goal is to provide tools that can support the widest possible range of booking problems. There is an increasing demand for such solutions both from "traditional" companies (especially within travel) that want to leverage new online tools, as well as from the new breed of "sharing economy" startups. We view our role as technology providers to all of them. We build platforms that allow you to create your own special cocktail of Content + Reservation/Booking + Commerce + Community and target your particular niche.
Our Agency solution does this for whoever is interested in building their niche AirBnB-style site and today we are very excited to introduce Tours! Tours enables people to create platforms to describe and offer tours that can either last a few hours or a few days. In this post we present some of the highlights of tours.
Re-using the repeating date field widget in custom Drupal forms
As part of our work on Rooms Tours, (coming soon!) we wanted to give users the ability to quickly and easily input regular tour dates/times. This is a quick overview of how you can easily get this in Drupal using the widget that comes from the Date module.
The State of Drupal OpenSaaS and What Next
At Roomify we are working on OpenSaaS products for booking solutions (for the travel market and others) and are trying to figure out how best to talk about the benefits. As such, we thought it would be useful to take a step back, make sure we were all on the same page about what OpenSaaS means, figure out what is state of OpenSaaS right now and what are the challenges in getting clients to share that vision.
Building a Drupal Product? Let's talk at DrupalCon Los Angeles
The overwhelming majority of businesses in the Drupal community are consulting agencies. Groups of experts that make their skills available to clients at any hourly or daily rate. A much smaller number of Drupal businesses are creating products using Drupal. The problems product companies face are quite different and we are hoping to meet other product companies and share experiences at DrupalCon LA. so if you are working on a product or thinking to do so come to share and hear what others have to say. Below are some of our initial thoughts and questions we are grappling with. After the BOF we will follow up with another blog post with some of the insights we gained.
Vacation Rentals, Hotels, B&Bs, Multiple Properties and Booking with Drupal.. oh my!
It’s now just over three months since roomify launched. We’ve been enjoying the process immensely, despite the inevitable frustration of trying to set up everything that a business requires. What has kept us going is the satisfaction of hitting product milestones, and hearing back from users and clients about how our products are helping them. (We also like getting paid - that’s awesome too!).
As such, we are particularly pleased to share this update with you.
Object-Oriented Forms in Drupal 7
While working on a channel management plugin for Drupal Rooms, (beta coming soon!) I had a couple of interesting requirements to satisfy. Many booking service providers use the iCal standard in a way that is generically similar, but we wished to be able to support differences in implementation or capabilities between services.
Releasing Rooms 1.5
Rooms 7.x-1.5, introduces a number of fixes, an improved calendar view and improvements in Rooms messages customization and price handling. Read on for the details...