Howdy partners,
Do not attempt to adjust your aerial, it's Compucorp taking over the blog for a quick blast of posts... bare with us, you'll be returned to your normal programming shortly!
Post no 1 - CiviBooking - Development / Alpha release
We're super excited to announce the first alpha release of CiviBooking!
Are you a non profit with Rooms or Resources that you think you could raise money by renting out? Or are you a community center or voluntary service looking to manage your resources better? Sick of spreadsheets, emails and that Google calendar that no one keeps up to date? Then CiviBooking is the extension for you!
This first release is strictly "developer" only and is not production ready... but for the inquisitive amongst you why not take a trip over to the Compucorp github and download the development version:
https://github.com/compucorp/civibooking/releases
Install in the usual method - untar/zip to your extensions directory, navigate to your Civi extensions listing, refresh the page, click the install link and away you go...
For those of you who have been living under a rock for the last few months and are asking... what does CiviBooking do... well...in a nutshell:
- You can create a list of resources which are available to be booked (we call these limited resources as once their booked, they're gone!)
- These are shown in a fancy calendar type screen so you can see what’s available super easily.
- Contacts in the database can book one of more of these by using the booking wizard.
- Contacts can add unlimited resources to the bookings (tea's, coffee's, solar energy...)
- Contacts can add additional charges, discounts and calculate a price based on what’s booked.
- You can make provisional bookings and come back and edit them later.
- You can cancel bookings, applying a cancellation charge if necessary.
Oh and of course everything integrates super nicely with advanced search, contact tabs, CiviContribute for payments and some other tricks and tweaks along the way.
So mosey on over to the Compucorp Github. Bug reports and comments welcome!
Best
Team Compucorp
