Support

March 20, 2015 at 3:33 am

Hi,

The first thing I would recommend is to give EE4 a test drive (for free) over at http://demoee.org

That way you can get a better feel as to whether the plugin will be a good fit for your needs or not.

Front end

1) The number of time slots available on any given day

EE4 provides a datetime system where you can create a datetime and associate tickets with each datetime. Depending on the number of time slots, this may result in a lengthy list of available tickets per event.

2) When you hover or click, be able to see the details of what/who has booked the slots that are taken

Not without custom coding. It is possible to list the event attendees via a small script we have available, but to link them to the datetime would require the script to be modified.

3) The end user needs to be able to book any time slot(s) online, get an email confirmation that we can customize, and pay online. When payment is successful, the time slot is booked without the need for us to do anything. If payment is not successful, and Admin gets an email notification.

Book online: check. Customizable emails: check. Pay online: check (we have multiple gateways, so you will need the appropriate account with that payment gateway).

Unsuccessful payments do not trigger an email to the admin as such. The admin will get notified of registrations (payment complete, or payment pending) and payment received.

Back end

1) Recurring schedules – they have groups who book the same time slot/days every month in advance, so need to be able to add reservations as recurring, instead of each one separately

Unfortunately not. While we will eventually be making a recurring event system for EE4, it is unlikely we will make it so a user can register like that.

2) Ability to manipulate reservations on the back end – create them, reschedule them, delete them, etc.

Creation and deletion are there by default. Currently EE4 doesn’t have a transfer system, so you would have to delete and recreate.

3) Search function on the back end to find reservations, future and past. This is needed so if someone left the room a mess, they can track back to who rented it on a given date.

All registrations are tracked, and can be filtered by month, registration status, and searched for by name. They can also be exported to CSV.

Other

Lastly, would we be able to use the calendar for other events that don’t need to use the booking/payment system? They’d like to be able to put other community events into the calendar that aren’t associated with the room they’re renting so they don’t have to manage more than one calendar.

Yes that’s possible. An event can be created and have it’s registration system turned off, so it will still appear on the calendar but cannot be registered for. You can even just send them to a different page or URL.

Wish list – sync with their Google calendar. Not a deal breaker, but something they’d like.

Events have an ical button which downloads an ICS file that can be imported into calendars, Google Calendar included. There is no direct integration.