Announcing the Roomify for Accommodations Platform
Today we are thrilled to announce the release of our new Accommodations platform.
The new Accommodations platform will power our vacation rental, B&B and multi-property solutions and is available on the Roomify Cloud or as a self-hosted solution. At its heart lies our unique open-source booking library - BAT - and the feature set reflects the experience gained working with our wonderful customers and open-source contributors.
Manage meeting room availability and take bookings with BAT for Drupal
We put together extensive documentation on how to use BAT, using a meeting room availability and booking example throughout. This is one of the most often requested features - especially from libraries and educational institutions - so we hope you will find it useful. We hope this will help and would love to hear your thoughts - get in touch.
Booking and Availability Management Tools Beta Release and Roadmap
Our Booking and Availability Management Tools have reached beta release stage. This means that we have covered all the main features for the 1.0 version of the library and we will now focus on bug fixes and UI improvements as well as developing documentation and a more comprehensive test suite.
The BAT PHP library is now version while the Drupal module is at .
Building a JIRA team planning app with BAT for Drupal
Last week we released BAT - our Bookings and Availability Management toolkit as well as a Drupal module for BAT.
We are using BAT to build the new version of our Rooms module as well as other products. However, BAT is much more than an engine for nightly bookings. It also allows us to build any sort of booking / resource management tool. So we asked: "What would it take to build a resource management tool to manage ourselves?". We have previously used a tool called , and while it is a wonderful tool, we wanted to build something that integrated tightly with our project planning and issue tracking tool, Jira.
The result actually impressed us. We thought it would be a useful exercise, but we didn't anticipate getting a tool that we could use daily this early in the game. Read on for some of the details of what we did.
Introducing BAT - Booking and Availability Management for... Everything
Towards the end of October 2015 we announced a broader vision for our company. Roomify aims to provide the tools that will allow anyone to manage the booking and availability of resources - whatever those may be. We consider this a core component of an open sharing economy platform.
After that announcement, we went to work. We kept our head down, the coffee (and tea) flowing and focused on what needed to be done to achieve this goal. Today we are thrilled to announce that BAT is ready to be downloaded and tested more widely.
An Open Source Sharing Economy Platform for Drupal
Today we are very excited to announce a broader vision for what we are doing at Roomify.
Roomify started out with the aim of addressing the booking and reservation problem within the hospitality industry - and that remains a key goal for us. Some time ago, however, we had the opportunity to take a break and look at the bigger picture. We evaluated what is at the core of the open source tools we are building and how people are using them outside of the hospitality industry.
What emerged is a realization that what we are really building are platforms that allow people to connect and share resources. In other words, a sharing economy platform.
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.
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.
Here we go...
roomify quietly opens its doors today. Our goal is simple. Provide flexible open-source solutions for reservations that put business owners back in the driver seat. These reservation tools allow users to find and book the thing they are looking for with ease, and get the best deal possible. Meanwhile, businesses can describe what they are offering in the best way possible.