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.