Hi Everybody,
Some customers asked us that why their OS Calendar doesn't work correctly even they already read the documentation. In fact, you need to read OS Calendar documentation before you can setup it. In this topic, we will guide you in general way to use OS Calendar.
1. To use OS Calendar with OS Property, you must have OS Calendar 4.0 and OS Property 2.7.1 or greater installed
2. To turn on the feature "Integrate with OS Calendar" from OS Property, you need to go to Backend > OS Property > Configuration > Tab OS Calendar, turn it on and select Property types (This integration feature will be applied to properties of these Property types)
3. Setup Price plan. There are 2 price plans: Holiday and Property
With Holiday: You will setup price for one specific time period (from start to end time)
With Property: You will setup price for one night of one specific time period.
To setup Price plan, you can go to Backend > OS Property > Manage Property types, select each Property type and select the corresponding Price plan.
Notice: This is very important point, because almost customers forget this step. And this is the reason why they can't make the booking request at front-end of OS Calendar.
4. Manage Rooms. You can manage rooms of properties from Backend > OS Property > Manage Properties and click on the Room icon to go to the Manage Rooms page
5. Manage Price. From the rooms you created, you can create the price for it. And depend on Property type of property of room. You will have 2 way to create price.
Holiday: You will see a list of prices, and you can add/edit/remove those price items. To create one Holiday price, you only need to enter Start, end time with the price for the whole period
Property: You must enter start,end time, price for one night, min stays. And you can select price for specific dates in week and setup the "Available for check-in" dates too
Notice: This is also important part, and you must make sure that you done it.
Agent/ owner can setup Rooms and Price for their properties from layout: "Agent: Edit profile" at front-end of component.
6. After above steps, you can go to Front-end, try to open property details. Find the Reservation box and search the available dates and select Room to make the booking request.
7. From OS Calendar 7.0, you are able to select to use Room in component or not though configure option allow Rooms in Configuration page of OS Calendar. If value of this field is No, you can setup Rent Price for Properties directly, and rooms are unncessary anymore. Customer won't make the booking request on the properties instead of Rooms.
Above are our general guide that help you to setup OS Calendar properly. For more details, you can read the documentation of component.
Good luck
Dev team
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