Hello everyone,
We are pleased to announce the release of OS Services Booking 12.0, a new version of our Joomla appointment booking and scheduling extension.
This release focuses on improving payment flexibility, voucher and balance workflows, checkout transparency, and booking reliability. It is especially useful for websites that sell bookable services, prepaid packages, gift vouchers, trial offers, memberships, or appointment-based reservations.
What’s new in OS Services Booking 12.0?
1. EU Tax Support
OS Services Booking now supports EU Tax handling, helping Joomla booking websites provide clearer tax calculation and management for customers in the European Union.
This is useful for businesses that serve EU customers and need a more transparent checkout experience.
2. Payment Form Integration for Coupons and Vouchers
Version 12.0 adds integration with Payment Form to support selling coupons and vouchers.
This allows site owners to sell:
- Gift vouchers
- Promotional coupons
- Prepaid service credits
- Trial vouchers
- Service packages
Customers can purchase vouchers first and use them later when making bookings.
3. Trial Voucher Support
Administrators can now create trial vouchers for potential customers more easily.
This is helpful for businesses that want to offer first-time trials, free consultations, sample classes, introductory sessions, or limited promotional bookings.
4. Self Top-up User Balance
Customers can now top up their own user balance through Payment Form and use that balance for future bookings.
This helps reduce manual balance adjustments by administrators and is suitable for prepaid booking models, memberships, packages, and repeat customers.
5. Improved Prepaid Booking Workflow
OS Services Booking 12.0 improves the prepaid booking workflow, making it easier to support buy-now-use-later service models.
This is useful for businesses that sell credits, packages, memberships, or multiple-session services.
6. Booking Lock Mechanism
A new booking lock mechanism has been added to help reduce the risk of double bookings.
When multiple customers attempt to book the same timeslot at the same time, the system can process booking availability more safely and help avoid race-condition issues.
7. Improved Booking Conflict Checking
The booking conflict checking process has been improved to provide more reliable scheduling behavior.
This helps reduce conflicts when the system handles multiple bookings, schedule updates, staff availability, or service reservations.
8. OSB Table Content Plugin Improvements
The OSB Table Content plugin now supports two additional variables:
- date_from
- date_to
These variables provide more flexibility when displaying booking-related date information in dynamic content or templates.
9. Improved OSB Cart Module
The OSB Cart module has been improved to provide a smoother cart experience before checkout.
This helps customers review their selected services and booking details more conveniently.
10. Refined Ajax Requests to Avoid Cached Data
Ajax requests have been refined to avoid cached responses and help retrieve fresher booking data.
This improvement is important for booking websites where timeslot availability, cart data, pricing, and schedule information can change frequently.
Why upgrade?
OS Services Booking 12.0 is recommended for Joomla websites that need a more flexible and reliable booking system.
With this version, site owners can:
- Sell vouchers, coupons, and prepaid services more easily
- Allow customers to top up and use account balances
- Improve checkout transparency with EU Tax support
- Reduce manual work for administrators
- Improve booking reliability and reduce double-booking risks
- Deliver a smoother booking and checkout experience
You can learn more about OS Services Booking here:
joomdonation.com/joomla-extensions/jooml...intment-booking.html
Thank you for using OS Services Booking.
