TOPIC: URGENT - Hour based booking of simulators

I am looking for a system that can handle hour based bookings of golf simulators.

7 simulators (could be locations?)

Each simulator is operated from 10am to 10pm in 1 hour slots.
A customer would normally book 2-3 hours, but it can vary.
Each simulator can serve up to 4 people in a group, but the price is per simulator per hour, so no need to keep track of a group (for now).
Bookings from 10am to 4pm has one price.
Bookings from 4pm to 10pm and all times on week-ends has a different price.

I would prefer to show a calendar where people can click on an available slot and book it and set how many more slots they want (if available).

It is good if a new Joomla user can be created on first booking if they are not already registered.

No need for payment gateway for now. But ok to get a nicely laid out e-mail with all booking details.

Is this possible?

I have already been playing a little with the demo and it seems to be possible. But I would like to have some suggestions and possible a couple of links to how it can look for hour based bookings.

After playing around a bit with this ext, we went ahead and bought it. We are really pressed for time and decided to take a chance, hoping that someone might be able to give us some tips on how to get the best setup for our need.

I am trying to get through it in the mean time, but it would be good to know if we are on the right track.

First, you CAN setup the auto Joomla user creation feature PER EVENT... which can be optional or required. When enabled, if someone is not logged in, they will have added fields to create a joomla user account during the event registration process.

For your hourly booking, you could do this two different ways...

1) Create a separate event for each hourly slot. As repeating events do not go smaller than daily, you could do a daily repeat for 10-11:00, then one for 11-12:00, etc... which will end up giving you an hourly slot on each day. Each repeat occurrence functions as its own event so it can be registered individually.

Then using the multiple event registration cart (enabled in configuration), a user can register for an hourly slot, then after confirming, they can choose to checkout or go back and register for another slot.

2) Using our powerful field structure. This is the method I would suggest personally. You could have an event for each day, each week... whatever. Then create selection fields (probably checkboxes so it supports multiple selections) for each hourly slot on that day. That way the user can select multiple hours in one easy transaction. You can set limits on each field value if needed, as well as fees... so only X number of people are allowed to choose each hourly slot. Once the limit is reached, that option will no longer show for other users.

Watch our video tutorial on selection fields and it will help you quite a bit. Thanks!
http://www.youtube.com/dthdevelopment#p/a/u/2/cuB1qwx4pJo

Thank you for answering! Did I mention we already went ahead and bought a license? So we are in, and now need to make it work!

I tried to set up using fields in your demo, but if I put any limits on it, it was gone. I will have to test that again...

The problem will be this:

One event with fields for each slot.
One person books the first 3 slots one day.
The next person should be able to book any of the other slots. I would actually prefer that the taken slots are not hidden, just changes color.

I also have a different problem that you might want to consider as a feature request.

Some companies are buying some slots on a regular basis e.g. each Tuesday 18.00 Company A has bought 2 hours on simulator 3. So we need recurring bookings, like a subscription.

I have already tried setting up recurring slots, each one hour. But they are not showing in the calendar. Only the first occurrence is showing.

Also, I wanted to show the daily calendar view for the customers, but I could not find anywhere to set up that and to limit the number of hours shown per day (no need to show the night).