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From Elxis Official Documentation

Most important IOS Reservations v3.x features.

General features

• Two working modes: Single hotel and Multiple hotels.
• Automatic currency conversion from ECB. You can display prices in 34 currencies (Unlimited currencies are supported in total but for the 34 of them you have exchange rates support). After a visitor select a currency his selection is being saved and after this all prices are being displayed in the new currency.
• SSL switch. IOS Reservations can switch automatically to SSL/TLS mode on pages that privacy is important.
• Full reviews system with negative and positive comments and also rating. You can set only hotel guest to review the hotel or any registered user.
• Reviews from Tripadvisor
• Hoteliers control panel for the component's front-end area
• Special permissions for front-end access to the control panel.
• Search and advanced search for rooms. Search results are grouped by hotel.
• Unlimited accommodation types (Hotels, Studios, Bungalows, etc) and stars/keys rating system.
• Search engines friendly URLs
• Automatic and multilingual META data (keywords/description)
• E-mail notifications
• SMS notifications to hoteliers and guests
• FAX notifications to hoteliers
• Multi-language interface. Unlimited languages are supported.
• Image gallery for each hotel.
• Image gallery for each destination.
• Option to load destination images from Flickr
• Template system to easily change component's style.
• Layout templates to freely set up the front page (multiple hotels mode)
• Special prices for tour operators
• Discounts policy (long stay, early booking, children discount, discount for tour operators, week days).
• Different discounts can be applied to each room for each season
• Room vacancy per season.
• Minimum stay days for each room per season
• Rooms charge type (per room or per number of guests)
• Import/export room prices
• Offline reservations. Site administrators/hoteliers can book rooms from the control panel.
• Advanced reservations report (export in CSV and XLS format is also supported)
• Option to set calendar's date format.
• Add-on services for hotels that can also be booked.
• Unlimited hotel facilities.
• Unlimited room facilities.
• Option to set stop sales dates. You can reduce the number of available rooms for any date or even make a room not available for specific dates.
• Hotel guests have the option to track online the status of their reservations.
• Booking history for the hotel guests (My reservations).
• Reservation cancel. You can also set the number of days till the check-in date a guest is allowed to cancel a reservation.
• Reservation surety fee. You can set it as an absolute number or as a percentage of the total reservation cost.
• Modular online payment system. Unlimited payment methods are supported. Pay via paypal, credit card, moneybookers, etc.
• Usage of AJAX makes working with IOS Reservations easy and fast.
• Option to set different prices for the weekends (absolute value or percentage).
• Two availability calendars: standard and special.
• Advanced translations system. Each title, description, and everything else can be translated in unlimited number of languages. Automatic translation is also supported.
• Option to move a reservation in time.
• Confirm, reject, cancel, edit, delete and move a reservation options for the hotelier.
• You can set unlimited number of price ranges for any room.
• Guests can book more than one room and service at the same time (with one reservation).
• Google maps and standard image maps support for any destination.
• Automatic thumbnails generation for images. Best quality without image distortion using resize and crop.
• Hotel contact form. Full hotel contact details.
• You can set how many hotels each individually hotelier can add.
• You can set an expiration date for each hotelier after which he can not access any more the control panel and manage his reservations. He will have to renew his subscription.
• Contact any reservation customer directly from within IOS Reservations.
• Many options to filter and order the reservations as well as statistical data. See reservations for specific month, for all hotel or a selected one, see paid fees, total amount earned, and more (administration area).
• Easy booking and payment procedure with ability to go back in order to correct/edit entered data during all reservation steps. Direct payment links via the hotel guests reservation track page for unpaid reservations.
• IOS Reservations Connector allows you to request rooms availability and book rooms from external web sites (IOS Reservations Connector is not included into the standard distribution package).
• Translated into: Bulgarian, English, French, German, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Romanian, Dutch, Croatian, Serbian, Swedish, Latvian and Korean. More languages might have been added by the time you read this article.
• Load any Elxis content bot inside hotels and locations description areas (added on version 3.1).
• Set the minimum and the maximum acceptable stay nights.
• Custom accommodation types. You can add unlimited accommodation types like hotel, bungalow, villa, bed and breakfast, etc (added on version 3.5).
• You can add unlimited translations for each element (title, description, etc). Automatic translation in 91 languages are also supported (added on version 3.5)!

Multiple hotels mode only

• Special component's frontpage
• Unlimited locations/sub-locations support
• All destinations page
• Location page with detailed location information and sub-locations
• Display any Elxis modules inside component's front-page (3 internal module positions).

Technical details

• Object oriented programming.
• PHP 5.x (PHP 5.3+ is supported).
• High security against hackers and web attacks.
• Fully UTF-8 compatible.
• Compatible to Elxis 2008.0, 2008.1, 2009.0, 2009.1, 2009.2, 2009.3 (2009.3 or newer is recommended).
• XHTML/CSS valid generated html code. Table-less design.
• High SEO quality.