Features

Some of the main features of ABPro

  • Versions for Joomla 3.x, 2.5 and 1.5 
  • Shopping Cart mode, allows customers to make several bookings in one transaction. (v 2.0.6, 3.0.1)
  • Rate Overrides, assign special booking rates by Joomla Group. (3.0.1)
  • Wizard style booking.
  • Support for Authorize.net (Server Integration Method) payments.
  • Support for 2Checkout.com payments.
  • User Credits System - for details click here 
  • Full multi-Language support c/w UTF-8 support 
  • Extras - define any number of extra charge items. Extras appear on the booking screen as a label and a dropdown list of 'how many' to add to the order. Extras can be applied to all resources or to specific resources only. Extras charge amount can be per hour or per booking. 
  • Seats per Booking - Optionally define a number of 'seats' for a resource and define set types (Adult, Child, etc). ABPro now supports multiple seats in one booking.
  • Coupons - Create any number of coupon codes, give to your customer for discounted booking charges.
  • Unlimited number of user defined fields (UDFs)
  • Graphic availability display (GAD) booking screen, see which slots are available and which ones are booked.
  • Resource Specific UDFs - define UDFs (user defined fields) that vary depending on which resource is chosen.
  • Service based duration - define booking duration by service.
  • Google Calendar Support (No 3rd party calendar is required for using ABPro)
  • Service based costs - define booking cost by service.
  • Full featured administration back-end.
  • Limited front-end administration so resource administrators can do what they need to without accessing the Joomla back-end.
  • PayPal - accept PayPal payments at booking time. (Website Standard)
  • SMS text messaging for reminders and notifications.
  • New Front-Desk view for resource administrators, month/week/day views
  • cron jobs for handling automated reminders.
  • Define Categories for resources - example physical locations or departments.
  • Define Services offered by resources, an attribute the visitor chooses.
  • Limited Community Builder and JoomSocial integration - pre-fill booking screen UDFs from CB or JS profile data.
  • Assigned resource administrator(s), any user can be assigned as a resource administrator.
  • Define any number of timeslots in a day, resources can use Global timeslots or each resource can have his/her/its own timeslots.
  • Define Book-off days for each resource.
  • Copy timeslots or book-off days from one resource to one or more others.
  • Front-end booking cancellation.
  • Front-end user's My Bookings screen.
  • Auto accept bookings.
  • Specify what field is displayed on the optional 3rd party calendars.
  • Edit key outgoing message text in admin c/w token field inserts
  • Data fields in confirmation message.
  • Listing screens c/w paging, sorting, filtering.
  • Export requests to csv for reporting.
  • Resource based 'available' days, assign what days of the week a resource is available for booking .
  • Admin edit screen for language file and css.

Version numbers indicate the first release the feature appears in.