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1 BASIC: Crea un nuovo account PAGINA CORRISPONDENTE
Prima devi registrarti e attivare il tuo conto verificando il tuo indirizzo email. Come per tutti gli altri passi di questo assistente, clicca il tasto Pagina corrispondente per andare alla pagina corrispondente (in questo caso la pagina di registrazione). Clicca questo tasto adesso se non sei sulla pagina Crea un nuovo account. Se hai gia aperto un account, entra. Planyo funziona anche con OpenID, così puoi entrare usando un account esistente (es. Google o Yahoo). Entra con OpenID qui. Puoi anche entrare usando il tuo account facebook.
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2 BASIC: Agiungi un altro sito PAGINA CORRISPONDENTE
Adesso stiamo per creare il tuo sito Planyo. Comminciamo con due definizioni: Ogni oggetto che può essere prenotato (imbarcazione, campo campo da tennis, macchina, posto a sedere in pullman, letto in dormitorio, camera di albergo, instruttore, terapeuta, medico ecc.) si chiama una risorsa in planyo. La totalità delle risorse gestite da te (es. tutte le barche, camere nel albergo ecc.) si chiama un sito planyo.
Riempi tutti i campi del formulario e clicca Invia quando sei pronto. Soffermati con il mouse sopra la icona: per vedere la descrizione più ampia.
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3 BASIC: Sito - Impostazioni AGIUNGI UN ALTRO SITO
Adesso puoi decidere se vuoi prendere pagamenti online o meno. Questo è consigliato, la maggior parte dei utenti sono abituati di poter pagare online con una carta di credito. I seguenti sistemi di pagamento sono adesso possibili: PayPal, moneybookers, Sage Pay, WorldPay, Authorize.net, MultiSafepay o puoi anche chiedere ai clienti di lasciare i numeri di carte di credito sul tuo sito. I pagamenti vanno sempre direttamente sul tuo account. Prima scegli il sistema di pagamento e poi entra il tuo indirizzo email registrator con loro MOSTRAMI. Adesso riempi i campi restanti. Non dimenticare di cliccare Invia una volta finito MOSTRAMI.
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4 BASIC: Aggiungere risorse AGIUNGI UN ALTRO SITO
Adesso possiamo aggiungere delle risorse al tuo sito planyo. Se sono identiche (es. camere doppie, multipli campi da tennis, posti a sedere ecc.) puoi aggiungere una risorsa sola e precisare la sua quantità. Se invece hai delle risorse diverse (es. vari apartamenti di vacanza, tipi di macchine, diversi terapeuti) dovrai aggiungere una risorsa per ogni oggetto. Clicca Aggiungi nuova risorsa per cominciare MOSTRAMI
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5 BASIC: Risorsa - Impostazioni AGIUNGI UN ALTRO SITO
Vediamo le impostazioni del/la risorsa. La prima opzione importante è Approvazione della prenotazione MOSTRAMI perché determinerà il processo di prenotazione. Opzioni di tempo è un'altra sezione importante - qui decidi quando e per quanto tempo una risorsa può essere prenotata. La opzione Durata del affitto MOSTRAMI può essere cambiata se la durata è fissa o se dipende dal tipo di servizio che il cliente può scegliere (es. diversi tipi di massaggio, ognuno con durata diversa). Vedi questa domanda nel FAQ per una descrizione dettagliata di questa sezione importante. Se il tuo modelo di prezzi è molto semplice, puoi stabilire il prezzo per ora/giorno nella opzione Prezzo unitario MOSTRAMI. Altrimenti, aspetta fino al passo 7 per stabilire i prezzi. Clicca Invia per salvare i tuoi cambiamenti. Ci sono anche dei link su questa pagina che vanno alle altre sezioni delle impostazioni. Ci arriviamo nei prossimi passi del assistente.
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6 BASIC: Carica/rimuovi immagini AGIUNGI UN ALTRO SITO
Adesso possiamo aggiungere degli immagini alle nostre risorse. Questo passo non è obbligatorio ma è sempre una buona idea, se possibile.
...Adesso hai portato a termine tutti i passi della configurazione di base (basic). Puoi sempre tornare al passo 4 per aggiungere le risorse mancanti, o prima portare a termine l'assistente intero e poi tornare indietro. Questo assistente è compatibile con entrambe le possibilità. Il tuo sito planyo è ormai operativo e puoi già fare dei test! Nei passi successivi (additional e advanced) potrai mettere a punto molte opzioni importanti e inserire il sistema di prenotazioni sul tuo sito web. Clicca qui per vedere come i clienti vedono il tuo sito planyo. Attenzione! Se entri come amministrator, il processo di prenotazione funziona in modo diverso che pei i clienti perché gli amministratori non devono inserire tutti i campi obbligatori, non devono confermare gli indirizzi email ecc. Esci prima (o usa un'altro browser) e vai a per fare i test come cliente.
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7 ADDITIONAL: Manager di prezzi AGIUNGI UN ALTRO SITO
Salta questo passo se non vuoi mostrare i prezzi ai clienti. Il manager di prezzi è organizzato come tabella dove per ogni risorsa puoi aggiungere le regole per modificare il prezzo finale (ad esempio sulla base del numero di persone, durata, staggione ecc.). La prima fila (Prezzo di base) mostra i prezzi già entrati nelle impostazioni della risorsa. Tutte le altre regole useranno questi prezzi come prezzi di base. Vedi questa domanda nel FAQ per una descrizione dettagliata del manager di prezzi con esempi. Sulla maggior parte delle pagine amministrative c'è una sezione Collegati sezioni d'aiuto MOSTRAMI che dovresti leggere se tutto non è chiaro. La domanda del FAQ appena menzionata, ad esempio, si trova anche li.
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8 ADDITIONAL: Ferie della risorsa AGIUNGI UN ALTRO SITO
Qui puoi definire dei periodi unici o ricorrenti quando le risorse non possono essere prenotate dai clienti - giorni festivi o periodi fuori staggione. Inoltre, nel caso che si prenota ore e non giorni, puoi inserire la pausa pranzo o orari speciali. Se ci sono delle prenotazioni esistenti per un periodo che vuoi segnare come vacanza, planyo te lo dirà e segnerà queste prenotazioni come contrastanti. Puoi anche andare qui per un modo veloce di verificare e ridurre la disponibilità per ogni unità di tempo (quarto d'ora, ora o giorno). Questo avrà lo stesso effetto che una vacanza unica.
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9 ADDITIONAL: Dati del formulario di prenotazione AGIUNGI UN ALTRO SITO
Qui puoi completamente progettare il formulario di prenotazione. Puoi aggiungere delle domande supplementari come numero di persone, fumatore/non-fumatore, numero di passaporto o persino le condizioni da accettare senza quali la prenotazione non è possibile. Qui puoi anche cambiare il ordine dei campi, nascondere i campi standard (come numero di telefono o paese), fissare il valore predefinito per tutti i campi e decidere se un campo è obbligatorio o meno. I campi standard aggiunti da Planyo sono segnati in nero e i campi aggunti da te appaiono in verde. Puoi fare i cambiamenti del formulario per ogni risorsa o puoi anche usare il formulario di prenotazione globale. In questo modo tutti i cambiamenti fatti una sola volta saranno usati per diverse risorse.
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10 ADDITIONAL: Integrazione col mio sito web AGIUNGI UN ALTRO SITO
La integrazione comincia con la scelta del metodo: integrazione semplice (simple) porta i tuoi utenti su planyo.com per fare la prenotazione ed è estremamente semplice da implementare (si tratta del semplice link o frammento HTML). Integrazione avanzata (advanced) ti permette di mettere il sistema di prenotazione intero sul tuo sito web. Tutti i passi della prenotazione (cerca di disponibilità, scelta della risorsa, formulario di prenotazione, verifica d'indirizzo email e pagamento) vengono fatti sul tuo site web di cui i tuoi clienti non devono mai partire. La integrazione avanzata richiede un po' piu di configurazione ma è anche molto facile da fare. Infatti ci sono 6 plugin/moduli per i CMS piu grandi (come joomla o drupal) e usando questi plugin rende l'integrazione così facile come l'integrazione semplice. Se non usi questi CMS, le istruzioni sono molto facili da seguire e puoi anche integrare planyo con il tuo sito in un paio di minuti. La integrazione è organizzata come dei passi (puoi sempre tornare indietro usando dei link). Nel ultimo passo puoi copiare/incollare dei frammenti HTML per cose come link al formulario di prenotazione, l'anteprima del calendario o formulario di ricerca - per entrambi i modi di integrazione. Troverai anche i template che possono essere usati per personalizzare il modo in cui le risorse o risultati di ricerca vengono presentati ai clienti.
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11 ADDITIONAL: Abbonamento AGIUNGI UN ALTRO SITO
Abbonamento (sezione Il mio account) è dove puoi pagare per il tuo sito Planyo. Qui puoi anche cambiare il tipo di sito a Planyo PRO (abbonamento) o PRO-COMM (commissione). In ogni caso i primi 30 giorni sono sempre gratuiti, dopodiché riceverai una email prima che il tuo conto scada. I pagamenti per Planyo funzionano come crediti vengono dedotti ogni volta una nuova fattura viene creata. Dovresti assicurarti che i tuoi crediti restano sempre sopra zero, allora è una buona idea pagare in anticipo. Le fatture sono anche elencate qui, come i tasti per comprare dei pacchi SMS / FAX (se usi notifiche SMS/FAX).
...Hai appena portato a termine tutti i passi della configurazione 'additional'. Il tuo sito planyo è configurato ed integrato con il tuo sito. Puoi ancora procedere ai passi 'advanced' per scoprire altre funzionalità eccitanti offerte da Planyo o per mettere a punto aspetti come tutti i testi visibili dai clienti, differenze fra stagioni, notifiche personalizzate ecc.
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12 ADVANCED: Notifiche AGIUNGI UN ALTRO SITO
Impostazioni di notifica stabiliscono quali messaggi di Planyo vengono inviati dopo un evento, a chi e tramitte quale mezzo (email o sms). Se vuoi usare le notifiche SMS, devi comprare (qui) dei pacchi sms. Le notifiche possono essere inviati non solo per gli eventi come nuova prenotazione o prenotazione confermata, cancellata ecc. ma anche un certo tempo dopo la prenotazione, prima del noleggio o dopo il noleggio. Puoi anche personalizzare tutti i messaggi inviati. Puoi ad esempio cominciare il messaggio con Egregio signor xxx, mettere il logo della tua società, aggiungere altre informazioni (come data e ora di prenotazione, il luogo, come arrivarci, numeri di telefono ecc) o anche allegare dei documenti al tuo messaggio come il contratto, imagini o la fattura creata da Planyo automaticamente (vedi passo 19). Puoi sempre fare il test del messaggio cliccando sul tasto Rivedi e poi Test -- questo ti invierà un messagio di esempio.
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13 ADVANCED: Prodotti supplementari AGIUNGI UN ALTRO SITO
Adesso puoi aggiungere dei prodotti supplementari al tuo sito. Ci sono due tipi di prodotti: unici o ricorrenti MOSTRAMI. Prodotti possono essere scelti solo dal amministratore o anche dai clienti MOSTRAMI, possono essere predefiniti o meno MOSTRAMI e possono essere prenotati per ogni persona o per prenotazione intera MOSTRAMI. Puoi anche scegliere quali risorse sono compatibili con ogni prodotto. Prodotti possono spesso essere usati al posto di campi supplementari del formulario di prenotazione (passo 9), vedi questa domanda nel FAQ per le differenze.
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14 ADVANCED: Traduzioni personalizzate AGIUNGI UN ALTRO SITO
Traduzioni personalizzate possono essere utate per due motivi: per personalizzare le parole usate sul tuo sito o per tradurre il contenuto (descrizioni e altro contenuto entrato dall'amministratore) in altre lingue. Nel primo caso puoi usare questa pagina per modificare tutti i testi visibili dai clienti in ogni passo dalla prenotazione e negli messaggi email. Soprattutto se hai scelto il tipo di sito personalizzato, planyo usa delle parole come risorsa che sono troppo generali. Per questo è una buona idea di modificare tutti i testi che contengono questa parola e sostituirla con ad esempio: yacht, terapeuta, medico, bici ecc. Se vuoi fare questo cambiamento, vai al'ultimo passo delle traduzioni (interfaccia utente) e nel campo cerca i testi che contengono inserisci ad esempio risorsa. Questo ti darà un elenco di tutti i testi con le parole ricercate; cosi potrai cambiarli tutti. Se invece vuoi usare questa pagina per tradurre il tuo contenuto in altre lingue, puoi farlo nel secondo passo. Semplicemente clicca la lingua di traduzione nel primo passo.
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15 ADVANCED: Proprietario della risorsa AGIUNGI UN ALTRO SITO
Se ci sono diverse persone che dovrebbero gestire le loro risorse in planyo, puoi darli accesso alle loro risorse. Così possono anche ricevere notifiche, rapporti e eseguire altri compiti amministrativi in relazione alla risorsa. Per indicare questa persona, entra il loro indirizzo email. Nelle Azioni puoi anche specificare esattamente a quali pagine avranno accesso MOSTRAMI.
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16 ADVANCED: Gestione di proprietà personalizzate AGIUNGI UN ALTRO SITO
Proprietà personalizzate sono di solito usate per la ricerca. Così i clienti possono cercare anche sulla base di proprietà come numero di persone. Le proprietà aggiunte qui appaiono immediatamente nelle impostazioni di ogni risorsa (passo 5) - così puoi definire i valori per tutte le risorse. Poi, nel ultimo passo del Integration Wizard (passo 10) o se vai alle impostazioni dei plugin (joomla, drupal ecc.) dovresti aggiungere queste nuove proprietà li per l'uso nel formulario di ricerca.
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17 ADVANCED: Impostazioni stagionali AGIUNGI UN ALTRO SITO
Su questa pagina puoi inserire i cambiamenti stagionali nella durata di noleggio/affitto e (per le risorse affittate per giorni interi) i giorni della settimana quando l'affitto può cominciare e/o finire.
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18 ADVANCED: Rapporti AGIUNGI UN ALTRO SITO
Qui puoi definire dei rapporti che potrai scaricare su richiesta o che ti saranno inviati per email ogni giorno/settimana/mese. I rapporti (formato HTML / PDF / CSV per Excel) possono anche essere inviati automaticamente al tuo account Google Docs (vedi passo 20). Nel caso di rapporti HTML o PDF puoi anche personalizzare il modello (template) per avere piu controllo sul rapporto.
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19 ADVANCED: Fatture AGIUNGI UN ALTRO SITO
Planyo può anche occuparsi delle tue fatture! Puoi scarirarle su richiesta o Planyo può inviarle a te o ai clienti allegati ai messaggi personalizzati (passo 12). La prima decisione da prende è se vuoi creare il proprio modello (template) o meno MOSTRAMI. L'uso del proprio modello ti permette di personalizzare a fondo la fattura. Puoi anche decidere di non usare un modello personalizzato e indicare semplicemente se aggiungere il tuo logo, numero IVA e i testi sopra e sotto. Questo è un modo facile per personalizzare la fattura senza dover creare dei modelli complessi.
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20 ADVANCED: Google Calendar & Docs / iCal feed AGIUNGI UN ALTRO SITO
Ci sono due modi in cui puoi esportare il tuo piano ad altri programmi. Prima puoi usare iCal feeds (qui) -- così avrai degli URL per ogni risorsa individuale o per tutto il sito planyo. Gli iCal feeds possono essere usati in molti prodotti come Google Calendar, Apple iCal, Outlook ecc. Se usi Google Apps or Google Calendar può essere una buona idea permettere a Planyo di accedere al tuo account Google. In questo modo le prenotazioni appaiono immediatamente sul tuo calendario Google (Google carica gli iCal feeds con un ritardo di 4-6 ore). Un'altro vantaggio è che anche i rapporti possono essere inviati al tuo account Google Docs automaticamente.
Congratulazioni! Hai portato a termine tutti i passi dell'assistente e adesso sai come personalizzare ogni aspetto del tuo sito Planyo. Se hai voglia di scoprire ancora di più, vedi la documentazione.
2012/02/01 If the reservation form asks for the number of participants you can also add a special form item which will add one field per participant asking for their first and last name. This way you can make sure each reservation includes all participant names. See Q202 for more info.
2012/01/27 New 21st language for the planyo frontend: Brazilian Portuguese.
2012/01/26 New payment gateway integrated into planyo: wirecard.
2012/01/22 We've added a playground to the API (here) so you can easily test any API function before using it in your code.
2012/01/22 There are now 5 new text tutorials available in Help / Tutorials: setup of prices, setup of availability, setup of email notifications, administration by multiple users, and configuration of availability search with a focus on advanced integration.
2012/01/12 We've added a quick links slideout box which you'll find on the right-hand side of each admin page. The quick links serve as a customizable menu where the main administrator can add frequently used links (e.g. to specific reports) for all the site admins and moderators. It can also be used by each individual admin or moderator to add their personal favorites.
2012/01/06 We've added a new interesting rule to the pricing manager, called 'Daily pricing'. This new rule lets you set pricing for every individual day or week of the year on a calendar. This is especially useful if you change last-minute pricing on daily basis.
2012/01/04 New great usability enhancement: clever search. This is the search box visible on every page of planyo. It lets you search for a number of things, such as reservation id, customer name or email address, resource name, reservations starting in specific date ranges, availability for given day or month etc. You can for example enter Friday, 2012-03-01, av January or last December into the search box. Using this search box also searches in planyo documentation. Type Help into the search box to find out more.
2011/12/22 The backend gets a new menu navigation with more of the functions which can be accessed directly from every page! The resources get their own top-level menu.
2011/12/22 There is now a new template for the search functionality: 'no matching results code'. This template is displayed when there are no results found. You can use it to either display the availability calendar to the customer, or even retry the search with less restrictive criteria or with a wider range of dates or a different search mode (e.g. search for shorter periods within the searched dates).
2011/12/13 You can now add QR (Quick Response) 2D bar-codes to emails, invoices and advanced integration screens generated by Planyo. See the $(2dcode...) tags in Q221 for more details.
2011/12/12 We have a great new way for your customers to see when they can make a reservation. This is an alternative to the search functionality which requires form submission with specific dates, or to a calendar preview which may be complex depending on your specific model. The new mode is called upcoming availability and is available in both simple integration and advanced integration (only with the latest versions of the plugins (v1.9). You can see this in action here. The new mode can be used as a new entry point for your customers for last-minute reservations. You can include any of your custom resource properties as the search criteria (just as for the search mode).
2011/12/09 Custom email notifications can now be previewed/tested for any existing reservation ID, and not only for the last one in the system.
2011/12/03 We've added a new payment gateway to Planyo: MasterCard MiGS
2011/11/24 Two new email notifications have been added: reservation modified by customer and additional products modified by customer. These two notifications are very useful so the administrator knows if any subsequent changes to a reservation have been made by the customer.
2011/11/22 There's now a new "event" mode. What this does is it either fixes the date/time to a specific value chosen by the administrator (for one-time events such as conferences) or gives the customers a limited choice of drop-down values (for events taking place on a few specific dates/times).
2011/11/18 The reservations tab in the admin backend lets you filter the displayed reservations by a specific resource.
2011/10/26 Japanese is Planyo's 20th language!
2011/10/07 You can now define individual access permissions for all moderators and resource admins. As before, permissions which are not customized for individual users will be taken from group permissions (for moderators or resource admins).
2011/10/06 If dependencies between resources are defined, now also availability (defined through vacations) is checked as well.
2011/09/23 A new user role has been added: the site administrator can add agents, optionally with a commission rate for the reservations entered by the agents into the system more...
2011/09/13 We've added a 'reservations in progress' section to the activity overview section in the backoffice. This will list all rentals currently taking place.
2011/09/09 Seasonal settings can depend on the year, this lets you enter modifications according to holidays which start on different days in different years. (the same kind of change is also possible when entering resource vacations or pricing)
2011/09/08 You can easily create voucher ranges (e.g. VOUCH001 ... VOUCH100) to better keep track of voucher usage.
2011/09/08 Resource names and product names can now be translated plus other UI improvements to the translations have been added.
2011/09/07 You can now define the ordering of additional products. Up until now they were always sorted alphabetically.
2011/09/06 You can now optionally allow your customers to use multiple vouchers in a single reservation to combine multiple discounts. The default is still that a single voucher code can be used per reservation.
2011/09/06 Custom colors which can be assigned to each reservation can now have labels so your moderators can quickly see the meaning of each color (see more in Q223)
2011/09/06 Calendar previews now have an additional 'day view' / 'month view' and 'today' link which should make navigation easier and more clear.
2011/09/04 We have changed the UI of the reports, adding a dashboard with a graph which lets you quickly get an overview of the activity in your planyo site.
2011/08/31 Planyo can inform your server using an HTTP POST whenever an event occurs, such as new reservation being entered or reservation being cancelled more...
2011/08/24 Administrator can add custom products (not listed in the product list) with custom price to specific reservations.
2011/08/23 A new calendar preview style modification is possible for accommodations. The new parameter adds a diagonal division line to days where another guest checks-out in the morning or checks-in in the evening. See the morning_icons parameter in Q173 for more info.
2011/08/20 In case you define specific arrival weekdays (for daily resources) or start hours (for hourly resources), the possible arrival times are specially marked on calendar previews, and only these fields are clickable.
2011/08/19 Resources can now have dependencies between them -- if one is reserved, other resource or resources can be also made automatically unavailable for the same time. See Q220 for more info
2011/08/15 If using multiple units with unit names, now also your customers can pick the desired unit(s) at the time of reservation. This option can be chosen in resource settings / unit names.
2011/08/14 Reservation-related emails sent through planyo from customers (simple integration) can now be sent to the main moderator or resource admin instead of the main admin.
2011/08/10 Custom email notifications can be now translated by you to any other languages you work with.
2011/08/05 Resource vacations can be exported and imported in form of CSV files.
2011/08/02 SMSes are now fully customizable, just as email messages. You can also use the same tags to represent reservation data. Both SMS and email notification editing is now easier with a very convenient preview function.
2011/08/02 You can allow your customers to make some modifications to their reservation after the reservation is made. The items which can be modified are only the ones the administrator added to the reservation form as custom items. Standard items such as rental duration or personal data can be only modified by the administrators. This new functionality is only optional and the link can be added as a tag to an email sent to the customers.
2011/08/01 You can now accept reservations from Czech, Estonian and Catalan speakers - the number of supported languages has now grown to 19.
2011/07/20 If using unit names with resources having multiple quantities, the names can now be optionally assigned at the time of reservation: manually by the admins or automatically for reservations entered by your customers.
2011/07/18 Additional products can now be selected by customers after reservation time in advanced integration (see the tag $(additional_products_url) in Q204).
2011/07/07 Because of numerous emails we've received regarding the currency, we now moved it to site settings. You no longer can set different currencies for different resources but there was no interest in this possibility, anyway.
2011/07/06 New permanent discounts for resources such as tickets, places, seats or anything that can be shared between independent customers - such resources are no longer counted as one resource per ticket/place available but are now counted as the number of tickets/places divided by 2. We also introduced further discounts for the number of resources above 50.
2011/06/29 We're proud to announce partnership with Sage Pay, one of UK's leading payment gateways. Click here to sign up for a Sage Pay account
2011/06/22 We're proud to announce partnership with Moneybookers, one of Europe's largest online payments systems. Click here to sign up for a moneybookers account with special partnership advantages. Moneybookers gives you access to over 100 payment options in 200 countries so it's a great idea to add it to the payment gateways used by your planyo site.
2011/06/20 You may now decide on which weekday (or day of the month) the reports are sent to you.
2011/06/16 You can now resend any individual email sent by planyo. This is useful if your customer entered an invalid email address which was then corrected.
2011/06/13 You can now accept payments from customers using more than one payment gateway. It's your customer who makes the choice amongst the gateways you set up.
2011/06/13 Customized translations can now be done also for individual resources. This is very useful if you mix resources of different types in a single site.
2011/06/09 You can now define a new template: reservation completed to customize the content displayed to clients when a new reservation has been entered.
2011/06/07 Administrators can modify the price already at the time of entering a new reservation.
2011/05/30 We've added two more payment gateways you can choose from: Sage Pay and MultiSafepay.
2011/05/18 You can set up planyo to always require a total amount if less than X days are left before rental.
2011/05/18 New time related rules have been added to Pricing Manager.
2011/05/18 iCal feeds can now be optionally filtered by a reservation form item value
2011/05/13 The reports can now list only reservations for which at least (or at most) X percent of the total price was paid.
2011/05/10 Planyo can now integrate with the existing login system of your Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress, Typo3 or modX website (see more in Q214)
2011/05/10 Planyo now has new admin pages to better moderate existing users. You can now add new users, get a list of all users (added by you or ones who made at least one reservation) plus export it in the CSV format, and automatically set user-specific properties such as member ID or birthdate based on a reservation form field. (see more in Q215)
2011/04/27 The reports have been highly improved. New features include a new report type (totals per week, month etc.), new ways to filter out reservations according to status, payments made or any of the custom reservation form items
2011/04/27 We added a special module for yet another CMS system: CMS Made Simple.
2011/04/21 You can now define a global reservation form which can be used with any number of resources. This way, if you have similar resources and use the global form, you will no longer need to make the same changes multiple times!
2011/04/15 Planyo now supports full integration with Google Calendar. Up until now it was only possible to export events into Google Calendar. Now you can also set up importing events from Google. This means that as an alternative to entering a reservation or vacation into planyo to make a period unavailable you can do the same on Google calendar. Such events will be visible in planyo as special vacations.
2011/04/14 We added authorize.net to the list of supported online payment gateways.
2011/04/06 We just finished implementing new UI and engine for sending out notifications. Everything is now found in one place (settings/notifications), you can now customize EVERY email sent by planyo with a template and there are new events which can trigger notifications to be sent. See a detailed list of changes here.
2011/04/05 If your resources can be reserved with half-hour precision, the calendar previews will now display two columns per hour and no longer 4 (for each quarter).
2011/04/04 Two more rules based on the start time (start weekday, start hour) have been added to Pricing Manager.
2011/03/16 You can now manually modify the price of a particular reservation.
2011/03/15 You now have the possibility to generate reports for a specific date range (not necessarily past or future X days or months).
2011/03/10 The shopping cart feature is now also available in simple integration as well as when using a mobile device in advanced integration.
2011/03/10 More templates have been added so you can now customize the following screens: checkout screen (shopping cart feature), reservation details screen and google map.
2011/03/02 Both the primary and backup dedicated servers which provide planyo.com were upgraded. For security both are hosted by different companies from different geographic locations. The upgrades were related to reduced performance which you may have experienced from Monday till Wednesday morning. We apologize for the slower browsing experience during this time. Of course all these changes and performance issues did not cause any down time whatsoever.
2011/02/23 A big part of the backoffice (administrative panel) now has a special mobile version. Now not only your clients can make reservations conveniently on an iPhone or Android, but also you as the admin can check availability, browse through reservations, confirm them and perform many other functions using your mobile device with a special UI.
2011/02/23 Version 2.0 of the facebook app is now available. It will only work with the new upgraded facebook pages with tabs on the left. The new version is as powerful as the regular advanced integration. Your clients can now make the reservation without leaving your facebook page!
2011/02/18 Because of big changes in Facebook Apps introduced by Facebook a few days ago, the Planyo App will not work for the next few days. The good news is that new app will have many more features.
2011/02/17 You can now limit moderators' access to specific administrative pages (exactly as you could before for resource admins).
2011/02/16 Even if you have a vacation defined for given period, you can now very quickly force availability in Schedule / Availability for any given hour or day.
2011/02/14 New templates have been added for metasites and for the shopping cart. The template tags have a better documentation as well.
2011/02/10 You can now accept reservations from Norwegian speakers - the number of supported languages is now 16.
2011/02/07 It's now possible to book two types of resources, e.g. a room AND a therapist. This is done by adding a reservation form field which can be unique across all reservations in any given time (e.g. choice of therapist where one therapist cannot handle more than one reservation).
2011/02/04 Planyo now works with WorldPay payments.
2011/01/26 You can now have Planyo double-check the typing of clients' email addresses by requiring them to retype their address in the reservation form (more here)
2011/01/25 Joomla! 1.6 module was just released. We'll continue supporting J! 1.5 but recommend using J! 1.6 for new sites.
2011/01/24 Pay for the whole year and get an instant 10% discount (see the My Account tab).
2011/01/18 Planyo is now compatible with the all new Drupal 7. You can download the plugin here
2011/01/18 Resource vacations can now be limited to a specific period allowing administrators to enter recurring reservations for a specific number of weeks or months.
2011/01/17 Contact form on your planyo page (simple integration) now requires entering verification code (captcha image) to prevent spam being sent to you through planyo.
2011/01/10 Instead of creating a planyo account you can now simply log in with your facebook account!
2011/01/09 Your clients can now reserve in 15 languages. The new languages are Dutch and Russian.
2010/12/06 Planyo now works with Google Analytics! All reservations will be automatically tracked in Google Analytics as both goals and ecommerce transactions so you can gather statistics and detailed information about your reservations! Details...
2010/11/30 Greek is now Planyo's 13th supported language
2010/11/26 We have a new component you can use for both simple and advanced integration: a Google Map view where all your resources can be located. See Q200 for more info.
2010/11/24 'Make a duplicate' function now lets you easily add new resources with all settings copied from an existing resource.
2010/11/24 Shopping cart (BETA). The shopping cart feature (can be selected in 'settings / integrate with my site') makes it easy for clients to reserve multiple items. Can be very useful e.g. if you offer both accommodation and tours.
2010/11/02 It's now possible to store clients' credit card numbers on your server instead of taking online payments. more here...
2010/11/02 All templates in planyo can now be edited using a super easy-to-use and powerful WYSIWYG editor. You no longer need to enter HTML code if you want to customize the templates.
2010/10/27 New BETA feature: integration with facebook. You can now add an "Online booking" tab to your facebook page and show availability calendar and/or the search box. Get started here
2010/10/25 Two new settings let you alter the reservation process: 1. email verification can be required or not and 2. time period reserved by a client may now still remain available to other clients until the reservation is confirmed or until the email address is verified.
2010/10/20 Portuguese is now the 12th language that your clients can use to make a booking with Planyo.
2010/10/20 There are now 8 different demos you can check from the perspective of the administrator (back-end) or client. The business types presented are: hotel, vacation properties, car rental, driving school, yacht charter, massage therapist, conference room.
2010/10/20 Pricing manager lets you set prices for different time units: quarter-hour, hour, day, week. There's no more need to divide or multiply your standard prices.
2010/10/05 New exciting changes to Pricing manager: you can now use it not only to set pricing but also to determine rules when reserving is not possible. You can set your own error message for each rule. Another change is a new rule "time remaining until rental" which can be used e.g. for last-minute pricing.
2010/10/01 New notification type: reservation modified by admin (your clients can now be automatically notified when the administrator makes modifications to the reservation).
2010/09/30 Availability schedule: this is a new page (found in the schedule tab) which gives you a quick and clear overview of resource availability for the whole month or day. You can also quickly reduce availability for given time on this page.
2010/09/27 A slightly modified narrow hourly schedule grid is available as a new resource availability preview style. It's specifically meant for mobile devices or page designs with limited horizontal space.
2010/09/23 Both standard and advanced integration can now use SSL for secure data entry (more here)
2010/09/23 Possibility to add resources without specifying their quantity. This basically allows you to accept any number of reservations for the same time.
2010/09/23 New search mode: search for shorter periods within given date or dates. You can now use a new search mode, especially useful for hour-based rentals, where the client specifies a single date (or date range) and the search finds all spots available for rental on that date.
2010/09/21 Site-wide vacations: you can now add vacations either to a single resource or to the whole site.
2010/09/16 We've added two new calendar preview styles which you can use instead of the default ones: upcoming availability and hourly schedule grid
2010/09/09 New pricing manager rule: additional persons present. Especially useful for hotels; can be used for special fees for extra persons.
2010/09/08 You may now give your customers voucher codes for special discounts applied at the time of reservation.
2010/09/07 You may now send custom emails to users at the end of their stay (or X days after etc.)
2010/09/03 v1.5 of the plugins. What's new:
- You have a choice of jQuery or mootools as underlying library. No more compatibility problems or having to add both frameworks
- Mobile device support: a special mobile web app is now displayed for users who browse on a mobile device such as iPhone or Android. The mobile app works with both standard and advanced integration and is very comfortable to use: no more zooming and scrolling!
- Support for new functionalities: the plugins now also support functions such as displaying reservation details, payment form, and possibility for users to cancel their reservation
- All links in both standard and customized emails now automatically point to your website instead of planyo.com if a reservation was made through your website (advanced integration).
2010/08/13 Pricing manager has a new rule: you can set special pricing also for different times of the day.
2010/08/13 Planyo.com gets a new look! We redesigned from scratch the navigation and styling. We hope you'll find the new version easier to work with.
2010/08/07 New set-up assistant is an interactive guide that will help you set-up your Planyo site and will explain the different configuration options.
2010/07/31 New version of the plugins (v1.4) allows them to run correctly also when jQuery is used on the same page.
2010/07/31 You can now temporarily hide specific resources if you don't want users to be able to find them in the search or reserve them. This is very useful for production sites which want to test newly added resources before publishing them.
2010/07/31 We've added a powerful tool to set-up pricing: Pricing Manager. It replaces the old pricing settings: Discounts and Seasonal prices. This tool allows you to specify prices/discounts for a wide range of rules (e.g. depending on weekday, on date range, on number of persons etc.). Even complex pricing models can be entered into Planyo using Pricing Manager.
2010/07/31 When your clients add custom notes to their reservations, you will now see an icon next to these reservations in the Reservations tab. The notification emails' title will be also marked to quickly let you know there are custom user notes which you may need to respond to.
2010/07/24 New, permanent 45% discount on SMSes sent by Planyo. The new price is EUR 8 per 100 SMS notifications so it's one more reason to use this feature and have Planyo automatically notify admins or users by text messages (when reservation is made, confirmed, cancelled etc.). This discount was possible by limiting the list of countries for this feature and by better pricing offered by our SMS gateway.
2010/07/20 You can now specify the exact admin pages the resource admins have access to.
2010/07/19 Updates to custom messages: They are now sent with your own FROM field. If you send yourself a test message, it will use data from the last reservation entered. You may also specify multiple BCC fields (comma-separated) for all custom emails.
2010/07/12 You now have full control over the reservation form. You can hide any standard field or set their default value (e.g. country), you can define ordering of all fields (e.g. move your custom fields to the top), add new sections etc.
2010/07/11 You can now translate the dropdown values of your additional reservation fields to other languages.
2010/07/03 We have completely redone the reports. Whether delivered to your Google Docs, by email, or created on request, all is now grouped in a single place. You can request HTML, PDF or CSV reports and you can even edit the template to have full control over the report contents and layout.
2010/06/24 Administrators can now enter reservations also during vacation time. Other than a warning message, such reservation will be marked as conflicted.
2010/06/02 We have added support for integration with Google Calendar and Google Docs. Google Calendar integration works similar to iCal feeds but reservations appear without the standard delay of Goog Calendar. Google Docs integration makes it possible for Planyo to upload reports directly to your Google Docs in form of spreadsheets.
2010/05/21 Planyo now supports OpenID! All users can now log into planyo with an OpenID provider (such as Google, AOL or Yahoo) without the need to have a separate Planyo login / password.
2010/05/21 Romanian is now the 11th language that your clients can use to make a booking with Planyo.
2010/05/17 The settings pages in the admin panel have been modified for easier navigation. You can still use the quick links dropdown to access the settings or to edit them.
2010/05/04 Additional products (hidden or selectable by clients) can now be made available or unavailable for specific resources.
2010/04/30 When entering reservations in the admin panel for your clients you can choose to prevent Planyo from sending any emails to them.
2010/04/27 Advanced integration now allows you to add language choice and availability preview to the reservation form
2010/04/27 When using advanced integration you can now define your own templates for the resource list, resource details and reservation form pages. Now Planyo can present your resources in ANY imaginable way.
2010/04/27 The Planyo module (advanced integration) is now SEO-friendly. The resource list and resource details pages will be indexed by Google and other search engines.
2010/04/27 All modules (Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress, DreamWeaver, modX, Typo3) have been upgraded to version 1.3. Old modules will still work fine but you will not be able to use the new features.
2010/02/19 We've updated the default search templates to make search results more attractive. Please keep in mind that you can always modify the defaults to present the results in any way you like.
2010/02/09 The Planyo modules (advanced integration) now also allow reserving additional products.
2010/02/04 You now have a choice of either accepting online payments through PayPal or moneybookers.com. Moneybookers is a very popular payment gateway and besides all popular credit and debit cards it supports a wide range of domestic funding options in over 200 countries.
2010/02/03 We've added image gallery / slideshow to advanced integration (modules). Now when the thumbnail is clicked in resource view, the users can see large images, just like on planyo.com
2010/01/29 Admins can now add custom comments to their clients' accounts. This can be useful if you have clients who often reserve with you and you'd like to add a note about their preferences or any other information useful to you as the administrator.
2010/01/27 Times when resources cannot be reserved (resource vacations) can now be set with a 15-min precision (previously 1h).
2010/01/21 We introduced a new home page layout which we hope will make the navigation easier.
2010/01/19 For hour-based reservations you can now limit the possible start times to a list of times set by you. This can be useful e.g. if you want users to book starting on even hours only.
2010/01/08 The integration assistant now allows you to use a MODx component to easily integrate the booking system into your MODx-based website.
2010/01/06 The integration assistant now allows you to use a WordPress plugin to easily integrate the booking system into your WordPress-based website.
2009/12/23 You can now use the new plugin for Typo3 to easy integrate the reservation system with your Typo3 site.
2009/12/22 If you choose to take online payments from your clients, additional products will be included in the amount to be paid.
2009/12/15 Advanced integration has become even more powerful. There is now a new mode that shows a full list of resources of your planyo site, then resource details after choosing a resource. Thanks to this, you now only need to update your content once (in Planyo) and your site will be updated automatically.
2009/11/23 A new language (Finnish) has been added, so now your clients can make bookings in 10 languages.
2009/11/16 Planyo now automatically generates and keeps up-to-date iCal feeds that you can subscribe to using your favorite app such as Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook or Apple iCal for the Mac. See the details in your site settings.
2009/11/12 A new language (Danish) has been added, so now your clients can make bookings in 9 languages.
2009/11/03 Planyo META sites have now been published. With a META site a single administrator can efficiently administer many Planyo sites and users can search across all resources of a META site. A typical use case is a site for tourism in an area (e.g. a skiing resort) with a number of independent vacation home owners taking reservations.
2009/10/26 Would you like to accept online payments but don't wish to pay the credit card processing fees? Now you can have Planyo add the PayPal fees to the amont to be paid by the user if they decide to pay online.
2009/10/23 As you can see in our pricing, we've lowered the Planyo PRO pricing of additional resources by 20%.
2009/10/22 We've added a possibility to use the PayPal Sandbox so you can thoroughly test the whole process including payments to avoid potential problems. You'll need to create a sandbox test account and change the payment method in site settings to use this feature.
2009/10/22 If you offer different services that take a different amount of time (e.g. a beauty salon) you can now have the users choose start time and service type. The system will automatically reserve the required amount of time for selected service type (e.g. 30min or 1h depending on service requested).
2009/10/05 We have an affiliate program with a 15% affiate commission paid not on a one-time basis but for the whole duration of a Planyo site created as a result of your referral.
2009/10/03 The first version of our API (Web Services) is now available to all Planyo users. Thanks to the API you can perform advanced tasks, such as automatically enter bookings, retrieve detailed info about reservations or resources, or integrate Planyo with your other applications. See this page for more info.
2009/10/01 Users speaking Swedish or Icelandic can now make reservations in these languages. More languages to come soon!
2009/09/03 New multi-language features! Now you can go to the custom translation assistant to not only translate Planyo's user interface into any language but also your descriptions and other content.
2009/08/26 If you have a large number of low-priced resources (e.g. bikes, bus seats, place in a language course) you should check out our Planyo PRO-COMM - commission-based pricing model. We have just lowered the commission to 1.5%. In this model there is no subscription fee. Check out the pricing details here
2009/08/11 Resource properties: now you can specify custom properties of your resources (e.g. number of guests, distance from the airport etc.). These properties can also be included in the search box that Planyo generates for your site.
2009/08/01 The integration assistant now allows you to use an Adobe DreamWeaver extension to easily integrate the booking system into your website.
2009/08/01 The integration assistant now allows you to use a Drupal.org module to easily integrate the booking system into your website.
2009/08/01 The integration assistant now allows you to use a Joomla! module to easily integrate the booking system into your website.
2009/07/31 We have completely redesigned the integration page changing it into a multi-step assistant. There are now two integration methods: simple (the booking process starts on your site and continues on planyo.com) or advanced (Planyo PRO only) where the visitor stays on your site throughout the process.
2009/07/01 You may now specify an external script (hosted on your server) that will determine both reservation price and whether booking is possible for given period. This makes it easy for Planyo to match every imaginable pricing and scheduling model.
2009/04/24 If you don't have a website, why not use Planyo's automatically created site as your visit card? Now your Planyo site can be accessed through an easy URL, such as http://www.planyo.com/booking/your-site-name
2009/04/23 You can now use desired date or time format so whether you're in Europe or in the US, Planyo will adapt to your country's standard.
2009/04/21 Customized user interface texts: you can now fully customize the texts that your visitors see. For example if you rent bikes you can replace the general word 'resource' with 'bike'. The same applies to any other text that the system displays to the visitors.
2009/04/15 You can now assign custom colors to reservations. The colors don't have any preassigned meaning, you may use them if you wish to group your bookings, e.g. bookings from friends can be marked green and those with special requirements red, etc.
2009/04/11 You can now integrate a slightly modified version of the calendar where it's up to you to specify the width of the calendar, so you're no longer limited to a very wide calendar preview.
2009/04/10 New pricing model (for some uses only, e.g. hotels, holiday apartments, yachts). In this model you pay no monthly subscription fee but there's a 3% commission on all online reservations. The reservations entered by you are free of charge.
2009/04/01 There are now two ways to accept online payments from users: optional payments where by making a payment the user self-confirms their reservation, or obligatory payments where reservations are always confirmed by online payments and are not valid without them.
2009/03/18 Planyo can now handle your email exchange with your customers. In the reservation details you'll find the 'messages' section where you can send/read emails sent to/from the customer.
2009/03/05 We have added two text tutorials to the Help section: Planyo set-up and finding your way around the administration panel.
2009/02/11 Detailed reports are now available, either sent to the admin daily/weekly/monthly or at any time by going to the reports tab of the admin panel. You can also download them in Excel-importable format (CSV).
2009/02/01 Personalized email messages can be now specified in site or resource settings. Now you can send separate emails (also with attachments) when a new reservation is entered, when a reservation is confirmed, or at any time before or after rental (e.g. a reminder 2 weeks before). It's also possible to include specific reservation data, such as user's name, resource name, rental time, a special cancel link, etc.
2008/12/24 Admins can now specify any additional data they want users to fill out at the time of reservation (such as number of adults and kids etc.)
2008/12/18 Planyo now works with resources that can be reserved for less than an hour. The start time and duration can now be expressed with a 15-minute precision.
2008/12/07 A special version is available for tennis and squash courts as well as all kinds of appointments (doctors, massage, etc.)
2008/11/19 Planyo is now available in Spanish. Clients speaking 6 amongst world's major languages can now make online bookings on your planyo site.
2008/11/10 Our offer now includes Planyo FREE -- a 100% free reservation system with no fees for anything. Planyo FREE doesn't offer all features of Planyo PRO, so make sure you check the differences between the two versions.
2008/10/30 You can now define min. time between two consecutive rentals (for rentals shorter than a day). This is useful if the resource you're renting requires maintenance (cleaning, refueling etc.) between rentals.
2008/10/29 Now you can define not only start and end weekdays (in seasonal settings), but you can also specify the allowed start hours for rentals that last less than a day. This is useful if you accept fixed-duration reservations for specific times only.
2008/10/28 When max. allowed rental time is more than one day and min. rental time is less than a day, users can now specify the exact start and end time of rentals on different days. Until now rental could have lasted either whole days or parts of a day.
2008/10/28 When rental time is fixed (e.g. events that always last an hour or two), users are no longer required to enter start and end times but only the start time.
2008/10/24 Planyo comes in new flavors. Special planyo sites with different domain names, texts and options matching the business type are available. At this time there are special sites for yacht rentals, hotels, holiday apartments and driver's ad schools. More to come soon!
2008/10/20 All accounts now have 5 free SMSes and 5 free faxes for testing purposes.
2008/10/20 Quick links are now displayed on all admin pages. They give you a one-click access to most pages.
2008/10/10 You can now specify separate seasonal settings with unique pricing, arrival and departure days, min. and max. rental times.
2008/10/05 Added a new type of calendar preview that can be integrated into your website. The new preview is very compact and square-shaped and can display an overview of one or multiple months at a time.
2008/09/15 You can specify discounts based on the number of time units.
2008/09/10 Possibility to set allowed arrival and departure weekdays.
2008/09/10 Planyo can now be enjoyed by both admins and users in 5 languages: English, German, French, Italian and Polish. Now you can automatically accept reservations from people who speak these languages.
2008/09/02 Amount of the online pre-payments can now be set by the admins as a percentage of the total reservation fee.
2008/09/02 Admins can make reservations regardless of any limitations they decide to set for the users, such as min/max rental time etc.
2008/09/01 Your company logo along with the link to your home page can be displayed on top of your planyo site's pages instead of the regular planyo logo
2008/08/24 Official launch of Planyo