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fixed table with season prices for external website

Hi,

We still using our website together with TourCMS and for each hotel there is a fixed table with prices for all the season, 2012 for instance. Colors indicates high, middle or low seasons. It currently works with Mysql/Php requests. It means that each year we enter prices in a database.

It could seem an old-fashionable way to display the prices, but I know that many people like this way to with at a glance an idea of the rates of the hotel. Have both displays (search engine and fixed table) bring plus-value to my site.

I,m asking myself, why do this job two times, one for my website and one inside TourCMS ?

So, I could entered prices once in TourCMS and then find a way to include them in a nice table in my website.

Is there a current way to have this done (for someone as me with limited capacity in html & php )?

Thanks

Lionel

Tags: by, fixed, month, prices, season, table, website

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Permalink Reply by Paul on November 18, 2011 at 10:02am

Hi Lionel,

Do you have a link to the table in question that you could share?

Paul

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Permalink Reply by Lionel Gilles Vidoni on November 18, 2011 at 10:22am

Hi Paul,

here is an example of prices table :

http://www.kefalonia-information.com/kefalonia/index.php?language=e...

Thanks

Lionel

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Permalink Reply by Lionel Gilles Vidoni on November 22, 2011 at 9:30am

Kalimera,

I ask again my previous question :

Is there a way to produce a fixed table of prices for each hotel inside TourCMS ?

I know that it's old-fashion at the time of yield management, but sometimes old traditions are nice too :)

Thanks for your answer

Lionel

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Permalink Reply by Paul on November 22, 2011 at 11:19am

Hi Lionel,

I think currently there's no easy way to generate that exact table.

What we do have is a "Dates and deals" API which a developer can use to build a table like that however it would only feature prices for 1 or 2 people and not 4 or 5 as you have there.

Paul

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Permalink Reply by Lionel Gilles Vidoni on November 22, 2011 at 2:52pm

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the answer.

I don't think it is presently useful for me, since I'm not a professional developer and many rooms are apartments for families.

Anyway, I will loss many hours inserting prices twice (and each year !), so I would study any solution, even paying for that.

Would it be possible to "rent" a developper to work on an API like this (untli let's say 6 people max) ?

And if yes, how can I have a quotation ?

I'm not sure because I never used an API, but it seems that eveything could be done on tourCMS and I would only have to put an iframe on my site ?

Thanks

Lionel

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Permalink Reply by Lionel Gilles Vidoni on December 1, 2011 at 8:20am

Hi,

Do I have to contact the support to know more about specific development as written above ?

Thanks a lot,

Lionel

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Permalink Reply by Alex Bainbridge on December 15, 2011 at 10:46am

Hi Lionel

This is on my list to look at between Christmas and New Year.

It is not simple - but hopefully we can come up with something that works!

Best wishes. Alex

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Permalink Reply by Lionel Gilles Vidoni on December 16, 2011 at 2:38pm

Hi Alex,

Thanks a lot for your time :)

Best wishes from Greece

Lionel

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Permalink Reply by Alex Bainbridge on Monday

Looking back at this, I think the best solution is the dates and deals API approach