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FF Weekly Holiday Home Booking Calendar v.4.00 - £60 GBP buy

Before you buy checklist. Please read......

Overview: Quick Demo (have a go now !)
The Flat File weekly Holiday home booking Calendar is a quick and easy way to put an availability calendar onto your website which shows Weeklyy booking periods. After purchase, you will be sent a package which contains files and instructions on how to get your calendar up and running as quickly as possible.
The calendar is installed on your own webspace and will work for you at a one-off cost for years and years to come, showing availability and prices, and taking email booking enquiries.
You can use the script as many times as you want on one domain. Just create a folder and set of scripts for each new calendar you need.
Following purchase you will be sent a link to download your calendar >>

1. After Downloading your calendar software to your computer ...

You need to make a couple of changes to the main configuration file for the calendar. There are comprehensive help documents to get you through doing this. You then need to transfer the files from your computer over to your webspace. To do this you will need an FTP client program. We recommend CuteFTP or WS-FTP or Fetch (on macs)
(Approx. 50% of our clients ask us to install their calendar for them. This service is FREE until the end November)

>>> After you've uploaded the files to your website then >>>>
2.You need to run the setup script which creates the database files. Then you are ready to go...

The Default setup calendar has our standard setting and will function perfectly and look great for most users.

Setup screen for calendar
View Setup page
3.Your new calendar is ready for you to customise for your site.

The Default calendar has our standard setting. It will show :

> Weekly availability and prices for up to 3 years ahead
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> Take email booking enquiries view ...
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For more advanced users you can ...

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> Set a deposit amount, either as an amount (£30) or as a %age figure (10%)
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> Set up Special Prices for multiple- week bookings view
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> Take Credit Card payments using our PayPal add on script
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> Add extra languages using our Add on scripts

Default Weekly Calendar
View default calendar

Demonstration calendar hiding availability and prices until you click thru'
View calendar (prices hidden)

>>>> Updating Availability and settings couldn't be easier >>>>
4.Once you've tried out the standard features, you'll want to change some of the main settings to personnalise things

All calendar admin features are accessed from the admin area, found by clicking the Update Calendarlink near the top of the calendar.

View Admin Menu for calendar
Try Out Main Admin
>>>> The main admin menu features >>>>
5. You can set up the calendar just like you want it

You can update & change the following calendar settings

> One of 15 different currencies can be chosen
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> You can show or hide prices on your calendar
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> You can hide availability for your calendar from the initial screen and only show booked dated after they select dates and click through to the booking form (see demo 3)
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View Monthly Availability Demo
View Calendar which hides Availability
on first page
>>>> And what about other admin features for the calendar? >>>>
6.There are a few more extras you should look at

Here are a few other things which can be accessed from the Update Calendarlink near the top of the calendar.

> Add time to the calendar. You can add time to your database so it never runs out of dates or you can just show dates to the end of the year if you want.
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> You can delete dates from your calendar also.
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You can create a dated backup of your database from which you can restore dates if you make a mistake
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> You can view and print out a summary or availability and prices
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> You can change all the main colour settings on the calendar

View Quick Update for availability
Try Out Quick Availability Update
>>>> Here are a selection of recent users >>>>
>>>> So... What does it cost ? >>>>

Weekly Holiday Home Booking Calendar v. 4.00
£60 (approx $105 US) per domain.
Before you buy checklist. Please read......
Don't forget, once purchased you can add time to the calendar forever. There is no further annual cost, no hidden extras

>>>> Got any Further questions before buying ? >>>>
Contact us Here
Weekly Holiday Home Booking Calendar v. 4.00
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What the calendar does

  1. Asks user for preferred dates
  2. User is give a total price for the dates selected and an amount needed for deposit (if set)
  3. User fills in a form with their details
  4. Email sent to client together with payment details.
  5. Email sent back to calendar owner with details of booking.
  6. Calendar can be auto-updated from link on this email.

Q. I don't want to show prices on my weekly calendar can I hide them ?

A. Have a look at Demo3. With this option you can hide the prices from the viewer

Q. How can we take Credit Card Payments online?

A. You'll be needing our PAYPAL add on script. Using this, the auto-confirmation email sent to the client will contain a PAYPAL link for payment of both deposits and full amounts more.....

Q. We just want to use the calendar to show availability and not prices is this possible?

A. All calendar details can be easily changed in the calendar admin area. Have a look at the Demo calendars

Q. I am a webmaster. Can I get a reduction on calendar sales?

A. Anyone can join our affiliate program and get 20% off calendars.

Q. I'm Creating a site for our holiday home. I'm not happy with installing Perl scripts and I think my web space is on an NT server anyway.

A. Create an Instant Daily Calendars HERE and put a link to the Availcheck Calendar from my the website.

Q. I'm not sure if I want daily or weekly Calendars ?

A. Daily Calendars show the day by day availability for each day of the year, Weekly calendars shows availability and prices for weekly periods.

Many customers are really not sure about which calendar they need, but from v.3.00 the daily calendar can be setup as a weekly calendar by setting a weekly "Changeover" day

Q. I want to integrate my calendar at the bottom of an existing page. Can I do this ?

A. Yes. Migrate your existing page into the Availcheck Calendar template for displaying the calendar(s).