joniale
commented
5 years ago Optional: it would be nice if this php tariff API could access to some calculated variables that are useful to calculate dynamic prices. Somethin like the wiseprice plugin does. See http://www.jomres.net/manual/property-managers-guide/49-your-toolbar/settings/property-configuration/253-wiseprice-or-lastminute (execution of cron jobs over these tariff API scripts would be then needed).
The idea is that a cron job executes regularly the tariff API script. This tariff API script will be able to put reduced prices for the next x coming days (last minute prices) as the wiseprice does. The script could have access to the percentage of occupation in the month, week, day, (high season automatic identification). This value can be used to increment or reduce prices dynamically.
This is related to this thread https://github.com/WoollyinWalesIT/jomres/issues/282#issue-317555166
iurirosa
jomres
Dear Vince and Jomres Developers, I have already discussed this with you, but i wanted to put this visible to the community. I would like to have a new feature in jomres. This new feature is about adding the option of coding in PHP the modifications of the different tariffs of a property. This could save a lot of time to owners and managers of a property.
I mean, this feature expands the concept of Microtariff management not only with the current visual way of editing the tariffs (point and click many times) to a more automatic batch way of doing the modifications. This is by allowing the users to script the modifications of the tariffs in a script e.g. php. (using the jomres API for tariffs)
Jomres already have an API in php to access the tariffs on the microtariff mode. That is already done. See API here: public_html/jomres/core-plugins/api_feature_tariffs/PUT/tariffs.php //////////////////////////////////////////// a e.g. snip //assume on one day there is a tariff tariffinput[1520121600] : 65 //65 euros is the new price of the tariff for epoch time 1520121600 You can send multiple dates, each one of those integers is the epoch for that particular date, and you can do something like $jrportal_rates->tarifftype_id = 33; //modification for tarifftype_id 33 superior room $jrportal_rates->dates_rates = array( "1520121600" , 65 + 10 ); // See the plus 10 € price modification for that date //////////////////////////////////////////// It is easy in a script to create a loop from one epoch day to other epoch day and change the prices for a range. The owner would be able to modify in one shot all the tariffs very fast by using variables on those date ranges (epochs) and in the prices for each tariff ids. The user would only have to change those variable values once and execute the script!. If you are a manager with many properties and many tariffs that is definitely what you want!
One possible implementation could be to add in the microtariff management page GUI: 1) A button to edit a script file that is created for each property. Initially this is empty. 2) A button to run the script file that will modify the tariffs. At risk of the owner. (the user needs to know that he can run code that modify many prices with one click, if the script is empty then do nothing) 3) Include in the property list of tariffs the information of the tariff ID. That will make easier for the user to create/edit the script, since most of the commands needs the previous knowledge of that ID. 4) One small example documentation would be appreciated.
Again, I think that will be much more useful that the visual way to set the new tariffs. I know that many persons do not know how to code. But once they realize that the code is using always the same functions and understand the behavior it would be much much easier and faster to modify the prices of a property by using the script than going through all the tariffs visually and performing the changes.
What do you think? Would it be possible to have this in the future for jomres? I am looking forward your comments.