Development Blog: Upcoming Improvements

Read the thoughts and ideas of the developers and contibuters to Arctic Reservations, an online reservation management tool.

 
by Nathan Perkins

Upcoming Improvements

After reading a lot of the posts and activity from last week, here is a list of upcoming changes that I perceived should be made. Keep your eyes open for the changes to be made later this week.

1. Allow custom colors for how trips appear on the calendar. In addition, include trip name and other basic details inside the trip line, so that you don't have to put your mouse over the trip to view such information.

2. Make it so that there can be inquiries specific to a trip. That will allow more targeted marketing and better follow up calls. (Also, a much more complex inquiry overhaul is needed to track which inquiries have been followed-up on and leave other general notes.)

3. Differentiate between soft and hard reservations (depending on receiving a reservation deposit, usually). This will be defined in the payment plan part of trips.

4. Offer a little swatch of color at the beginning of lines on the calendar, which will define how full the trip is, making it easier to sell the trips with low numbwers. In addition, there will be a way to flag trips with a custom color, which can aid general marketing practices by directing new reservations.

5. Possibly add tools to the calendar to flag or add notes to specific dates. This could later be expanded to provided an event/calendar/todo system, which would help offices organize in general (way down the road for this feature).

I would love feedback on these, if you think I missed anything or need any other features.

December 26, 2005 2:05PM • permalink

Comments

Post a Comment