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ABPro was super easy to instal, very quick to set up, and is really easy for front-end and back-end users to use. I've been through about 5 other booking programs and been frustrated with all of them. My frustration has mostly come from lack of functionality and flexibility, since I have VERY specific things I need my booking program to accomplish. ABPro does it all and easily.

One last thing... I did mess up one aspect of the set up (my fault not the programs), but couldn't find my mistake. Support was almost instant, clear, and got my problem fixed lightning fast. Thank you. 5 stars all the way.

It's really fantastic component. Works as announced and is really simple in installation and it has it's potential when it comes to configuration.
Only thing it lacks for me is backward sync with google calendar. I mean it really nice creates events in GC, when booked via ABPro interface, but I would like to see booked time slots when events are created via GCal. (When I pick up the call I sometimes book event via Outlook which sync with my GCal)
I hope I wrote it clearly :-), I'm not a native english speaker.

The documentation is good and it does what it sais it does. Works like a charm.

However, there's one issue i'd like to adress, for anyone who plans on using this the way I wanted it to work.

In my case, i wanted an extension that would let users book any of 100 seats in 10 tables (set as categories). Turns out, if let's say 97 of these seats are taken, and a user wants to book one of the remaining 3, the user will have to select seat #1-#100 one at a time, and select a date, just to see if it's available. If none are available, the user will have spent the last hour looking for seats available all for nothing.

Needless to say, this is a very frustrating experience to users and sadly, this extension was removed just as fast as it was installed.

In the end, I only recommend this extension to those who have very few resources to book.

Recently, I used this component for the first time. A former client contacted me and said they had someone to install the component and couldn't get it to work properly. I wasn't familiar with it, so off to the forums I go..
All I can say is my hat is off to the developer. Once I viewed just a few of his posts in the forum, many or which are there, not in response to issues, but instead to give information to avoid those issues; I felt completely comfortable in configuring my client's application to do just what she needed it to do.
Many thanks to the developer not just for an excellent component but more so for the effort that you have put forth in your forum to help people in doing what they need to do with this valuable component.

Efficiently programmed therefor fast and clean, all requested features, in short words: THE outstandig solution for bookings in timeslots - excellent for my needs.

This component offers so many extra's (E-mail and SMS reminders, PayPal, Blackberry and iPhone intergration) that it's certainly not a "2 minute job" to set it up and adjust it completely to your own specific needs.
It's a world in it's own.

Rob however offers a very quick response to all the questions and is very patient with people who don't understand everything within 25 seconds but want to be up-n-running in 30.

It may not be a $10,000.- custom made solution, but jeez.... it's close!

Thanks!

Really worth teh 5 stars!

Nice component, many features and able to do a lot of stuff. Try to look further, but NOTHING competes this component. Just pay those 50 dollars and you won't regret it!

Very nice and quick support.

Thanks Rob for this nice component!

So you may be hesitant to drop $50 on an extension, maybe there's a free one that would do the same thing you may be thinking. I am here to say there isn't. This product is worth every penny, dare I say, I would even pay more than $50. The extension offers extreme flexibility, and usability. Furthermore, the forum is on top of its game. The moderator/developer typically gets back to me in less than 30 minutes, that's unheard of. Stop your grumbling, open your wallet, you won't be disappointed.

I needed a tool to book reservations for a carriage and limousine service. This tool does exactly what it says it will do, and it's adaptable for many uses. The support is simply outstanding. The design shows the experience of the developer to meet the needs of his clients.

*****5 Stars is really a disservice, ABPro deserves more than 5 for sure.

If you have not noticed that all of the reviewers are giving 5 stars. Its one of the things I think that everyone is looking at in the JED and are there any negative reviews. I did'nt find any and don't think that there are. Rob Stevens, the developer is OUTSTANDING in what he has created. I purchased ABPro and have been extremely happy and have made happy customers to boot. I liked it so well, in after 15 days, I went and purchased a lifetime sub. I feel safe in saying that for most people who take the time to understand what ABPro will do will be very happy with it. Again, can't say enough good things about Rob. I can't wait to see what what he comes up with next as I'm sure it will be STELLAR, and yep, I'll have to buy it.
Thank you Rob !

First of all, i gotta say, i am just amazed at how cool this component is. it is so mature and sophisticated! it is bringing functionality to my website that i have been dreaming of for a long time. everything i asked for exactly one year ago, when you gave me a beta version of rsbooking, and a bunch of stuff i didn't know i needed. i did not keep up with your developments and just re-discovered the work you have been doing since then. looks like you've been busy in the last year

after two days of powering out many, many hours of working with it, my customers can schedule an appointment by choosing an available time from the availability grid, pay for it online if they want, i get an email and a text message, the appointment gets entered in my google calendar, which then gets synced to my ical on my desktop. WOW!!!

in the next few days i plan to get it all working from my ipod touch too (this has also added a ton of fuel for my desire to upgrade to an iphone). i would like to see how hard it would be to create an iphone / ipod app that just has the mobile screens that you have created. that sounds like it will be pretty easy.

btw, the user manual is absolutely wonderful! i barely had to use the forums at all to get everything set up the way i wanted.

I needed an online booking system that would allow my healing clients to select their own time based on some odd hours that I work. I needed a coupon system (available in the next version but I got to be a beta tester thanks). I also wanted the ability to add further practitioners at a later time.

I got more than I bargained for and I couldn't be happier - really I couldn't be happier ! This is just a dream ! Everything is configurable - everything. This system allows me to choose my working hours which can be different everyday. The client selects the type of session they want and each session type has a different price - they can add coupons for discounts, it fires them off to paypal to pay! Paypal fires back the transaction ID into the booking. There are preconfigured and editable emails for every event I could ever want. There is even a Cron job for automatic reminders - I'd never set one up but the video tutorial made it so easy I'm probably over confident about my own abilities now! I'd put the link up here if I could because I'm REALLY pleased with 'my' efforts - looks very professional. Gee I'm clever, or rather the developer has made this so easy - I think I'm clever.

The pdf documentation is superb - lots of arrows and pictures making it idiot proof. There are plenty of screen dumps on the website so you can see what you getting before you buy, also some easy to follow videos. The user forum is for paid customers but anyone can read the forum.

It took me a full day to get it up and running but that's because I like to read and research everything before I get started to save having to redo everything later - but honestly if you have a little common sense and you're familiar with Joomla modules, you'll probably only need to glance at the pdf - which is fully linked from the menu (another god-send).

It doesn't allow people to multi book a series of dates, but I don't need that anyway.

Buy it - don't waste your time looking for freebies that don't work. I figure the registration fee is about 5 hours of my time and I could easily have spent 3 or 4 times that long looking and testing other free modules.

After reviewing many products I had no hesitation in buying ABPro as other developers had all seemed to fumble the ball in making a product for bookings by time.
This Booking system is so well thought out, and being structured on timeslots per resource (which can be a person, facility, service etc.) extensible for so many uses, unlike other systems limited to hotel bookings etc.
As other people have said, I have found that Rob replies swiftly and courteously to questions, and continued intelligent development seems assured.

If you are looking for an appointment booking extension then look no further. The installation and configuration is a breeze and there are new options appearing all the time. Rob Stevens is really reactive to questions. I can't speak highly enough of either the module or the author.

The new PayPal option (still in Beta but working on my site) is also extremely simple to configure.

Great work Rob!

Easy install, clean interfaces. Very short learning curve with quick setup including the right options for most purposes. Public or Logged, auto-book or verify, custom notification emails with user-variable embedding, flexible admin defined independent "resources", time slots, block-out dates, lead times, start-stop dates, bookings per slot, etc . . ., appointment specific user defined data collection and validation. Date time select or my favorite Graphic Display of appointment/resource slots available (or not). Configuration options to customize for most fixed appointment applications. Provides verbiage/language control to personalize screen and messages. Limited front end administrative control (e.g. staff) and full back-end control (eg. admmin). Not open source but code provided for custom tweaks. Progressive active improvements (online PayPal coming) A one-man show but support is attentive, experienced, knowledgeable and reasonably patient.

It is a bargain and fills a niche not otherwise well served.

I cannot believe how valuable this component has been.
I have a carpet cleaning website and noticed I was getting alot of visits to my site when the office was closed and lost those customers forever now that I added this I have been getting people scheduling jobs at 2 am.
It actually payed for itself the first day (2 jobs scheduled online that night.
The support is great.
It is worth the price it costs times 10

While this component isn't the $10K office management system (like he says), it can fit the bill for a number of applications. Rob is awesome on responding to questions and has helped me customize it to fit some very odd requirements. The newest features have made it so flexible and with minor tweaks it's up and running. Well worth the cost!

I have only recently installed this component. But so far, I could not be happier!!

First off, this is solving a client need that they were otherwise going to pay $30 per month to solve with a hosted service, so at only $25 for the license, it is a BARGAIN.

Secondly, it does exactly what we need it to do. Having multiple resource capability and with each resource having it own unique timeslots allows us to run multiple office locations from the same site and the same component. And the integration with JCal pro means that the office staff can use the weekly and daily views for all of their scheduling activities. What an incredibly inexpensive way to convert to a completely online scheduling system!

Third, the backend interface on this component is about the best I have ever used. It is very organized and easy to use. Yet at the same time, it is highly customizable with many configuration parameters.

Lastly, I have emailed the developer, Rob Stevens, on several occasions. Wow, this guy is seriously smart - he finds very simply but effective ways to solve problems. And he communicates very clearly and is quick to respond to my questions.

My sincere thanks to Rob for creating such a great component! This is sure to be of great value to the Joomla community!