Jomres 
Version
6.6.4 (last update on May 4, 2012)
Rating
Compatibility
Votes
Favoured
114
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
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375447
Date Added
5 March 2006
v6.6 changes :
Added a new feature to the property list where people perusing properties can add chosen properties to a "shortlist". This is a temporary list, but unlike the "favourites" list users do not need to be logged in to add properties to that list. When their session has ended, the shortlist is lost.
Also added a cookie warning feature, for those who want to abide by new EU cookie legislation. The legislation is badly written, and I personally wouldn't use this feature but the option is there for you. If you enable the feature and somebody doesn't agree to Jomres using cookies to make the system work, then those users are limited to the property list and property details pages.
Modified the property list template, broken the buttons out into their own template so that buttons don't have to be duplicated through different property list layout templates.
Added an option in Tariffs and Currencies where the deposit can be set to the cost of the first night's stay. Tariffs and Currencies tab has been reorganised slightly, moved tax setting further up, verbose tariffs input into the property details page tab and removed some old code.
A variety of performance enhancements designed to reduce the number of queries performed when viewing the property list page.
Modified property list script so that it takes into account if the ajax search feature has been used and the headers will still show
Over 100 plugins available through the Jomres Plugin manager, including the Jintour and Auction house plugins, which greatly extend the functionality of the system. 12 more plugins are available from Jomres-extras.com and 30+ gateways from OSDCS.com.
Just some of the things we like to boast about:
We are fully committed to providing Open Source software, all of the code is open, change the system to suit your own requirements.
Fully automatic exchange rate conversion functionality that is sensitive to the location of the site visitor, automatically choosing the exchange rate that's most appropriate for them.
25 jQuery UI themes enable you to quickly and easily choose a layout that suits your template.
Property Management System functionality.
Detailed invoicing functionality that make it clear to both your guests and property managers what they're paying for.
Google mapping used throughout, map your property precisely using our simple yet intuitive drag'n'drop feature.
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After I tried jomres with a developer license I decided to buy a perpetual license because Jomres is simply perfect and because of the new features, upgrades. Jomres is really the best hotel booking system for joomla also because Vince and Aladar are giving the best forum and ticket support: I am not joking, in most of the cases they answer within 3 minutes.
Owner's reply
Thanks Pimlico.
This guy is one of the nicest I've ever had the pleasure to deal with on support, it's a delight to work with him.
For years I was looking for a system like this for a rental service. After using a very bad system I finally found this one. After talking my client into this system I started with the configuration. This is a kind of hard but with the support of the owner and piranha it will be easier. A complete system with a lot of possibilities.
Owner's reply
Thanks for the review Jaccie, glad you're happy with your site.
It's been just a couples of days, but for the momente this tool works nearly perfect. I'm still learning how to use it, it seems quite big and powerfull and is just in english, but I'm really happy with the support team.
I recomend it without doubt.
I recomend it without doubt.
Owner's reply
A minor correction to this review, Jomres is available in 25 different languages, although some language files have more content translated than others.
Other than that, thanks for your feedback!
This is a feature rich extension.
But you are not able to define a unique room (resource) specific description.
Since I think most of the Jomres users are operating a single property ( hotel ) this feature is a must.
I haven't used Jomres as a portal booking system so I don't have an established opinion about it yet.
The different advanced pricing is the most outstanding feature of Jomres.
I recommend it if you don't need the feature mentioned above.
But you are not able to define a unique room (resource) specific description.
Since I think most of the Jomres users are operating a single property ( hotel ) this feature is a must.
I haven't used Jomres as a portal booking system so I don't have an established opinion about it yet.
The different advanced pricing is the most outstanding feature of Jomres.
I recommend it if you don't need the feature mentioned above.
This was the only product I found suitable for my site which has 25 different search engines, including hotels, yacht rental, scooter rental etc in various languages. So far I'm very impressed and will use it on other sites. I fully recommend this product and also paying for support to help on more.
Pros
For those (like me) with no experience of hotel booking systems, it removes a lot of the pain in setting up a complex application. They seem to have thought of everything and most of the modifications I wanted I was able to add with the help of a great support team.
It is flexible enough to be used with not just hotels but can be tailoured to fit any product that can be rented out on a daily basis.
It is reliable and secure and so far very responsive.
There are a huge ammount of plugins that really enhance the user experience.
Excellent support.
cons
It's quite complex but for the flexibility it has this is required. Any questions I had were covered in the forums or answered very quickly by the team. I fully recommend paying for support.
Level of support received
They respond very quickly and are unbelievably helpful. I have been loggining into the forums at various hours of the day and night and was happy to see Vince was logged in also.
They have helped me out of various binds instantly when they didn't have to as they were usually caused by me or other parts of my site. If not for them, I would have had a serious problem with a very impatient and demanding client after going live!!!
Ease of usage and deployment
Installation and basic setup (good enough for a small business) are easy if you read the instructions and use the forums. If you want to alter it design wise you will need some knowledge but there are templates available - I can't comment as I didn't use one.
It is a complex product and will take some time to get familiar with but once up and running you can find your way around easily. The important stuff which I had no experience of all was all prebuilt.
Pros
For those (like me) with no experience of hotel booking systems, it removes a lot of the pain in setting up a complex application. They seem to have thought of everything and most of the modifications I wanted I was able to add with the help of a great support team.
It is flexible enough to be used with not just hotels but can be tailoured to fit any product that can be rented out on a daily basis.
It is reliable and secure and so far very responsive.
There are a huge ammount of plugins that really enhance the user experience.
Excellent support.
cons
It's quite complex but for the flexibility it has this is required. Any questions I had were covered in the forums or answered very quickly by the team. I fully recommend paying for support.
Level of support received
They respond very quickly and are unbelievably helpful. I have been loggining into the forums at various hours of the day and night and was happy to see Vince was logged in also.
They have helped me out of various binds instantly when they didn't have to as they were usually caused by me or other parts of my site. If not for them, I would have had a serious problem with a very impatient and demanding client after going live!!!
Ease of usage and deployment
Installation and basic setup (good enough for a small business) are easy if you read the instructions and use the forums. If you want to alter it design wise you will need some knowledge but there are templates available - I can't comment as I didn't use one.
It is a complex product and will take some time to get familiar with but once up and running you can find your way around easily. The important stuff which I had no experience of all was all prebuilt.
Owner's reply
Thanks for taking the time to review Jomres, it's much appreciated.
The Pros:
- Compared to the other components I looked into, it has far more options and is more mature. And if you are looking for a multi-tenant reservation, this is the best. That's why I bought a license.
The cons:
- It's expensive if your are building a small portal (although it's competitive when compared to large site solutions).
- It's a standalone script that is fit into a Joomla page. Meaning that it has no integration with the template (no MVC) and you will need to have CSS coding skills or hire someone to do the job for you. Count that in on your development budget.
- It has the most confusing admin interface - both in the frontend and in the backed. Compared to other components it's close to a nightmare.
- Until version 5 it had some serious jquery conflicts with other components. It now has a feature to not load the jquery, thus solving some of them - but not all (example: gtranslate)
- Content plugins use old version of mootools, conflicting with other modules (example: Gavick news pro 4).
- It forces the admin to login into the frontend to add or edit properties. So if you are building a portal for several entities, rather than a self-servicing booking site, it becomes quite annoying to have to jump between multiple logins.
- Does not integrate Paypal payflow.
- No social network integration (Facebook, ...)
- Some of the plugins are not that well though of. Example: Jintour, which supposedly would let one sell hollyday packages only work in conjunction with room booking and not as standalone package, thus becoming confusing for property owners.
Overall it's the best solution for larger sites, especially self-servicing booking portals like booking.com.
The billing features are great if you think of monetizing your portal and overall it works quite well - most of the features are there.
But expect to be spending some money on additional CSS coding on top of the licence, to choose carefully what other components/plugins to install and to disregard most of joomla's ACL or component community features.
- Compared to the other components I looked into, it has far more options and is more mature. And if you are looking for a multi-tenant reservation, this is the best. That's why I bought a license.
The cons:
- It's expensive if your are building a small portal (although it's competitive when compared to large site solutions).
- It's a standalone script that is fit into a Joomla page. Meaning that it has no integration with the template (no MVC) and you will need to have CSS coding skills or hire someone to do the job for you. Count that in on your development budget.
- It has the most confusing admin interface - both in the frontend and in the backed. Compared to other components it's close to a nightmare.
- Until version 5 it had some serious jquery conflicts with other components. It now has a feature to not load the jquery, thus solving some of them - but not all (example: gtranslate)
- Content plugins use old version of mootools, conflicting with other modules (example: Gavick news pro 4).
- It forces the admin to login into the frontend to add or edit properties. So if you are building a portal for several entities, rather than a self-servicing booking site, it becomes quite annoying to have to jump between multiple logins.
- Does not integrate Paypal payflow.
- No social network integration (Facebook, ...)
- Some of the plugins are not that well though of. Example: Jintour, which supposedly would let one sell hollyday packages only work in conjunction with room booking and not as standalone package, thus becoming confusing for property owners.
Overall it's the best solution for larger sites, especially self-servicing booking portals like booking.com.
The billing features are great if you think of monetizing your portal and overall it works quite well - most of the features are there.
But expect to be spending some money on additional CSS coding on top of the licence, to choose carefully what other components/plugins to install and to disregard most of joomla's ACL or component community features.
Owner's reply
A few corrections regarding this review
- Until version 5 it had some serious jquery conflicts with other components. It now has a feature to not load the jquery, thus solving some of them - but not all (example: gtranslate)
This was fixed in 5.2.
- Content plugins use old version of mootools, conflicting with other modules
Not true, Jomres doesn't use mootools at all. Probably the issue you saw were jQuery conflicts. See above about that.
- Some of the plugins are not that well though of. Example: Jintour, which supposedly would let one sell hollyday packages only work in conjunction with room booking and not as standalone package
Jintour stands alone (doesn't need room bookings) and has done for the last year.
Thanks, nevertheless, for taking the time to review the software.
Prior to purchasing this product I spent several days researching it and others in the same market. part of that research was checking out the support response of the developer which seemed to be very good. On purchasing the product all went well until I discovered a major flaw. It is only possible to upload jpg images via the component which limits prospective users of the product, in an environment where the component is used for holiday rentals or property management. This was then compounded by the fact that I discovered that I could not even upload jpeg images when testing the product. This can only be discovered after purchase. Given that it is extremely easy to upload multiple kinds of images into Joomla articles using the native methods, as well as via many other extensions I could not beleive that such a basic requirement caused such difficulty.
When I posted on the Jomres forum I was told it was a server configuration issue and that I would have to talk to my hosting provider to get them to configure the php.ini. I exprerssed concern about this on the forum and was told to stop being a brat and expletives were used. I asked why it was that such an important feature of the component was not working. I contacted my host and they said where do you want the code placing. I told them I did not know and asked the developer mVince Wooly where to place the code. His response was "it's your server, you decide".
There is a high level of expertise required to utilise this component and much is necessary in altering the control panel, to make it user freindly to potential clients who may not have any great web experience such as those who might wish to post a property on the site. The control panel for users who register their own property is confusing and laid out very poorly
On the developers side it is a technically, very good component for those who have a high level of expertise in coding or CSS. The developer did respond very quickly to both forum posts and to emails but , when the problem is not resolved that counts for nothing. For the rest do not bother. Given the attitude of the developer , and you can see that by looking at the link on the Jomres forum in the bugs section entitled “images not uploading” and decide for yourself whether or not this was good customer service. Although there is a comprehensive manual which explains the purpose of most things in the component, it does not explain the how to in any great detail.
The developer has now refunded my money but I now have to spend even more time looking for another solution, whereas had the developer been a little less arrogant and actually explained what I had to do he would have had a happy customer. His final comment on the forum speaks volumes about his feelings towards customers. Shame really.
When I posted on the Jomres forum I was told it was a server configuration issue and that I would have to talk to my hosting provider to get them to configure the php.ini. I exprerssed concern about this on the forum and was told to stop being a brat and expletives were used. I asked why it was that such an important feature of the component was not working. I contacted my host and they said where do you want the code placing. I told them I did not know and asked the developer mVince Wooly where to place the code. His response was "it's your server, you decide".
There is a high level of expertise required to utilise this component and much is necessary in altering the control panel, to make it user freindly to potential clients who may not have any great web experience such as those who might wish to post a property on the site. The control panel for users who register their own property is confusing and laid out very poorly
On the developers side it is a technically, very good component for those who have a high level of expertise in coding or CSS. The developer did respond very quickly to both forum posts and to emails but , when the problem is not resolved that counts for nothing. For the rest do not bother. Given the attitude of the developer , and you can see that by looking at the link on the Jomres forum in the bugs section entitled “images not uploading” and decide for yourself whether or not this was good customer service. Although there is a comprehensive manual which explains the purpose of most things in the component, it does not explain the how to in any great detail.
The developer has now refunded my money but I now have to spend even more time looking for another solution, whereas had the developer been a little less arrogant and actually explained what I had to do he would have had a happy customer. His final comment on the forum speaks volumes about his feelings towards customers. Shame really.
Owner's reply
The individual was difficult and combative right from the start, even though I'd gone out of my way to explain the issues to him. He didn't want to work with me to resolve his issue (which was down to a badly configured server) but instead wanted me to fix everything for him whilst throwing his teddy out of his pram.
It was a pleasure to refund them their purchase and send them on their way.
We initially chose Jomres after reading the many positive reviews. Their product is great and the online support is fantastic.
The range of features available to the site manager is very extensive. Anyone with average computer skills will find the features a little overwhelming but with the help of the online manual should be able to work through most problems. For the harder problems (my average skills made a few!) the online ticket support is unbelievable. Their fast and knowledgeable support have helped solve any problems I created, usually within the day.
I cannot say enough about their product or the people behind it.
Keep up the great work guys!
The range of features available to the site manager is very extensive. Anyone with average computer skills will find the features a little overwhelming but with the help of the online manual should be able to work through most problems. For the harder problems (my average skills made a few!) the online ticket support is unbelievable. Their fast and knowledgeable support have helped solve any problems I created, usually within the day.
I cannot say enough about their product or the people behind it.
Keep up the great work guys!
Owner's reply
It's been a pleasure working with you.
There's a lot that you can do with Jomres, so you may need some help to integrate it/tweak it for your website... But when you have TERRIFIC support and FAST response time from the Jomres support team, it make life a WHOLE LOT EASIER! This is the way it should be when you pay good money for an extension. Thanks again Jomres!
This is a really good tool. We and our customers are very happy with the results. Only a little disadvantage: it's too much orientated to programmers ( for the other side, the support service is excellent: quick and efficient )
Jomres is fantastic with a lot of features! The support is really very quickly and competent. Those which is searching a professional script for rent out properties can have it with Jomres. I like it very much and it´s running stable!:-)
This is a outstanding powerful program with many many options.
For me it was in the beginning a little confusing so I asked quite some questions on the forum and I must say I got a excellent help from user Sidebar and Piranha !
Now that i played a little on my localhost with the program i can do all that i want with it.
keep up the excellent work ;)
Iuri Rosa
For me it was in the beginning a little confusing so I asked quite some questions on the forum and I must say I got a excellent help from user Sidebar and Piranha !
Now that i played a little on my localhost with the program i can do all that i want with it.
keep up the excellent work ;)
Iuri Rosa
I have been using Jomres since 2008, and I can taste that is a great reservation system ( always improving), together with an execellent support/fourum/manual, able to sort out issues I had along the way.
I do vacation rental properties and this program helped me to create a professional site even if I am not a webmaster.
Simply... it is reliable!!!
I do vacation rental properties and this program helped me to create a professional site even if I am not a webmaster.
Simply... it is reliable!!!
Jomres is a complete product with all the features I needed to set up a site for a travel agent. The different hotels the agent represents all had different, complicated rate structures and Jomres was able to accommodate all of them. When I had a problem, which turned out to be caused by the configuration on my server, the Jomres support team worked with me patiently to solve the problem. I highly recommend.
I am new to Joomla, I did some research before I chose Jomres. I take care of ten different sites. I have the full JOMRES version and I am very happy with my choice. At first I was a bit worried I might have problems with installation. My “First Installation” went very smoothly with a bit of help from the support team of Vince and Aladar. My second installation I did by myself. The support of Vince and Aladar is very good and important, they are very helpful and prompt, usually same day reply, depending on the hour. Looking back, my questions were a bit foolish, I just wanted to get the site up and running as fast as possible. Mind you, the extension, and property is very easy to set up. It is a very rich in feature extension that can be used for rental of any business. I wish Vince and Aladar at Woollyinwales IT success for their future, their success will help me, since I am using their product.
I have been using JomRes for my small business for years. Apart from the functionality -which covers EXACTLY that which I want to achieve- and the suitable pricing -great for small business owners :-) - the unsurmountable support from Vince Wool is like magic.
IF I need support -which is next to never- I get it straight away, no matter the day of the week and it's always "above and beyond the call of duty".
Excellent!
IF I need support -which is next to never- I get it straight away, no matter the day of the week and it's always "above and beyond the call of duty".
Excellent!
I bought Jomres for a client of mine and needed some help setting it up, the support i got from Vince was ace and the extension is one of the best and was easy to use for both me and my client.
Once again Vince thanks for all your help!
Once again Vince thanks for all your help!
Owner's reply
You're welcome, I hope you'll be using it for years to come.
Well i´am using Jomres since the beginning of 2010.
I must say i tried several booking systems for Joomla but....after using jomres i wont have to try another one, because the service is JUST PERFECT! its all you can wish for, i mean, quick, professional, clear , honest, and most of all you can use jomres as a stand alone.. even if you decide to install the SA version the support is outgoing. i started my website as a project with no money( my services are completely free for the hotels) so Lucky that Vince have a standard license that doesn't cost allot of money, and i can save again to buy the perpetual license (still saving :-) ) then there is piranha... this man is next to Vince one of the most important people you have to talk to! they are both the walking jomres WIKI´S. Have a problem? no worries they can and will fix it.
Well this is my experience, opinion, and i know i will stick by jomres. Why? if i have to tell you after reading my story i can only say try it for yourself. Thanks Vince and Piranha without you, my project failed for sure. now its up and running not finished still allot of work with even more questions.
Thanks, Dirk
I must say i tried several booking systems for Joomla but....after using jomres i wont have to try another one, because the service is JUST PERFECT! its all you can wish for, i mean, quick, professional, clear , honest, and most of all you can use jomres as a stand alone.. even if you decide to install the SA version the support is outgoing. i started my website as a project with no money( my services are completely free for the hotels) so Lucky that Vince have a standard license that doesn't cost allot of money, and i can save again to buy the perpetual license (still saving :-) ) then there is piranha... this man is next to Vince one of the most important people you have to talk to! they are both the walking jomres WIKI´S. Have a problem? no worries they can and will fix it.
Well this is my experience, opinion, and i know i will stick by jomres. Why? if i have to tell you after reading my story i can only say try it for yourself. Thanks Vince and Piranha without you, my project failed for sure. now its up and running not finished still allot of work with even more questions.
Thanks, Dirk
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