Show Time is an online booking service specifically designed for small theatre productions or anyone else who puts on a show, has their own website and wants to take ticket bookings.
In the 2nd half of 2009 Tribalogic will launch a booking service aimed at small theatre companies wanting to get online booking on to their own website.
The Tribalogic Platform has been updated to Version 2.65, which includes many bugfixes and features, some of the highlights are listed below:
Bookster Show Time
Bookster Show Time is a service that allows shows and events to get their tickets online quickly and easily.
With this update, Bookster Show Time users now have full control over the number of tickets available to book.
New Console: Remember A Quick Filter
Back Button Joy
When you do a "Quick Filter" search in the new console, your search terms and page will be remembered for then you hit the back button or return to that search page.
New Console: Syndicates
Directory Managers can now edit and create new syndicates.
As we progress towards integration of directory and booking platforms, creating Syndicates is now the equivalent as the creation of "affiliates" in the booking system.
See the "System" tab when you are logged into the new console.
Syndicates and Affiliates
As part of our drive to integrate the Booking and Directory plaforms, Syndicates are now the new Affiliates
Creating a Syndicate will have the same effect as creating an affiliate used to: allowing the tracking of bookings and different branding of booking screens.
Reviews: when did you visit?
With this update, our comments and reviews feature now includes a "When did you visit?" drop down, giving more context to the review and allowing feedback from entries to be more relevant.
Did you know? The platform can be set up to allow administrators to moderate reviews before they go live.
A recent improvement to the tribalogic directory software was to add the ability to place a "sub-layout" within a search.
This opens up all sorts of possibilities to our clients, and Rental Reserve have taken full advantage.
The use of Sublayouts has allowed Rental Rereserve to highlight entries that may be of interest to their surfers, the "Staff Pick", "Best Seller" & "Featured" entries on www.letinedinburgh.co.uk.
The sub-layouts only return entries within the users search so filtering of the results further will still produce relavent "Staff Pick's" etc.
Nonsense Room Productions (www.nonsenseroom.co.uk) are the first users of Bookster Showtime, a service we developed specifically for them but are hoping other theatre companies and event organisers will be able to find it useful too!
Bookter Showtime allows Nonsense Room to sell tickets for their Edinburgh Fringe Festival shows through their own website:
Searching for "microwave & WiFi access" will now generate the same URL as searching for "WiFi access & microwave" which will prevent presenting search engines with unnecessary pages.
There have also been improvements to the canonicalization of multi-page results linking.
All clients now benefit from 301-redirects to a single domain e.g in a browser, typing
We have made some improvements to the user interfaces in the new console*, allowing searching from more locations and giving user feedback when filtering searches.
*Booking only at present
New Metaphors
One of the primary goals of version 3.0 is to allow the administration of the booking system and directory from a single console and combine the metaphors used in both systems.
We have introduced the concepts of Websites, Directories & Syndicates replacing the old "Brands" and "Published Brand Searches".
Although not live yet booking clients will see similar changes soon - Directories replacing "Sales Channels" and Syndicates replacing "Affiliates".
One Directory, Different Layout
It is now possible for us to provide differently laid out search results in every Syndicate. We are using it already on Best of British:
This allows us to provide specialist syndicate on a given web site with unique URLs, filtered content and different layout.
Template Websites
The template website functionality, allowing an entry to have website like functionality, has been removed as this functionality can be completely replicated within our new layout system.
We have converted a number of the old template websites across to use layouts and are continuing the process of converting other templates that are still in use.
We are making really good progress with improvements to our core systems, such as users, consoles and rationalising the concepts behind the directory and booking engines.
One of the fruits of this labour is our new stand alone booking system - Bookster...
Bookster BETA goes live
Get your holiday property online today!
Tribalogic have launched a BETA version of their new online booking system for holiday property letting.
It is FREE to sign up and will accept your booking for free until March 18th! Sign Up now and try out Bookster for yourself!
Booking affiliates can be tracked by point point to a URL "/welcome/<affiliateid>". (on Joomla this would typically be /directory/welcome/<affiliateId>).
This will track the affiliate in both session and cookies then 301 redirect to the home page. This should mean that inbound links of this kind are good for SEO.
AA Directions on Caravan Sitefinder
We have integrated AA directions and mapping into www.caravansitefinder.co.uk to allow step-by-step directions to be shown on the location maps for caravan parks.
Sub-Layouts - In listing pages, would it be nice to highlight some of the search results before the main body of results? This is now possible through sub-layouts.
New Zend Framework 1.7.4 - As always, we are keeping up to date with the latest version of the Zend Framework.
Gerome has taken this photo from our office on Rutland Square in Edinburgh looking through to Princes Street - it is nice to have some proper winter conditions for once instead of the standard Scottish winter of wind and sleet!
Bring on more snow and we can start sledging to work!