If you run a accommodation establishment, this solution will fit you like a glove, complete with booking system, picture gallery and more ...
In addition to the advantage of the basic Joomla website, such as being able to add unlimited content and pictures to your website, the solution comes already configured with some custom application tailor made to the tourism industry in South Africa.
Those features include the following:
NEWSLETTER FACILITY
- Copy function for lists and newsletters which can be used to manage newsletter template.
- Special front-end user-panel (so users can easily manage the newsletters they are subscribed to)
- Auto-configuration of mailing settings
- Front-end edition of newsletter for Administrators
- Sending mailing report to list owner
- Automatic update
- Personalize newsletter by greeting the reader with their firstname.
- Education center to help you write and design effective newsletters.
- Imports email list data from any source
- Integrated Subscriber History
- Past newsletters Public Archive
- Backend and frontend fully multilanguage
- Unlimited lists
- Unlimited newsletters
- Unlimited subscribers
The Newsletter solution also include classical newsletters functionalities:
- Handle registered or unregistered subscribers
- Attachment capability
- Email address validation when registering
- Sends test email to admin before whole list
- Ability to Ban emails
- Embedded images option
- Automated unsubscribing link
- Preview newsletter before sending either on the screen or send a test email.
- Statistics management (Number of Sent / Opened newsletters, HTML or text only)
- HTML or TEXT only mailings
- No limit on mailing list size
BOOKING FACILITY
The booking facility can extend to both accommodation, activities and events.
- Booking of events possible
- Specify prices for item
- Hide/Show prices to users in the front-end
- E-mail notification to the client of all new bookings
- Ability to specify additional fields on the booking form
PICTURE GALLERY
Your website will have a picture gallery component that will support multiple categories and sub categories as albums. Pictures can be bulk uploaded using a JAVA applet. Visitors to the website will also be able to send e-cards to their friends using any of the pictures in the picture gallery.
The client will also be able to BULK upload pictures to any of the galleries, without having to individually upload each image
BANNER AND ADVERTISER MANAGEMENT
The website will allow the client to manage advertising clients on the website, and store their contact information. Banners in various sizes can be uploaded to the website and published. The client will be able to monitor clicks and impressions per banner on the website. Banners can also be placed in various different places on the website, and can also dynamically rotate from page to page.
