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Hello,
I'm sorry at the moment the recurring appointments feature is not available. Although, it is in the high priority to-do list and will be added within a month.

Thanks algis,

Can you please provide details of how the recurring bookings will work and what features it will have? 'HowToMove' has made some good points.

If its not available within a month I would like to take up the 30day money back guarantee. Are you able to commit to that? I dont want my guarantee to expire while still waiting for the new feature that we desperatly need.

Sorry to be a hassle, Im really looking forward to the new feature. It will complete the package for us.

Let me know if you need anything from this end,

Mitch

algis wrote:

Regarding the packages/how many left etc I will need to carefully think it over.

Here's one simple-minded implementation which I can think of right away:

Provider/admin chooses whether user sees remaining balance or number of lessons, where number of lessons is calculated from a price-per-lesson the provider/admin enters. Setting the price of a session and using that for everyone won't work because some people get discounts. Using this method, the admin is allowed to "fudge" and the user's balance remaining is simply displayed as a rounded integer instead of a dollar amount.

It would be best for the system to actually "know" about packages, because a client might purchase a package of private lessons and a package of group classes... so there wouldn't be a single calculation that would show how many lessons were left based on their account payment balance. This would involve tracking which kind of session a given payment applies to, and would involve displaying several "remaining lesson" numbers if more than one kind of session had been paid for.

Hello Mitch,
thank you very much, I was thinking about a setup like you described. I will do something like this in nearest time to discuss.

algis on May 12th wrote:

I will make a demo of recurring appointments within 2 weeks, then we can adapt the feature to your requirements

It's been two weeks. Can we have a status update / schedule adjustment?

Hello Mitch,
I'm sorry for silence, I've been completing the first version of recurring appointments thing, I'll publish it tomorrow for further discussion

Hello Mitch,
version 4.2.0 has just been published with the recurring appointments option. To enable this for a service, please go to service edit, then click the "Recurring Appointments" tab. Recurring booking is available for the customer side only so far.

Please download from http://www.hitcode.com/clients/

Please let me know how it works for you.

Hello,
thank you for your feedback :-)

HowToMove wrote:

I'm wondering how the set of recurrance options is set. Monthly, for example, isn't an option. Can the interval of recurrance be configured, or is that a software edit?

for the moment recurrance options are hardcoded inside. I plan to collect the feedback and either include all the possible options or add some sort of config .

algis wrote:

I plan to collect the feedback and either include all the possible options or add some sort of config .

Some time ago I got frustrated with calendar programs that didn't allow complete specification of recurrance, and I wrote my own in Perl. Here's the selection panel, which might not be pretty but does allow just about any calculation of intervals. The Perl script then calls functions from DateTime::Event::Recurrence to calculate dates for each of the events. I can send code fragments if you don't want to start from scratch and if you think this isn't too complicated. The idea is for the recurrance input routine to get back a list of dates, not to carry around the specification of recurrance.

Note that there is sometimes a need for a specific week/day of the month, not just the same day of the month! Students want lessons on the second Tuesday, not always on the 9th, etc.

The image attached is for feedback and discussion. I'd like to hear/see other ideas on how to make this simpler, because I went entirely for flexibility and that often causes complexity.

Welcome back Algis.

Wondering when the admin will be able to book recurring appointments? Is this going to be in an upgrade soon?

Regards
Mitch

Last edited by mholding (2010-06-29 19:40:37)

HowToMove wrote:

I'm just a user.

Whoops, sorry. Welcome back Algis I was supposed to say!

Aglis, please see question above.

Cheers

How about recursion that takes you back to a page with everything filled in the same way but a chance to select the next date?