I use Amelia for a small business that rents out inflatables. Several of my customers would like to rent these devices for the whole weekend. Can I set up 2 day bookings in Amelia somehow? I would like our customers to book a service with a time slot from e.g. 10 a.m. until 9 a.m. 47 hours later.
Currently I’ve only been able to set up 1 day bookings by having a large buffer time before and after the booking. However the 23,5h limit on buffer time means I can’t use this to set up the service as I would like to.
Thanks for your suggestion. Recurring services may be an option, but the language seems to be an issue. I've set the language to Danish and this works for some parts of Amelia, but not all. The added options that come when I turn on "Recurring Services" don't get translated to Danish. So now I have a booking system in two different languages (English & Danish). Is there some way to force this translation through?
For the language, as we don't have enough native speakers at the moment, we mostly rely on clients providing the translation files so it can happen that a language does not have enough translated strings so bits remain in default (in this case English).
You can manually translate them using POEDIT or Loco Translate easily. I suggest installing Loco Translate, since it's within WordPress and it has a simple UI.
If you want to use POEDIT then please follow these instructions:
1. Download Amelia from our TMS Store and save the ameliabooking.zip file on your computer.
2. Unzip downloaded file.
3. Download and install POEDIT.
4. After that, open the program and open the file from the extracted folder on your computer ameliabooking/languages/en_US/wpamelia-en_US.po.
5. Translate all the strings on your language.
6. Save the file as the plugin suggests (the language code; for example wpamelia-id_ID.po if your language is Indonesian) and it will generate a new wpamelia-id_ID.mo file. You can find your language code here.
7. Go to ameliabooking/languages/ folder and create a new folder. Name it as the language code for your language (in our case, for Indonesian, it is id_ID) and then copy these two files called wpamelia-id_ID.po and wpamelia-id_ID.mo into it. Proceed with copying the whole folder id_ID back to your website in folder ../wp-content/plugins/ameliabooking/languages/.
Of course, you will use language code for your language (we use Indonesian language, and its language code "id_ID" is just an example).
When you finish that, it would be nice to send us the translation, so we can include it in our next major update so you don't have to copy this folder from local machine on every update.
So another follow-up. I could translate the below text into Danish, but it's confusing for my customers that there are basically 3 different ways of doing multiple-day bookings.
Can I disable some of these ways? So that e.g. the only way is to use the top right menu to choose, 2,3,4 etc. days?
All options displayed are for modifying the one way you can create multiple bookings and the they depend on each other.
It probably can be modified with some custom work, but our developers are very busy at the moment, working on some priority tasks and fixing bugs and issues with our plugins, so they won't be having the time for custom work in near future.
But we can recommend these services for customization:
Dear TMS
I use Amelia for a small business that rents out inflatables. Several of my customers would like to rent these devices for the whole weekend. Can I set up 2 day bookings in Amelia somehow? I would like our customers to book a service with a time slot from e.g. 10 a.m. until 9 a.m. 47 hours later.
Currently I’ve only been able to set up 1 day bookings by having a large buffer time before and after the booking. However the 23,5h limit on buffer time means I can’t use this to set up the service as I would like to.
Thanks in advance,
Anton
Hi Anton,
thank you for reaching out to us
We currently only have one day slot limit; you can allow clients to book more days in a row by making the service Recurring Daily.
In this way customer can select Saturday, click Repeat this appointment, and choose Sunday as well.
Dear Ivana,
Thanks for your suggestion. Recurring services may be an option, but the language seems to be an issue. I've set the language to Danish and this works for some parts of Amelia, but not all. The added options that come when I turn on "Recurring Services" don't get translated to Danish. So now I have a booking system in two different languages (English & Danish). Is there some way to force this translation through?
KR
Anton
Hi Anton,
thank you for the kind reply
For the language, as we don't have enough native speakers at the moment, we mostly rely on clients providing the translation files so it can happen that a language does not have enough translated strings so bits remain in default (in this case English).
You can manually translate them using POEDIT or Loco Translate easily. I suggest installing Loco Translate, since it's within WordPress and it has a simple UI.
If you want to use POEDIT then please follow these instructions:
1. Download Amelia from our TMS Store and save the ameliabooking.zip file on your computer.
2. Unzip downloaded file.
3. Download and install POEDIT.
4. After that, open the program and open the file from the extracted folder on your computer ameliabooking/languages/en_US/wpamelia-en_US.po.
5. Translate all the strings on your language.
6. Save the file as the plugin suggests (the language code; for example wpamelia-id_ID.po if your language is Indonesian) and it will generate a new wpamelia-id_ID.mo file. You can find your language code here.
7. Go to ameliabooking/languages/ folder and create a new folder. Name it as the language code for your language (in our case, for Indonesian, it is id_ID) and then copy these two files called wpamelia-id_ID.po and wpamelia-id_ID.mo into it. Proceed with copying the whole folder id_ID back to your website in folder ../wp-content/plugins/ameliabooking/languages/.
Of course, you will use language code for your language (we use Indonesian language, and its language code "id_ID" is just an example).
When you finish that, it would be nice to send us the translation, so we can include it in our next major update so you don't have to copy this folder from local machine on every update.
Hope this helps.
Dear Ivana,
So another follow-up. I could translate the below text into Danish, but it's confusing for my customers that there are basically 3 different ways of doing multiple-day bookings.
Can I disable some of these ways? So that e.g. the only way is to use the top right menu to choose, 2,3,4 etc. days?
KR
Anton
Hi Anton
All options displayed are for modifying the one way you can create multiple bookings and the they depend on each other.
It probably can be modified with some custom work, but our developers are very busy at the moment, working on some priority tasks and fixing bugs and issues with our plugins, so they won't be having the time for custom work in near future.
But we can recommend these services for customization:
https://codeable.io/?ref=l1TW1
https://wpkraken.io/?tms-plugins
They do develop such solutions, so can you please send your inquiry to them?