Visfeed

Установка

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

If you’re interested in seeing the plugin’s interactions prior to creating an account, you can email rick@ownerfeed.com and I’ll send you a sample calendar account to review.

1. Create an ownerfeed account on www.ownerfeed.com. There is a $10/month fee for each property or resource.
2. Add booking agreements, welcome letters, recommendations and confirmation information.
3. Create a new, or connect your existing, Stripe account via the ownerfeed.com settings area. This is required if you want to use the automated payment part of the workflows. Ownerfeed charges a .85% fee for transactions on top of Stripe’s normal fee of 2.9% + $0.30.
4. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/Visfeed directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
5. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
6. Use the Settings->Visfeed screen to configure the plugin’s global settings.
7. Add the visfeed_cal shortcode to the pages where you would like to create bookings.

Below are the configuration options for Visfeed.

Two major work flows:
[visfeed_cal requestflownum=1 or 2]

Instant booking flow
requestflownum drives one of two major workflows for the booking. The first flow, (requestflownum=1) displays the resource’s availability calendar, allows for date/time selection, presents an agreement with e-sign capability and then immediately requests payment. This is considered Visfeed’s instant booking option. The flow creates a customer for the owner with the data input, and sends communication to both parties upon processing of the payment.

Request to book flow
The second flow (requestflownum=2) also displays the resource’s availability calendar, but when the user makes a selection on the calendar, a request form is created and sent to the owner, which does not immediately process payment. The owner receives an email with the option to approve the request. If approved, the platform sends an email to the requestor and then allows them to complete the agreement and payment with an automated return to the page.

The Visited plugin has two major settings areas:

Global Settings for establishing options related to the user’s account and general connection information are configured via the general settings menu under the Visfeed menu option. Here users can set general settings such as their user id, company name and email. The global settings generally do not change from resource to resource.

Property Settings for establishing options related to the individual property or resources are configured as part of the plugin’s shortcode, visfeed_cal. In this manner, it is easy to create many different properties as a part of a single site. There are a large number of settings options that can be managed at the shortcode level. The table below outlines the settings available via the visfeed_cal shortcode. To really understand the power of the plugin, we’ll examine in some detail one of the primary ones — requestflownum.

Other settings that are available to the shortcode:

units = “hours” or “nights” — default “nights”

costperunit = #in US dollars

property_id = available via ownerfeed account,

calcolor = “#16a085”

corediscount1 — 6 = 0 These are pricing discounts which can be expressed as a number such as 25 = 25% discount. Discounts are placed on the number of units, for example, discount2 on 2 or more days and discount3 on 3 or more. The default for all discounts is 0 which would apply the per unit price regardless of the number of units.

ics_usedirect = 0 or 1 — default 0 means that the availability calendar comes automatically from ownerfeed.com. If 1 is set, the program expects an external source for the availability calendar.

ics_name = “” — name of external calendar file — the default is empty because the program uses the ownerfeed.com default booking calendar, which has many advantages.

Visfeed uses fullcalendar, an open source calendar created by Adam Shaw. The calendar has many customizable features, and Visfeed exposes some of these via the shortcode.

calendar_view_string = “agendaWeek,agendaDay”
calendar_view_default = “agendaWeek”
These settings set the calendar to present as a weekly or daily view. The obvious default for vacation rentals is “month”; however, Visfeed does support hourly and half hourly bookings as well, where the above settings are more appropriate.

Shortcode Examples:
[visfeed_cal units=»nights» calendar_view_string=»month» calendar_view_default=»month» requestflownum=1 costperunit=500 property_id=114]

[visfeed_cal units=»hours» calendar_view_string=»agendaWeek,agendaDay» calendar_view_default=»agendaWeek» requestflownum=2 costperunit=40 property_id=115]