Features

Koparent Application is created especially for companies which offer their products or services in a form of renting, such as:

• Hotels
• Apartments
• Rooms
• Holiday Houses
• Bed and Breakfast accommodations
• Business offices
• Cars
• Construction vehicles
• Tools
• Halls, congress rooms
• Storage houses and garages
• Sport halls
• Catering services
• Hiring a band
• ...

And many more types of businesses where you need to advertise your real estate, product or similar service and make it available for your customers to rent it for a long or short period of time.

Therefore, we created a full reservation system which allows your customers to:

• See full and detailed description of your product / service /real estate
• Search for adverts by various parameters
• See picture gallery for every advert separately
• Find location via Google maps
• Choose additional services you offer
• See additional costs
• Check out calendar which shows current and updated availability
• Make on-line booking by simply clicking on the calendar
• See all the costs before making the reservation
• Manage their reservations by login to their profile: see the info, print out their reservation pamphlet (voucher), send the advert link to a friend…
• Get the calculation for their reservation, calculate advance and pay using Pay Pal or other means of payment 

The system also allows you to:

• Create different Users who post the adverts
• Make advert Categories
• Choose one of many pre-set Categories for you advert
• Create an Advert with many options and choose which are shown and which are not (description, price, contact information…)
• Insert the exact location using Google Maps
• Use Walk Score service
• Create a picture Gallery for every Advert
• Manage Additional costs and insert prices for them
• Manage Advert specific details and search by specific fields
• Manage Additional contents and insert prices
• Enable on-line Reservations (calendar, price calculator, voucher, customer login…)
• Manage calendars – set different prices for different periods of the year (example: pre-season, season, post-season)
• Set "offline dates" – periods or days when there can be no reservations
• Set prices, advance rates and additional costs  
• Manage reservations from Administration panel – pending / confirm / dismiss
• Manage payments from Administration panel – advance paid or not
• Set the appearance of your Advert and Reservation frontend layout
• Set duration of the advert and duration of the reservation
• Set up your e-mail template with many different variables
• Export your Koparent data into XML format
• Display your price list with specific price list parameters
• Specific users can manage their reservations, adverts and date range groups from frontend
• Make multiple of reservations on the same advert at the same time
• …

We are constantly upgrading Koparent and with each new version we are bringing new features and fixes. This is the list of previous upgrades::

5.6 Koparent

• Added filter by advert type in advert specific fields manager for easier management of advert fields
• Added sorting by users in adverts view in backend
• Added additional check on thumbnail dimensions so it does not get blured
• Added some core improvements on database tables
• Added improvements on calendar functions and date manipulation
• Added feature: You can disable loading of Slimbox library if it is causing trouble with another extension. This is only available if Gallery type is set to Slimbox.
• Added feature: You can now set up your own date format in Koparent Settings (ex. d.m.Y)
• Added feature: You can now export your data to csv format
• Added feature: Advert specific fields can be enabled to display in advert list
• Added feature: Additional contents can be enabled to display in advert list

5.5 Koparent 

• Added line-through price calculated with normal daily price when you are searching within time period 
• Added advanced datetime calculation for your selected Joomla timezone when making reservations 
• Added feature: unregistered users can now login or make an account in reservation page with no redirects in one step. You can enable this feature from Koparent Settings. 
• Added feature: You can set a category in Additional contents manager. Additional contents will be grouped by category, if category is not entered, layout will stay the same as before. 
• Added feature: You can set up emails in CC and BCC fields when sending mails, this option is available in Email template manager. 
• Added feature: You can now manage Advert Types trough Koparent Settings 
• Added feature: You can export your details on adverts, reservations or users in XML format. 
• Added feature: You can now sort Adverts by air distance proximity from your default coordinates in Koparent Settings -> Advanced search. 

5.4 Koparent

• Added English language as fallback if you have incomplete translation on your own language and deleted identical lines in translation files in site and administration 
• Added better support for youtube video, you can now insert link in various format from youtube, not just emended one 
• Added dropdown that adds Email variable in text editor in Email Template Editor 
• Added feature: Added view Price List. It can show price list and selected specific advert fields and date range groups sorted by city and filtered by category 
• Added feature: Price list in advert details view it can be turned on and off from Koparent Settings 
• Added feature: New gallery type Switch on click allows user to switch main advert picture with thumbnail picture 
• Added feature: you can enable or disable Koparent toolbar from all pages from Koparent settings. Option to disable Back button and Advanced search button have also been added. 
• Added feature: You can now edit existing and add new Additional costs for your reservations from Koparent Settings 
• Added feature: You can now edit existing and add new Specific fields for your Adverts from Koparent Settings 
• Added feature: You can now search by specific fields in advanced search. It can be turned on in the Koparent Settings

5.3 Koparent

• Added feature: You can set Advert sort to Random, it will adverts in different order every time on reload 
• Added feature: Now you can completely disable second toolbar after turning off all the links (contact advertiser can also be disabled) 
• Added feature: You can now style email templates directly from Koparent Settings, also you can disable email by unpublishing the template 
• Added few additional fields for various advert types 

5.2 Koparent

• Added Norfolk Island to the list of the countries 
• Added Title in advert presentation and PDF flyer 
• Added PER field beside Price field in frontend submit advert form 
• Added feature: Koparent settings->Users->Limit number of adverts user can submit 
• Added feature: Koparent settings->Users->Starting limit of new users 
• Added feature: Koparent settings->Users->User advert needs admin approval? 
• Added new functionality in Koparent->Users: Custom user field manager button - you can add additional fields for customer 

5.1 Koparent

• Added functionality of making multiple reservations for advert at the SAME time (examples of usage: car pooling, mini bus, guitar lessons, theathre tickets, etc...) 
• Added functionality : In advanced search Koparent will calculate price for selected period, if dates are not set it will show default price 
• Added functionality : Frontend advert manager can be disabled or enabled from Settings 
• Added functionality : User approval for new adverts can be set from Settings or manually in each User edit area
• Added functionality : Users can now add adverts from frontend 
• Added functionality : Users can now add Date ranges from frontend 
• Added functionality : Users can now manage Reservations made on their adverts from frontend
• Added functionality : Users can edit their bank account details from frontend 
• Added new reservation field for Vehicles advert type: Price per person (an reservation option you can use if needed)