BookingsPlus - PC, Room & Event Bookings

PC Bookings and Print Management

With BookingsPlus public access PC bookings and print management module, it’s easy to moderate PC usage in your organisation. Both the staff and the users can view availability and make booking reservations effortlessly with a minimum of fuss.

BookingsPlus is cleverly configured to authenticate registrants using popular protocols like SIP2, SOAP(Web Services) to name a few and the ability to create guest passes for visitors.

A comprehensive list of features include:

• Patrons can self-book a PC from any computer web browser.
• Patrons can walk up to an available PC and use immediately without making a booking.
• Schedule a group of PCs for a Training Class.
• Schedule reoccurring bookings.
• Flexible or fixed bookings times.
• Centralised booking system.
• Create express internet access PC's.
• Create 'Out of Order' messages for broken PC's.
• Display PC name on screen.
• Can pre-book sessions days in advance.
• View current bookings and edit.
• Daily usage reports for management analysis.
• Patrons can lock screens.
• Create visitor logins.
• Customised end session warnings (x2).
• Optional print management module and self service kiosks.
• SOAP(Web Services) user authentication.
• Cloud hosted web application.
• Client software compatible with Windows 7, 8 and 10 operating systems.

Click Here to watch a brief video overview of how BookingsPlus PC Bookings works from both the Public (Patron) and Staff perspective of reserving library PC.

Windows Terminal Services

The BookingsPlus PC Client software unique method of communication back to host via PC ID and PASSWORD lends itself to operate effectively in a Windows Terminal Services environment.

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Print and Copy Management

BookingsPlus integrates with Papercut Print & Copy Management to provide a fully featured solution that makes print & copy management as easy and pain free as possible. From simple tracking and monitoring of print jobs, to integrating BYOD printing or advanced custom job management, PaperCut can be up and running in minutes.

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Room Bookings

When it comes to filling your calendar, you know that turning an opportunity into a booked event often relies on your ability to communicate your space availability at a moment’s notice. With BookingsPlus Room Bookings, you benefit from various real-time calendar views that allow you to address customer inquiries immediately.

Availability of rooms and resources all on the one screen

Easily see the availability of rooms and resources with the colour-coded timetable, either by day or by week. You can even book multiple rooms at the same time - no need to enter information multiple times.

Intelligent Recurring Bookings

Easy recurrence options allow you to repeat a seemingly complex booking with no fuss. For example, select repeat every weekday for the next two weeks. No need to worry about conflicts, the Room Booking System highlights any unavailable times.

Online Credit Card Payments

Using the BookingsPlus Online Payment Gateway you can offer your customers the convenience of paying their deposit or the full fee using Visa, MasterCard or American Express for Room Bookings, Resource Bookings and Facility Bookings.

Booking Notes

Define an unlimited number of fields to store additional data with a booking. Administrators can define text fields such as "Payment Details" or "Number of Guests" and drop down menus such as "Deposit Paid" and specify if any of these are mandatory. This is useful to find out why each room is being booked or obtain certain required information with each booking.

Useful Reports

Find out which rooms & resources are most popular within your centre. Useful monthly reports provide valuable information when preparing invoices.

Self-Service Room Bookings

The general public can make their own room bookings, with confirmation of their reservation to follow. As an online solution, our Room Booking System allows room reservations to be made 24 hours a day and at the convenience of the user.

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Event Bookings

With BookingsPlus event listing and bookings module, it’s easy to creating online event registration pages. The online event registration application makes planning your event simple and hassle free. Registrants to your events are still able to make phone/over-the-counter bookings as well as registering online or verified against a database like a library management system.

Event listing all on the one screen

Easily see the all the upcoming events in a calendar view, hover over or click the event to see more detail. There is an event search function and events can be filtered by location. Registrants can also self manage their bookings online.

Design and branding

BookingsPlus gives you the ability to brand your events page with your existing visual identity. This can be done either through uploading your logo to the top of the page, or creating a branded image for the entire header.There is also space for add an image for each event.

Intelligent Recurring Bookings

Easy recurrence options allow you to repeat a seemingly complex booking with no fuss. For example, select repeat every weekday for the next two weeks.

Booking Types

Many events have are usually targeted to a particular group (child, adult, teens, training, etc), and BookingsPlus has been built to handle them all. Add as many as you need, including setting individual parameters for each group type. Promote your events A powerful module has been developed allowing you to tag particular events to be displayed as a slide show on your website or in-house TV screens.

Event Ticketing

Attendees can print tickets from home. Each ticket contains a QR Code which can be scanned by event staff using a smart phone or tablet to record attendance to the event.

Online Credit Card Payments

Using the BookingsPlus Online Payment Gateway you can offer your customers the convenience of paying for their event using their Credit Card. We’ve partnered with Stripe, one of the leading vendors for processing online payments, to enable online payments for Events and Bookings.

Authentication

BookingsPlus is cleverly configured to authenticate registrants using popular protocols like SIP2, SOAP(Web Services) to name a few along with traditional methods of online registration and staff assisted bookings.

Useful Reports and Statistics

Find out which event types are most popular within your organisation through the reporting screen.

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Reference Sites:

• City of Melton Libraries
• Boyd Community Hub
• Wyndham Libraries

Console Game Bookings

With gaming set to become far more prevalent in libraries, BookingsPlus now offers a public access in-house gaming booking system. With BookingsPlus public access game console bookings and management module, it’s easy to moderate the usage in your organisation. Both the staff and the users can view availability and make booking reservations effortlessly with a minimum of fuss.

A comprehensive list of features include:

• Patrons can self-book a game console from any computer web browser
• Schedule bookings for group competition sessions
• Schedule reoccurring bookings
• Can display game covers
• Flexible or fixed bookings times
• Can display upcoming bookings in slideshow
• Cloud-based booking system
• Create 'Out of Order' messages for broken consoles
• Can pre-book sessions days in advance
• View current bookings and edit
• Daily Usage reports for management analysis
• SIP2, SOAP Web Service authentication

Reference Sites:

• Brimbank Libraries
• City of Melton Libraries

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