We gladly bring you the QloApps Google Calendar Sync add-on. This add-on will connect your hotel booking website to Google Calendar.
This add-on will help you to keep track of your bookings on Google Calendar. You will be able to see which room type or room is booked, checked in, or checked out on a particular date on the Google Calendar interface.
This addon will also create an event on the customer’s Google calendar when he creates a booking on your website using his Gmail account.
Then he will keep receiving reminders from Google Calendar for his bookings.
Note:
1) The event will only be created on the Customer’s Google calendar when he uses his Gmail account to make the booking.
2) Events will only be created for the bookings whose checkout date is not passed.
So let us check out what are the features of this add-on and how this add-on works.
Before you install the QloApps Google Calender addon you must make a few changes in the core for the proper functioning of the module.
For QloApps version <= 1.5.2 you need to add the below hooks in the core files of QloApps
Add hook code below at line: 2611 (may vary)
Hook::exec(
'actionHotelRoomBookingUpdateAfter',
array(
'id_order' => $id_order,
'id_room' => $id_room,
'date_from' => $new_date_from,
'date_to' => $new_date_to
)
);
At path hotelcommerce/controllers/admin/AdminOrdersController.php
Add hook code below at line: 2851 (may vary)
Hook::exec(
'actionHotelRoomBookingDeleteBefore',
array(
'id_order' => $id_order,
'id_room' => $id_room,
'date_from' => $date_from,
'date_to' => $date_to
)
);
For QloApps version <= 1.6.0 you need to add the below hooks in the core files of QloApps
Add hook code below at line: 2611 (may vary)
Hook::exec(
'actionHotelRoomBookingUpdateAfter',
array(
'id_order' => $id_order,
'id_room' => $id_room,
'date_from' => $new_date_from,
'date_to' => $new_date_to
)
);
The installation of any module is very simple in QloApps.
Click on choose a file and upload the zip file of the module.
After uploading the ZIP file the module will start installing automatically.
After the module is installed, the user can see the prompt for successful installation and the installed modules will be listed below.
Once you install the module then you can configure it easily.
Configuring this module is very simple. Once you have successfully installed the module you will have the following configuration page.
When you click on configure then the configuration page will appear.
The first thing that we need to configure this module is Google Credentials. So first let us see how we can create these Google Credentials.
To create Google credentials go to Google Cloud.
Then the below-given window will appear. After this, you will create a project.
From here you can select a project or create a new project. To create a new project click on “New Project”.
The new project window will appear. Here enter the project name and from “Location” select the location from the dropdown. Then click on the “Create” button.
Hence your project is successfully created. Here you will get the newly created project in the list.
After creating the project user will create the credentials for the project. For that go to the main menu> API and services>Credentials.
Then from credentials go to “Create Credentials“. Then select the “OAuth Client ID”.
Before creating a credential you have to configure your consent screen. For this click on “Configure Consent Screen“.
After doing the above process the below window will appear. Here select the user type as “External“. After that click on “Create“.
After this, the user will fill in the details of app information, app domain, and app authorized domain.
Then click on save and continue. Click on “Save and Continue” till the summary step. After that, the credential page will appear.
Users will get the “Authorized JavaScript origins” and “Authorized redirect URIs” from the QloApps module configuration page.
After entering the above field click on “Save“. Hence the credentials will be created. From here you can get the credentials and configure your QloApps Google Calendar Sync module.
Click on enable button to enable the Google Calendar API
Now, we have the credentials so we can finally configure the module.
Google Client ID: Enter the client ID that is associated with the project. Now You can get a client ID from the Google Cloud Console as shown above
Google Client Secret: Enter the client secret key associated with the project. Now You can get a client secret key from the Google Cloud Console as shown above.
Now Click on “save”. After this go to the panel Google Calender Sync setting. Here you can do the following settings:
With this setting, select how calendars will be created or deleted in the Google Calendar:
Next, we have the option to finally sync or delete the calendars.
Finally, we have Cron Info. You will have to set the cron on your server to do the synchronization automatically in a particular time interval.
After setting up everything, bookings will be shown on the Google Calendar.
Click on a particular booking to view its details.
This was all from the QloApps Google Calendar Sync. I hope I was able to clarify the functioning of the module for you.
If you want to learn about the functionality of QloApps then you can visit this link: Qlo Reservation System – Free Open-Source Hotel Booking & Reservation System
In case of any query, issue, or requirement please feel free to raise it on QloApps Forum
