OS Services Booking 8.0: New Features, Better Performance, and Stronger Customer Booking Experience
OS Services Booking 8.0 is a major update for businesses that need a faster, smarter, and more flexible online booking system. This release improves appointment booking software, adds better service scheduling options, enhances the booking calendar interface, supports mobile-friendly booking, and delivers a more reliable customer booking experience.
With overnight timeslots, advanced booking rules, better resource management, improved Zoom support, enhanced email logs, unavailable date editing, pagination improvements, and important bug fixes, this version helps businesses improve performance, booking accuracy, and service booking management.
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1. Fix: order total updates when editing order items
2. New: cost price tax mode option (incl./excl. tax)
3. Major: Resource Types introduced (replaces Employees model; staff/courts/equipment/…)
4. Each “Employee” is assigned to a Resource Type
5. Services can require/select a Resource Type
6. Clearer frontend resource labeling (less “employee” confusion)
7. Checkout: preserve form data after validation errors
8. New: text custom field on timeslot selection
9. Custom fields: validation rules (required/number/…) + validation messages
10. Mobile booking flow improved (date/timeslot UX + performance)
11. Backend Week/Day calendar layout improved + Joomla Dark Mode support
12. Google Calendar sync improved: only manually created events sync as resource busy time
13. Misc: other bug fixes and improvements
OS Services Booking 6.0 delivers a major upgrade for both administrators and customers. The backend now features a revamped orders management page with improved appointment tracking and flexible order item editing. The booking page receives a visual overhaul with independent style templates, ensuring better compatibility and customization. New features include login-required booking, mobile-friendly cart display, accurate special price calculations, enhanced date search, and a redesigned order details layout with discount notifications. Backend management of services and employees is streamlined with improved data validation, while both employee settings and customer calendars benefit from clearer, more user-friendly layouts. Finally, a series of bug fixes—including updates to the OSB Table, Zoom, Google Calendar sync plugins—ensure a smoother, more reliable booking experience.
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- Fully compatible with Joomla 6.
- Improved component speed compared to previous versions.
- Added mechanism for users to retry failed booking transactions.
- Various minor enhancements for better overall performance.
1. Timeslot Display in User’s Timezone
No more confusion! Users can now view and book available timeslots in their own timezone. This ensures they always choose the right time that fits their schedule—eliminating misunderstandings and missed appointments.
2. Comprehensive Income Reporting
Gain full visibility into your business! Detailed income reports are now available for each venue, service, and employee. Administrators can easily track performance, monitor growth, and make informed decisions to optimize operations.
3. Enhanced Management Dashboards
We’ve improved the management of Venues, Services, Employees, and Orders. Quickly access key data such as income, cancellation rates, and booking numbers—empowering you to run your business more efficiently.
4. Expanded Language Support
We’ve updated and refined our language files for German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, and French. Enjoy a smoother experience for you and your international customers!
5. New Payment Gateway Options
Offer more flexibility at checkout! OS Services Booking 4.0 introduces updates for Offline Payment, Stripe, and Stripe Checkout, making transactions secure and seamless.
6. Sleek New Credit Card Form
Our redesigned credit card form offers a modern look and improved usability, ensuring a smooth and trustworthy payment process for your clients.
7. Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
We’ve listened to your feedback and fixed issues from previous versions, delivering a more stable and reliable platform.
OS Services Booking 3.0 delivers major code improvements and updates for faster performance and future compatibility, now supporting Joomla 4 and 5, and moving towards Joomla 6. The new version includes enhanced database handling, new layouts for easier customization, and a brand new backend Dashboard.
The redesigned Dashboard offers a modern, professional look and provides comprehensive booking statistics and key system information at a glance, making management easier than ever.
Other highlights include direct service booking without selecting an employee, a fast Ajax-powered Monthly Calendar, beautiful new email templates, customer QR codes, booking history tracking, and improved search layouts. Almost all frontend layouts have also been refreshed for a smoother user experience.
Upgrade now to enjoy a smarter, faster, and more flexible booking system with OS Services Booking 3.0!
1. Improve Backend Dashboard layout
2. Add layout to show order items of booking
3. Improve Monthly calendar layout
4. Improve Checkout layout
5. Improve Custom fields showing
6. Add option to apply rest time to the whole service's employees and linked service after booking
1. Improved extension code structure to make layouts to work well on Joomla 5
2. Support multilingual with invoices
3. Improve booking summary
4. Add new version available alert at Dashboard of extension
5. Fix issue in statistic chart at Dashboard
6. Fix issue on ics generation
7. Fix issue on removing order items
8. Fix issue on booking progress
1. Improve function to manage order items
2. Improve new version notification
3. Add employee working layout
4. Add some minor improvements
5. Fix previous issues
- Improve Code structure
- Improve frontend layouts
- Improve payment library
- Add OSB Zoom plugin
- Fix issues in previous versions