Squeeze Page in Arigato PRO Autoresponder

From version 2.4.2 the WordPress autoresponder plugin Arigato PRO supports a very easy method for creating squeeze / landing page. Everyone who have tried to do this with a WordPress blog knows how much pain usually this is and that it often requires installing more plugins or a special squeeze theme.

Well, no more, at least with Arigato PRO. Just go to the “Squeeze page” in the menu and you’ll see a form like this:

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This form lets you select whether your blog homepage will be the “Squeeze” or a selected published post or page. Then all you need to do is to place the HTML code of a complete landing page in the box, and add the Arigato subscribe form code for the mailing list you want to use.

If you prefer to use the shortcode syntax you need also to add the script code that is displayed under the big box (not shown here).

The HTML code you enter should contain a complete HTML page with header and body tags. The WordPress header will not be added.

If you need samples, you can find many free landing page templates online. We are going to offer some Arigato-specific ones in the near future.

If you want to see a live demo of such page have a look at our demo blog.

How To Use Contact Form 7 in WatuPRO “Final Screen”?

Before answering this, I recommend you to request contact information using this built-in method of WatuPRO. You can also have emails sent with the quiz plugin so in most cases you don’t really need to integrate a contact form in the quiz output.

If you still need to do it, it’s easy. Just switch off “Ajax” for the selected quiz from WatuPRO Settings page, section “AJax in quizzes“. Once you do this, you can include the Contact form 7 shortcode in the “Final page / quiz output” are and it will work.

Contact form 7 will not work in Ajax-loaded page so the above setting is absolutely required.

Rooms with Overbooking in Hostel PRO

From version 1.6 the hostel management WordPress plugin Hostel PRO has a new option that allows overbooking the number of beds in a room.

What’s the purpose?

Some hostels have multiple rooms of the same type, same price etc. Their owners don’t want to confuse users with for example 10 rooms of the same type in the drop-down on the booking form. Why should you list 10 “2-bed private ensuite” with the same price when you can list it only once?

“Allow overbooking” feature solves this problem.

How to use It?

In the add / edit room page you’ll see a new field saying “Allow overbooking up to [   ] beds”:

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Enter the total number of beds you have in rooms of the same type. For example if you have 5 rooms with two beds, enter 10 here.

Keep the number of beds in the room the real one – if it’s a 2 beds room, enter 2 in the “number of beds” field, not 10. The total number should only go in the “Allow overbooking up to…” field.

Create only one room – there is no need to create all the 5 rooms in the system.

When user searches for room they will be able to book even if there are other bookings for the room for the same date – until all the rooms are booked. In the above example, if there are already 5 bookings for given date range, the 6th time someone tries to book, they’ll see the room is unavailable.

This setting works both for private and dorm rooms. Have in mind that when using it for dorms there is a risk that some group of people may need to be separated in 2 or more of the available rooms because the system will allow booking until all the beds are taken.