Training Tutorial Videos | Joomla | Introducing Jombok: Perhaps the Simplest, Low Cost Yet Most Effective Time-based Booking System Available for Joomla Powered Websites

If there's one thing that I'm sure about, it's that the Internet is full of gems. Problem is, like all gems, sometimes the best tools and resources are not always easy to find. They may be almost hidden away in some wonderful corner of the Web. In today's article and video below, I want to tell about another remarkable discovery I made recently while researching web design options for one of our web design clients here at InternetTIPS.com.

Jombok is a rather special website add-on that offers an ideal way to take bookings, or rent or reserve time-based services and then manage those same bookings through an online calendar.

Jombok is ideal for anyone who charges for their time and offers one or more services on specific dates. For example:

• Authors of all types.
• Writers.
• Folks who provide web-based seminars (webinars).
• Anyone who delivers workshops, meetings, shows or networking events.
• Marketers in all fields.
• Consultants who consult on any market.
• Entrepreneurs.
• Website owners who provide one or more services.
• Web designers.
• Programmers.
• Contractors.
• Restaurateurs.
• Accommodation providers (hotels, bed and breakfast establishments, guest houses, etc.).
• And so on ...

In fact, the full list of service providers who could benefit from using the excellent, highly effective, low-cost Jombok add-on is most likely long and varied.

Without a solution like Jombok, setting up web forms, services, payment processing and resulting management of those same resources can become a nightmare. Jombok does the hard work, the number crunching and so on, leaving you to get on with generating business and building relationships with your service users.

In a single sentence: Jombok seeks to be the simplest and yet most effective time-based booking system available for Joomla! Does it reach that goal? I think so: here's why.

What Makes Jombok Special? Let's Explore Some Features and the Benefits That Jombok License Holders Can Enjoy

Here are some key features:

• Jombok offers individual online booking in such a way to ensure that any slot booked doesn't conflict with other bookings.This way, Jombok can prevent double bookings being made.
  
• Like all powerful tools, Jombok is highly configurable. Yet, surprisingly is still easy to use after only a little familiarization time and some practice.
• Jombok uses the idea of resources and services, then links the two. You create one or more resources each of which can have one or more services. For example, a writer could be a resource. Our writer may provide a range of services like: writing articles, editing, copy writing, writing books, carrying out appraisals, teaching, mentoring, consulting, and so on. Here's another example: a consultant can also be a resource, who may provide a range of services such as: consultancy, reviews, mentor-ship programs, interim management, and so on.
• Jombok also includes flexible, built in holiday commands that allow you to specify dates for which you don't want to accept bookings. For example, you may decide that you don't want to work over the Christmas period, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, or any other special time. An interesting twist of using the holiday commands is to use this same method to offer and manage events-type bookings in contrast to the more usual schedule-type bookings.
• Moreover, you can also use the ad-hoc command to accept bookings that are not tied to any resource, date or time.
• Jombok lets you accept multiple bookings. So if you have a group of say 9 people, Jombok can book them all in at the same time under one transaction for the same service.
• The suppliers of Jombok, those nice folks at Jomres.net, also provide an easy to follow, quick to load, plain-English web-based tutorial video that can give you a good basic introduction to Jombok. Suggestion: allow about 15 minutes to play the video a couple of times.
• Jombok automatically matches the look and feel of your website design in an almost seamless way. So link colors, font styles, use the same settings that you have already established. Yet you can still customize further if required.
  
• For payment processing, Jombok plugs directly into PayPal. You can also plug Jombok into a range of other payment processors though various third party providers.
• Without doubt, Jombok can be considered a low-cost, high return investment! Here's why: at the time of writing, a Jombok license for a single website domain name costs only ?10, about 14.5 EUR, or about $20 USD. So if selling time- and / or date-based services on the web is for you, I recommend that you don't wait too long. Jombok may not be available for much longer at that price. To invest in your copy of Jombok, you can visit Jomres.net at the link provided at the end of this article.
• Jombok uses AJAX technology.That means, every time a user makes a choice from the options available and enters information, Jombok updates its own display accordingly without forcing the web browser to reload the entire web page. Result: a perceived increase in speed of response. Welcome to the world of AJAX.
  
• After a booking is made, PayPal sends one email to your customer to show what was purchased, another email to you, the service provider, to confirm what you sold, and Jombok records all the key information relating to the booking in its own online calendar that is installed as part of Jombok on your website.
• You can choose whether to make the Jombok online calendar private so that only authorized users can log in and see the calendar of bookings, or you can make the calendar public so that everyone can check your schedule.
• Sometimes, you'll have questions, so the providers of Jombok also make available a helpful knowledge base and a ticket-based support system at Jomres.net.

See Jombok in Action: One Example Implementation

Below is an introductory video clip that briefly shows one implementation of Jombok. In a later video clip, we'll outline the precise steps we take to install and configure Jombok to provide and manage a range of services that web publishers commonly offer.

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