Welcome to the Jomres Vanilla Quickstarts.
There are two Quickstarts for Joomla 4 and one for Wordpress. Jomres is a portal system, however the Single Property Quickstart demonstrates that it is a fully functional Jomres installation that you can use as a basis for your own online booking website for just one property.
Installation instructions for Vanilla Quickstarts are the same as for the demo Quickstarts however you do not need to install the plugin manager or do any discovery.
They are fully installed and configured installation of Jomres Core on Joomla and Wordpress. They are a straightforward, bloat-free installation of the CMS, Jomres Core, a handful of it's plugins plus Akeeba Backup. It's purpose is to save you time when setting up a Jomres installation for the first time.
Jomres powerful, it is somewhere in the region of half a million lines (including libraries and plugins) of code, so it can be daunting for the new user. Using these Quickstarts will help you to get started with Jomres without needing to refer too much to documentation.
No, they are free downloads, you can use them in whatever way suits your needs.
You're welcome to use these Quickstarts as a basis for creating your online booking website. Jomres Core is a complete booking system which you can, if you wish, extend through it's plugins however you're free to use these Quickstarts as is. Add your own template/theme, or just customise the child template. Add modules/widgets or not, it's up to you. You can even follow the documentation on how to create your own plugins, if you want.
There are a couple of Jomres templates and scripts in the template override directory. These are there mainly to show you how to override Jomres Core templates and Jomres scripts.
The world is your oyster. Let's see what you can do with it.
By default Jomres is configured for taking bookings for hotels, villas, apartments, any kind of hospitality system you wish. It can, however, be used for any resource that is booked out by the day. We've seen it used for cars, golf courses, even parking garages.
First we recommend that you ensure that the CMS and any plugins installed are updated. Once you've done that, visit Akeeba backup in the Components menu and create a backup of your installation. Once you've done that you've got a baseline installation. If you make a mistake that you don't know how to roll back, or if you just want to start again, you can, quickly and easily using this backup.
Visit the Administrator > Jomres control panel. If it alerts you with any warnings, resolve them. You can explore this area if you want, but you shouldn't need to make any changes if you're using Jomres for the first time. Instead, move onto the next step.
Next, visit the Bookings page of the Main Menu while logged in as Administrator. This will take you to the property management pages. All property management is done via the frontend, public facing pages.
From this area you can preview your property, set your real world address, change prices, configure your payment gateway(s), upload images via the Media Centre and more. Change those settings to match your real-world property and you'll be able to take bookings online in no time.
Some, it depends on the plugin.
Those plugins that we consider necessary for virtually any Jomres installation (such as the Alternative Init plugin, which is required for shortcodes to work on non-Jomres pages) are free to install, as are most of the REST API plugins. Other plugins you will need a valid license key to install them.
If I use this Quickstart then decide later that I want to get a license to download plugins, can I do that?
Yes.
Once you have a valid license key go to Administrator > Jomres > Settings > Site Configuration and save your license key there. Once you've done that, you can install any of the plugins listed in the Jomres plugin manager.
Yes.
Jomres Core comes with the Stripe payment gateway already installed. You will need to visit your property's Payment Gateways configuration page to set your Stripe API keys and other information. Just follow the instructions on that page.
Visit Administrator > Jomres > Tools > Shortcodes. This page is dynamically generated so any shortcodes listed there are already available for you to use in modules or articles.
These installations come pre-installed with two shortcodes already configured.
The Property Widget module uses it. You can use this as a guide to see how to create your own custom modules/widgets.
The second one is in the List Properties article/page, which shows you how you can use shortcodes in articles/pages.
Yes. See the Jomres Site Manager's guide, Translations section.
All label translations are saved to the database, there's no need to modify language files and Jomres Core comes with 38 language files by default.
No, there's no limit.
You can add as many properties as you like.
Yes.
To change that visit Administrator > Components > Jomres > Settings > Site Configuration > Portal Functionality tab and set the "Users can register their businesses?" setting to No.
Nothing except the satisfaction of knowing that I'm providing a free and Open Source online booking engine. Jomres Core is, and always will be, free.
Lots, probably. The best resource for information about Jomres is the Documentation pages on Jomres.net. In this article we've given you a quick summary of stuff that you'll likely need to know to get the ball rolling however there's lots more to learn about Jomres' capabilities. If you decide that Jomres is the tool you want to use for building your next online booking website, the documentation pages are full of hints and tips and guidance on how to get the best out of the system.