WinVideo v3 internet reservation module
Friday, July 31st, 2009
The front-end of your reservation center
Using WinVideo v3 internet reservation module, you can create a portal with all movies on entire your network.
Your members will continue to reserve on local installations as now, but you can also create a big portal with entire list of movies and reservations to integrate it in your home page with centralized members and movies database.
The WinVideo v3 internet reservation module will run on your main page, for example: http://www.myvideostore.com and not on your local video-store.
What about the differences?
Using actual WinVideo internet reservation (wvcgi)
actually your members must navigate to reserve a movie, one by one, on your locations:
- Location 1
- Location 2
- Location 3
- …
then search for movies, reserve, etc.
Each time they must login to every location, etc….
Using WinVideo v3 reservation module
there is no need for members to select a location to browse and login!
Just let them select (for example) http://www.yourvideostore.com/reserve (we also can provide you a joomla extension) and your members will access to entire list of movies on *all* locations and members can validate with user/password without the need to access to remote locations.
When the member will click on a product, system will show:
- available on Main Store…
- available on Handy Mart…
- available on Aloha…
- availebla on …
and member will reserve the nearest product to its location.
The entire WinVideo 3.00 internet reservation module will run on your web site (www.yourvideostore.com) using mySql database and php programming language.
All your data (including members, movies, transactions, recharges) will be kept up-to-date on both mySql and WinVideo database using transparent automatic routines: no need to upload files.
Advantages
Using WinVideo 3.00 internet reservation module you can:
- Add new members to WinVideo database from your home page: just let them input their data and validate them with a click: they will start renting after your click
- Give to your customers a movie global search option
- Use e-commerce integrated module with WinVideo sell products
- Show entire list of your movies: on videstore and on dispensers
- Create mailing lists with your members: automatic email for monthly news, hit parades, etc.
- Send promotional offers to most active members (recharge coupons, etc)
- Let a member to reserve a movie from its nearest location
- Let you actual configuration as is: no need to make changes or hardware upgrades
- have a mySql centralized database
- have source code of the software (entirely written in php, html with ajax support)
- customize each part of the software with, .css, templates, html, etc.
- run the software on your high-band host (BlueHost, goDaddy, etc. for example). The WinVideo v3 reservation module is platform-indipendent: you can run it on Windows, Linux, BSD, and many others.
- run the software on your selectors (only in this case you will need to make changes to software on the selectors)
When the mouse is over the movie picture
Installation
To install WinVideo 3.00 internet reservation module, there is no need to change anything on your local installation. It works 100% web and very fast.
Demo
Want to see a partial-running demo using your products?
click on: http://www.visualrent.com/wvcgi/?video=3
(sorry, it is in italian language but you can change templates as you need, including languages).
Select a product and click on pic: a real time scanner will start on your locations and will show availability.
If available, a popup will be shown to your member such as:
“Movie Title” is available on:
[list of your locations where available with infos, maps, etc]
do you want to reserve it? select a location and:
- Yes, reserve now for 2 hours
- Yes, reserve now for X hours (the member will be billed for each requested extra hour)
- Keep it in my wish list (shown if the movie is not available: when available an email/sms will be sent to the member);
- Rate this movie (five stars rating)
- Send a feedback about this movie (an email will be sent to you with member feedback)
- Show similar movies
- Members rented this movies also rented…
- Register now (if anonymous member, it will be redirected to login page and you will receive a detailed email with member data, so you can validate him with a click: member will receive a confirmation email with PIN code and instructions)
So the member will select the nearest location and reserve it.
Demo limitations
- The locations popup is actually not working with demo since we did not enable your location stores to receive reservation from main site: you will just get a “Available” or “not available” flag (it checks for availability in real time).
- The member login is disabled: if you are interested in this software, we will install it on your server and member database will stay on your server: since the demo is running on our servers at WinVideo.net located in Genoa, we cannot collect member informations for privacy reasons.
- The ecommerce module has been disabled.
If you need more informations, feel free to ask.
FAQ
Should I upgrade my WinVideo to version 3?
No. You can also keep your WinVideo version 0.99 or 1.xx or 2.xx. TheWinVideo v3 reservation module is completely independent from your installation in the shop, even if working on the same archives.
To install the module have I to be an expert programmer?
Absolutely not, the module is designed to give you more opportunities for your business and not to let you spend time in the settings or programming.
You only need to know that you can customize it as you like better because you have the source code: if you have a programmer, we will give him full support about the implementation of any customization.
If you decide to trust in our team about the management of configurations and customizations, we will be honored and will follow you with the utmost professionalism.
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