Product Comparison

Product comparison Chart

What is the difference between Resource Booking Pro and Appointment Booking Pro?

With RBPro the user-tells-you when they want the booking. The user sets the start and end times.

With ABPro you-tell-the-user what time blocks are available. They pick one of the available timeslots or appointments.

 

  RBPro   ABPro
Joomla version 1.5.x X   X
New ! Extras - define any number of extra charge items.     X
New! Seats per Booking - Optionally define a number of 'seats' for a resource and define set types (Adult, Child, etc).     X
New! Coupons - Create any number of coupon codes, give to your customer for discounted booking charges.     X
New! Mobile Apps - limited functionality Android, iPhone, BlackBerry aplications.  X   X
Google Calendar support2 X   X
Full featured administration back-end. X   X
Limited Community Builder support (pull data from CB profile) X   X
Limited JoomSocial support (pull data from JS profile) X   X
JCalPro2 support2 X   X
Multi-day bookings X    
Define any number of timeslots in a day, global and/or resource specific     X
Specify days of the week to allow booking, globally or by resource X   X
Front-end administration, resource administrators do not need Joomla back-end access. X   X
PayPal - accept PayPal payments at booking time. X   X
SMS text messaging for reminders and notifications. X   X
Front-Desk or Calendar view for resource administrators, month/week/day views     X
cron jobs for handling automated reminders. X   X
Integration with 3rd party calendars; JCalPro2, Google Calendar and Eventlist.2 X   X
Define Categories for resources - example physical locations or departments. X   X
Define Services offered by resources, an attribute the visitor chooses. X   X
Define unlimited number of user defined fields (UDFs) X   X
Graphic availability display (GAD) booking screen, see which slots are available and which ones are booked X   X
Resource Specific UDFs - define UDFs (user defined fields) that vary depending on which resource is chosen. X   X
Assigned resource administrator(s), any user can be assigned as a resource administrator. X   X
Define Book-off days for each resource. X   X
Copy timeslots or book-off days from one resource to one or more others. X   X
Front-end booking cancellation. X   X
Front-end user's My Bookings screen. X   X
Auto accept bookings. X   X
Specify what field is displayed on the optional 3rd party calendars. X   X
Edit key outgoing message text in admin c/w token field inserts X   X
Data fields in confirmation message. X   X
Listing screens c/w paging, sorting, filtering. X   X
Export requests or PayPal info to csv for reporting. X   X
Admin edit screen for language file and css. X   X
Service based costs - define costs by service X   X
Service based duration - define booking duration by service. X   X
       
Support via Email and Forum posting 1 X   X
       
Price $49   $49

1 Posting access is limited to paid customers
2 See 3rd Party Calendar limitations