[13-November-2024] Events Booking version 5.0.2 releases

Dear customers !

Today, I am happy to announce the next major release of Events Booking, version 5.0.0. Below are the improvements in this release:

1. Added Task - Events Booking House Keeping plugin

This plugin allows you to create schedule tasks to clean up Events Booking database and storage like deleting old invoices, tickets, certificates, remove registration records which use online payment methods but did not process payment...

+ Events Booking - Delete Old Invoices: If you enable invoice feature in Events Booking, for each registration, the system will create a PDF invoice and store in on a folder on server. Creating the schedule task for this task will help removing
these old invoices to save server disk space.
+ Events Booking - Delete PDF Tickets: This allows deleting old PDF tickes to save server disk space.
+ Events Booking - Delete PDF Certificates: This allows deleting old PDF certificates to save server disk space.
+ Events Booking - Delete Incomplete Payment Registrations: This allows removing registration records choose to use online payment methods such as PayPal, Stripe.... but did not complete payment (payment is failed, ignore...) after certain number of days
+ Events Booking - Clean Emails Log: This allows deleting email log records which are older than certain number of days.

2. Improve Full Calendar Menu Item Type

- Added Show Filter Bar parameter. If set to Yes, a filter will be displayed above calendar to allow searching, filtering events by category, location. See how it works on the demo site demo.joomdonation.com/eventsbooking/calendar/calendar-modern

3. SEO Improvements

Added Robots setting for category and event.

4. Other Improvements

- Improve User Registration Integration: Added Use Email As Username config option. If set to Yes, users can use email as username when create a new user account through event registration form

- Added Interval parameter to Improve Advanced Events Slider Module to allow control the auto play interval duration of the slider

- Improve Event Details Page: Display Event Custom Fields on event details page of parent event.

- Added config option to allow controlling invoice page format.

- Allow disable sending ICS file for individual event.

- Improve Events Booking - Webhook plugin: Added parameter to allow sending registrant data to external URL even for offline payment registration which are still Pending.

- Show image preview of the uploaded image file on Registrants Management screen

5. Updated Payment Plugins

- Some payment plugins like SaferPay Json, Stripe, Stripe Checkout were being updated to latetst version of their provided library to make sure it is fully compatible with current PHP versions
- Updated Clover Hosted Checkout payment plugin to only pass address data to Clover if address field is collected on registration form

5. Bugs Fixes:
- Fixed voucher not working due to a bug in 5.0.1
- Fixed sponsor not being displayed on slider layout of Sponsor plugin
- Fixed pagination link not working on search result page (due to some changes in Joomla 5.2.0)

Please update your site to this latest version of Events Booking to use these improvements. Thanks for continue using our products and support our development

Regards,

Tuan

Hi Tuan,
Firstly thank you for some very nice new features, The Housekeeping plugin looks really useful.
On quick question on Stripe. Looking at my downloads, the Stripe  checkout plugin is version is 5.0.2. Is this the latest one that I should download and install? My current version is 4.5.0
Kind regards David

Hi David

Yes. That's latest version. You should download and update your site to that latest version

Regards,

Tuan

Hi Tuan--

The new "Delete Incomplete Payment Registrations" looks like a very useful feature, as we have been doing that manually previously. I've now installed the plugin; however, I am unable to locate where that parameter is set--please advise.

Also, you indicate the parameter is set in days. Is it possible to set in minutes as well?

Thanks--

Jim

Hi Jim

Go to System -> Schedule Tasks, press new button in the toolbar to create a new schedule task for Events Booking - Delete Incomplete Payment Registrations task type

The parameters can only be set in days. You should not set it to minutes because sometime, it takes more than few minutes for users to complete payment for registration in case they need to be redirected to payment gateway like PayPal for processing payment

There is no rush with deleting the data. It is just kind of clean up data from database to remove the un-wanted records only

Regards,

Tuan

Normally, these records are not being displayed on registrants management unless you set Show Incomplete Payment Registrations config option to Yes. So no need to worry about it

Regards,

Tuan

Thanks, Tuan.

We display/monitor these fairly regularly, often see a second successful attempt to register once the shopper comes back to the event reg page, and then delete the unsuccessful registration. We have also set the delay in holding the registrant's position in the class to 15 minutes to avoid overcapacity registrations yet still provide time for payment (PayPal). However, it would be useful to have the option, if not minutes, then hours.

Thanks--

Jim

Hi Jim

I still do not understand why do you need that rush. The kind of registration is not counted as registrant for your event and by default, not being displayed on Registrants Management

Deleting these records is just kind of database clean up to remove unnecessary records only, it does not affect the way the extension works, so it does not have to be hours after registration

Regards,

Tuan

Hi Tuan

Where do I find the Events Booking House Keeping plugin ?
I can't find the option under Schedule tasks.

Regards
Sunil

Hi Sunil

You need to access to Joomla Plugins Management page, find and enable the plugin Task - Events Booking House Keeping

After that, you can create these schedule tasks. I guess you haven't enabled the plugin yet

Tuan