Glenmore Lodge
Glenmore Lodge is a national sporting centre based in Aviemore providing coaching for all levels in many sporting activities. Training courses are delivered for sporting enthusiasts and assessment courses are carried out for leaders and instructors. Glenmore Lodge is also a national resource to the outdoor industry offering advice, event facilities and training.
With courses ranging from rock climbing, mountain biking, skiing, kayaking and first aid it was a priority for the centre to have a system which was appealing for visitors to view and easy to understand and navigate through. Our course booking system fitted their requirements and we quickly set to work integrated and coding the system into the website.
The course booking system has provided Glenmore Lodge with a user friendly system with the functionality required to reduce their administration and organise and schedule training courses more effectively. Different courses can be split into multiple groups, with course information displays; image uploads and full online booking facilities. The system is completely content managed enabling course info to be edited, pricing to be set, courses to be scheduled and customer data to be downloaded and analysed. There is also the option to set specific courses to "enquire now" if the course requires sales staff to speak directly to the student. The "enquire now" feature generates an enrolment form for visitors to fill in which will trigger e-mails to sales staff so they can complete the course booking process manually.
The system also has the facility to enable past students to click on any of the courses displayed and upload images and comments - great for letting potential customers hear about past students adventures!
The course booking system has been in operation at Glenmore Lodge for a number of years and the firm have seen a fantastic return on the initial investment made. Why not visit Glenmore Lodge to see e-availability.com's course booking system in action.
SailTime Training
e-availability was commissioned by SailTime Europe to create an online course booking system which was set to very specific requirements. This project demonstrates e-availability's skill, ability and competence at understanding clients' needs and developing solutions which are right for both the business and their end customers.
We developed the web pages for the training site, mimicking the look and feel of the original SailTime website to create a seamless training site fitting with the company's brand. The site was developed using the latest in Microsoft technology utilising the latest.NET framework, enabling cool calendar features. The course booking system was seamlessly integrated into the web pages and the pages are all content managed giving the users full control over updating home, type and course pages easily and quickly. Courses are added to a shopping basket allowing customers to conveniently add multiple courses to a 'basket'. Secure online payments are catered for through integration with Sagepay, with the customer and administrator receiving confirmation emails within seconds of the payment being made online.
Other functionality includes a new dynamic calendar display, the ability to search by location and show late availability on the home page. Furthermore, past students also have the ability to upload images from training and submit comments online. This is a fantastic way to create a site where visitors can interact and share experiences. The scheduling of courses can be split over multiple day blocks via the admin system, enabling the staff to easily show when courses span over two or three months.
Some bespoke coding was also required to enable boats to be allocated to scheduled courses. Once maximum occupancy has been reached for any particular boat a trigger e-mail is sent to the administrator to alert them that a new boat should be allocated if more customers wish to book. This new boat can then be scheduled across multiple courses which are running at the same time.
Website: SailTime Training