OBMS covers the whole booking process in real time (prices, notifications, availability, secure online payment option etc.), keeps your site consistent to avoid confusion, eg generated up-to-date price lists, is (unlimited) multilingual to suit foreign visitors (please register your interest in particular languages to be added to the current default range (English, German)), is visually fully customised to fit into your website's look-and-feel (No website yet? We get you one - explore recent samples), comprises of fully web-based customer and administration interfaces available always and everywhere, integrates various prestigious online payment providers to ensure highest security standards (see below for our partners), relies on an open architecture to fit into your business rather than demanding you to fit in. keeps you in the driving seat by respecting your central authority over all bookings rather than ending up with overbooking due to others taking ownership of the booking process (However, if you prefer to fully outsource, we're happy to provide such service).

OBMS by architecture strictly seperates business logic and presentation, i.e. any component realises its user interface (the visible web page) based on external templates and style sheets controlling the final appearance on the screen. This allows any components of OBMS and thus the whole system to smoothly integrate into any existing website look-and-feel.

OBMS's unlimited multilingual feature is owed to the template-based user interfaces, too. Any further language is simply added through another set of templates. At the same time OBMS simply falls back to a default language, eg English, should a language-specific set (or parts of it) be missing.

OBMS is fully web-based, i.e. anything resides on a web server - ours if hosting OBMS with us and just linking to it from your website or yours if hosting OBMS yourself. In either case OBMS doesn't rely on cookies, i.e. doesn't keep anything on the user's machine. Thus OBMS will even run smoothly if users have deactivated these features judging them to be harmful.

OBMS's open object oriented architecture easily allows enhancements or even customisations of the (first-hand fixed) business logic. Thus we're always happy about suggestions to make OBMS even better or incorporate your individual requirements as custom or standard features. OBMS is supposed to serve our customers' business at its best - not the other way around.

This is the major tool for anyone running an OBMS installation. It allows the administration of any OBMS feature as well as the ongoing operation itself. Needless to mention users need to be authorised to use this tool by logging in with user name and password.

OBMS administration features available to any admin are the

• setup of bookable items, eg accommodation facilities: name, number of instances, (de)activation,
• maintenance of conditions (base charge, deposit amount and due, balance due) for each item and optional elements dependant on date and different booking types (weekly, daily, per person or item etc.),
• setup of notifications used throughout the booking process, i.e. content of emails produces at certain stages and send to admins, customers etc.
• preview to any user interfaces available to your customers including link presentation to simply copy-paste into your own website to integrate it with OBMS. This as well gives the admin a shortcut to them, eg to process booking requests made by phone.
• generation of newsletter mail shots using mailing list opt-ins.

In addition, lead admins, i.e. those responsible for the overall administration (applicable only for larger venues and thus only available in these editions), are able to

• organise multiple administrators: logins, contact email (eg for notifications), (de)activation,
• granting and revoking of lead admin rights,
• mapping of items onto specific admins.

OBMS operation features available to any admin allow to enter and track bookings including

• access to all details,
• confirmation and payment status,
• receipt, reminder and further notification issue,
• the overall booking state, eg occupancy and availability level, details, calendar etc.

This actually represents the range of OBMS user interfaces available to your customers. It's these interfaces linked into your website to integrate it with OBMS.

OBMS Price Lists featuring any combination of

• item(s) including options,
• booking type(s) applicable (weekly, daily, per person or item etc.),
• covering whatever time span.

OBMS Item Availability visualising any combination of

• booked dates,
• available dates,
• presented as list,
• presented as calendar etc.

OBMS Booking Process for a certain item, possibly booking type specific, comprising of the steps

• availability visualisation,
• acquisition of customer's date choice,
• display of resulting total and payment schedule,
• acquisition of customer details and payment method,
• display of terms & conditions,
• retrieval of booking placement including terms & conditions acceptance and mailing list opt-in facility,
• connection to external secure online payment provider if applicable,
• booking confirmation.

This component is only available with the OBMS MultiClient Edition.

The MultiClient Edition accommodates an unlimited number of OBMS installations, i.e. each installation represents one client.

The component enables the administration of client base settings:

• setup of new clients,
• name, (de)activation, expiry date of licence,
• maintenance of lead admin account(s) (login/password reset),
• selection of activated languages from list of available one's,
• selection of activated payment methods from list of available one's.

For details on the different licences, editions and further services available, please refer to our price list.