The Codex of Business Writing Software for Real-World Solutions 2.pptx
Discoveroom Mobile App Walkthrough
1.
2. Login-Register
Existing users, press “login” to go
to the login page.
If you are a new user, press
“register” to go to the registration
page to create a new account.
3. Register
Fill in your email. Preferably, this
should also be the email of the
lodging, but it is not required.
Choose a password. A valid
password must contain a mix of
lower case and upper case letter,
numbers and special characters.
4. Activate
The password that picked in the
registration page will be pre-filled
here.
Copy and paste here the activation
code that was sent to you via
email.
5. Notifications
The home page of discoveroom is
the area where you can receive
information about important
upcoming events that require
potential action.
For events that require action,
such as communicating with clients
about their arrival or an overdue
advance, button-icons allow you to
quickly drop an email or call them,
provided that this piece of
information was entered in the
original reservation
6. Menu
Tapping on the top left icon, or
sliding the screen to the right,
reveals the main menu of the
application.
The first area that will require your
attention is setting up your
lodging. Until you complete this,
the reservations menu will be
inactive.
7. Lodging settings
The steps that you need to take to
complete the lodging setting, are
listed here from top to bottom and
must be followed with this order.
Before the completion of each step
, the following will be inactive.
8. Lodging settings / details
Fill the general information of your
lodging. The information will serve
for you identification.
9. Lodging settings / map
Press the icon on top right to
allow the phone to locate your
position.
Touch and hold the marker to
move it elsewhere if you desire so.
10. Lodging settings / room types
This is an example list of room
types. The number indicates how
many rooms of such a type are
set.
11. Lodging settings / room types
To create or edit a new room type,
the important elements are the
name, the number of beds and the
pricing.
Amenities are optional.
12. Lodging settings / seasons
Here is an example list of
seasons . Seasons are timeperiods classified as of one of low,
mid or high and affect pricing.
13. Lodging settings / seasons
Pick a date range that suits your
purpose, give it a name so that you
remember what is it about classify
it as Mid or High.
Low is the default for all days and
does not need to be set.
14. Lodging settings / rooms
An example list of room shorted by
room number.
For each room, the room type is
also shown.
15. Lodging settings / rooms
Adding or editing a room is easy:
assign it a number and one of the
room types you have defined.
16. Reservations
Open the reservations
colour legend
Roll calendar back to
“Today”
Change calendar date range
Rooms list
Reservations are colour coded
Tap and empty square to create
a new reservation
17. Color code
Each reservation state is given a
different colour in order to be easily
distinguishable.
The colour code is explained here.
18. New reservation
Adding a new reservation by taping
an empty square on the calendar,
pre-fills the check-in date and the
selected room.
Reservations where an advance is
required are created as tentative
by default.
Clients Email and Phone are
optional. If filled in, they will make
the relevant buttons appear in the
home page.
Scroll down the screen to reveal
the free text note area.
19. Settings
For the time being, the setting are
displays preset values.
In the future, it will allow you to
customise the application further.