Solve your seat booking problem with RAGS. The seat plan window is a snapshot of your current availability.  Using the RAGS (Reynardine Availability Graphing System) with your custom seat plan supplied with your version of RAGS all is contained in one easy to manage pane. The booking slots are general purpose, the layout of the slots and the legend assigned to each slot represent what you want them to be:
eg: Restaurant seats, theatre seats, train seats, coach seats. OR time slots: days of the week eg: booking holiday lets (villas or hotel/ B+B rooms), squash courts, golf rounds, appointments etc,etc. All the views below are what you would see booking in the office. In each case, you are actually viewing an html page which is local on your computer. RAGS now has the ability to create and upload to your website a shopping cart of seat/time/date availability based on that in your office RAGS database. Customers can then book on-line using the secure PROTX card processing gateway. See this demoed . Your website will always reflect the availability in your office RAGS booking system. These online bookings are stored in a database on your website. Office side, RAGS can now interrogate these bookings seamlessly, with a single click create the booking in RAGS and print the ticket. ( Protx also sends a confirmation email to your customer and you that the booking was made ).

 ( Protx provides secure online credit card and debit card payment solutions for thousands of online and mail order businesses across the UK. It has a simple pricing structure, see http:/www.protx.com )
Click Here for FLASH DEMO ( theatre )
Click Here for FLASH DEMO ( train with carriages)
Click Here for FLASH DEMO of uploading availability to book on-line (theatre)

Call: Mike Thompson, Reynardine Software, +44 (0)1227 700397 (Canterbury, Kent)
The latest version of RAGS can now use actual floor plans and overlay the booking details. This makes it great for restaurants, theatres, exhibition centres, conference centres, lecture theatres etc,etc. Create a floor seat plan in a drawing program from your architect's drawings and save it as a .gif or .jpeg, ( you could even use a photo taken from a balcony? ). All the seats can then be made 'hot':




Here is an example of a plan for a steam train special using concatonated plans to represent different carriage layouts:



Here is an example of a plan for a large 1000 seat theatre:

  



Here is your customer details, RAGS is optionally integrated to PostCode Anywhere for instant filling of details from post code:

 

and their booking details, RAGS is integrated to Barcalys epdq for instant check and debit of credit cards for telephone bookings :
  

 



A request form sent from your web site, if you have one, will send an email to you. RAGS can be configured to import these into the customer database as a new customer:



If you have the online web shop part installed, the office part of RAGS will build a shopping cart based on your current availability and send it to your website. Customers can then book seats online, they can even optionally see a current availability seat plan and choose the seats where they would like to sit  See this demoed .. Office RAGS can now seamlessly see the online bookings, with a single click create the booking in RAGS and print a ticket:



 



Below is an example of a seat plan for a restaurant. You can quickly generate an event for every day of the year for every sitting in the restaurant. The seating plan of the restaurant is incorporated into each event. You can fast find the event then click on available blue seats to book, click on red seats to see who is booked. The customer database has fast find on all fields.

 


The Analysis/Mail filter allows you to quickly filter to a set of customers who match a search criteria. You can then send a message to all the filter with a single click. You can attach a file attachment also. With an additional module you can send the message via an SMS web service to their mobile phone as a text message:

  



Do you have a Special Steam Train or Road coach to fill?

The seat plan software is very versatile. It can be used to generate custom trains or coach seat plans. Seat plans for all your coaches are provided to you as templates. You can assign coaches to build a train. The booking window is always immediately able to be transmitted as a web page to show at your web site the availability of your steam train special , restaurant car, european road coach trip - and more. First build a train: 



then use the train attached to an event:



At the office, seat reservations are made and entered into the booking system. Seat prices are automatically totalled. You can also add in custom catering, useful for dining cars. Catering requests are totalled and added to the ticket costs. At this point of booking, if you have accounts with Barclays and PostcodeAnywhere, you can use Barclays epdq to instantly check/debit charge cards and autofill the address for new customers using PostcodeAnywhere




Got a hotel or B+B? Below is an example of a floor plan. Each blue cell is a room that is available, each red cell is a room on the same floor that is booked:



Mike Thompson
Reynardine Software
Call: +44 (0)1227 700397 (Canterbury, Kent)