AVAILACAL Availability Calendars for Web Pages - How They Work

How it Works (1)

About AVAILACAL Availability Calendars

Each AVAILACAL calendar is a real-time availability calendar that shows the available and non-available dates for something. Available days or half days are shown in green, and days or half-days which are not-available are shown in red. A customisable 'orange day' option can be added to signify a different situation such as unconfirmed bookings. Calendars can easily be embedded into the body of your web pages like the example calendar shown on the right of this page, or they can be made to pop-up in a new window like this or like this.

Simple to Set Up

Simplicity is a key feature of AVAILACAL calendars. They are designed to be as easy as possible to use and to understand. Please don't be daunted by the wide range of configuration possibilities we offer. These options can make the calendars more versatile for certain situations but the default settings will work fine for 99% of purposes. By following a few simple instructions, anybody with a web page can set up one or even a few of our calendars in just a couple of minutes. If however for some reason you experience a problem our email support will help you solve it in no time.

AVAILACAL calendars are optimised to block-in days or half-days, weeks or months rather than specific times of the day. This makes our calendar system the quickest, easiest and most efficient way to share availability information for a wide range of purposes.

We currently provide three main types of calendar display. They all use the same calendar database so they are completely interchangeble. Each calendar in your account can be displayed using any one, two or all of the three types of display whenever you wish and on as many websites as you want, at no extra cost. A cut-and-paste script from the support area will help you get your calendar displays up and running sooner than you might think.

1. Table based calendars - The original AVAILACAL calendars. This style of calendar is delivered to web browsers as a standard HTML table. AVAILACAL table-based calendars display between two and 24 months in one view and they work perfectly on just about 100% of web browsers.

2. Flash based calendars (the ones with the rounded corners) - AVAILACAL Flash calendars make innovative use of the Macromedia/Adobe Flash plugin. Any Flash player version from 6 upward is fine, over 99% of all internet computers have this player. The Flash calendars show one month at a time with navigation buttons to browse through months. Navigating from month to month on an AVAILACAL Flash calendar is instant, there is no irritating flicker and no annoying wait or page reload as typically seen with other online calendar products. AVAILACAL Flash-based calendars also offer more customization options than the table-based calendars, they can also be made to be any size from postage stamp size right up to the full height of any screen. They will even adjust in size automatically to fit the available area.

3. WAP mobile access - Both the table based and Flash based calendars work fine on modern mobile browsers, however we also provide WAP (wireless application protocol) integration which allows your calendar(s) to be viewed and edited on WAP browsers, as found on many older mobile phones, even those with with black and white displays.

Don't forget you don't have to choose between these display options for a calendar, every single calendar can use any or all of them at any time. For example: A calendar can be embedded in a web page in Flash format, on another web page it can be set up as a pop-up HTML table and you can access and update the same calendar using a WAP mobile device. It is still the same single calendar but capable of being displayed different ways simultaneously, even if you only have a one calendar account. Using more than one display option or putting a calendar on multiple web pages does not use up any additional calendars from your allotted number of calendars.

The list is endless but shown here some of the people and industries that can benefit from having AVAILACAL online availability calendars...