BAT High Level Overview

BAT, Drupal-based online reservation system

BAT, short for Booking and Availability Management Tools, serves as a robust framework for developers seeking to implement a wide array of availability, reservation, and booking functionalities. Unlike site-building tools, BAT is designed for developers, offering a lean user interface. It functions as a foundational framework, much like Drupal or Drupal Commerce, enabling the creation of specialized solutions for targeted application domains. The BEE module and BEE Hotel module modules demonstrate practical applications of BAT.

Objectives

The primary goals of BAT are to:

  • Model Bookable Resources: Allow developers to represent any resource within an application that possesses time-dependent availability. This includes associating pricing with changes in availability, such as booking services or accommodations.
  • Establish a Data Model: Supply a consistent data structure for managing the data associated with bookable resources.
  • Enable Availability Management: Provide tools to define and control availability states. These tools include user-friendly graphical interfaces (like interactive calendars) and programmatic APIs for automated state changes.

Owners

While Drupal offers numerous modules, BAT, like others within its ecosystem, is distinctly business-oriented. As online reservation product owner, here's what you find in BAT:

  • Flexibility: BAT is as flexible as any Drupal module can be. and can be adapted to the hotel's unique needs
  • Cost: BAT it's within budget. You need a secure and reliable web server managed by Drupal expert.
  • Integration: BAT is integrated with Drupal. Secure authentication, invoices, payments, reports, maps, blog. Every feature you will need is already there, in Drupal.
  • Support: You can rely in the Community support. Issue queue is available at https://www.drupal.org/project/issues/bat
  • Scalability: Drupal is very well know for scalability
  • Security: BAT is released under control of the Drupal security team

Developers

Enhance your knowledge of the BAT module by actively participating in the project issue queue. Note that the latest development release is regularly updated during heavy development phases, incorporating new features and debugging. While useful for testing, exercise caution with dev releases and rely on stable releases for production builds.

Support

To ensure the success of your online business and effectively manage online reservations, your team will need proficiency in Drupal, including potential custom development, and e-commerce solutions. We recommend your IT staff utilize the BAT issue queue for professional support.

Supporting organizations: 
Development, bugfix, maintenance

Project information

Releases