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We are ready for Joomla 3.4

 February 26, 2015  Xavier Pallicer   Our Blog

CloudHotelier extensions and templates are fully compatible with Joomla 3.4, so you can update your CMS with just one click.

Joomla 3.4 is stable so you should update your Joomla. If you use one of our Joomla 3 packs, such as Base, Classic, Minimal, Boutique or Glassy, ​​we recommend tu upgrade your Joomla to be ready for the upcoming releases.


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Upcoming releases in 2015

 February 13, 2015  Xavier Pallicer   Our Blog

This year 2015 will be full of new developments in CloudHotelier

We are currently preparing a new version of the Cloud Admin Panel administration system, a new version of the Joomla client CloudHotelier Booking Engine and a new generation of templates based on the UIkit framework.


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SEO for hotel websites?

 January 14, 2015  Xavier Pallicer   Our Blog

The ubiquity of the large operators such as booking.com causes very pronounced specificities in the hotel industry. This can be a problem, but also an opportunity.

Every hotel website has a natural traffic produced by direct searches based on the hotel name. If you take a look at Google Analytics you will see that the number #1 keyword for your website is the name of the hotel. More important, the name of the hotel produces the 99% of the reservations at your website.

This is consecuence of users seeing your hotel in a reservations portal, such as booking.com, and then looking for your hotel website trying to get more information.


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Glassy Theme Released

 November 1, 2014  Xavier Pallicer   Our Blog

CloudHotelier Glassy, the best choice for beach resorts

Are you looking for a theme specially designed for beach resorts? Introducing Glassy Paradise

Glassy is a gnarly hotel theme designed for photo-based projects. It is ideal for modern design hotels or beach resorts with light environment like gardens and pools.


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Boutique Theme Released

 September 17, 2014  Xavier Pallicer   Our Blog

CloudHotelier Boutique, for hotels with a story to tell

Why distract your potential customers with multiple fireworks, when you can just show them your product, your hotel?

Boutique is an unique theme specially designed to build simple but stylish websites for very special hotels. It's clean design will help to emphasize your project images and copy work


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CloudHotelier Panel Lite coming soon!

 September 5, 2014  Xavier Pallicer   Our Blog

Next week we will release CloudHotelier Panel Lite, a new extension for small properties or low-budget projects.

CloudHotelier Panel Lite will install as a normal Joomla extension. You will be able to manage the hotels directly into your Joomla AdministratorPanel Lite doesn’t have the same professional features of Cloud Admin Panel, but definitively is enough functional to be useful for small properties or amateur projects.


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Better email delivery in Joomla using Mandrill

 August 13, 2014  Xavier Pallicer   Our Blog

To avoid your website having problems with email delivery, you only need to change your Joomla configuration to use and external SMTP service

UPDATE: since Mandrill service is no longer available for a reasonable price, we now recommend to use Mailgun instead. Here's an updated post on how to use Mailgun with Joomla.

Having problems delivering email from your site? Bookings not arriving to your customers or hotels? If your email is getting bounced or it is delivered in the spam folder, your server IP may have been added to a spam black list.


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Classic and Minimal for Joomla 3 released

 July 22, 2014  Xavier Pallicer   Our Blog

Minimal and Classic are built on top of CloudHotelier JStrap II template engine, taking advantage of new Joomla v3.3 CMS core

Since the launch of Apple's iOS7, flat and minimalistic design is trending topic worldwide. Following this trend, Minimal is the stylish version of his brother theme Classic

CloudHotelier Minimal Theme follows the steps of his brother, Classic, but with a modern style and elegance. Minimal and Classic are built on top of CloudHotelier JStrap II template engine, taking advantage of new Joomla v3.3 CMS core for the back-end and Bootstrap v2.3 front-end framework -the same version as Joomla core- for maximum compatibility and long-term stability.


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Hello Joomla 3!

 May 8, 2014  Xavier Pallicer   Our Blog

Last week the Joomla Project announced the release of a new stable version of the CMS, Joomla 3.3.0. It means that the CMS is mature enough in the 3.x series to start working with it.

Last week the Joomla Project announced the release of a new stable version of the CMS, Joomla 3.3.0. For us, this is a special version because it means that the CMS is mature enough in the 3.x series to start working with it.

Our goal was to launch a new version of each extension of our "suite" to adapt to this new Joomla version, which will focus our development efforts in the future.


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CloudHotelier 2.7.5 released

 February 12, 2014  Xavier Pallicer   Our Blog

This is a maintenance release with a few bug fixes and minor changes

CloudHotelier 2.7.5 has been released. This is a maintenance release with a few bug fixes and minor changes

  • Booking Email: re-added guest address. Some users require the guest email address in the confirmation email.
  • Mercadopago: solved issues with SSL version that appear to happen in some servers
  • Installer: updated compatibility version
  • Book form: incorrect payment amount when booking a pack, not a room.

No template updates are required with this version.


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CloudHotelier 2.7.4 released

 January 8, 2014  Xavier Pallicer   Our Blog

CloudHotelier 2.7.4 has been released with new features: White Label, New Languages, etc.

CloudHotelier 2.7.4 has been released with the following features:

  • White Label panel and data servers available for special subscriptions
  • Languages: Italian and German now supported in core (thanks Rafael)
  • Card form: re-added CVC number support
  • Hide rates in availability calendar (optional)

With the release of this new version, we have also updated Minimal, Classic & Pure templates and Theme Packs. You can download them from the downloads section in your Cloud Admin Panel. Please use caution when upgrading your template, always use a backup.

More info about White Label can be found here: CloudHotelier White Label


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What about Channel Managers?

 December 14, 2013  Xavier Pallicer   Our Blog

Our system has so many complexities that the channel managers do not support.

We have had several contacts with different channel managers, and we have arrived to the conclusion that our system has so many complexities that the channel managers do not support.


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Minimal Theme Released. Cool Flat Design

 November 5, 2013  Xavier Pallicer   Our Blog

Since the launch of Apple's iOS7, flat and minimal design is trending topic worldwide. Following this trend, Minimal is the stylish version of his brother theme Classic

CloudHotelier Minimal Template follows the steps of his brother, Classic Theme, but with style and elegance. Minimal, is also designed for CloudHotelier 2.7, built using JStrap layouts, and using JKit multi-language Content Construction Kit to build the whole site. This is Minimal, just another cool demonstration of our new technology, that we hope it will fit perfectly to your next project!


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CloudHotelier 2.7.3 released

 October 12, 2013  Xavier Pallicer   Our Blog

CloudHotelier 2.7.3 has been released. This is a maintenance release.

CloudHotelier 2.7.3 has been released with the following featues:

  • Full pack information in reservation voucher (info and text)
  • Availability calendar options: basic or extended availabilty information

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