SailTime Training

e-availability was commissioned by SailTime Europe to create an online course booking system which was set to very specific requirements. This project demonstrates e-availability's skill, ability and competence at understanding clients' needs and developing solutions which are right for both the business and their end customers.

We developed the web pages for the training site, mimicking the look and feel of the original SailTime website to create a seamless training site fitting with the company's brand. The site was developed using the latest in Microsoft technology utilising the latest.NET framework, enabling cool calendar features. The course booking system was seamlessly integrated into the web pages and the pages are all content managed giving the users full control over updating home, type and course pages easily and quickly. Courses are added to a shopping basket allowing customers to conveniently add multiple courses to a 'basket'. Secure online payments are catered for through integration with Sagepay, with the customer and administrator receiving confirmation emails within seconds of the payment being made online.

Other functionality includes a new dynamic calendar display, the ability to search by location and show late availability on the home page. Furthermore, past students also have the ability to upload images from training and submit comments online. This is a fantastic way to create a site where visitors can interact and share experiences. The scheduling of courses can be split over multiple day blocks via the admin system, enabling the staff to easily show when courses span over two or three months.

Some bespoke coding was also required to enable boats to be allocated to scheduled courses. Once maximum occupancy has been reached for any particular boat a trigger e-mail is sent to the administrator to alert them that a new boat should be allocated if more customers wish to book. This new boat can then be scheduled across multiple courses which are running at the same time.

Website: SailTime Training