FAQ Q328: I can't find my business type in your demos. Will Planyo still work for me?

The demos on the learn more page are just meant to showcase selected use-cases for Planyo. Likewise, when you create a new site, you're presented with a list of categories. Both these lists represent only a fraction of actual business types for which Planyo can be used successfully (If your business type doesn't match exactly one of the categories, simply choose custom).

From the very beginning one of the main ideas behind Planyo has been to not limit it to specific verticals but make it so flexible and configurable that it can work for any business taking online bookings, including very unusual use cases. Planyo will work well for all of the following scenarios:

• With or without pricing information
• Online payments (integration with over 80 payment gateways) or no payments
• Shopping cart or single reservation
• Reservations entered only by the administrators or only by logged-in users or anyone visiting your website
• Coupons, bundles, gift certificates, vouchers, additional products, waiting lists, automatic assignment of first available physical resource to a virtual product
• Reservation of events with specific dates/times, full day rentals, overnight stays, hourly rentals and part-hour rentals with the minimum time slot of 15 minutes
• Reservations entered on your website or redirection to planyo.com (simple button on your website) or custom UI (e.g. mobile app) using the Planyo API
• Reservation form can include any number of custom fields
• Custom translation can be provided for any text visible by the end customer, for any of the supported 30+ languages
• Email notifications (or SMSes) can be fully customized and can include attachments (static or dynamically generated PDFs containing any information related to the reservation)
• Single time zone or all times can be viewed in visitor's time zone (great for e-learning)
• Support for the check-in and check-out process
• Allowing customers to manage their own bookings
• Your employees can have their own logins and be limited in their allowed functionality and/or access to specific resources

The reservation process can be fully customized and can include steps such as: filling out of custom questions on the reservation form, addition of extra products, manual confirmation by the administrators, email address verification, shopping cart functionality, additional products, online payment, addition to a waiting list, check-in and check-out events.

Planyo works with 30+ languages. The standard texts used in the reservation process are already translated but you'll need to translate your own content to the desired languages and you can customize all existing texts.

Pricing is not limited to simple per-person, per-hour or per-day rates but is rather defined in Pricing Manager as a listing of over 60 different rules which can determine both the price and availability. Any number of rules can be entered and can be combined into advanced conditions such as: increase the price by 20% if the number of persons is less than X and if the duration is less than X hours. Other pricing mechanisms are also available, such as CSV-based pricing or a custom pricing script residing on your server and called by Planyo each time the price must be calculated.