I'm looking for software to store hotels rates (a few hundred contracts altogether), generate pricelists in excel and pdf and display the rates on website for a small travel company.

It could be an existing system which can be customized according to my requirements.

We're now using a custom built system, however the guy who made it moved to his home country and has a new job, so it can no longer be properly maintained and fixed when something goes wrong.

I googled for available soft but found very few options.

Would appreciate advice from people with expertise in this field.

Thank you in advance.

I can do that for you im sure.

I have 300,000 hotel database running at the mo.

A few hundred sounds pretty easy.

PM me for me details if interested, if i cant do it, i can advise.

Edited October 23, 200817 yr by UKWEBPRO

generate pricelists in excel, this is not a problem, in fact google offer a free service: http://documents.google.com/?hl=en

you could link a spreadsheet into a website with a bit of programming.

generating pdf, you can do this with php.

Other ways, you can upload an excel document to your webspace and have a program generate webpages/spreadsheet/pdf output from this.

for an example of pdf generation see: http://www.ros.co.nz/pdf/

found from googling: http://www.google.com/search?q=generate+pd...amp;startPage=1

to generate a webpage(s) from a spreadsheet - this is lesson number one for any programmer. and would probably only take up 10 lines of code.

I used this to upload a 6 million record database just a few weeks ago.

Example #1 Read and print the entire contents of a CSV file

\

\<?php

\$row = 1;

\$handle = fopen("test.csv", "r");

\while (($data = fgetcsv($handle, 1000, ",")) !== FALSE) {

\ $num = count($data);

\ echo "<p> $num fields in line $row: <br /></p>\n";

\ $row++;

\ for ($c=0; $c < $num; $c++) {

\ echo $data[$c] . "<br />\n";

\ }

\}

\fclose($handle);

\?>

content management systems will have the excel/csv built in, many free ones. see: joomla. but it sounds so very simple to code for a few hundred.

Example #1 Read and print the entire contents of a CSV file.

So many way to skin a cat. I bet you Microsoft office will even do all this built in. But i recommend looking at googledocs. Its free, and you may never need to hire a programmer again. ( apart from the pdf creation - but they will support that soon)

here is a demo of google docs.

good luck

http://www.google.com/google-d-s/tour1.html

read more here: http://gabrito.com/post/simple-cms-using-g...spreadsheet-api

Edited October 24, 200817 yr by UKWEBPRO

Create your list w/ formatting in Excel, save it as a webpage (can even add interactivity if customer wants to try different scenarios, ftp the generated files to your website, give customers the link. Costs nothing, since you've got Excel, webspace, and bandwidth.