New City Added, Live Bookings & More..

RAYV Talk | Ian | December 1, 2009 at 11:28 am

You may have noticed a slightly different looking RAYV today. Yep, we’ve changed a few things around. The new and improved RAYV is now live with some added tweaks to the system to improve performance across the whole site – as well as throwing in a couple of new and very important features.

One of the biggest features is the release of the RAYV service into Brisbane. We’ve been looking at new areas to launch RAYV for a while now and Brisbane is the first of many. We have other locations sitting in private Beta – so if you’d like to know about them and would like to be one of the first to review across those areas, let us know. For now – let’s go check out Brisbane!

NEW LOCATIONS

You can view RAYV Brisbane in a couple of ways. A direct link is http://www.rayv.com.au/bris. OR you can use the Location Selector sitting in the new masthead of the site. Simply click on the city drop down menu and select either Brisbane or Sydney. We’ll remember your location for the next time you visit the site.

REAL -TIME RESTAURANT BOOKINGS

The 2nd major enhancement to RAYV is our partnership with Dimmi. For the region of Sydney (Brisbane coming in 2010) you can select from over 250 of your favourite restaurants and make your reservations in real-time using the booking gadgets across the RAYV business listings for these restaurants. The booking gagdet allows you to view the booking calendars of restaurants in real-time and insert your own booking. Confirmation of your booking will be sent to you via email.

Real-time bookings are being added to new restaurants on a daily basis. You can identify a restaurant with the online booking capabilities as you’ll see a blue ‘book online’ icon next to their name within the search results.

You can view a list of all participating restaurants by clicking on either the ‘Real Time Restaurant Bookings’ banner at the top of the site, or the yellow ‘Book Online’ button on the homepage.

A direct link to this page is: http://www.rayv.com.au/restaurantbooking

For each participating restaurant you’ll see a change to the business listing page. The booking gadget can be found to the right of the page above the Google Map.

TAKE THE POLLS

We’ve partnered with SMS Poll (the innovative solution to real-time Web and SMS polls) to now bring you live polls on a variety of topics. Currently we’re asking you:

SYD: Who makes the best Pizza in Sydney?

BRIS: Who makes the best Coffee in Brisbane?

http://www.rayv.com.au/polls

We also have these polls integrated into the new blog (that you’re looking at!). You can also add your comments on the polls here:

Sydney Poll | Brisbane Poll

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