October 2024
Add a new (beta) Timeline view of bookings
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Start with Bookster todayA significant update featuring a new mobile-friendly Timeline view with enhanced zoom and filtering. Booking Analytics are now available to Pro and Max users, and Owner Statements provide greater financial transparency.
Improvements to Booking.com integration, Airbnb connectivity, and Channel Manager functionality enhance usability and reliability. Bug fixes address various issues related to bookings, payments and image handling.
New Timeline View (beta)
We have added a new Timeline view for bookings using a completely revamped structure.
Improvements include:
- mobile and tablet friendly
- much better full screen mode
- zoom to any date range that you want
- show price of a booking
- include the booking source
Analytics for Bookster Pro (and Max)
Booking Analytics inside Bookster is now available to both Pro and Max level clients.
Owner Statements
In a drive to make provide Property Owners with more visibility we have added Owner Statement information to booking view pages in Bookster. This will allow Property Owner and Property Managers to see the revenue derived from a booking.
Minor Updates and Bug Fixes
Booking.com
- Preparatory work to allow listing multiple Bookster properties on a single Booking.com location page
- Modernise much of the underlying code structure
- Add a way to assign/create rooms when joining a multi-unit property.
- Make sure to check channel disconnection status appropriately
Booking Management
- Show warnings about archived properties on bookings.
- Add support for updating booking cancellation cost when cancelling payments on cancelled bookings.
- Don't offer toggling of Agent Billed to lines with no value
- Bug Fix: Show the correct currency symbol for cancellation cost when cancelling transfers
Bookster Account Management
As well as receiving invoices by email, Bookster users can now view their past, present and future invoices when logged into Bookster.
Airbnb
- Fix a mapping issue when connecting.
- Hopefully fix Image sync issues.
Channel Manager
- Ensure that no channel fees are applied when a booking is made via Premier Cottages.
- Improve how we protect against zero value bookings.
Other changes
- Image Handling - use a HEAD request to load headers to get the mime type of external images/pano's.
- Direct Booking Toolkit - Add the helpful text to the marketing checklist
- Remove the ability to add a card fee on manual payments as never used
- Owner Statements
- Fix applying Acquisition commissions based on manual iCal channel syndicates
- Fix permissions check for viewing finalised invoices
- Do not attempt refunds on gateways that do not support them
- Booking Timeline (legacy) - Make sat,sun bold to make it easier to read timeline in Month view
- Increase the minimum night stay maximum to 28