January 2025
Guest Messaging is now available for Direct Bookings
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Start with Bookster todayBookster has expanded its guest messaging to include direct bookings, enabling email communication and message storage within the platform. Guest features are enhanced with image support, Gravatar integration, and email notifications for host messages.
Website functionalities are improved with refined image displays, streamlined URL management, and measures to limit excessive bot crawling. Security updates focus on bolstering defences against XSS attacks and improving input validation.
In addition to allowing Guest Messaging via Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo, Bookster now supports Guest Messaging for direct bookings too!
Guest Messaging
In addition to allowing Guest Messaging on bookings via Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo, Bookster now supports Guest Messaging for direct bookings too!
- Allow sending a Guest a message for non-channel (direct) bookings
- The whole history of Guest Messages now shows up in the Guest Area when a Guest views their booking
- Guests can now send a message that will show up in Bookster and be stored against the booking
- Team members can view and respond to Guest Messages
Also if the guest uses Gravatar, it will be added as an icon for the Guest so you can put a face to a name.
Bookster Websites
Holiday Rental businesses can create an Instant Website in Bookster. Bookster also creates more bespoke websites.
- Improvements in how we display images on Bookster websites
- Improvements to the interface for adding/removing a bespoke URL on an Instant Website
- To mitigate against excessive search engine and AI bot crawling:
- No longer link filters if it doesn't change the result count
- Add a hard limit of how many filters are allowed to be applied to searches
Cyber Security
We take the security of your data very seriously and are constantly keeping Bookster up to date with the latest defences against cyber threats.
- Improve robustness against Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks
- Add a more input validation to avoid any markup injection
Minor Updates and Bug Fixes
- Vrbo ⇄ Bookster: Refresh callback keys (for notifications) automatically
- Booking.com ⇄ Bookster: Fix for rounding errors in data supplied to Bookster from Booking.com
- Apply a fix for payment split balancing
- Introduce a concept of a monthly discount for Bookster Subscriptions to be more visible when clients are receiving a discount on their Subscription