February 2025
Guest Messaging improvements and an internal Admin Name for properties
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Start with Bookster todayBookster enhanced guest messaging with message editing, "edited" flags, and message reaction support. Properties can now have an "Admin name" for non-Guest facing use.
There were Guest Area and security improvements focus on preventing malicious input. Channel integrations saw updates including use of newer versions of Airbnb's API and now capturing Vrbo booking-time messages. TripAdvisor was officially disconnected.
Guest Messaging
- Allow editing of direct messages for up to an hour (sent by either the Property Manager or the Guest)
- Display an 'edited' flag on messages that have been changed since creation
- Guest Messaging is currently not available to new Lite clients so we now honour that inside Bookster
- Do not allow assigning direct message handler when there is no email associated with a direct booking
- Slightly update the Guest and Host notification messages for direct bookings
- Add some support for message reactions
Property 'Admin Name'
Allow the setting of a Property 'Admin Name' for non-Guest facing use
Guest Area - Allow displaying of booking duration for use in the Guest Area
Minor Updates and Bug Fixes
Bookster Websites
In an ongoing attempt to stop web crawlers and bots (search engines and AI crawlers) behaving poorly, we now generate hint attributes to tell crawlers to not follow links.
Input validation
- Ensure terms are escaped on display in the guest area
- Do not quote the value as this can then inject the dodgy markup into the page.
- Do not allow updates of party details with invalid content.
- Ensure website title+description is properly escaped for display
Airbnb ⇄ Bookster
- Adapt to the 2024.12.31 API version for messages.
- Sync message reactions
Vrbo ⇄ Bookster
Ensure any message from a guest written at the time of booking is added into the message thread.
TripAdvisor ⇄ Bookster
Officially shut down the availability, pricing and booking connection with TripAdvisor following TripAdvisor's decision to step back from the holiday rental booking market.
Zend PHP Framework
Upgrade to community supported version v1.24.2 of the Zend Framework.
Booking.com ⇄ Bookster
- Support deactivating multi-unit units when no longer available via API.
- various minor updates and fixes
Market Data (via AirDNA)
- Update main client to v2 core
- We are no longer supplied with a list of top performing competitors so have removed this section
- Fix market vs submarket API calls