BooksterMessaging Bookster facilitates Host to Guest messaging for Direct and Channel (e.g. Airbnb) bookings. We have added the ability to use emojis to react to messages, both as a Host and as a Guest. Photos We have improved the UI for uploading, reordering and editing photos in Bookster. There are now larger thumbnails to make it easier to see which picture is which. We have also reworked photo tagging to fix a problem whereby tags would sometimes be copied across to the next photo. We have also fixed some problematic drag and drop behaviour. Minor Changes and Bug Fixes Security We have updated our implementation of Google Recaptcha Enterprise to use v2 APIs. Social Post Suggestions Bookster takes the information that you have added to your properties and gives you suggested social media posts. We have made some more improvements to that service in this release. Booking.com ⇄ Bookster Added the public URL to Bookster to easily jump across and look at your Booking.com listing; Ensure 'roomstosell' is always in sync with 'closed'; We switched to token based authentication to keep up with Booking.com API requirements; We now use newer API calls for setting prices in Booking.com. Instant Websites Bookster provides instant websites for all of it's paid clients. In this release we have tidied up some of the processes around requesting and removing secure certificates.

July 2025

Written by Robin Morris

  • Emojis for Guest Messaging
  • Larger photo thumbnails
  • Booking.com ⇄ Bookster connection improvements
Screenshot Bookster - Screenshot of photos UI in Bookster (© 2025 Bookster)
Screenshot of photos UI in Bookster
© 2025 Bookster

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We've added emoji reactions to messaging, revamped the photo management interface with larger thumbnails and bolstered security with Google Recaptcha Enterprise v2.

Additionally, we've refined our social post suggestion service, strengthened our Booking.com integration with token-based authentication and updated API calls, and streamlined the process for managing secure certificates for instant websites.

We have added the ability to use emojis

Responding to Guest Messages (© 2025 Bookster)
© 2025 Bookster

Messaging

Bookster facilitates Host to Guest messaging for Direct and Channel (e.g. Airbnb) bookings.

We have added the ability to use emojis to react to messages, both as a Host and as a Guest.

Photos

We have improved the UI for uploading, reordering and editing photos in Bookster.

There are now larger thumbnails to make it easier to see which picture is which.

We have also reworked photo tagging to fix a problem whereby tags would sometimes be copied across to the next photo.

We have also fixed some problematic drag and drop behaviour.

Minor Changes and Bug Fixes

Security

We have updated our implementation of Google Recaptcha Enterprise to use v2 APIs.

Social Post Suggestions

Bookster takes the information that you have added to your properties and gives you suggested social media posts. 

We have made some more improvements to that service in this release.

Booking.com ⇄ Bookster

  • Added the public URL to Bookster to easily jump across and look at your Booking.com listing;
  • Ensure 'roomstosell' is always in sync with 'closed';
  • We switched to token based authentication to keep up with Booking.com API requirements;
  • We now use newer API calls for setting prices in Booking.com.

Instant Websites

Bookster provides instant websites for all of it's paid clients.  In this release we have tidied up some of the processes around requesting and removing secure certificates.

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