BooksterBooking Add Ons: Phases We have introduced a concept of Phases to define charging points for booking Add Ons inside Bookster. This provides the Property Manager with more flexibility in how their extras and discounts are calculated. Channel Manager Bookster now Syncs location images for multi-unit entries (non-Booking.com). This will affect the Airbnb and Vrbo connections inside Bookster. Booking.com ⇄ Bookster Update Facilities maps to match recent to changes. Messages API - fix an issue where null was returned rather than an empty array. Airbnb ⇄ Bookster Ensure we publish the availability rules whenever the late booking offset is updated. Remove deprecated options for instant booking category. Remove use of the _allow_dates_overlap feature which has been removed. Ensure we set busy_subtype. Version 2024.06.30 requires this which is now being defaulted to. Improve validation error message parsing as per API versions update. Deprecate updating of synchronization_category except on connect/disconnect. The sync mode is now fully a Bookster side choice. Post Booking Questions Notify the host when questions are answered (only send an email if not sent in the last 5 minutes). Include questions in the Booking Screens once a booking has concluded Add support for Bed Set Up and re-order question to be more or less in alphabetical order Add Ons Show the online/offline status of settings based extras on a property. This lets you easily see when an extras has been disabled or no longer applies. Make improvements to the Add Ons display Bug Fixes and Minor Updates Yield Management Allow the charge point/level/round to be specified. Fix the selection of the charge point. Guest Reviews Improve the form error messages and make it clear the date does not need to be exact. JavaScript Update jQuery UI to 1.14.1 for improved UI display on Bootstrap 5. Fix Timepicker display on Bootstrap 5. Changing the jQuery UI theme to avoid the box-styling: border-box override. Should probably fix the Timepicker plugin styles specifically instead. iCalendar Set a user agent string for iCal downloads. The Amazon AWS WAF tries to issue a challenge in response to automated requests which we cannot respond to. Don't require a valid URL to manually parse iCals. Manually parsing will re-check *after* trying to read the URL as to whether it's valid or not. Pricing Performance Improvements - switch to a more space/column efficient price cache architecture. Bookster Websites Do not generate filter links for bots. When we are not supposed to follow the links, don't even generate them for crawlers as they do not respect requests to not follow. SEO Improvements: ensure we also return the 410 Gone response when appropriate on Bookster Instant websites. General Restore the saving of update events again for individual settings. Messaging Do not allow guest contact (and thus message thread) if we don't have an email address Market Data Add support for studio properties on the Market Data page.

October 2025

Written by Robin Morris

Advanced "Phases" for Add On pricing, improved Airbnb/Vrbo image syncing, and streamlined post-booking guest questions.

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The latest update introduces "Phases" for Add Ons, giving you total flexibility over when and how extras are charged.

We’ve also enhanced our Channel Manager with better image syncing for Airbnb and Vrbo, refined our post-booking questions to improve guest communication, and rolled out vital performance fixes across Yield Management and website tools.

Phases define charging points for booking Add Ons

Booking Add Ons: Phases

We have introduced a concept of Phases to define charging points for booking Add Ons inside Bookster.

This provides the Property Manager with more flexibility in how their extras and discounts are calculated.

Channel Manager

Bookster now Syncs location images for multi-unit entries (non-Booking.com). This will affect the Airbnb and Vrbo connections inside Bookster.

Booking.com ⇄ Bookster

  • Update Facilities maps to match recent to changes.
  • Messages API - fix an issue where null was returned rather than an empty array. 

Airbnb ⇄ Bookster

  • Ensure we publish the availability rules whenever the late booking offset is updated.
  • Remove deprecated options for instant booking category. 
    • Remove use of the _allow_dates_overlap feature which has been removed. 
    • Ensure we set busy_subtype. Version 2024.06.30 requires this which is now being defaulted to.
  • Improve validation error message parsing as per API versions update.
  • Deprecate updating of synchronization_category except on connect/disconnect. The sync mode is now fully a Bookster side choice.

Post Booking Questions

  • Notify the host when questions are answered (only send an email if not sent in the last 5 minutes).
  • Include questions in the Booking Screens once a booking has concluded
  • Add support for Bed Set Up and re-order question to be more or less in alphabetical order

Add Ons

  • Show the online/offline status of settings based extras on a property. This lets you easily see when an extras has been disabled or no longer applies.
  • Make improvements to the Add Ons display

Bug Fixes and Minor Updates

Yield Management

  • Allow the charge point/level/round to be specified. 
  • Fix the selection of the charge point.

Guest Reviews

Improve the form error messages and make it clear the date does not need to be exact.

JavaScript

  • Update jQuery UI to 1.14.1 for improved UI display on Bootstrap 5.
  • Fix Timepicker display on Bootstrap 5. Changing the jQuery UI theme to avoid the box-styling: border-box override. Should probably fix the Timepicker plugin styles specifically instead.

iCalendar

  • Set a user agent string for iCal downloads. The Amazon AWS WAF tries to issue a challenge in response to automated requests which we cannot respond to.
  • Don't require a valid URL to manually parse iCals. Manually parsing will re-check *after* trying to read the URL as to whether it's valid or not.

Pricing 

Performance Improvements - switch to a more space/column efficient price cache architecture.

Bookster Websites

Do not generate filter links for bots. When we are not supposed to follow the links, don't even generate them for crawlers as they do not respect requests to not follow.

SEO Improvements: ensure we also return the 410 Gone response when appropriate on Bookster Instant websites.

General

Restore the saving of update events again for individual settings. 

Messaging

Do not allow guest contact (and thus message thread) if we don't have an email address

Market Data

Add support for studio properties on the Market Data page.