BooksterBooking Screens: Full Colour Customisation Bookster's booking screens now support a full colour customisation system, letting you precisely match the look of your screens to your brand. Colour pickers are available directly in settings, with clear labels for primary, secondary, and accent colours, and website-level overrides are also supported so multi-site setups can each have their own scheme. By default, Bookster maps colours from your Instant Website theme (if you have one) so existing sites will continue to look consistent without the need to do anything. The screens also render more cleanly on smaller devices following a switch to a pure CSS styling approach. Booking Analytics: New Charts and Downloads Two new charts have been added: a day-of-the-week breakdown showing which days your bookings most commonly fall on, and a booking creation timeline showing when during a property's availability window guests tend to book. Pie charts throughout analytics now display percentages alongside the segment counts, and all charts and their underlying data can be downloaded directly from the panel. Airbnb: Latest API and Pet Charging Bookster has been updated to the latest Airbnb API version, incorporating a range of field and parameter renames required by the new API structure. Message threads now support pagination, so properties with a long messaging history will load correctly. Pet charging is now fully supported for Airbnb bookings: Bookster can receive and apply per-pet fees from Airbnb, adding the corresponding extras to the booking in the same way as natively created bookings, and respecting your existing setup for private billing, agent billing, and prep notes. Booking.com: Auto-Import and Adult Capacity Limits When you connect or reconnect a property to Booking.com, Bookster will now automatically import any existing reservations, removing the need to trigger a manual import after setup. The adult capacity limit - already available for native Bookster bookings - is now respected when generating length-of-stay rates for Booking.com, preventing rates for guest counts above the property's adult limit from being sent to the channel. The booking screens also now surface the adult capacity limit so guests are aware of the restriction before completing their booking. Dashboard: Timeline Reliability Improvements The Bookster Home dashboard timeline has received a series of fixes this month. Incremental loading of events - where the timeline updates as new data comes in - was not working correctly and has been resolved. Timeline entries now correctly display the booking type name, making it easier to distinguish between different kinds of bookings at a glance. Several underlying performance improvements were also made to speed up the display of the dashboard view. Minor Updates and Bug Fixes Book Direct Toolkit: Keywords in the SEO ranking panel can now be sorted, and the table shows more keywords at once to reduce the need for scrolling. Revyoos: The Revyoos review widget has been updated to the new Universal Widget, with URL selection now managed from within the Revyoos platform. Website: It is now possible to display client information and data retention settings on a property website, useful for GDPR compliance pages. Booking: The customer's country is now included in the booking export. Booking: Timeframe restrictions are now supported when importing bookings, giving more control over how far back or forward an import reaches. Search: The default date filter option has been changed from "On" to a more commonly used alternative, reducing the number of clicks needed for typical date searches. Airbnb: Negative guest reviews now correctly pass through tag rules, ensuring review-based automation triggers as expected. Channel: Booking matching logic when connecting a channel has been improved to more reliably link incoming reservations to the correct property. Payment: Stripe no longer stores the payment method at the point of customer creation, aligning with the intended payment flow. Booking: Time inputs in the booking form are now read-only, requiring use of the time picker widget to avoid incorrectly formatted entries. Booking: Fixed a crash that could occur when navigating to a booking with an invalid booking ID. Email Marketing: Contact sync frequency has been reduced to once daily for certain clients to lower API load.

April 2026

Written by Robin Morris

Give your booking screens your own look, welcome pets through Airbnb, and get deeper insight into your bookings with new analytics charts.

Booking Creation Days - Which days of the week are your self-catering bookings being made? (© 2026 Bookster)
Which days of the week are your self-catering bookings being made?
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The booking screens colouring has been overhauled, giving you far more control over how your screens look, and Analytics has gained new charts to help you understand your booking patterns at a glance.

On the channel side, Airbnb has been updated to the latest API version with new pet-charging support, and Booking.com now automatically pulls in reservations when you connect a property.

The dashboard timeline has also received a number of fixes and performance improvements.

Analytics: Date Booked (© 2026 Bookster)
© 2026 Bookster

Booking Screens: Full Colour Customisation

Bookster's booking screens now support a full colour customisation system, letting you precisely match the look of your screens to your brand.

Colour pickers are available directly in settings, with clear labels for primary, secondary, and accent colours, and website-level overrides are also supported so multi-site setups can each have their own scheme.

By default, Bookster maps colours from your Instant Website theme (if you have one) so existing sites will continue to look consistent without the need to do anything.

The screens also render more cleanly on smaller devices following a switch to a pure CSS styling approach.

Booking Analytics: New Charts and Downloads

Two new charts have been added: a day-of-the-week breakdown showing which days your bookings most commonly fall on, and a booking creation timeline showing when during a property's availability window guests tend to book. Pie charts throughout analytics now display percentages alongside the segment counts, and all charts and their underlying data can be downloaded directly from the panel.

Airbnb: Latest API and Pet Charging

Bookster has been updated to the latest Airbnb API version, incorporating a range of field and parameter renames required by the new API structure.

Message threads now support pagination, so properties with a long messaging history will load correctly. Pet charging is now fully supported for Airbnb bookings: Bookster can receive and apply per-pet fees from Airbnb, adding the corresponding extras to the booking in the same way as natively created bookings, and respecting your existing setup for private billing, agent billing, and prep notes.

Booking.com: Auto-Import and Adult Capacity Limits

When you connect or reconnect a property to Booking.com, Bookster will now automatically import any existing reservations, removing the need to trigger a manual import after setup. The adult capacity limit - already available for native Bookster bookings - is now respected when generating length-of-stay rates for Booking.com, preventing rates for guest counts above the property's adult limit from being sent to the channel. The booking screens also now surface the adult capacity limit so guests are aware of the restriction before completing their booking.

Dashboard: Timeline Reliability Improvements

The Bookster Home dashboard timeline has received a series of fixes this month.

Incremental loading of events - where the timeline updates as new data comes in - was not working correctly and has been resolved. Timeline entries now correctly display the booking type name, making it easier to distinguish between different kinds of bookings at a glance.

Several underlying performance improvements were also made to speed up the display of the dashboard view.

Minor Updates and Bug Fixes

  • Book Direct Toolkit: Keywords in the SEO ranking panel can now be sorted, and the table shows more keywords at once to reduce the need for scrolling.
  • Revyoos: The Revyoos review widget has been updated to the new Universal Widget, with URL selection now managed from within the Revyoos platform.
  • Website: It is now possible to display client information and data retention settings on a property website, useful for GDPR compliance pages.
  • Booking: The customer's country is now included in the booking export.
  • Booking: Timeframe restrictions are now supported when importing bookings, giving more control over how far back or forward an import reaches.
  • Search: The default date filter option has been changed from "On" to a more commonly used alternative, reducing the number of clicks needed for typical date searches.
  • Airbnb: Negative guest reviews now correctly pass through tag rules, ensuring review-based automation triggers as expected.
  • Channel: Booking matching logic when connecting a channel has been improved to more reliably link incoming reservations to the correct property.
  • Payment: Stripe no longer stores the payment method at the point of customer creation, aligning with the intended payment flow.
  • Booking: Time inputs in the booking form are now read-only, requiring use of the time picker widget to avoid incorrectly formatted entries.
  • Booking: Fixed a crash that could occur when navigating to a booking with an invalid booking ID.
  • Email Marketing: Contact sync frequency has been reduced to once daily for certain clients to lower API load.