BooksterEmbeddable Widget Customisation The embeddable calendar widget now has a colour customisation inside Bookster. You can preview the widget directly from the share configuration screen, generate the snippet of code to drop onto your own website, and customise the widget's colours so it sits comfortably alongside the rest of your branding. Style overrides have been tightened and a new tooltip on the styling controls makes it clearer what each option affects. Guest Questions in Analytics The questions you ask guests during the booking flow are now properly integrated into the rest of Bookster. You can search bookings by the answers guests gave, with empty answers automatically excluded so the results stay relevant, and the search model surfaces how many answers exist for each question at a glance. The booking analytics panel has been extended to show the responses to your "How you found us?" question, giving you a direct view of which marketing channels guests report as driving bookings. Guest response analytics in general have been polished, with empty responses filtered out so the charts reflect real guest input. Booking Screens: Page Background and Colour Refinements Following April's full colour customisation release, this month adds further fine-tuning to the booking screens' colour system. The page background is now exposed as its own configurable colour, so you can tune the surrounding canvas independently of the cards and controls. The date text on the screens now picks up your primary colour automatically, keeping branding consistent without any extra setup. Colour names have been made consistent across the settings panel, and a few colour combinations that didn't render reliably in custom palettes have been removed from the picker. Bookings Timeline: Honest View for Channel Properties The dashboard timeline now gives a more truthful picture of availability for channel-managed properties. Bookings you don't have permission to view — typically those owned by other agents on the same channel — are now loaded as blocks rather than ignored, so the timeline no longer shows misleading availability where in fact a property is taken. The data the timeline loads has also been simplified following the recent move away from showing raw availability, which speeds up rendering and reduces unnecessary work in the background. Minor Updates and Bug Fixes Arrivals Report Bed setup is now shown in the arrivals report, with the styling tightened up so the layout reads cleanly alongside the rest of the report. Promo Codes Bookings can now be searched and filtered by discount code or promo code, making it easy to review uptake of a specific promotion or resolve a guest query about a code they used. Channel Manager Channel invoices can now be exported, bringing them in line with the other invoice exports in Bookster. Pet extras are now applied correctly even when no specific pet extra has been configured on the property. The internal channel selector now reliably refreshes after recent loading optimisations. Instant Websites A WhatsApp setting can now be configured on Instant Websites, so guests can reach you on WhatsApp directly from the site. Book Direct Toolkit The Search Queries page now supports filtering, and the keyword table headers act as sort links — click a header to order by keyword, volume, or results. Certificates Searching for expired certificates now returns the expected results. iCal Fixed incorrect labels in iCal feeds. Rates Editor The "Save" button on a few configuration screens has been relabelled to "Continue", which better reflects what the action actually does. Booking Fixed a regression that caused errors when a property had no associated channel properties.

May 2026

Written by Robin Morris

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Proper customisation for embeddable widget, so you can preview, brand, and grab the embed code.

Questions asked after booking are now first-class citizens in both the analytics, including a new view on the popular "How you found us?" question.

Booking screens colours has also gained another round of refinements following April's overhaul, and the dashboard timeline now handles channel-managed properties more honestly. A handful of channel, website, and SEO improvements round out the release.

Embeddable Widget Customisation

The embeddable calendar widget now has a colour customisation inside Bookster.

You can preview the widget directly from the share configuration screen, generate the snippet of code to drop onto your own website, and customise the widget's colours so it sits comfortably alongside the rest of your branding. Style overrides have been tightened and a new tooltip on the styling controls makes it clearer what each option affects.

Guest Questions in Analytics

The questions you ask guests during the booking flow are now properly integrated into the rest of Bookster.

You can search bookings by the answers guests gave, with empty answers automatically excluded so the results stay relevant, and the search model surfaces how many answers exist for each question at a glance.

The booking analytics panel has been extended to show the responses to your "How you found us?" question, giving you a direct view of which marketing channels guests report as driving bookings. Guest response analytics in general have been polished, with empty responses filtered out so the charts reflect real guest input.

Booking Screens: Page Background and Colour Refinements

Following April's full colour customisation release, this month adds further fine-tuning to the booking screens' colour system.

The page background is now exposed as its own configurable colour, so you can tune the surrounding canvas independently of the cards and controls. The date text on the screens now picks up your primary colour automatically, keeping branding consistent without any extra setup. Colour names have been made consistent across the settings panel, and a few colour combinations that didn't render reliably in custom palettes have been removed from the picker.

Bookings Timeline: Honest View for Channel Properties

The dashboard timeline now gives a more truthful picture of availability for channel-managed properties.

Bookings you don't have permission to view — typically those owned by other agents on the same channel — are now loaded as blocks rather than ignored, so the timeline no longer shows misleading availability where in fact a property is taken.

The data the timeline loads has also been simplified following the recent move away from showing raw availability, which speeds up rendering and reduces unnecessary work in the background.

Minor Updates and Bug Fixes

Arrivals Report

Bed setup is now shown in the arrivals report, with the styling tightened up so the layout reads cleanly alongside the rest of the report.

Promo Codes

Bookings can now be searched and filtered by discount code or promo code, making it easy to review uptake of a specific promotion or resolve a guest query about a code they used.

Channel Manager

  • Channel invoices can now be exported, bringing them in line with the other invoice exports in Bookster.
  • Pet extras are now applied correctly even when no specific pet extra has been configured on the property.
  • The internal channel selector now reliably refreshes after recent loading optimisations.

Instant Websites

A WhatsApp setting can now be configured on Instant Websites, so guests can reach you on WhatsApp directly from the site.

Book Direct Toolkit

The Search Queries page now supports filtering, and the keyword table headers act as sort links — click a header to order by keyword, volume, or results.

Certificates

Searching for expired certificates now returns the expected results.

iCal

Fixed incorrect labels in iCal feeds.

Rates Editor

The "Save" button on a few configuration screens has been relabelled to "Continue", which better reflects what the action actually does.

Booking

Fixed a regression that caused errors when a property had no associated channel properties.