Newsletter 5/5/2009

Enhancements in your system now

• If a member attempts to book for a season which is not yet available for public bookings, and has not yet logged in, then after they select dates and move to the next step, they are told that this period is only available for bookings by members, and a link to login is provided.  The date after which non-members can book continues to be displayed as well.

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Newsletter 15/9/2008

Some more improvements

These changes were foreshadowed in our previous newsletter and are already in your system, you may have noticed:

The Configuration menu includes two fields for the names of your room types.  You can change from “En-suite” and “Shared Facility” to any names that are more appropriate and these will be used throughout the site and in emails.  You can change these text values at any time during the season.

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Newsletter 27/8/2008

More improvements going LIVE today

The payment page (the fourth page of the booking process) is now fully integrated.  All pages show 1-4 pages in the navigation.  The booking is no longer TENTATIVE after page 3, and no booking is recorded until page 4 is completed.  If “pay later’ is selected on page 4, an email is sent with a TENTATIVE status (the same email that was previously sent after page 3).  If “Pay online” or “pay deposit” are selected then the email is sent after the Paypal transaction, with “CONFIRMED” or “TENTATIVE” depending on the payment success and your rules for this.  This change eliminates the sometimes misleading “TENTATIVE” email which was sent before the Paypal transaction, and also includes details of any payment that was made – removing confusion for the customer.
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Newsletter 19/8/2008

Improvements when you search for a booking

Two improvements to the Administrator/Staff page for managing bookings will make it easier for you to find the bookings that you are looking for.

The first one controls whether you find bookings from past years or not.  By default these won’t be shown – untick the box to include them.  Otherwise you see this year’s bookings and bookings from future years only.
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Newsletter 12/8/2008

Bug fixes and duplicate bookings

Today we found and fixed one more bug when handling abandoned bookings, which occurred only when paging forward from the current month initially displayed.  Some of these bugs could have allowed a duplicate booking to be made, and one or two of these have been reported, so we are hoping we have closed the door on that problem as well.  The fix is in your website now.
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Newsletter 4/8/2008

Recent Enhancements

These changes are due to go into your system on Wednesday 6/8/2008.

MOTO credit card

You can now process mail or phone credit card bookings (MOTO) by adding Paypal buttons to the booking edit screen.  If you allow deposits, both buttons will show (pay deposit, pay full amount).
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