August 2017 – Release Notes

Hello everybody,

We are glad to inform that v.2.0.19-21 have been released in August. Please have a look below at the changelog and what’s coming next.

CHANGELOG – FEATURES / ENHANCEMENTS

Changes in PMS:

[DEV-1395] – Automatic Rate Linking

Rates are meant to support handling different prices on different sales channels. In order to streamline price changes and revenue management, FrontDesk Master allows creating children rates which will be set automatically based on the adjustment rules and changes to parent rates. Here you have a sample adjustment rule:

Let Hostel Website Rate be the parent rate  ——–> keep child rate Booking.com Rate always “+10$”

FrontDesk Master will handle the children rates automatically whenever there is a change in price (or restrictions – optional) for parent rates.

[DEV-1] – CHAT – Ulepszenia

We have improved the chat functionality by adding sounds and visual effects to new incoming chat messages.

[DEV-1602] – User management – UI improvements

We improved the user management window.

[DEV-1639] – Private expense

While recording expense bills in the system you may report some invoices as personal use ones. It will let you filter them out when preparing Profit & Loss Statements.

[DEV-1737] – New key in email template

There are new keys available for email templates:

City Tax Total – total of the city tax
City Tax Per Person Per Nigh – City Tax Value per Night per Person

[DEV-1739] – Edit tax in reservation window

Although FrontDesk Master calculates city taxes automatically (contact us if you need such option), we enabled manual value changes in the reservation form based on some requests:

[DEV-1767] – Primavera Integration v.1.0

FrontDesk Master is integrated with Primavera (http://pri.pt/) software which allows electronically process invoices according to the legal regulations in Portugal. We have released version 1.0.

[DEV-1770] – Description in Take Payment / Give Refund Window

You can now add descriptions to Take Payment or Give Refund transactions. Descriptions will be shown in your Accounts & Transaction table.

[DEV-1802] – Sale Item price converted from secondary currency

You no longer have to set up prices of a sale item for Point of Sale in each secondary currency. Now, the prices are automatically re-calculated based on your global exchange rate settings.

[DEV-1187] – Processing Add Ons from Booking.com

So called “Reservation Add-Ons” from Booking.com such as breakfast or parking will be automatically added to your Item Manager and also respectively to the reservation with the proper pricing.

[DEV-503] – Price per Occupancy – Booking.com

Some time ago Booking.com started to support so called “Price per Occupancy”, it is different price for different number of people in the private rooms. Right now, you can upload your entire occupancy price list from FrontDesk Master to Booking.com. (The way it has worked for years in Expedia.)

[DEV-1779] – New Report — Production Matrix

In cooperation with Revenue Managers we are adding another report allowing thorough analysis of your property performance. The report allows analyzing daily pickup of bednights, occupancy and revenue – cumulative and net additive.

[DEV-1788] – Invoice – Allow entering negative values (Credit Notes)

In case you need to create a Credit Note you can now create an invoice with negative values in the system.

[DEV-1666] – City Tax report

For those who are paying city taxes, we added a simple report allowing you to calculate the amount due.

[DEV-1765] – Strategies – Applying multiple strategies

We will be working on more Revenue Management modules shortly and this is just the first step. You can now create multiple descending or ascending strategies and the system will apply them respectively to the rules and property occupancy data.

[DEV-1582] – Reservation lists – improvements

On the left side of the screen you can find a useful arrival and departure lists. Right now you can also:

  • double click to open the booking
  • perform operations available under right-click

Changes in Booking engine:

[DEV-385] – Google Analytics Integration

You can easily add your Google Analytics code to use Google Analytics to measure your booking engine performance.

[DEV-831] – Min Stay Alert in Easy View

Booking Engine in Easy View will also display the rooms which are available but require longer booking period (Minimum Stay).

[DEV-1726] – Booking Engine extra services – email confirmation & notification

You can sell extra items in the booking engine. The details will be respectively included in the confirmation email for guest and in the system.

[DEV-1482] – Polish Font on Booking Engine

Polish fonts have been polished in the engine:

MAJOR BUG FIXES:

[DEV-1363] – Deposits – can´t take document deposit
[DEV-1428] – Reports – occupancy report and room type metrics discrepancy
[DEV-1546] – Canceling guest from reservation window
[DEV-1696] – Can´t open Time Clock
[DEV-1702] – Emails: Sending 1 day before email problem for specific rooms
[DEV-1708] – System freezing – Availability and Rate Calendar
[DEV-1738] – Wrong prices in Create Resrevation
[DEV-1751] – Price – auto converting problem
[DEV-1764] – Can’t shift switch
[DEV-1778] – Reservation with balance 0 in Total Outstanding
[DEV-1819] – Reservation: Can’t edit commission
[DEV-1820] – Invoices: {PaymentMethod} key problem
[DEV-1824] – Accommodation details in invoice problem
[DEV-1424] – Property Setting view problem
[DEV-1505] – Searching booking problem
[DEV-1604] – Account Balance Report problem
[DEV-1609] – Search guest in reservation form
[DEV-1617] – No data in Lenght of Stay report
[DEV-1837] – Reservation – Number of nights problem
[DEV-1852] – Accounts and Transactions – Can’t generate pdf
[DEV-1853] – Emails – 1 day After not sent
[DEV-1862] – Unallocate bed problem
[DEV-1863] – Desktop – Support button does not work
[DEV-1906] – Bills and Vendors search problem
[DEV-1386] – Permissions: Edit Prices button not visible despite the permission
[DEV-1522] – Delete season issue
[DEV-1526] – Loading Total Payment Outstanding in Dashboard
[DEV-1543] – Problem with changing rates
[DEV-1544] – Permissions: Access to Bed View
[DEV-1555] – Reports: Total booking revenue in Booking Channel Summary problem
[DEV-1560] – Reservation: Manually put DOB and check in status problem
[DEV-1697] – Guest In-House on Dashboard
[DEV-1698] – Split and Balance Due
[DEV-1714] – Problem while putting manual prices in the Calendar
[DEV-1729] – Wrong multiple emails sent to guests
[DEV-1731] – Hide Bookers problem in Guest Police Report
[DEV-1741] – Wrong dates in notifications
[DEV-1752] – Blacklisted guest in manually created reservation
[DEV-1763] – Bulk Update – Removing Min Stay
[DEV-1821] – Wrong time zone in Inventory Manager
[DEV-1840] – A&R Calendar – Error after changing prices
[DEV-1848] – Reservation – Can’t cancel nights from BedView
[DEV-1850] – Reservation View: error in cancelled reservations

Thank you

– FrontDesk Master Team

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