Hello everyone,

We are happy to inform that yesterday we released a FrontDesk Master update (v.35). Please see below for the release notes and work in progress.

Have a great week!

FrontDesk Master Team

Work in progress (Nov):

• Passport scanner (ID cards scanning debugging)
• Housekeeping improvements
• Online Check-in (contact us for beta testing!)
• City tax handling in Take Payment & Invoice window

Price Strategies Improvements

First, you are now able to set restrictions strategies also for the child rates (ie. rates for which prices are automatically derived from other rates). Second of all, you can now set up multiple strategies for the same period of time to allow gradual price change.

Example 1 – different time frame

20 – 30 days before the arrival 30$
11 – 19 days before the arrival 32$
1 – 10 days before the arrival 35$

Example 2 – same time frame, different availability

20 – 30 days before the arrival 30$ if availability more than 10
20 – 30 days before the arrival 35$ if av. more than 5 less than 10
20 – 30 days before the arrival 40$ if availability less than 5

Coupon Usage Report

In the report section you can now find the report showing the statistics related to the coupons you were adding to bookings.

Referral Summary Report

In the report section you can now find the report showing the stats of the referrals assigned to the reservations.

Enable/Disable Occupancy Pricing in Booking Engine

You can now decide if you want to use Occupancy Pricing on booking engine. The occupancy pricing allows you selling private rooms for different price to different number of people.

DGP Report (Spain) & per person printouts

We have released some final improvements for a DGP Report (DIRECCIÓN GENERAL DE LA POLICÍA) for Spanish properties as well as per person printouts. which are required in some cities. Please check!

IVA / VAT Automation (e.g. for Chile)

We have implemented improved logic for IVA / VAT calculations which allows  automatically calculating the respective tax if the certain conditions are met, e.g. certain currency or nationality is marked in the booking.

Major Bug Fixes

[DEV-2529] – Strategies not refreshing in A&R Calendar
[DEV-2602] – City Tax, Lisbon – bug
[DEV-2929] – Dashboard – paid bookings appear on the outstanding payments list
[DEV-3249] – Pulling appropriate Exchange Rate when giving change
[DEV-3283] – Can’t add new strategy
[DEV-3347] – Take Payment & Invoice – incorrect invoice template taken
[DEV-3381] – Daily Production – incorrect data in the report
[DEV-3390] – System is taking too long to block beds
[DEV-3394] – Dashboard – cancelled guests counted in Arriving Guests and Guest in House Tonight category
[DEV-3419] – Exported invoice shows weird value on Balance column
[DEV-3472] – Strange nameless user active
[DEV-3524] – Daily Production – table formatting changes
[DEV-3553] – Item Manager – Error when checking “track inventory” radio box
[DEV-3575] – Bug when deleting reservation note
[DEV-3627] – Booking Engine chat does not work
[DEV-3645] – Reports – City tax report is showing incorrect info
[DEV-3707] – N/A information in Postal Cose and address fields
[DEV-3713] – Invoice – error on Save and Print
[DEV-3764] – Guest Demographics Report – Wrong guest number or empty report
[DEV-3799] – Can’t see well the buttons and all expenses categories in Withdraw window
[DEV-3803] – Incorrect Total Due in reservation after cancelling a guest in a reservation
[DEV-3807] – Hostelworld – exceeded quota of API calls for setbeds
[DEV-3815] – Problem when splitting reservation (double split)
[DEV-3820] – Booking Engine – Terms & Conditions don’t look the same as in Email & Printout manager
[DEV-3843] – Reservation View – filtering by dates doesn’t work
[DEV-3845] – Disappearing reservation
[DEV-3848] – Mandrill – Change of sender’s field
[DEV-3865] – All Issued Invoices – owner name not exported to Excel
[DEV-3919] – Inactive emails sent to guests
[DEV-3938] – Booking entered the system with incorrect price
[DEV-3967] – Reservation View – can’t see RATE column on new prod server
[DEV-3970] – Av. & Rate Calendar – the manually edited prices per occupancy reflected incorrectly in child rates
[DEV-3985] – Missing link on the new server
[DEV-4004] – Linked rates not updated in the calendar