Find your own country more easily, and spot the date more easily

Two little changes went live this morning.

1. Your own country now appears at the top of the country list when you are entering a guest's address. Same with online bookings: guests will see your own country at the top of the list, along with USA and UK, then the full list of other countries:

This should make it quicker for many of your guests (and for you) to find the right country.

2. Dates repeated every 10 rows on long calendars
If you have more than about 20 rooms, you might find the dates across the top are not visible as you scroll down (depending how big your monitor is). So that you don't have to keep scrolling up to check the date, we now repeat the date every 10 rows:

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More languages available

We've just put live several new languages.

Full list of languages which you can use to take online bookings from guests is now as follows:


Français (French)
Italiano (Italian)
Español (Spanish)
Deutsch (German)
Português (Portuguese)
Nederlands (Dutch)
Svenska (Swedish)
Íslenska (Icelandic)
Русский (Russian)

Click here for instructions on how to setup your account to handle bookings in other languages



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Improved pricing types for extras

We've released some improvements to how extras can be priced.

1. New 'per day' price type
This works exactly the same as 'per night', except we describe it as 'per day' instead. This means that things like bike hire or surf lessons (which generally happen during the day) make more sense:

2. More control over per person extras
Previously, if an extra was priced per person per night (or week), we'd automatically calculate the total based on all nights and all guests on that booking. Now we show you a little box for nights and guests, so if only one guest needs this extra, or it only applies to some of the nights of the booking, you can fine-tune accordingly.

For example, maybe you offer a dinner package which guests can select. But if they don't want the dinner package every night, you can just enter the number of nights they do want it:

Guests booking online can do this too. By default, when they check the extra it'll apply to all nights and all guests, but if they want to over-ride that they can:

Or if only one guest needs surf lessons, then the guest (or you) can adjust the number of guests for that extra:

3. New price type of 'variable'
There is also a new price type of 'variable' which allows you to type in any amount for that extra. This is useful for drinks or food bills, where the amount could be anything. You have always been able to record those types of items as adjustments, but having them as extras makes it easier for you to report on how much revenue you got from food, how much from drink, etc. (rather than having everything lumped together as general adjustments)

4. Limit extras to some rooms only
Sometimes an extra is only available with a certain room. You can now set this up if you need to. Guests booking online will then only see that extra if they have booked the corresponding room. And you can only add it to a booking if the booking is for that room.

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Evacuation report and printer-friendly dashboard

We've added two new buttons to the dashboard:

Print dashboard generates a PDF version of the dashboard which will is more easily printable than the on-screen dashboard

Print guest list generates a PDF list of guests currently staying, and highlights those guests due to arrive or leave today. In some countries, it is a legal requirement to be able to produce an up-to-date list of guests in the event of an emergency, and this report makes it easy to comply with that.

Sales tax percentage to 3 decimal places

Users in Minnesota, and other jurisdictions with extremely precise sales tax percentages (in MN, state sales tax is 6.875%), will be pleased that you can now store sales tax % in KeepMeBooked to three decimal places:

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New feature: registration card

Lots of you had been using the booking invoice as a registration card for guests to sign on arrival. We just released a new feature which lets you print a proper registration card for each booking. You'll see a new button on the Dashboard which lets you print registration cards for all upcoming arrivals:

And also on the booking details screen:

Either button will produce a simple printable registration form, like this:

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New email placeholders: booking number, departure date and internal room name

We've added three new placeholders this morning, to give you more control over your automated email content:

[booking_id]: the booking reference number for the booking
[departure_date]: guest's departure date (being the day after the final night of their stay)
[internal_room_name]: where you have assigned your own physical room name, this shows the specific name on the email (rather than just the room type)

Need more information? Learn how automated emails work.


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