Control min stay by room, season, or day of week

Big change released this morning. Min stay is no longer a global setting, it can now be set for each room / season / day of week.

In the Accommodation screen, you'll see a new option to switch between displaying price and minimum stay:

Clicking the Minimum Stay link will let you edit the minimum stay for this room (if you'd already used the global min stay setting, that setting will now appear for each room):

And, just like with prices, you can open up more options to set min stay by week / weekend:

Or separately for each day of the week:

And by season too:

The online booking widget will only display rooms that meet your minimum stay requirements.

If an offline booking that you enter yourself doesn't meet your min stay requirements, you'll see a warning, but you can still save the booking if you want to:

Enjoy.

Update 21 Dec: We are aware that the Accommodation screen can now be painfully slow to load if you have lots of rooms and seasons, sometimes taking over 1 min to load. Even if your browser says the page has stopped responding, be patient, it will load eventually. We are looking into this now and hope to get this issue fixed soon. (Now fixed)

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Adding new bookings couldn't be easier. Maybe.

This is the typical "New Booking" screen you'd see with traditional guesthouse or B&B reservation software:

This particular B&B reservation software product even goes so far as to say:

"Adding new bookings ... couldn't be easier"

I think maybe it could be a little easier. There are 26 fields/buttons on the screen, and that's before you've even recorded the guest's details, which are presumably hidden in one of the other tabs on the reservation screen.

I'm not saying there is anything really wrong with the screen. It is a normal, run-of-the-mill data-entry screen. You'd soon learn which bits of information you need to focus on and could rattle through the screen without much thinking about it. Someone using this screen all the time would probably say that it is pretty easy to use.

But is it really true to say that it "couldn't be easier"?

You could still make the process easier, right? As in quicker-and-easier?

You could do it like this, for example:

(Here, we just type the guests name, email and phone number directly into the calendar screen over the required dates. KeepMeBooked interprets what you type and separates out the guest's name and contact details and generates a new booking and new guest record for you all in a couple of seconds. You don't have to stop and think about whether you have filled out all the fields, set everything correctly, just type it all in and hit enter. Although this isn't easier for everyone.)

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