A few little changes released this morning:
1. We now warn you if you change something on a booking and try to navigate away without saving. We've had that warning on the accommodation settings screen for a while, but not on the bookings screen. It's now on the bookings screen too, so if you change something on the booking screen (and don't save) you'll be prompted to save when you try and leave that page.
2. Some currency symbols, e.g. for the Thai Baht, were not displaying correctly on the PDF invoice for a booking. That's fixed now.
3. Finally, there has been a long-standing bug whereby if you were taking weekly bookings only, a guest couldn't book on the widget for more than 4 weeks (even if your max stay setting was, say, 90 nights which is about 12 weeks). That's fixed now.
Thursday, 29 September 2011
Friday, 23 September 2011
New Dashboard screen (summarising checkins, checkouts, available rooms)
You'll notice a new menu item this morning:
Click on that and you'll get a screen showing you who is checking in today, who is checking out, who is staying another night, and which rooms are free for tonight. Plus a list of new bookings entered on the system today.
It looks like this:
If you have any suggestions or ideas about other information you'd like to be able to see on this screen, just fire away in the comments below, thanks.
Click on that and you'll get a screen showing you who is checking in today, who is checking out, who is staying another night, and which rooms are free for tonight. Plus a list of new bookings entered on the system today.
It looks like this:
Thursday, 22 September 2011
New server status page
We recently started using a service called Pingdom to monitor our uptime. Pingdom use servers from many locations around the globe to check that KeepMeBooked is up and reachable:
Historical uptime statistics are published here on our new server status page.
Historical uptime statistics are published here on our new server status page.
Thursday, 15 September 2011
What happened to our man's right arm?
We've tweaked our logo slightly, because HostelWorld complained it was too similar to theirs and was causing confusion in the marketplace:
Our view is that if you base your logo on the internationally-recognised symbol for lodging (as HostelWorld have done) you are going to get other people with similar logos. You can't very well stop the entire world using an image of a chap in a bed in their logo.
But they have scarier lawyers than we do, so we happily caved in and chopped off our man's right arm to make our logo even less like theirs. Our logo now looks like this:
I already prefer it.
Our view is that if you base your logo on the internationally-recognised symbol for lodging (as HostelWorld have done) you are going to get other people with similar logos. You can't very well stop the entire world using an image of a chap in a bed in their logo.
But they have scarier lawyers than we do, so we happily caved in and chopped off our man's right arm to make our logo even less like theirs. Our logo now looks like this:
I already prefer it.
More ways to fine-tune prices
We've added two more criteria to the Discount Rules feature. So you can now use:
- Arrival Date, and
- Lead Time
to control pricing discounts. That means you can have, for example, an 'Advance booking for next summer' discount, like this:
Or simply use a rule to tweak next weekend's prices:
Note the 'discount' of -20%. Negative discount increases prices by 20% (we could probably make that a bit clearer ...)
That's a whole lot easier than reorganising all your seasons just to change prices for one weekend, which is what you previously had to do.
Enjoy. Feedback welcome, as ever.
- Arrival Date, and
- Lead Time
to control pricing discounts. That means you can have, for example, an 'Advance booking for next summer' discount, like this:
Or simply use a rule to tweak next weekend's prices:
That's a whole lot easier than reorganising all your seasons just to change prices for one weekend, which is what you previously had to do.
Enjoy. Feedback welcome, as ever.
Wednesday, 7 September 2011
Faster calendar screen, yay!
We released a change this morning to the calendar screen, which makes it a lot faster. To be honest, it was starting to feel like our dirty little secret: the more bookings you added, the slower the calendar screen got, until with a few hundred bookings in a single month it got horribly, grindingly slow to load.
There's only so much small talk you can make with a guest while you wait for the calendar to load so you can check if you actually have a room for them.
But now you'll have about 5.03 seconds to make small talk. That's how long it now takes for FireFox to render the calendar screen when it has 200 bookings in a single month. Chrome is about the same. Internet Explorer, inevitably, trails a long way behind (although Internet Explorer 9 manages a very respectable 6 seconds).
If you are interested in the geeky detail, the most significant change we made was to load the hover information (the booking details which appear when you hover over a booking) later. So the calendar renders first, so you can quickly check availability. Then the hover text is loaded a few seconds later.
There's only so much small talk you can make with a guest while you wait for the calendar to load so you can check if you actually have a room for them.
But now you'll have about 5.03 seconds to make small talk. That's how long it now takes for FireFox to render the calendar screen when it has 200 bookings in a single month. Chrome is about the same. Internet Explorer, inevitably, trails a long way behind (although Internet Explorer 9 manages a very respectable 6 seconds).
If you are interested in the geeky detail, the most significant change we made was to load the hover information (the booking details which appear when you hover over a booking) later. So the calendar renders first, so you can quickly check availability. Then the hover text is loaded a few seconds later.
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