5/28/2009

Platform Additions

1. Turn Day Support - We now have turn day support available. This gives you the ability to only allow guests to check in on certain days. This can be an effective tool in normalizing and streamlining your internal processes and also to break up seasons and holiday into rental periods.
2. Custom Statements - as of Monday, you now have the ability to create customized statements in the control panel. This gives you "wiggle room" when closing a rental deal via phone or in person. You can now credit an amount against the final rental cost to lower the end price to the guest. To use this, create a booking in the control panel and click save. A new tab will appear called "Statements". Click here and you will find a button, Add Credit/Fee. There you have the ability to add a cost to the booking, or to credit a discount, symbolized by adding a "-" before the numeric value.

Platform Improvements

1. Availability Calendar - On the property details page, the availability calendar has gone through several upgrades and improvements in the last 2 months. You may have noticed however, that when you >> to a new month, the entire page would refresh. That issue has now been resolved.
2. Site Speed - Over the last several weeks, we have been making radical changes to our data flow processes to increase the average page load time on your websites and in Control Panel. We are pleased to announce that we have improved the average page load time by 50% in the last week. We have also ordered additional hardware to further improve this important performance driver.

*For any questions please contact your success manager.