Bedful Updates

This page lists the most recent updates to the Bedful booking system. We're constantly improving due to customer feedback, so if you have some ideas, please get in touch.

June 2021
  • Improved spam protection on enquiries
  • Fixed bug displaying past occupancy on some sites
  • Disallow paying a security deposit instead of saving card
  • Improve error checking on security deposit renewal in case of error
May 2021
  • Refundable Bookings in testing
  • Allowed editing pending payment amounts
  • Allowed adding Security deposits manually to bookings
  • Added new campervan search field on campervan guides on Cool Camping
  • Fix label of Exclusive Hire unit kind on Unit cards
  • Upgraded API servers
  • Upgrade PDF library for better PDF rendering
  • Hide people on PDFs if none assigned to the booking
  • Update pitchup bookings with paid status from ical feeds X fields
  • Fix bug recording remarketing preferences
  • Improve dates panel on smaller phone screen sizes (older iPhone SE)
  • Allow adding a payment even if nothing due on a booking
  • Disallow double-click on certain buttons
  • Make search field more obvious for bookings list
  • Reload hosted service domains to allow automatic upgrade to hosted site
  • Allow setting display currency on sites
  • Redirect to messages list after deleting a message
  • Added Address lookup service on channels like Cool Camping
  • Fix issue displaying correct number of extras on channels
  • Fix issue with password reset for readers
April 2021
  • Added Address lookup service on Bedful
  • Redirect to Vehicle tab on Campervan Units after create, add warnings if info missing
  • Added additional roles to bedful
  • Hide full Daily Diary PDFs and booking export for roles below staff level
  • Added length to units (for certain sites)
  • Updated reminders list styling
  • Reject invalid emails in user update
  • Wipe reset token when user updated from channel as a precaution
  • Fixes to diary presentation
  • Added hosted domain to sites to allow automatic self-hosting
March 2021
  • Upgraded rate warnings to give more specific details of problem to guests
  • Added CI server
  • Upgraded test suites, linter
  • Added more malware protection to reject malicious requests with sqli attempts etc
  • Allow partners to flag guests as VIP etc, shown on bookings
  • Unit brought feature in testing
  • Simplified practical info fields on sites - exposed more info to partners
  • Improve Revenue Reporting
  • Improved filtering on years on rates/seasons lists
  • Assign name on rate on create if none given
  • Unify rate ordering to match main list
February 2021
  • Improve messaging on booking confirmation if there is a payment failure or clash
  • Add feature to brand channel pages for channels like Ambers Bell Tents
  • Show extras from previous years for bookings which moved year
  • Upgraded assets servers
  • Open holidays from the 12th April in England on all channels
  • Improve validation of booking details form
  • Unify rate ordering on different screens
  • Allow showing rates without any seasons on the site
  • Adjust wording for Check Your Booking confirmation message text
  • Include compulsory extras in up-front price when start and end date in different seasons
  • Allow filtering on van make and van engine
  • Swap units in same groups where necessary to avoid clashes
  • Fix ical feeds for sites with a pause date in the past
  • Add hostels to the list of accepted types for book.bedful.com
  • Upgrade pitchup ical parsing
January 2021
  • Allow choosing nights on extras on bedful to apply the cost to only part of a holiday
  • Updated parsing of Airbnb ical refs
  • Updated API functions
  • Updated Coronavirus pause dates for new lockdowns
  • Added Remove Year functionality for admins
  • Allow favouriting units on channels
  • Allow reviews on book channel
  • Fixed bug with sticky booking bar on channels on slow scroll
  • Made arrivals PDF more compact
  • Added sitemap for Bedful
  • Added travel restrictions message on all sites
December 2020
  • Added docs for rebooking links and balance payments
  • Improved speed of Bedful and book.bedful.com websites
  • Adjusted bedful signup forms
  • Updated campervan entries to include more data
  • Adjust vehicle engine size display
November 2020
  • Upgraded database server
  • Adjusted gift voucher purchase on Cool Camping
  • Add Included Adults and Included Children to units
  • Add a min age on sites for Adult Only sites so that parties with children will not book
  • Add min driver age to units for campervan units
  • Allow promoting extras with images on unit and site pages (plus only)
  • Show site reviews on unit pages
  • Add adults only site setting with min age for sites
October 2020
  • Add sections for tags on campervan pages
  • Restyling for campervan pages
  • Restrict bookings per country for new Coronavirus UK lockdowns
  • Updates to API to support exchanging bookings with other platforms
  • Added campervan-specific terms to booking flow
  • Order payments by paid at rather than created at
  • Added CSV download of payments for more flexible custom revenue reporting
  • Revised basis for Revenue reporting to be payments in that month, not bookings
  • Revised bedful API docs
  • Revised bedful API
  • Allow sharing channel keys with partners directly on login to bedful
  • Revised Coronavirus Booking Guarantee launched (v2)
  • Allow partners to set reserve and release times on Security Deposits
  • Changes to filter spam signups/enquiries
September 2020
  • Improved agency dashboard screens
  • Revised Bedful help pages
  • Added Bedful API docs
  • Agency Dashboard for partners with multiple properties (Pro feature)
  • Allow selecting by group on daily diary
  • Fixed bug with duplicate rates showing in setup screen
  • Improved google image metadata for site pages
  • Improved onboarding process for partners
  • Improved error message for webhook timeout on channels
  • A new signup form for new sites signing up to Bedful and Cool Camping
  • Adjusted style and wording of the key on calendars
August 2020
  • Make discounts and totals clearer on the first page of the booking flow
  • Email confirmation of balance payments
  • Update paid status on pitchup bookings via ical
  • Added more spam controls for enquiries
  • Added security deposit information to daily diary
  • Ignore stock count on booking update
  • Avoid generating VAT reports for months in progress
  • Consider InProgress bookings in the check for double bookings
  • Fix bug - couldn't deselect filters on some guest searches
  • Fix bug - user id cleared from bookings on owner update
  • Respect web page details setting on campervan web channel pages
  • Adjust capacity check on units to take into account adults and children
  • Disable manual send of payment messages on bookings without payments
July 2020

  • Add a pay balance link to confirmation emails
  • Add site name to confirmation emails template
  • Flag pending payments on Daily Diary
  • Flag changeover days better on Daily Diary
  • Add advisory on when pending payments are taken for CBG sites
  • Expand default bookings list to 100 bookings
  • Show external ref on ical bookings
  • Fix discrepancy with revenue on payment reports
  • Allow customers to use rebooking links to change dates easily
June 2020
  • Add a booking log for every booking, recording changes
  • Default rates/extras/seasons to this year
  • Update pending payments automatically on dates change
  • Adjust opening times to follow government COVID19 advice
  • Relax ical error reporting
  • Allow paying less than payment amount if booking due is lower
  • Explain blocked dates due to covid 19
May 2020
  • Added reasons for booking pause dates to dates panel
  • Add covid tick to partners with CBG
  • Fix bug when displaying more than 50 units on a site page under accommodation
  • Fix problem with stripe API calls not succeeding due to Comodo Root cert expiry
  • Added average booking value to dashboard revenue
  • Show better errors on 0 price bookings
  • Move channel logos out of booking show page headers
April 2020
  • Added a pause bookings feature for COVID-19 to allow sites to easily close off avail up to a date
  • Remind partners to fill in every unit on ical integrations
  • Improve ical error reporting
  • Fixed bug on booking cancellation meaning cancel message could be sent twice in some circumstances
  • Fixed bug with from price display
March 2020
  • Allow owners to customise Deposit Due and Balance Payment emails
  • Allow owners to turn off scheduled messages by suspending messages
  • Reduced minimum deposit to 10%
  • Made it easier to move bookings on top of unavailable blocks
  • Added a Coronavirus FAQ for owners
  • Allow all owners to import bookings from a csv file
  • Hide suspended units in ical lists
  • Hide extras not relevant to a booking from the extras list
  • Do not offer customers extras from a season on the last day of the booking period
  • Allow filtering on unit and and unit parent kind in site bookings lists
  • Fixed bug in display of units on bookings csv
  • Added option for 3 week rates
  • Improved detection of invalid emails on booking update
  • Fix bug meaning duplicate units could show on a booking in rare cases
  • Fix bug creating duplicate security deposits on custom bookings
  • Added better error for payment links if email on booking is invalid
  • Improved speed of site dashboard
Feb 2020
  • Improved speed of all sites with database upgrades
  • 2x Improved speed of some queries on bookings on bedful
  • Improved speed of Extras page on web channel
  • Add reservation of booking units for 15 mins during booking process
  • Add cache on site widgets to speed up serving
  • Beta testing automatic ical deletion of bookings
Jan 2020
  • Upgraded API servers for growing traffic
  • Changed bedful navigation to new style with simpler clearer nav
  • Send Analytics only on first serve of confirmation page
  • Extended availability rank to cover 1 year of availability
  • Read payment status from pitchup bookings on ical
  • Read deposit from campsites.co.uk bookings on ical
  • Fix bug with breadcrumbs display on some sites
  • Fix bug with reflection of ical bookings on some sites
  • Fixed load speed of units page for sites with lots of units
  • Fix redirect after logout
  • Add buttons to revenue screen linking to site revenue reports
  • Remove rule requiring sites to be live for ical to function
  • Adjust commission presentation on dashboard
  • Add show_dates param on web channel booking page
  • Added more spam protection on enquiries
  • Add first name and last name fields
  • French translation updates
December 2019
  • Allow extending vouchers by 3 months
  • Adjusted booking status options
  • Added VAT Reports
  • Put verified reviews first in listings
  • Return a specific error for card declined when reserving funds on a security deposit via bedful
  • Adjusted AssignExclusiveHireDays to assign days differently for group exclusive hire
  • Add some columns of data (paid etc) to extras csv
  • Added booking page options for display to omit reviews if required
  • Added verified reviews on Cool Camping
  • Speed increases for API servers
  • Support expand=minimal on ical feeds to show less info
  • Disallow zero percent or pound discounts
  • Restrict alternative searches to 5 seconds
November 2019
  • Add pending payments (deposit, balance) to custom bookings
  • Adjust avail days checks to ensure we only use them when we have data
  • Fix bug in capture of payments with new stripe api on recording fee
  • Add stripe account when capturing payment
  • Adjust authorise payment to use add correct metadata
  • Fix bug - selecting pending deposit payments, not balance payments to adjust when booking updated
  • Fixed bug sending multiple messages
  • Adjust senders and reply to on emails
  • Adjust payment totals for bookings in revenue reports
  • Adjust authorisation emails
  • Fix routes for capture/reserve - count all stripe fees for payment, not just first
  • Added option to select sites which have avail or not for the next year in global list
October 2019
  • Added new navigation on Cool Camping
  • Change security deposit due dates to a few days before booking starts
  • Allow filter on unit for site occupancy
  • Allow shorter autocomplete on tags
  • Fix for incorrect net commission calculation on prepare payment
  • Fix fee added to voucher bookings stripe payment to remove fee unless not yet paid
  • Fix balance payment if voucher used
  • Fix select of year on availability grid
  • Show gift voucher payments on confirmation page
  • Change limit on owner reply to reviews to 2000 to match new review length
  • Adjust messages for reviews too long/short - add min len of 10 to review text
  • Add Instagram user agent to inapp user agent check
  • Allow delete rates/extras for owners if site is draft
  • Fix StartOfFinancialYear to use correct year at all times
  • Fixed customers list on sites without telephone
September 2019
  • Support SCA via new stripe APIs
  • Moved to new stripe APIs for payments - required some changes to payment process
  • Set default limit on site bookings to 50
  • Fix for net amount on payments after stripe changes
  • Add campsites.co.uk integration
  • Accept uppercase user email on login attempt
  • Email on security deposits
  • Add filters to site dash payments list
  • Impose max height on header height of logos
  • Tweak button views on payments to reflect payment status better
August 2019
  • Prepared for stripe SCA changes - large changes to stripe APIs in testing this month
  • Moved stripe webhooks from bedful to bedful api
  • Ignore duplicate webhook invocations on payments/voucher
  • Add text template for glampingly to avoid using owner supplied unit summary
  • Show offers on campervan pages
  • Adjust cards to show full details on offers page, add text about best offer applied to site page
  • Adjusted discounts wording for customers
  • Include the unit summary text where we have it
  • Added emails/domains to blocklist for spam
July 2019
  • Added contact form for pre-booking enquiries to sites
  • Added vehicle_reg to bookings search filter criteria
  • Adjust pending bookings if booking updated or cancelled
  • Change public avail grid to redirect to new book.bedful.com site
  • Adjusted ical rows to include unit code, adjusted width of ical inputs
  • Adjust site limits form to zero value when no limits chosen
  • Don't show contact if we don't have an email
  • Fixes for pitchup ical polling
  • Improved search time in some cases by removing sites based on 0  available days
  • Adjust search first page display limits down to 20 for mobile and 50 for desktop
  • Adjusted site ranking rules
  • Add help guide links for owners to backend dash
  • Disallow edit custom messages below plus
  • Fixed bug on max_booking_people check - allow max as well
  • Adjusted spam blocklists
  • Improved ical error emails
June 2019
  • Expanded number of API servers to improve responsiveness with growing traffic
  • Restyled site pages (on coolcamping and web channels)
  • SEO improvements to site pages
  • Added new navigation to coolcamping
  • Adjusted filtering to filter on unit_kinds in all guides they are applied
  • Filter all guides on unit tag ids, not just glampingly ones
  • Add more statuses code to ical event codes for external server errors
  • Add more jitter to ical integration polling intervals, between 10-20 minutes
  • Provide better errors when users log in with inactive user, or user without pass, or user not in db
  • Fix ios share button where parent_id is used
  • Fix discount rows bug meaning rows not working
  • Add xotelia ical integration
May 2019
  • Update password reset on bedful to warn user if no password is set in the first place
  • Fix for grid select code - do not attempt to visit href if not set on day square
  • Adjusted bespoke campsite channels for larger channels with several sites
  • Adjust channels from api - allow channel details when on web channel
  • Removed some checks on booking update to make life easier for owners editing bookings, particularly parent bookings
  • Show only relevant channels on sales dash page
  • Show why book again if more reviews
  • Tidy up styling on user bookings page
  • Show discounts tab for connect sites too
  • Use a fake example booking for message preview in all cases - avoid using real booking details
  • Handle invalid dates with redirect, not 500 error
  • Adjusted payment page to allow payment of 0 without stripe (with voucher for example or 0 deposit)
April 2019
  • Group bookings feature now in beta for certain sites
  • Let staff/managers manage bookings/payments in all cases
  • Add special offers page on coolcamping (in beta currently)
  • Added glampsites to origin menu, changed order to alphabetical
  • Update airbnb ical syncing for new airbnb ical format
  • Only allow delete extras, seasons, rates in draft
  • Change size of hero images to 250px height default from 300
  • Display more discounts on site pages
  • Fix crash on user create - duplicate email
  • Add more error messages for missing dates, missing ages on customer bookings
  • Added new stats server for monitoring
March 2019
  • Add pay link page for customers to pay to bedful
  • Improve parsing of ical events - parse more details
  • Only poll integrations on bookable sites
  • Turn on anytime unavail blocks for all sites
  • Add parent kind to extra editing
  • Fix bug selecting days across months on avail grid
  • Move payment pages for channels off bedful
  • Added 3x assets servers to handle traffic
Feb 2019
  • Adjusted sort order to take into account availability
  • Adjusted xero integration to calculate full price for per night extras
  • Allow images in owner text (by request)
  • Remove use of jquery library
  • Fix bug with char count check on some fields
  • Fix add year to not add extra joins
  • Fix message destroy button link
  • Add channel display to owner confirm details template
  • Add booking origin display to bookings csv download
  • Make error messages more friendly for balance payment failures
  • Add trustpilot invites on channel bookings
January 2019
  • Moved API settings under Share
  • Allow sorting on groups
  • Allow display if incomplete booking status
  • Show only newest years for relations on seasons, extras, rates
  • Set default data collection policy to name, email, telephone
  • Adjusted wording on compulsory extras
  • Handle booking updates from iCal integrations
  • Improved logging and error notifications for iCal integrations
  • Validate iCal URLs can be accessed on save
December 2018
  • Show widget searches graph on site dashboard summary
  • Added optional max units per booking limit
  • Include child ages on bookings CSV
  • Fixed bug with message sending timestamp
November 2018
  • Added badges and certificates of excellence for sharing
  • Improved reliability of ical syncing
  • Changed rules for overlapping seasons to allow bank holiday seasons extending to Mondays
  • Adjusted season setup message for sites not yet running bookings
  • Fixed bug where some Cool Camping messages were displayed in customised lists
  • Added Gift Vouchers function allowing purchase of Cool Camping Gift Vouchers for holidays
  • Allow managers, staff, read only to update their own user
  • Changed extra options to max for all units on a booking
  • Adjusted navigation, making it clearer which features are for Bedful Plus partners only
  • Added filtering on unit kind to bookings lists
  • Adjusted ical feed date format for X-Bedful-Starts-At
October 2018
  • Upgraded Stripe API version to latest version
  • Updated ical feeds to offer more options and include less personal data by default
  • Added controls over data collection
  • Added controls for data retention policies
  • Moved widgets to the new url, prepare for retiring old domains (booking.coolcamping.com)
  • Added Cool Camping Gift Vouchers
  • Added Gzip and HSTS support for coolcamping and bedful sites (faster page loads)
  • Improved stats logging infrastructure
  • Fixed bugs with forms on older versions of Internet Explorer
  • Improved payment pages
  • Improved errors on recalculating booking prices
September 2018
  • Login now remembers previous page attempted and redirects after login
  • Adjusted Security deposit schedule, so that money is taken on evening of check-in day
  • Disallow double click on update booking button
  • Drag and drop bookings on the availability grid (in progress)
  • Optimise availability for new bookings by packing bookings on certain units
  • Added town tagging to sites
  • Added new fields to ical feeds
  • Added price calculator to the bedful pricing page
  • Allow searching for draft/incomplete bookings
  • Fixed bug with drag and drop of images when swapping adjacent images
August 2018
  • Pending Stripe balance payments can be cancelled or charged immediately
  • Take additional payments through Stripe on existing bookings
  • Added 'Unit Brought' extras to capture what kind of vehicles or accommodation customers are bringing
  • Added extra types to make booking extras selection simpler for customers
  • Set a maximum child age on units
  • It's now easier to select single night unavailable periods on the availability grid
July 2018
  • Show the number of people on site, and number of units occupied per day on the daily diary
  • Quick jump to any date on the daily diary, or select multiple days at once
  • More informative balance payment notifications for owners
  • Improved performance when updating long bookings
  • Site Managers have the option not to take payment upfront
  • Owners can leave public responses to customer reviews
June 2018
  • Unit prices include any discounts and the price of compulsory extras up front
  • Compulsory and optional extras are presented separately in the booking flow
  • Alternative stays return more relevant results to the customers original search
May 2018
  • Improved breakdown of channels on sales reports
  • Improved payments reports
April 2018
  • Owners receive balance payment failure notifications
  • Improved balance payment errors
  • Improved API endpoints to allow searches on external sites
  • Improved ical integrations - now parse more data from certain ical feeds
March 2018
  • Authorise and collect security deposits on units
  • Only show discount code field on the booking flow when a discount could apply
  • Optionally restrict iCal feeds to bookings created on Bedful only
February 2018
  • Added a dedicated page with all unit and group iCal feeds, under the 'Share' tab
  • Added check-in days to rates, to restrict the days that customers can start their holiday on
  • Improved conversion tracking of bookings using Google Analytics
  • Fixed image sizes on search results
January 2018
  • Simplified rate layering rules
  • Set a custom prompt for the booking notes field
  • Show day of the week for arrival/departure dates on the booking flow
  • Add How did you find us question to booking flow for customers to select
  • Added cmd-k shortcut for links on edit fields, fix minor bugs in backend editing screens
  • Expanded permissions for different user roles
  • Added collection of Postcode to stripe payment form to lower card payment declines
December 2017
  • Larger preview of lead images on sites and units
  • Improved mobile display of the sites list
  • Add custom bookings that override your site and unit limits, rates, and season restrictions
  • Owners can add read only, front desk, and manager users to their properties
  • Reclone feature to change any attributes on all units in a group at once
  • Xero integration in testing
  • Imported more French and Spanish locations
  • Launch of glampingly channel for glamping owners
  • More descriptive errors on refunds
  • Eliminated older easy payment option
November 2017
  • Issue refunds of Stripe payments directly from Bedful
  • Calendar notes are now 'Reminders', integrated with the daily diary and availability grid
  • Added email notifications for reminders
  • Work on campsite rate options and better reflect global availability with more complex rates
  • Launched new marketing site for Bedful
October 2017
  • Allow Renumbering Units
  • Expanded Owner Help pages
  • Videos on campsite listings
  • Password reset links
  • Weekends a different colour on availability calendar
  • All channel filters should use the full channels list
September 2017
  • Upgraded speed of daily diary with caching
  • Allow reverse 'mark as arrived' if clicked in error on daily diary
  • Improved speed of units list for sites with many units
  • Tags for Brands
  • Improved unit tags
August 2017
  • New site dashboard
  • Fix bug in search with &
  • Fix bug with max people per unit
  • Update ical for certain bookings when updated on anytime
  • Improve ordering of sites in guides
July 2017
  • Add New Sites section to guides at top
  • Improved guide presentation
  • Improved search functionality
  • Add warning is sites over 40 images
June 2017
  • Fix incorrect transaction date on scheduled payments
  • Fix bug - Text Fields in BS not saving copy correctly in some cases
  • Generate SEO-friendly URLs for sites
  • Add Vehicle Registration to bookings
  • Fix bug with Euro charges
  • Change colour of sidebar links
May 2017
  • Drag and drop images on backend
  • Singapore added as country on booking details page
  • Add custom notes to details
  • Fix inconsistent metadata on stripe charges
  • Prevent deleting units on live sites
  • Allow search without availability for channel sites
  • Scheduled payments
March 2017
  • Tick box for terms
  • Automated emails
  • Site specific Analytics
  • Handle over capacity units by allowing users to choose multiple units with pricing updates
  • Add due column
February 2017
  • Setting a limit on total booking capacity
  • Upgraded todo view
  • Improve backend navigation
January 2017
  • Update GA tracking code ecommerce events
  • Add warning message beside units with problems
December 2016
  • Improved mobile-friendly image galleries on site and unit pages
November 2016
  • Added confirmed or provisional option on booking filtering
  • Add select all links on search unit types
  • Allow offset of checkout/checkin on ical calendars
  • Added the ability to choose between USD, EUR and GBP for payments
  • Filter bookings everywhere by the current site currency (dashboard, bookings list etc)
  • Add translation of prices to GBP on global searches, show special info on other currencies
  • Add Units/Extras breakdown on bookings list Price (hover over price to see breakdown)
  • Add Extras Price, Units Price, Discount to bookings CSV and list
  • Make list display of Due, Fees clearer by omitting £0
  • Added clearer sites create screen with list of existing sites
  • Select all days on new discounts by default
  • Display In Credit for bookings which have been overpaid
  • Add breakdown in VAT reports between CC and other bookings
  • Automatically advance preview bookings after Sept each year
  • Don't show alternative stays for draft sites
  • Changed confirmed at dates for dashboard bookings when confirmed
  • Fixed bug - Due totals included cancelled bookings when not filtering on status
  • Add Groups to Units as exclusive choice
  • Updated stats logging
October 2016
  • Added a 'daily diary' tab to the owner dashboard, with information on bookings arriving, departing, and staying over for any day
  • Owners can download a printable PDF of all the daily activity on their campsite
  • The iCal feed link for each unit can be easily copied
  • Bookings can be marked as provisional from the booking confirmation page
  • Owners can see a breakdown of rates that apply to their searches
  • Season, rate, and extra lists show items for the last set up year by default
  • The current day is marked on the owner availability grid
  • Customers can search for accommodation by site setting, on-site, or glamping facility tags
  • Add date notes to the availability grid
  • Customers can opt in to campsite mailing lists
  • Choose specific days of the week that discounts can apply
  • View availability by unit group on the availability grid
September 2016
  • Set per-night discounts as well as per stay discounts
  • Improved alternative stay results
  • Added images to extras
  • Add stock count to extras
  • Added updated by columns to backend
  • Choose the cheapest combination of rates for any search
  • Improved search speed
  • New bookings revenue and averages summary at top of dashboard bookings lists
August 2016
  • Show rates breakdown on new bookings for each unit
  • Send ecommerce event with price breakdown to Google Analytics for every booking
  • Export an iCal feed of bookings and availability for each of your units
  • Create exclusive hire units to allow bookings for the whole campsite, or for a group of units
  • Bookings list no longer applies date filters by default
  • Bookings list can be filtered by ascending or descending date of arrival
  • Allow sites to set limit on bookings near check in date
  • Enhanced 'todo' list for setting up a campsite
  • Added a preview tab for rates, with a visual breakdown of days and seasons during which that rate is available
  • Added a preview tab for units, showing seasonal availability, and a pricing check for example search dates
  • Added a preview tab for campsites, showing example booking searches to check pricing, and outstanding todo list items
  • Units that are missing rates, seasons, or images are flagged up on unit lists and the availability grid
July 2016
  • More flexible Per Person pricing
  • Added a map view to availability search results
  • Send custom messages for your campsite
  • Assign custom messages to specific units
  • Resend various booking emails by editing the booking, then selecting the (grey) messages tab
  • Notify customers automatically that their booking has been cancelled
  • Set a custom message to draft/suspended if you do not wish to send them
  • Availability search presents alternative stays to customers if there are no results
  • Discounts are now offered to customers when they search for availability
  • Customers can filter their accommodation searches by camping or glamping
June 2016
  • Changes to availability grid and calendars to show half days
  • Owners can now generate and download VAT reports from the 'payments' section of the dashboard
May 2016
  • Unit clone tool creates copies of images for each unit
  • CSVs now use numerical '2016-12-30' style dates
  • Speed improvements on global site search
  • Speed improvements on searches with large parties
  • Don't show failed bookings on grid
  • Fix for bug - invalid child ages could return error, rather than friendly warning
  • New larger images on unit and site pages and image galleries
  • New improved search flow
  • Owners can now mark when customers have arrived on the Arriving Today section of the dashboard
  • Selecting a check in date on a calendar automatically updates the checkout date to the same month
  • Customers searching for dates that don't meet meet minimum stay requirement are now shown longer potential rates
April 2016
  • Allow case-insensitive discount codes
  • Provisional bookings now block availability
  • Allow editing payment dates for non-stripe payments
  • Added refund link to payments
  • Add child and adult counts to bookings csv
  • Added global owners menu with link to my sites, changes and help page
  • Added custom GA tracking code
  • Fix for recalculation of price on booking admin update
  • Allow owners to edit their own messages (currently beta testing with a few owners)
March 2016
  • New unified interface for the owner dashboard and site setup
  • Added the ability to set a limit on the maximum number of people in a booking
  • Improved appearance of people picker when choosing multiple units
  • Disable calculate price until selection is made on multiple unit booking
February 2016
  • Upgraded the customer availability search to make it easier to search and book
  • Custom widget styling per-campsite
  • Changed sleeps up to wording on orders
  • Fixed bug displaying unpaid due columns in red
  • Added global search bar on bookings to match our new global search
  • Show check-in and check-out days on widget
  • Add warning on failed user login
  • Preserve filters on search with multiple units
January 2016
  • Updated todo list with links
  • Added colour coded balance columns on bookings
  • Allow editing payments
  • Allow suspended sites
  • Added image warning on upload of invalid images
  • Don't allow adding a payment when nothing is due
  • Don't allow clicking before start date on availability grid
  • New sites list (for admins)
  • Updated extras/rates/seasons screens to make them easier to understand
  • Upgraded availability grid to allow easier to set unavailable periods
  • Set customers list to provisional and confirmed bookings
December 2015
  • Added new dashboard graphics and revamped interface
  • Added payments listing with filtering
  • Improved bookings listing style and filtering
  • Added a maximum stay length condition on discounts
  • Updated booking widgets to be more user friendly
November 2015
  • Allow widgets for individual units or groups, as well as a global site widget
  • Owners no longer required to fill in all details of bookings added via dashboard
  • Changed buttons on owner booking flow to make it clearer
October 2015
  • Group colours are used on unit lists
  • Filter availability grid by unit groups
  • Added a CSV download for customer details
  • Changed text area editors on unit, site, discount, extras
  • Add my sites button to site create for owners, don't allow duplicate site names
  • Added Cancel/Save to bottom of site/unit update pages as well as the top
  • Various small bug fixes
  • Added date filters for bookings and customers.
  • Added password reset function for owners
  • Fixed bug with display of changes prompt on Safari
  • Added payments tracking, to link bookings with the corresponding stripe transaction
  • Allow charging any deposit from 20% to 100% to campers if using stripe connect
  • Adjusted update booking form to allow adjusting price separately - only show button if required
  • Added quotes to home page from happy campsites
  • Added notification feature for campsite owners, to let them know changes have gone up
  • Added dates to discounts - create offers for your users like 20% off in September
  • Allow automatic discounts without discount codes
  • Added many more options to discounts like minimum nights
  • Minor bug fixes
September 2015
  • Added discounts with discount codes to specific units and dates
  • Improved dashboard navigation
  • Easier to use availability grid - added month/year and season menus to jump dates easily
  • Updated forms indicate when you are ready to save
  • Allow campsites to easily setup the next season, with duplicated rates, extras etc
August 2015
  • Added information to the availability grid on hover above grid squares - rate or booking information
  • Clone unit tool - easier to set up lots of units
  • CSV export of booking details
  • Improved site setup screens
  • Automatic warnings when campsite setup is not yet complete (TODO tab)