MAJOR ENHANCEMENTS
NEW Website Booking Engine Enhancements
- A new Room Type "Image Slideshow" for the Booking Engine: Show an image slideshow on your Booking Engine. You can now add up to 20 images per Room Type to display on your Booking Engine. To use this new feature, all you need to do is add more images to your Room Types in Setup. See Booking Engine | Image Slideshow
- ADA Compliance for the Booking Engine: Your Booking Engine now meets strict ADA Compliance Standards (Americans with Disabilities standards). We also added the ability for you to add an "Image Description" for each Image, see Add Room Type Images.
NEW Front Desk and New Booking Enhancements
- Booking By Availability- NEW "View Rates": We have added a "View Rates" option to Booking By Availability giving you the ability to view the Standard Default Rate for the the Room Type on any selected dates. See Booking By Availability
- Booking By Inquiry: The Book By Inquiry page has been updated to make booking by Rate Plan, Room Type and Source easier. We added more Room Type Details to the "View Details" pop-out, as well. See Booking By Inquiry
- Tape Chart Enhancements: We added the 'Room Type' description for easier viewing, and now use the 'Type' labels, and reordered a few elements to make the experiences easier.
- Front Desk Dashboard: The MyPMS Front Desk dashboard has a new look! We have realigned the 'Front Desk Widgets' to provide a streamlined look by updating the "Admin - Front Desk Layout" to make it easier to add and reorder widgets. If you haven't customized your Front Desk Dashboard yet, learn how at Admin | Front Desk - Page Layout
Room Type Multi-image Upload: We have added a multi-image function to the Room Type Images for the new Image Slideshow on the Booking Engine and upload to Airbnb (subscription required) and reformatted our image upload function to include "ALT Tags" for ADA Compliance.
Learn how to add multiple images to the Booking Engine. see Add Room Type Images.
- New Upload method: You can now upload or drag and drop an image.
- Room Type Images: Add instructions and Help link to page in Setup
- Update Labels on Room Type Images
- Added ALT TAG Description
Availability page
- Add a 'Rate look up' on the Availability page.
REPORTS
- Items Included Report: We have added a new Report for Rate Plans with Included Items: You can now create a Rate Plan with an "Included Item" from your Inventory Items List. Each of these Rate Plans will display one Rate to the Guest and account for Room Rent and any 'included' Inventory Item separately in a Report. This is perfect for Rate Plans that include a breakfast charge; or rental units that include a cleaning fee, as example. To learn more, see Items Included Report.
- The 'in-house Guest Ledger; and; In-House Reports': We added totals to the columns to both of these Reports. See Daily Reports.
- Added totals to the bottom of the In House Report.
Self Check-in Features: We added new features to the Self Check-in System. The Self Check-in system includes automatic messaging, payment authorization, Esign – Digital Document Signing (optional), and room specific information allowing detailed room access instructions. Learn how to setup and use Self Check-in.
- Front Desk Bookings and Group Booking 'Rooming List': Add "Exempt Booking From Self Check-in" and "Exempt Booking From E-Sign" flags on the Booking Data, New Booking, and Group Booking Rooming windows.
- Arrival Time: We have added the ability to control Self Check-in for each guest using the arrival time.
- New "Add Payment" Method: You can now use a payment method in specific 'Self Check-in' bookings to require guests to add a payment method (usually a credit card, but not always) for incidentals prior to allowing Self Check-in.