The Booking Chart has a new slightly different look. The chart now includes shaded area which display weekends and special days. The black lines at midnight have been replaced by grey line at the default start time on the days. This means that booking timeblocks now fill the gaps between the start time lines and appear more readable.
There is a new enhanced layout editor with better formula variable control. This means, for example, greater control of how dates are displayed and how variables can be calculated together when the layout stationery is printed.
In the Main Diary when you want to make a new booking you now click on the Main Diary to select the Start date, then click a second time to select the End date, and finally you click on the Resource Type (e.g. Single, Double, Twin) you require. Now when you click on the Reserve button the Reservation Diary appears, and a Grey Booking block will be automatically selected to indicate the a free space that meets your criteria.
This feature allows you to get rid of duplicated customer or group name and address records very easily without changing individual booking records.
You can now create a booking that repeats at regular intervals, by using the repeating group bookings screen.
This feature enable automatic cancellation of all bookings that have not been confirmed after a set number of days since the booking was made.
If you have a high resolution screen (i.e. 1024 x 768 or higher), you can click the More button and have the six booking details tabs reduce to three tabs with more detail on each tab.
GuestMaster is now ready for external systems to provide bookings directly in to GuestMaster. The Booking Details screen now also displays the source of the booking.
You can now default to more than one copy of an Invoice when you print it.
The Booking Itinerary allows you to add a list of items needed for a booking. This can be used for Newspaper requirements etc, or for reminders like "12 Tea(s) at 3:00pm" etc. These can be printed with the Booking Details or in a report in management reports.
You can now enter notes to a Resource. This can be useful to House Rental companies to enter the address of the house.
A new user level has been provided to allow read only access to GuestMaster.
Ability to set the default on the Booking Detail screen to be "No Daily Update", "Once on Check In" or "Daily Update"
I is now possible to name the invoice folders. For example Invoice Folder 1 could be "Main", 2 could be "Expenses" etc.
It is now possible name days on the Main Diary. When a day is named on the Main Diary, a light blue shaded area is shown on the Reservation diary. This is useful to indicate Public Holidays etc.
When GuestMaster Tariff Control is in Per Person mode, Packages now have separate settings for Adults, ChildA, ChildB and ChildC. This means that if you sell a package the children can have their packages items (e.g. meals) at a different cost from the adults.
Packages items can now be marked as inclusive and an allowance is given to the customer for this value. Inclusive items are only used by the EPOS module, they are not used by the GuestMaster main program.
When GuestMaster Tariff Control is in Per Person mode, you can now set a minimum charge that will apply, no matter how many people stay.
The Summary screen now has variables for Booking Reference, Nationality and Passport Number.
The Audit Logs are now kept until archived. There is a new audit log screen in the Office area.
You can now have up to 4 extra rates in Resource Rate. These rate and be set to start after the booking duration exceed a set number of days.
Customers can have a credit limits set. If they exceed this limit a message is displayed when adding invoice items.
The customers credit card details are now kept with the customer record no longer with the booking record. This makes it easier to use this feature to retrieve their details quickly when taking payments.
The backup program now takes a backup of all your GuestMaster files including the Database and the stationery layout files.
New Invoice payment screen which can now store the credit card start date, expiry date and issue number in the customer record.