We have listened to your requests for new features, added a few of our own, and are proud to release Reservations 6.0. We are excited about our new update and hope you will be too. If you have already Demoed one of our previous releases it's time to look again. We think you will like what you see.
Added Features for Reservations 6.0
Room Grid/Availability Our 'Room Grid'
has under gone some new changes to include starting a reservation by
selecting an available date, and now you can view a full month grid
with buttons to jump from month to month, and year to year. (see sample screens in the 'Help Center')
New Room Grid Features:
Select an Available date to start a reservation
Floating Room Grid for continuous viewing
Displays custom colors for Guest status
Displays coding for Smoking, Room Type and Room View
New! BIG 'Check Availability' button
New buttons to advance Months and Years
Online Reservations
We have programmed our
system with Availability Online™ to offer our clients another option
for taking online reservations as well as uploading your availability
with the click of a button. Our system has, and currently works the
same way with Webervations.™ So we now offer two integrated options
for taking reservations from your web site.
Accounting Our Reservations system has always
integrated with MYOB accounting software with no added Modules or
Plug-ins. Our new version now works with QuickBooks™ accounting
software, (Plug-in purchase required).
Point of Sale We did our homework, and partnered with a distributor to offer a POS Hardware Bundle for less than our competition. These are quality components and have been tested to work with our system. We now offer the ability to create and print Bar Codes within our software, when you purchase the POS Module.
Reservations 6.0 Upgraded Feature List
General
Demo extended to 21 days
Optional QuickBooks license code
New multi-user bundle pricing
New 'Retreat and Events' model
Now add attachments to emails
Settings
Color preferences for Availability Calendar
Security tab with 3 log in accounts
New 'Room Types' and 'Room View' value lists
QuickBooks integration option for Windows
Guests
Larger 'Help' and 'Check Availability' buttons
New area for Guest photo
Editable drop-down list for the 'State' field
'Cell' phone changed to 'Mobile' phone
Option to post Guest name to QuickBooks
Room Info
Track housekeeping status (clean, vacant or occupied)
Housekeeping status added to select reports
New 'Room Type' field with value list
New 'Room View' field with value list
Checkbox 'Do not include on Occupancy Report'
'Create Rooms For a New Year' button now updates room rate dates
Availability Calendar
New floating window jumps to current year, current month and stays open
Select an available date to start a reservation
Displays custom colors for guest status
Displays codes for Smoking, Room Type and Room View
Buttons to jump to any month or any year (for years setup in the system)
Scroll to show whole month at a time, or paging left or right displays 10 days at a time
Reservations
Larger 'Help' and 'Check Availability' buttons
Canceling a reservation marks 'To-Do' notes as 'Done'
Added area for Guest Signature to printed invoice
POS charges now show details on Guest invoice
New 'Save/Calc' button to refresh screen
Encrypted credit card number to protect privacy
New 'Availability Online' tab for processing online reservations
Option to post Checkout Invoice to QuickBooks
New printable check-in forms
Online Availability
Integrate with Availability Online™ - new screens & upload availability
Point Of Sale
New user interface with drag-n-drop items
Enter item prices including tax for Australian users
Send POS charges detail to Guest invoice
New hardware package available (receipt printer, cash dwr, scanner)
Now prints to small receipt printer OR full invoice
Create Bar Codes (Pos Module req)
Bar code printing with your printer on Avery™ labels
Option to post POS invoice to QuickBooks
Reports
Zoom button on the To-Do list
Selective Occupancy Report
Reservations 6.0 Continues to Get Better!
The list below includes areas of the Reservations 6.0 software that have been affected by updates. To see which version of Reservations you have, check out the splash screen that appears when you first open the software. Just under the word "Reservations," you will see which version you're currently running.
Keep in mind that not all updates will affect your business, so we recommend downloading only those updates that apply to areas that you use!
Updates are free to Reservations V6 users, so please let us know if you need an update by filling out the update form.
Latest Update: Version 6.09 is recommended for all Reservations 6.0 users. It fixes a bug on the February 2010 availability calendar. (This update includes all of the changes from the previous updates as well).
Changes that affect all Reservations V6 Users:
Accounts:
Creating a "Manager" Account (problem corrected)
Log-in Preferences default to being disabled in the Settings area
Removed auto-enter of staff name and 'startup' login
Reservations & Rooms
"Close" button added to Availability calendar
Availability calendar will close properly if no records found (problem corrected)
Correction for leap-year problems on Availability calendar
Auto-sorting is fixed on availability calendar to show rooms in proper order
Effective dates now advance when creating new years for rooms
2 page invoice now prints the records being browsed
Company address and email no longer appear upper case on printed invoice
Guest phone number now appears on printed invoice
Room rate lookup now supports "other" room items
Group reservation area updated (problem fixed)
Drop-down list removed on Agent 'amount' field
Online Reservations Integration
Set secure URL for uploading to Availability Online
'empty' rooms now sent to Availability Online
Uploading improved
Issue with uploading reservations on Dec. 31 corrected
Access to Webervations feature removed (no longer working)
Changes specific to Single-User version owners:
Record navigation has been added to the menu
Changes specific to Multi-User and Template version owners:
Expanded menu set for multi-user version now includes layout modification for
check-in forms,
confirmations,
current guest list,
invoices,
POS Sales Report,
Receipts Log, and
Reservations by Month.
Changes specific to Mac users:
Email confirmations for Mac users (problem corrected)
Changes specific to MYOB users:
Exporting receipts for MYOB (problem corrected)
Instructions now show that POS items need to be setup
Updates specific to Australian Version:
Signature added to invoice
Changed "postal" to "post code" on check-in form
Turned off rounding taxes on invoice for proper rounding
Override pricing removed from room rates and POS rates
Updates to POS Module:
Added "inactive" checkbox to POS items
POS invoice now shows only active items
Calculation updated for totaling invoices (problem fixed)
Reservations 6.0 is published by Compu-Books, Glendale, Arizona, USA
