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Release Notes - May 2026

 

New ✨

  

Daily Manifest: Staff assignment

  • Staff assignment capabilities are now available directly within Daily Manifest making it easier for operators to manage team schedules alongside daily bookings and sessions. Daily Manifest.png

  • This update helps streamline operational planning and creates a more efficient workflow for teams managing busy schedules.

More flexible timeslot closures

  • Operators can now close specific timeslots without blocking the entire day, giving teams greater control over availability management.

  • For example, if one afternoon departure needs to be paused, operators can close only that timeslot while continuing to accept bookings for the rest of the day. Timeslot Product Closure.png

  • Check out our guide to see how to manage individual slot availability.

 

Improvements

  

Widget Generator usability improvements

  • The Widget Generator now provides clearer guidance around start and end date behavior to reduce setup confusion.
  • We’ve also added alerts when large date ranges are selected, helping operators avoid configurations that may impact widget performance or reliability.

More secure payment processing with Worldline (Bambora)

  • Payment processing with Worldline (Bambora) has been upgraded to use a more secure checkout flow.
  • This update improves overall payment security while helping reduce compliance risk for operators using Bambora.
 

Fixes

  
  • Resolved issue that caused inventory to remain reserved after abandoned bookings expired, ensuring availability is released correctly for new customers.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented operators from importing MyAllocator bookings, ensuring booking imports work reliably.
  • Resolved issue that skipped the first timeslot in monthly availability shared with distribution partners, ensuring accurate availability distribution.
  • Resolved issue that caused timeslots from unrelated products to appear in Inventory Calendar views, ensuring accurate product scheduling visibility.
  • Fixed issue that prevented gift certificates from being redeemed across connected accounts, restoring the expected redemption experience.

Release Notes - April 2026

 

New ✨

  

Share Assets Across Products

Operators can now link a single resource—such as a bus, boat, or venue across multiple products, making it easier to manage shared capacity. This feature allows staff to:

  • Maximize utilization of shared resources
  • Offer multiple experiences using the same inventory
  • Track capacity across overlapping products

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Learn more: Check out our step-by-step guide to learn how to set up shared assets between products.


 

Improvements

  

Booking Index - Booking Source Updates

  • Operators can now view more details about booking source on the Booking Index page.
  • This makes it easier to identify where bookings originate from, including distribution and reseller channels, and helps teams better track and manage partner bookings.

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Global search now supports External Booking IDs

  • Operators can now search using External Booking IDs to quickly locate reseller bookings.
  • This removes the need to manually navigate through reports or booking lists when working with distribution partners.


Daily Manifest Asset Assignment Column Update

  • The Asset Assignment column can now be hidden, giving operators more control over how reports are customized and displayed.
 

Fixes

  
  • Resolved issue that caused incorrect discount values to display on invoices after booking edits, ensuring accurate pricing is reflected across all items.
  • Fixed the Schedule Grid navigation bar that was disappearing while scrolling, ensuring consistent navigation during use.
  • Resolved issue that caused Booking Index filters to be ignored when using search, ensuring filters remain applied alongside search queries.
  • Certain booking form field filters (such as Country) did not return results, fixed this issue to ensure accurate filtering on the Booking Index page.

Release Notes - March 2026

 

New ✨

  

Booking Index – Booking Form Field Filters

Operators can now filter bookings using predefined “Booking Form Fields” responses, directly from the Booking Index page. This update allows to quickly locate bookings based on structured form responses such as dropdown or checkbox selections (for example: events, meal preference, need assistance).

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Previously, finding bookings with specific form responses often required opening bookings individually or exporting reports. With this update, operators can now:

  • Filter bookings using selected booking form field values
  • Quickly locate bookings based on customer selections made during booking
  • Reduce time spent manually searching through bookings
 

Improvements

  
  • Credit card detection accuracy: Refined credit card detection logic to reduce false positives, preventing non-credit card data (such as phone numbers or dates) from being incorrectly flagged.

  • Contact updates from Distribution bookings: Booking contact updates from distribution partners are now processed more reliably, ensuring customer information stays accurate when updates are received.

  • Improved API credential continuity: API credentials are no longer removed if the staff member who created them is archived. Credentials now remain active to prevent unexpected connection disruptions.

 

Fixes

  
  • Resolved issue that caused a “Page Not Found” error during waiver completion, ensuring waivers can be completed without interruption.

  • Fixed an issue that skipped the first timeslot in monthly availability shared with distribution partners, ensuring accurate availability distribution.

  • Resolved issue that prevented certain guests from appearing on Schedule grid's session drawer when multiple waiver documents were linked, ensuring accurate guest visibility when managing bookings.

Release Notes - February 2026

 

New ✨

  

Limited Release*


Schedule Grid

The Schedule Grid is now gradually rolling out to all accounts, bringing a faster and more visual way to manage sessions and daily operations.

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With the Schedule Grid, operators can:

  • View timeslot-based products directly on a visual grid
  • See session cards for quick context at a glance
  • Open a session drawer to manage session details more efficiently
  • Customize the grid display and apply session-based filters
  • Assign staff members to sessions directly from Schedule Grid

Learn more: Visit our Schedule Grid Help Center articles to explore workflows, tips, and best practices for getting started.

Note: Our limited release features are available on our latest version. If you are not sure if you have access to these features, please reach out to our support team.


General Release

 

Fixes

  
  • Resolved an issue that prevented gift certificates from being generated when special characters were used, ensuring certificates are reliably issued after successful payment.
  • Fixed an issue where membership discounts were not reflected on the final invoice after booking completion, ensuring discounts persist correctly through checkout.
  • Resolved an issue where availability results were incorrectly restricted when guest types were not provided, to achieve accurate availability responses.

Release Notes - Jan 2026


General Release

 

Fixes

  
  • Resolved issue that caused booking widgets to show outdated cart errors, ensuring a stable and uninterrupted booking flow for customers.
  • Availability checks now behave correctly whether or not guest types are configured, preventing situations where availability was incorrectly hidden.
  • Bookings created through widgets now consistently link to customer profiles, aligning behavior with staff-created bookings.
  • Fixed an issue where scheduled booking notifications were not being sent, ensuring customers receive confirmations and follow-up emails as expected.

Release Notes - Dec 2025


General Release

 

Improvements

  

Enhanced account security

  • Strengthened authentication and account protection workflows by additional verifications and improving safeguards against malicious inputs.
  • These updates reduce the risk of unauthorized access and ensure safer operator and customer interactions.
 

Fixes

  
  • Resolved an issue that resulted in incorrect pricing when availability schedules overlapped. Availability and pricing now accurately reflect the rules operators configure.
  • Corrected an issue that prevented saving assigned assets on the Daily Manifest page even when inventory was available.
  • Fixed PCI 500 Internal Server Error when booking notes contained numeric values with commas or plus signs.

Release Notes - Nov 2025

 

New ✨

  

Limited Release*


Schedule Grid: Session Drawer enhancements for bookings in progress

The Schedule Grid now displays a note when sessions have active pre-bookings to improve visibility and clarity - e.g., “2 booking(s) in progress”. The note is clickable, linking directly to the filtered pre-bookings on the Booking Index page.

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*Note: our limited release features are available on our latest version. If you are not sure if you have access to these features, please reach out to our support team.


General Release

 

Improvements

  

Availability and Closure Events filters in Product Builder

  • Added filters to view active, archived, or all events, helping operators focus on current and upcoming events.
  • All past events are displayed under “Archived” events.

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Auto-adjustment of dates for closest availability

  • A new setting allows operators to choose whether the system automatically adjusts unavailable date ranges for products or simply marks them as “Unavailable.”
  • This setting gives greater control over how availability is displayed.


Strengthen PCI compliance and data security

  • The system now sends a consolidated daily email listing all bookings where credit card details were detected and masked — improving visibility compared to the previous flow, which sent only a single notification daily per first detection.
  • Redaction tool extended to customer profiles.

 

Fixes

  
  • Resolved an issue preventing mobile app logins.
  • Fixed a critical issue preventing Adyen API transactions via the /transact endpoint.
  • Resolved an issue where Adyen refunds were not correctly being marked as “Complete.”
  • Fixed a bug preventing bookings spanning closed days from working correctly.

Release Notes - Oct 2025

 

New ✨

  

Limited Release*


Schedule Grid Calendar🔎​

The Schedule Grid provides a customizable view of scheduled sessions, allowing operators to organize and display data based on their operational needs. This feature is designed to provide and enhance visibility into all unbooked and booked sessions.

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Staff Assignment on the Daily Manifest 🙋‍♀️

Operators now have greater visibility when assigning staff/resources to activities

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*Note: our limited release features are available on our latest version. If you are not sure if you have access to these features, please reach out to our support team.

 

Improvements

  

General Release


Automatically reuse and attribute waivers ↩️

Reduce repetitive work for returning guests.

  • Previously signed waivers would now be automatically apply to a guest’s future bookings within a set validity period.
  • This eliminates repetitive signing for returning customers and reduces operator overhead.

Redaction tool extended to booking fields🔒

  • Strengthen PCI compliance and data security
 

Fixes

  
  • Resolved an issue where copying products with 2+ images caused missing/broken images in the copied product.

  • Fixed a critical issue where availability failed to save correctly and caused products to appear unavailable on the inventory calendar and booking pages.

  • Resolved and issue where Flextime product availability was not calculated as expected when “span closed days” is enabled

  • Resolved an issue that prevented users from selecting or entering validity dates when issuing a gift card.

Release Notes - March 2024

 

New ✨

  

Copy Bookings 👯

Doubling up on work when you want to duplicate a booking is a thing of the past. Now, create a new booking from an existing one in a single click. With our Copy Booking feature, you can quickly create a new booking for an existing customer while carrying over all of their booking information. Copy Bookings.png

Learn more about how to Copy Bookings

 

Fixes

  

Same-day bookings 🤜 vs. 🤛 Booking windows

Chase helped resolve a bug where day, night, or timeslot products wouldn’t allow same day booking if they had a Booking Window rule applied.

Missing Billing Page 👻

Selina caught and fixed an issue with our Billing page disappearing for some operators.

Release Notes - February 2024

 

Improvements

  
  • 💸 Real Refunds. We’ve heard from many of our operators that there was a missing piece when it came to refunds with Checkfront. Now, if you need to issue a refund for any reason, you or your customer will receive a full refund – booking fee included.

  • 🗓️ Daily Manifest just got better. Built to show all your upcoming bookings in deep detail, our Daily Manifest got some upgrades. Now, it's even easier to:

- Filter and find bookings by Product Category

- See, select, and assign which guest types are allocated to which assets.

- Check-in guests quickly

- See exactly which assets are assigned to any booking

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