It is now possible to connect a Square Terminal with your ReservationKey account. With swiping, dipping, or contactless payment, you can take advantage of lower processing fees. The process of making a payment is almost exactly the same as processing a credit card directly within ReservationKey. Once a Terminal is set up, in our … Read more
We are always excited to work with new clients, and even more so when the client is running a type of business we don’t work with so often. Here, we have Hemmingway Boatels, a floating hotel, in a refurbished luxury yacht. In order for our potential client to better understand how our booking engine can … Read more
Updates We now have channel specific settings for Channex. For example, a reservation from booking.com can have a different status color than one imported from Expedia. Also, possible to set different payment pages, and email schedules. As well as being able to have the system create an expense record in order to track commissions to … Read more
We’ve made a number of improvements to the iCal section of the system. The biggest change is that we are now able to automatically cancel reservations and handle modifications (with some limitations, see below). We have also added a one-click way to run the import of all iCal links in your account. Cancellations To enable … Read more
We have implemented a Timed Hold feature. You can now set a status to change after X number of hours. This is useful for being able to hold a reservation for a potential guest, but have the units unblock automatically if they don’t reserve (by clicking on the link to pay and paying) in time. … Read more
A feature long on our list, to have the contact form appear next to the room/unit selected, has now been completed. This is very handy for our clients that have a long list of rooms (or apartments, vehicles, cottages, etc.), where the guest may be selecting from the availability below where the reservation form starts. … Read more
Use our hotel style reservation pages, combined with our book by type view of the availability calendar, for flexible and fast appointment bookings. To enable the book by type view, go to the Settings tab, Users, and expand the User Permissions section. Then click “Enable additional features…” and click “Book by Type.” Then over on … Read more
Of course a lot of what we do is helping our clients tweak their accounts to meet their needs. Sometimes what we explain in an email can also be useful to others, and good content for a blog post. Here, we are discussing about whether to hide the waiting list, or perhaps it may be … Read more
Our default number of guests, when searching for availability on public reservation pages has always been two adults and zero children. The price that shows has been always based on that combination. Now, it is possible to set the default number, and the price showing will reflect any surcharge or discount for based on the … Read more
Many of our clients have multiple users, and wish to track which user added a reservation. We already do this with our Activity section, but now we have added another way, through a custom field. This is makes it easy to run reports to see which users added which reservations. Our users that requested this … Read more