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Bookamat Software Updates

Latest System Updates

Bringing you the latest features, fixes and improvements!

31 August 2020

  • COMING SOON

  • Clients can create bookings on behalf of friends and family
  • Primary account holder can pay for dependants

27 July 2020

24 July 2020

  • REFERRAL TRACKING (NEW!)

  • New clients can enter who referred them to your business on the registration form
  • Track who was referred by who in your clients report
  • Great if you want to reward clients who are top referrers

18 July 2020

  • GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS

  • Clients can now modify their own email addresses
  • Updated the active packs report

13 July 2020

  • GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS

  • Clients can now enter their date of birth on the registration form
  • You can now instant-send the broadcast link to participants on save & close
  • Your website URL is now linked to your business logo

08 July 2020

  • EMBED SCHEDULE IMPROVEMENTS

  • Made the sign in and create an account links more prominent
  • Fixed the button styling across all devices
  • You can now hide the free spaces column from view
  • Changed 'Book Class' button to 'Reserve'

07 July 2020

  • BROADCAST IMPROVEMENTS

  • Broadcast links have been added to the view activity series pages
  • Broadcast link now saves for all activities in a series
  • Broadcast link page will now automatically close on save & close
  • Control which participants (all, paid or none) should receive the broadcast link 1 hour before start
  • If broadcast link is modified less than 1 hour before start, participants will be notified

06 July 2020

  • ADD ACTIVITY IMPROVEMENTS

  • You can now add activities which recur once every 2 weeks
  • Great for those bi-weekly short courses, etc

30 June 2020

  • NOTIFICATION IMPROVEMENTS

  • Business accounts can now view each client's notification settings
  • Business accounts can now toggle each client's notification settings

25 June 2020

  • BILLING IMPROVEMENTS

  • Billing now highlights the payments selected for easier use
  • Billing now shows the total number of payments selected

23 June 2020

  • GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS

  • Added Assign Staff button to Staff page to quickly add new staff to services
  • Added a Joined On column to show when Clients & Staff joined your business
  • Fixed the Client Activity page to now display actions in your local time zone
  • Saving the attendance form now redirects back to the schedule

15 June 2020

  • IMPROVEMENTS TO SERVICE MANAGER

  • A host of exciting improvements to the service manager including:
  • 'Duplicate' any service and pricing! 
  • 'Edit Pricing' is now accessible from the service manager
  • You can now 'Select All' when adding / modifying services and staff
  • 'Sell Online' option has been added to the Create New Pricing page
  • Updated accordion styling for improved readability on long lists

11 June 2020

  • IMPROVEMENTS TO SCHEDULE NEW ACTIVITY

  • You can now add multiple recurring activities which repeat on certain days of the week
  • This saves a lot of time when scheduling the same activity type on multiple days
  • Various other usability improvements to streamline the schedule new activity page

  • RENAMED PAIRED SERVICES

  • Pair Services (service manager) has been renamed to Connect Services
  • Connect Services is a better description of the function it performs

  • ADDED QUICK SETUP GUIDE

  • You can now download the business quick setup guide from the links page

05 June 2020

  • FIND MY STUDIO (NEW!)

  • Added 'Find My Studio' link from our home page for clients
  • Clients can now find and join your studio more easily from our home page

03 June 2020

  • GENERAL MPROVEMENTS

  • Changed client upcoming activity reminder to send 1 hr before class (was 30 minutes)
  • Clients can now access broadcast links for past classes by viewing their attendance history
  • Recurring credit packs are now added to client baskets 2 days before their current pack is due to expire
  • If a recurring credit pack runs out of credits before it expires, a new pack will be added to client baskets 1 day after their last activity

29 May 2020

  • ADDED TIME ZONES

  • Display or hide your activity time zones during client booking process (Settings > Views) 
  • Helps clients who are in other time zones when booking online classes
  • Check your account country, currency and time zone settings (Settings > Locale)

20 May 2020

  • GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS

  • Client account upcoming activities only shows upcoming activities from today
  • Attendance pages now show participant's pricing plan name instead of pricing type 
  • Fixed a bug that caused a small number of recurring credit packs to be active from the wrong date

19 May 2020

  • ADDED PAYPAL ID

  • You can now add your PayPal ID for accepting client payments
  • PayPal ID will show on client invoices and on the client basket

14 May 2020

  • IMPROVEMENT TO ONLINE PAYMENTS

  • Online client payment flow has been streamlined in RSA & NAM
  • Clients can now apply coupon codes before adding a payment method

  • CHANGED DROP IN TO CASUAL

  • Our drop in pricing name is now called casual
  • This is consistent with international terminology

13 May 2020

  • IMPROVED WAITING LISTS

  • Social distancing means reduced in-person class space.
  • Clients can now join waiting lists using valid credits directly from their account

11 May 2020

  • IMPROVED BROADCAST CLASSES

  • Want to let participants know what to bring for their online class?
  • Now you can add a note to every broadcast to let them know
  • Can also be used to share streaming access passwords

29 April 2020

  • IMPROVED WAIVER COLLECTIONS

  • Send your pre-attendance documents to all clients
  • Send your pre-attendance documents to individual clients
  • Record when you receive a signed client waiver
  • Works with Waiver King, Google Drive and more!

23 April 2020

  • IMPROVED UPCOMING CLASS REMINDERS

  • Business can now enable or disable upcoming class reminders for clients

17 April 2020

  • INSTRUCTOR ACCOUNTS (NEW!)

  • Invite your staff to create their own instructor account to view classes and activities which they are teaching
  • Instructor accounts can also access the attendance form for their classes
  • Protects your primary account data

  • IMPROVED PAYROLL REPORT

  • You can now generate an income report for individual instructors

  • IMPROVED USER GUIDES

  • Updated guides with information about instructor accounts and booking online / live streamed classes

02 April 2020

  • IMPROVED BROADCAST CLASSES

  • One streaming link can be set for all classes in a series (recurring)
  • Send streaming link to all participants or only paid participants

  • IMPROVED WEB APP

  • Our web app now asks visitors every 14 days to install (was 30 days)

31 March 2020

  • IMPROVED BROADCAST CLASSES

  • Add up to 200 participants per class
  • Streaming link is now sent to participants on edit / modify
  • Streaming link can be sent even after the activity has ended
  • Streaming link is sent to clients on booking if class is free

  • IMPROVED ACTIVITY REPORT

  • Filter report by time to generate data for individual classes
  • Fixed a display issue when exporting to PDF

16 March 2020

  • BROADCAST CLASSES (NEW!)

  • Use any 3rd party streaming service including Zoom, Skype and Google to broadcast online classes via Bookamat
  • Students receive the streaming link on payment confirmation

  • STRIPE PAYMENTS INTEGRATION (NEW!)

  • Bookamat is now integrated with Stripe to allow businesses in 36 countries to accept online card payments
  • Payments processed by Stripe are paid into your account in as little as 3 business days
  • Bookamat deducts AUD30c per transaction for using Stripe. Please check Stripe Pricing for their fees in your country

  • EMAIL ALL PARTICIPANTS (NEW!)

  • You can now email all participants in any activity
  • Easily notify all class participants if you are running late etc

09 March 2020

  • TIERED PRICING FOR ATTENDING UP TO 5 CLASSES PER WEEK (NEW!)

  • Create recurring tiered pricing for clients attending 1 to 5 classes per week
  • Automatic calculation based on how many classes a student joins / leaves
  • Recurring billing per calendar month means a steady revenue
  • Pricing can stack across one or more class types

  • IMPROVED BUSINESS REGISTRATION

  • It is now easier for new businesses to register on Bookamat from anywhere in the world

21 February 2020

  • IMPROVED LIVE SCHEDULE

  • Added a Sold Out tag to classes which are fully booked on the live schedule page

  • IMPROVED SERVICE MANAGER

  • Business can now link staff to all pricing in a service
  • Saves time for businesses which have many pricing and services

  • IMPROVED NOTIFICATIONS

  • Upcoming class reminders are sent to clients by default
  • Clients can opt out from these reminders

18 February 2020

  • IMPROVED WEB APP

  • Business App now opens on the Schedule page for instant class view
  • Fixed a bug with the add participants page

  • GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS

  • Fixed a bug but that caused some client and staff names to appear in lower case
  • General speed improvements

29 January 2020

  • IMPROVED BUSINESS NOTIFICATIONS

  • Added a suite of notification settings for the account holder and members

24 January 2020

  • MINIMUM PAYMENT COMMITMENT (NEW!)

  • Set the minimum number of payments clients must commit to when buying a pass or membership
  • Works on all recurring plans (weekly reservation + packs + unlimited passes)
  • Track the number of payments a client has made / has remaining

  • IMPROVEMENTS TO HOMEPAGE

  • New content and layout added

14 January 2020

  • ACTIVITY REPORT (NEW!)

  • Performance analysis for activities and classes
  • Can be downloaded into Excel format

  • IMPROVED CLIENT REPORT

  • See the latest activity for each client to help with retention and reward campaigns

  • IMPROVED NOTIFICATIONS

  • You can show or hide your business address on all client payment confirmation emails

  • IMPROVED SOCIAL SHARING

  • Share any activity via email by copying the link to your clip board

  • IMPROVED BUSINESS DETAILS

  • Added a practice number to the account page which displays on invoices

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