Many properties are already using Stripe for their card-not-present payments and website bookings, now you can purchase a Stripe Terminal and capture card present transactions directly from Abode. Terminals can be ordered from your Stripe account for a modest cost. No...
Changelog
Virtual Room Setup
We added a couple of small updates to the virtual room setup to make this easier to use and more self-explanatory: Only rooms that have been marked as 'virtual' in the rooms screen will be available in the virtual room list. It is now possible to delete all links...
Unallocated Bookings
We have updated how unallocated bookings are displayed on the calendar to try and distinguish between those that simply require a shuffle to fit in and those that are genuine 'double-bookings'. We also added a link to select the required dates/type for the booking to...
Google Hotel
For properties using the Abode BE, we can now list these on Google Free Search.
Unlimited nights for bookings
In response to the increasing numbers of properties in New Zealand converting long-term tenants, it is now possible to increase the nights indefinitely. There is now a maximum of +/-365 nights that can be selected for a booking, but however long the booking is,...
Abode + Lightspeed Restaurant (O-Series)
Abode now integrates with Lightspeed Restaurant (O-Series), a POS used by over 10,000 venues across Australia and New Zealand Lightspeed is a cloud based POS system specialising in hospitality, loved by over 10,000 venues across Australia and New Zealand. It caters...
Infants
Due to popular demand, we have added an Infants field. This assumes that infants are free (otherwise they are children) and that the room capacity does not include infants (because they are free). The infant field can be enabled in Settings > System > Field...
Messaging
We added the option to remove total and/or paid from the [Booked] section of the emails. This can be set in Messaging > Options.
How to prepare your accommodation for the new ‘protection framework’
The COVID-19 pandemic is still affecting the hospitality industry, and will arguably continue to do so in 2022. The industry has been forced to adapt to world-wide travel restrictions, with the biggest impact not only being on the travellers and tourists, but also on...