Release Notes
The Release Notes for ResPax version 1.4.5.9 for 20th October 2023
ResPax Booking Engine ( RBE Admin and OBE Public )
New
Added availability colours to the OBE Accommodation booking form
When there is only 1 time available for a date, the OBE calendar will skip directly to the Booking form
The RBE Booking form calendar now shows availability colours
The RBE Booking form TIME dropdown list now shows availability and colours for all times in a single view
Improvements
Fare description added to the Accommodation Calendar
Evenly spaced the additional passenger fields on the booking form (Age, Gender, Email, phone etc)
Made the LEFT and RIGHT arrows on the calendar larger
Added Month and Year dropdowns to the availability calendar to enable faster progression between dates instead of only clicking next, next, next
Fixes
Improved UI for the small calendar for iPhone users
Confirming dates on an Accommodation tour from the tour list now progresses consumer to the Booking page instead of back to the tour list with the new dates selected
The Release Notes for ResPax version 1.4.5.8 for 26th September 2023
ResPax Booking Engine ( RBE Admin and OBE Public )
New
Added Xero Financial Integration via RBE Admin
Added Business Insights (beta release)
Added International Dialling Code dropdowns to all phone fields
Add hidden disabilities sunflower support for non-visible disability friendly
Improvements
Send Comms - Improve handling of file uploads, display 2mb limit and new error messages
Display credit card fees in OBE Cart page as its own line
Agent OBE login – improve list view where download buttons were partly off screen
New Schedulers for API, SMS, EMAIL and SCHEDULES (behind the scenes improvements for scalability)
Added International SMS Support from Guest Connect Comms
Fixes
Hide the 'quote-only' fares from the staff booking form
Add a search filter to the User Group dropdown on the User maintenance page
Added additional permissions/restrictions for Staff to maintain Payment Options
Fixed bug when booking some extras via RON2 generated an error
Removed the default Adult passenger type. Now the default is the first passenger type added to the booking
The Release Notes for ResPax version 1.4.5.7 for 8th September 2023
ResPax Booking Engine ( RBE Admin and OBE Public )
Fixes
The exclude Traveller site setting now applies to OBE bookings for customer and agent bookings
Fixed issue with converting quotes for surnames with apostrophes
Enabled negative payment lines in RBE to balance out payment lines in cancelled bookings where money is withheld
Improvements
Security enhancements for auditing user login and logouts of RBE and OBE apps
Added validation for missing activities in Quote forms
New
The Guest Connect module (menu) provides email, sms, bulk communication, scheduling and logging
send individual or bulk emails and SMS to guests.
create and save email and SMS templates
schedule email and SMS based on matching criteria
review scheduled logs
review email and SMS comms logs
list email addresses as safe senders
The Release Notes for ResPax version 1.4.5.5 for August 2023
ResPax Booking Engine ( RBE Admin and OBE Public )
Fixes
Suggested Tours bottom banner was only displaying, when the Popup was enabled, now it is always displayed
Improvements
Ticketable Setting is now enabled by default on new tours
Drag n Drop Payment Options
Add/Edit Merchant Accounts
Opt in and T&C check boxes in RBE Booking form
The Release Notes for ResPax version 1.4.3 for May 2023
ResPax Booking Engine ( RBE Admin and OBE Public )
Fixes
New online bookings of multiple tours in a single booking/cart were incorrectly assigning travellers to each ticket. Error only identifiable when editing web-booking in the legacy R4A desktop application
The Release Notes for ResPax version 1.4.2 for 30th April 2023
ResPax Booking Engine ( RBE Admin and OBE Public )
Improvements
New Eway Payment Gateway available.
Custom country list replaced by ISO standard country list
(required for improved payment security using ‘Verified by Visa 3DS’)
The Release Notes for ResPax version 1.4.1 for April 2023
ResPax Booking Engine ( RBE Admin and OBE Public )
Fixes
Discounts were being applied to Agent Bookings after the commission was calculated instead of before (in OBE for Agent Logins)
Voided payment lines were set as “Manually approved” and being incorrectly included as revenue earned
The Subscribe “Opt-in” flag was not being saved when using Paypal payments
The Availability was not being shown on the Suggested Tours pop-up window (spinning icon now removed)
Only show the Suggested Tours pop-up when there is one item in the cart. It was previously showing every time including after booking the Suggested tour
When the “Zero Price allowed” option was enabled on a tour, the booking form would not ask for a payment, even if the price was not zero
Improvements
In Bookings List, Tour List , Quote List, and the Booking form dropdown, you can now hide tours based on User Groups
In Tour Maintenance, when adding a tour to Package_Components and Package_Extras, the defaults time, basis and subbasis were not automatically set, and now they are.
In Tour Maintenance, there was no cursor or active field set when opening a form, resulting in missed keystrokes or one extra mouse click per window required
The Release Notes for ResPax version 1.4.0 for March 2023
ResPax Booking Engine ( RBE Admin )
Added Cancel Reference and Cancel Reason
Added collapsible accordion for the passenger list in the booking form
Added Area and Address to Tours in Advanced Tour Maintenance
Added Lingo for Subscribe/Opt-In
Added a default payment line for Zero Priced Bookings
Allow bookings for departed tours (enabled booking dates in the past)
Filter available tours by Group Memberships in the booking form
New tool to Unarchive Bookings from Financial Archive
New Lookups for GL Codes
New Lookups for Area and Location (Shared location and sub location)
New Lookups for Resource type and Resource sub type
Requirements for New Quotes Module
Fixes
Remove user group selection for Guests
Confirm zero price bookings without the need for a payment line
Changed lookup label from Group Type to Group Name
Online Booking Engine ( OBE )
New quote module for Agents and Consumers
The Release Notes for ResPax version 1.3.1 for December 2022
ResPax Booking Engine ( RBE Admin )
New Page for Guest Subscribe / Opt-In
Updated Site Settings for Opt-In
New Page for Understanding Zero Price Bookings
Updated Page for tour maintenance for Zero Price Booking
Multi-factor-authentication added to improve security
Additional email providers added to support mail aliasing
Fixes
When adding additional tours to an existing booking as a Staff user, the new tour would not display until the page was refreshed.
Online Booking Engine ( OBE )
Optional checkbox to opt-in to a mailing list from the Checkout page
The Release Notes for ResPax version 1.3.0 for November 2022
ResPax Booking Engine ( RBE Admin )
Lookups viewed on a mobile device now defaults to a button to hide/show all tabs
New Lookups for Suburbs
New Criteria and Actions added for Web Category maintenance
‘Users’ menu changed to 'Users & Groups'
User Group Maintenance moved from Lookups to Users & Groups
New permissions based on Group Membership
New Page for Promo Codes
New Page for Group Type and Sub Type Lookups
Fixes
When many tabs were on a single page, they could run off the page.
These now wrap onto multiple lines (eg Settings Lookups)Updated labels and Lingo that were not representing plurals correctly
The Release Notes for ResPax version 1.2.2 for October 2022
ResPax Booking Engine ( RBE Admin )
Colours added to the Tour Availability page (green, orange and red)
Lookups for Discounts
Lookups for Tour Extras Groups
Lookups for custom Dropdown List ‘Sizes’
Lookups for custom Dropdown List ‘Levels'Lookups for custom Dropdown List ‘VIP’
Lookups for POS Locations
Lookups for Credentials
Improved auditing of all changes at the database level, not the application level
Menu items relocated to prioritise Guests and Bookings and Dashboard
Month added to the availability Grid column headers (in addition to the DAY of week and DATE of month)
Page added for creating email templates
Page added for sending emails based on templates
Page added for reviewing logs and resending existing emails
Page added for Signup to new Service Desk
Page added for new Dashboard Feature
Page added for Web Category maintenance
Online Booking Engine ( OBE )
If an extra has no availability, it is now greyed out so it cannot be selected
Improved error messaging when credit card details are incorrectly entered in the Checkout
Trailing spaces in first and last names are automatically removed
Term ‘Leg 1’ starts at the first editable component, not at the top level ticket
Ability to re-use the traveller names from tour booking 1, when continuing shopping on tour booking 2
Fixed : Extras that had components were not having the availability checked on the extras component, and not writing the extras component to the database
Fixed : Browser auto-filled names had a space after first name generating a field validation error
Customer Journey Integration
ResPax has released the first integration with our partnered Customer Relationship Management tools
To get connected, please contact Customer Success Manager for more information
For more information please contact the ResPax Support Team
P: 07 4041 1017
For additional training or guidance please reach out to your Customer Success Manager
Adam O'Malley