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

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• The RBE Booking form TIME dropdown list now shows availability and colours for all times in a single view

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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

  • Understanding Quote Forms

  • Configure Tours for Quotes

  • Area and Location Lookups

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

  • ResPax Quote Form

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