Release Date: Staging 6 September 2022 | Production 20 September 2022
Status: Released to Production
For detailed information on Events 1.50.0 release please view a section below.
Summary New Features
Review - Occasions Schedule Use - Phase 1 – PPL – 812
An update to the Bookings Widget which will aid guests in their booking journey by greying out the dates that a particular Occasion is unavailable for:
- In Events Admin, when configuring an Occasion, in the Schedule Details any dates made unavailable will now be greyed out in the Booking Widget.
Dates made unavailable by Recurrence will also be greyed out, dates made unavailable via Exclusions will not.
E.g. Schedule set up:
E.g. Widget with the same Occasion:
Events API - 3rd Party 'temp' booking - Part 1 (Create) – PPL – 670
Temporary bookings made by a 3rd party route (i.e. External API) will now instantly consume Tables occupancy while being processed to respect seating capacity to prevent overbooking.
As per current functionality:
- A Temporary Booking will shown on the Tables seating plan and if the booking is not confirmed will be removed and free up capacity.
- Will have an expiry time of 10 minutes + 30 second grace period which will be included in the booking response.
Pre-Auth as Part of API Journey – PPL – 861
Bookings made via the API will now have the ability to process Pre-Authorisation/Card-Guarantee as part of the one booking journey (Braintree Integrated Sites Only).
Add a Status of 'No Show' to Events – PPL – 804
Bookings marked as a ‘No Show’ in Tables will now have that status updated in the Events Host view.
- If a booking 'No Show' status is removed in Tables, it will also be updated in Events Host.
- This status is also filterable as per current functionality.
- Events Host does not have the ability to change the status of a booking to a 'No Show' or to remove the status.
Central Reservations Screen - Enquiry Tab Re-vamp, phase 2, Performance – PPL – 788
Improvements to the Enquiries Beta page to deliver more than 100 records (c. 8,000 records) and deliver increased performance for returning queries.
Change Date Format in EMAILS Dynamic Field – PPL – 875
Events emails will now have dates in the format “Day of the week, Date, Month, Year” (e.g. “Tuesday 30th August 2022”), rather than in the Day/Month/Year Format (e.g. 30/08/2022).
Allocate Unassigned Overpayment in Events - PPL - 7798 (Phase 1)
Events Estate Admin Users will be able to toggle permissions for the 'Allocated Unassigned Overpayments' Feature in the Payments Tab of Events Admin. However the functionality in Events Host will not be available until the 1.51.0 release.
Progress on Upcoming Features
Booking Action - Payment time 'Due after Booking' - PPL - 845
Events Admin to have the ability to create a booking rule action where a deposit, pre-payment or pre auth is due x amount of time after the booking has been placed.
Allocate Unassigned Overpayment in Events - PPL - 7798 (Phase 2)
Events Host users to have the ability to assign overpayments shown as 'Other' to the correct payment requirment.
Bugs & Issues Resolved
| Zonal ID | Description |
|---|---|
| 307669 |
Events - Failing to create child Attendees, resulting in PreOrder Guest Id duplication and PreOrder not working |
| 322946 | Events Admin - Default Occasion tab - when inherited default occasion was deleted/unlinked, drop down selection is updated only after page refresh |
| 325025 |
Events - Importing a booking to contain an Open Pre-Order Booking Rule closes the Pre-Order |
| 354910 | Events Admin - Unable to make a same day booking when Minimum Notice field populated on an Occasion |
| 359134 |
Guest Portal - re-matching to another BR with no pre-order after reducing covers does not cancel pre-order |
| 370702 | Events and guests created time, not displayed correctly on both events and tables host app |
| 374617 |
Events Host - Unable to amend covers on a booking which has had a payment via https://connect.znl-qa02.com/api/v1/bookings/sync |
| 378805 | Enquiries Beta - datagrid is now shown |
Technical Changes
| Zonal ID | Description |
|---|
| 359739 |
Add UTC booking time to be stored in database |