Continuing on from where we started last month, we have been working on the calendar - this time with a focus on the "agenda" view. We've received a lot of great feedback from customers over the past few months and we've used that as the basis for the following changes:
The top panel is now fixed so the controls to switch to another date, filter by facility and change to another calendar view are always visible and accessible. We have also introduced a side panel with a miniature version of the calendar. You can click on the mini calendar to quickly jump between dates.
Even though LemonBooking has four calendar views (month, agenda, week, day), the majority of our customers use the "Month" view to display availability and keep track of their bookings. Consequently we have received a huge amount of feedback and suggestions for how the view could be improved since we announced an update was planned.
The result (see below) is some pretty significant changes for how we display bookings in this view. The most striking change is obviously the colours - you can now set your own colours and initials for each facility. Staff can also now see the activity type for all bookings while customers can see the activity type of public events/bookings.
Often when dealing with one-off bookings or new customers, it is necessary to require payment for part of the total in advance. While this has always been possible in LemonBooking, it has previously been a two task process - the booking had to be checked and then an invoice could be generated.
To save time when processing these types of booking requests, it's now possible to make the system generate an invoice for a certain amount (fixed or percentage) and optionally send it to the customer immediately. You can also set up special invoice templates and email templates if required.
In this example, the system has generated an invoice for 25% of the total and emailed it to the customer:
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