{"id":1589,"date":"2024-12-30T17:03:03","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T17:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookinghawk.com\/online-booking-system\/?p=1589"},"modified":"2024-12-31T10:15:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T10:15:30","slug":"new-features-january-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookinghawk.com\/online-booking-system\/new-features-january-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"New Features January 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The first upgrade of 2025 includes two small changes. Without futher ado, here are the details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Display Tax Information<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can now inform your clients when you are charging Sales Tax\/VAT, and at what rate. This information will display on all checkout pages, regardless of whether your clients are making a booking or purchasing a Gift Voucher or Credit Bundle. You will find the details on how to enable this setting, and set your tax rate in the below short video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Display Sales Tax or VAT on checkout page\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YxLMyaGbfHw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Disable Automatic Cleaning of Class Waiting List<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Until now, when someone signed up to your waiting list, their information was automatically deleted 48 hours after the start time of the event\/class that they were interested in. Now you have the option to turn off this self-cleaning function. However, if you do so, you should be aware of any relevant data processing and storage implications in your region. To that end, we have provided you the option of explaining to your clients what you will use this information for. You will find more details in the below video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Data Retention Automatic Cleaning of Waiting List Classes\" width=\"770\" height=\"433\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zPpj2A9KLFA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Enhancements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Further to the <a href=\"https:\/\/bookinghawk.com\/online-booking-system\/outage-october-6th-7th-2024\/\">outage of last October<\/a>, we have been working with Hosting Ireland and are happy to announce that we are upgrading our hosting agreement which will give BookingHawk.com full control of its own server as well as a Service Level Agreement for out of hours support. Allied to this, we are working on improving our alerting and monitoring capabilities. The improvements will need to be rolled out over a number of upgrades as they involve changes to multiple systems.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fix for forward slash symbol &#8216;\/&#8217; automatically getting removed from Gift Voucher instructions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Upgrade of Zoom Integration to comply with their new guidelines.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fix for receipt issues. We have tightened the coniditons around when the system will send automatic PDF receipts. We have also documented these <a href=\"https:\/\/bookinghawk.com\/online-booking-system\/docs\/automatic-receipts\/\">conditions on this page<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Increased automated test coverage specifically relating to when receipts are issued and for which amounts they are issued.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Upgrade to our sms system which is used to send text message reminders for our 1:1 feature set.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first upgrade of 2025 includes two small changes. Without futher ado, here are the details. Display Tax Information You can now inform your clients when you are charging Sales Tax\/VAT, and at what rate. 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