Upgrade Available - v9.09

Note that this upgrade also includes the minor 9.07 and 9.08 releases which were available in limited capacity over the past few months.

New Features

• When adding a new booking, or adding people or nights to a booking, allow to select different nights for the people in the booking (functionality turned on / off by using ShowEveryoneAllNights parameter)
• Allow members to add people to a booking already in progress (will set nights that have already passed to cancelled status)
• Add Pay Now field to make payment screen for when using a credit note to pay an invoice which doesn't totally cover the cost of the invoice to allow to select to just use the credit note now, and pay the rest later

Fixes & Minor Enhancements

• Add new parameter "AutoChangeBedRates" to control whether bed rates are automatically updated when moving people between different bed categories
• Add total approved people to top of print and PDF view of bed list
• Fix issue with booking periods ignoring the type of member as well as number of days when ignoreMinDaysRules param is set
• Update Bunk List with License Plate report to exclude members checking out
• Update Bunk List report to exclude all lodges section when only have a single lodge
• Create new report to show number of approved by date and member status
• Fix show detail panel on Manage and My Bookings to show perferred bed type correctly
• Don't set evening meals to 0 by default so members have to enter the number of meals they want on arrival
• Update cancel people / nights page to only show a tick or cross icon for including people in or excluding people from booking
• Fix error with booking fee displaying twice on confirmation screen when booking is across multiple booking periods
• Fix confirmation page displaying incorrect dates when booking is across multiple booking periods

As always, let me know when your club is ready to upgrade either by email, or leave a comment below.

Upgrade Available - v9.06

Release 9.06 is now ready. This release includes lots of fixes and minor enhancements:

Fixes & Minor Enhancements

• Add bed type to booking detail report
• Resolve issue with availability page not displaying correct when using bed types and bed type name is long
• Fix issue with booking emails being sent when make a payment, even if select to not send notification emails
• Fix timer so will continue to countdown when log out and log back in again
• Add "includes GST of $x.xx" to bottom of invoice (based on new GSTPercent parameter)
• Add General Fee to invoice line type options
• Fix issue with invoice not displaying for payment when invoice type is other
• Remove guests from subscription / yearly fees table on members fee page 
• Add BPayID to top of invoice (based on having BPayID selected as option in MembershipProfileFields parameter)
• Upgrade editor to resolve issues in IE11
• Update Google Analytics to allow more flexibility using GoogleAnalyticsTrackingCode and GoogleAnalyticsPosition parameters
• Resolve error where weekend and weeknight booking periods are not displaying correctly on availability calendar
• Resolve error in booking conditions where conditions always display

As always let me know when / if you are ready to upgrade!

Upgrade Available - v9.04

Release 9.04 is now ready - hot on the heels of 9.03 which had an issue causing save on booking periods to fail unless you had the new parameter turned on. I also took the opportunity to add a couple of extra little tweaks.

This release includes:

Minor Enhancements

• Change wording on booking period error message when making a booking and status is not permitted in the period
• Generate an email to EM Dev whenever a deadlock error occurs on payment (this is the error that was causing credit notes to be created when not expected - should not occur again, but would like notification if it does!)
• Allow member to add their own DOB if no DOB is on their profile (based on AllowMemberAddDOB parameter)
• Increase width on date fields and age field on make booking to allow full text to display in Safari

Fixes & Minor Enhancements

• Fix error when saving a booking period and have CheckStatusForBookingPeriod parameter set to false
• Fix error on links to view invoices in reports that took user to the login page - should now open pdf

As always let me know when / if you are ready to upgrade!

Upgrade Available - v9.03

Release 9.03 is now available. This release has several exciting new features, as well as a number of fixes.

New Features & Minor Enhancements

• Ability to have member rates calculated based on age as at first night in the booking, instead of member status - controlled by AllowGetRateFromAge parameter and new field on Membership Status page
• Ability to add a per person booking fee to each booking - controlled by BookingFee parameter
• Ability to restrict booking periods to membership statuses (e.g. don't allow child statuses during adults week) - controlled by CheckStatusForBookingPeriod parameter and new fields on Booking Period page
• Change "Closed" invoices to be "Bad Debt" and update financial position and open invoice lists to include
• Add Select All option to all checkbox lists
• Add booking Conditions to My Bookings and Manage bookings pages

Fixes & Minor Enhancements

• Fix error with payment being processed twice causing erroneous credit note to be generated for member
• Fix error where booking conditions not displayed when original booking without a booking condition gets nights added which do have booking conditions
• Fix error where dates that have both disabled booking period and also a enabled booking period showing as green (available) on Availability page
• Fix Availability calendar to correctly adhere to weekend and week night booking periods
• Fix display issue with booking timer when BunkTimerLimit set at more than 48 hours (2880 mins)
• Fix error when clicking on date to change night in SYB
• Fix error where clicking on "CHange Criteria" in Members Bed List page displays date selector even when BunkListMemberView set to NextDays
• Fix error where Club ID field showing in member profile even when not selected in MembershipProfileFields parameter
• Fix date format in Bed Changeover Report to be generic instead of USA
• Fix filename on Invoice Lines Report
• Fix staggered booking period when booking for a date which has no periods set up
• Fix error when selecting forward or back buttons on VIEW bunk list page changes to EDIT bunk list page
• Fix error with dates in adding and editing work parties

SQL Database Hardware Upgrade Tonight

Received the following from Kiwihosting regarding upgrading hardware. This may affect some clubs tonight.

"Tonight commencing 23:30 NZST (UTC+12) we will be conducting a hardware upgrade of our Microsoft SQL 2008 Server KIRK. 

This maintenance is expected to take approximately 3 hours during which time all databases on this server will be unavailable."

Emergency Maintenance/Upgrade and Outage

Have just received the following notification from the hosting which may be affecting some Club System sites.

"We have noticed that KIRK is reporting bad blocks on one of it's Hard Drives, to mitigate any failure to this server we will be performing emergency maintenance within the next 72 hours that will require a 2 -3 hour downtime as we will be taking this opportunity to upgrade the server hardware ahead of our intended schedule."

I will let you know when I hear anything further, but for any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.

Upgrade Available - v9.01

The first version for 2014 is now available! This release includes the following.

New Feature

• Ability to create booking conditions which members must accept during the booking process. Use the new page in the Admin > Maintain Club section to create your conditions, and select when they should show. Conditions will display on booking emails.

Fixes & Minor Enhancements

• Fix error where booking emails are being sent even when select to not send notification emails.
• Fix error where multiple emails are sent for offline bookings
• When recording a payment (committee), don't populate the amount field - to avoid just clicking enter without entering the appropriate amount in the case of part payment
• When recording a payment (committee) or making a payment (member), don't allow for over payment of the invoice - to avoid unnecessary credit notes or errors 

Please contact me if you would like to schedule an upgrade for your club.

As always, this release and full release notes for all versions are available on the demo site: www.clubsystem.co.nz.