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Product Updates
Bookings 2.0
To help services offer more flexible and innovative solutions in childcare bookings, We are enhancing our bookings offering to include great new features in Bookings 2.0.
Bookings 2.0 includes many hotly anticipated features, including:
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Multiple, non-overlapping bookings in a day - useful for creating bus bookings, excursions or kindergarten long-day sessions
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Casual bookings from sign-in on the Playground Application
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Booking rules engine for both casual sign-ins and the parent mobile bookings feature
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The ability to create non-subsidised fees, useful for excursions or bus list bookings
Starting from this week, June 7 and culminating in the final release of Bookings 2.0 on June 28, We will be releasing new features weekly to help services transition to this new feature.
Features & Enhancements
Bookings 2.0 - Booking Rules Engine
The first feature from the upcoming Bookings 2.0 release is the Booking Rules engine.
This screen allows services to configure booking rules that will be used to determine both casual sign-in based bookings (such as those from the hub, Home App and the Playground App) and mobile bookings from the Home App.
Booking rules are set at a service level from Setting > Service Settings > Booking Rules.
Booking rules are configured by:
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Selecting a min and max sign-in time (for casual attendance bookings) to apply the rule to
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Selecting a min and max child age group to apply the rule to
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Selecting a day or group of days to apply the rule to
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Setting a room to apply to the booking that is created
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Setting a fee to apply to the booking that is created