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Features & Enhancements
Bookings 2.0
We have released new bookings functionality which allows services more flexibility with casual bookings and multi bookings. Services can now book children in for multiple sessions in a day, sign children in casually via the Playground App and make use of configured rules for casual and mobile bookings made by parents.
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
Please Note: the following important changes to bookings:
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Room shuffling for OSHC bookings now no longer applies. In order to retain this feature, OSHC services will need to create at least 2 Booking Rules, one for BSC and another for ASC sessions. Otherwise, all casual bookings created will be for the system defaults.
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The parent mobile bookings feature will now only display bookings defined in the Booking Rules. If no rules are defined, parents will only be able to book into the system default booking. To continue to provide parents with a variety of available bookings, services will need to define booking rules.
Playground App V2.0
The Playground Application for educators has now been updated to version 2.0.
Playground 2.0 contains many new features including support for multiple bookings and support for casual bookings.
The Dashboard view has a brand new design and now includes the number of children signed in instead of the previous number of children booked in.