New features​

• Introduce functionality where business can opt in to receive all confirmation emails for bookings made, amended and cancelled online. If not switched in, the business will only receive emails with special requests.
• Rich text editor for support issues text input.
• Add shift labels on opening times, to indicate what service happens during that shift eg Lunch, Dinner etc. This then pulls through onto timeline screen with those shift labels.
• Make closing online bookings work by shifts, so the user could, for example, close Dinner shift but still accept bookings for Lunch on the same date.
• Colour seats on pending bookings depending on how many people are seating.
• Highlight today's date on calendar, to make it easier to return to today's date. Alternatively, the Now time on timeline will take you to today's date too.
• Allow pending status from seated status
• Events and experiences setup screen and widget changes. This is not launched yet.
• Add special occasion and special requests to email confirmation
• Amend booking reeference generator to include numbers. Remove some letters from it.
• Extend error message on widget to tell users how they can cancel their other booking, when they are trying to make a booking at another location that is with Dish Forager
• Add date ranges on booking block out times

Bug fixes​

• Fix an issue on amendments, where pacing rules were including currently amended booking, when that booking was the only booking starting at that time slot.
• Rename Login button to Log in
• Fix minor issues on Duration rules screen
• Change notifications and other places to use 12 hr clock for consistency
• Change date format on booking confirmation page to be more readable
• Suggest other tables when originally selected table from timeline is not available
• Fix an issue where past times are showing on client amendments widget.

New features​

• Booking history tab where users can see any changes made to the booking since its creation time.
• Table duration now shown on available tables on amend duration modal
• Booking notifications for today's date. The restaurant staff can now stay informed about any changes made to bookings by clients online. This includes new bookings, booking amendments and cancellations that affect today's service.

Bug fixes​

• Guestbook booking order to show latest bookings first
• Guestbook API being called multiple times to get bookings
• Guest count view on merged tables on timeline fixed to show total guests
• Save bar on opening times screen hiding when switching tab

New features​

• Display closed days as CLOSED on the tiles with upcoming days booking summary
• Add tabs for shifts on the bookings table view, if the business works in multiple shifts
• Booking confirmation emails to help combat no shows. Functionality has been done, but not launched yet.
• Display cancelled booking date in the bookings modal

Bug fixes​

• N/A

New features​

• Enhanced reporting
• Reports - filter by dates to view bookings for any specified date range
• Add ability for staff to not send confirmation email
• Special occasions - configure in setup and allow clients online to specify what occasion they are celebrating
• Display icons on timeline on the bookings with specified special occasions
• Hide verification status page if business is verified
• Move guestbook under sub-location menu for easier access
• Introduced a new "Partially seat" status for bookings where not all geusts have turned up yet
• Custom fields for booking widget - ask your clients for custom information, eg "How did you find out about us?"
• Display booking created date in the booking info modal
• Mobile and tablet view of status indicators
• Change colours on timeline
• Allow renaming buttons on booking widgets

Bug fixes​

• Fixes for mobile view
• Fix the eye icon on mobile phone that allows viewing your own password when you register
• Fix numbers in the statistics report
• Fix an issue where lunch slot couldn't be booked when it continues into the dinner shift

New features​

• Allow staff member to review which tables have been allocated so they could edit it if needed
• Make table combination minimum and maximum values be calculated automatically by the system (but be editable)
• Performance improvements
• Booking amendments by clients - allow clients amending and cancelling their own bookings
• Pre-populate special requests for client amendments for clients to be able to edit them too
• Do not allow clients amending or cancelling less than 5 mins in advance
• Add warning message to close online bookings when at least one booking is being un-allocated from all tables
• Add a flag in Floor Plan set up screen to be able to mark tables as Extension. Extension tables will not be bookable by themselves, but only in combination with other tables
• Send restaurants emails when someone has special requests
• Booking audit
• Payments
• Security fixes to prevent fake bookings being made on web

Bug fixes​

• Fix error on "Opening times exceptions" screen
• Fix error moving bookings (that have a few tables merged) on timeline
• Fix a bug with table prioritisation
• Display booking end time as time excluding changeover
• Do not show Now bar on timeline on future dates
• Do not allow click on timeline cells where the business is closed
• Fix issue when reset password email wasn't sending
• Fixes for Firefox browser: full screen button, hover effects

New features​

• New pacing set up screen where you can configure rules to limit number of covers that arrive every 15 mins
• In the Guestbook screen, show booked location name against client's bookings
• New booking amendment modal that allows staff amending bookings
• Amend duration via amend modal, flag system default (recommended duration)
• Statistics report - a graph reflecting upcoming bookings
• Ability to de-allocate all tables from a booking
• Re-allocate bookings with tables un-allocated to chosen tables (either using a modal or by dragging onto timeline)
• Performance/speed improvements

New features​

• Added a counter to timeline where you can see how many guests are arriving at a given time.
• Improved guest book view.
• Redesigned timeline view.
• Send email to business when there are special requests.
• Indicator on booking on the timeline to show that the booking has notes.
• Indicator on the shift notes denoting how many shift notes there are for that day.

Bug fixes​

• Performance of timeline and initial page load. This then improved reaction times of doing other actions.
• Mobile view fixes for bookings.
• Mobile view fixes for modal.
• iPad display issues.
• Fixed an issue on iPad where if you clicked the device close full screen button the app didn't know it had exited full screen.

New features​

• Ability to view shift notes
• Ability to amend booking notes
• Allow surname to be optional
• Allow phone number to be optional
• Added stop sale for the day on bookings
• Combinability minimum and maximum party size
• Opening time exceptions

Initial Release!​

Dish Forager Bookings launch!