The “Booking Request” features of MIDAS, allow people to check venue availability and submit booking “request” for your rooms.
By default, all booking “requests” must then be approved by a venue’s administrator (manager) before becoming a “confirmed” booking.
Back in MIDAS v4.27, we introduced an option to allow booking requests received from certain email addresses/domains to be “Auto-Approved“.
“Auto-Approved” booking requests do not require a manager’s authorization. As soon as the request is received, it’s automatically approved by MIDAS – just as if the user had made a regular “confirmed” booking.
For v4.30 we’ve extended the “Auto-Approve” options for booking requests. You can now alternatively have requests automatically approved based upon the “type” of booking request that has been made.
With this option enabled, booking requests that have had a matching booking type selected at time of requesting will be automatically approved.
All other booking requests will still require a venue manager’s approved as before.
So for example, you could configure this option so that all “internal” booking requests are automatically approved, where as all others require approval.