Today marks the 15th Anniversary of MIDAS!

The first public version of our versatile room booking & resource scheduling system, MIDAS v1.00 was first unveiled to the world on 11th March 2006.

15 years on, and MIDAS is still going strong. To coincide with our anniversary, today we’re releasing the latest update to software, MIDAS v4.27.

Highlights of MIDAS v4.27 include:

• New: Print individual bookings direct from the Booking Information Panel
• New: Booking Requests can be auto-approved for certain email addresses / domains
• New: Predefined date ranges for Advanced Print Settings, Statistics, and Search date filters
• New: Search results can now be easily printed
• New: Recent Activity audit log can now be exported to Excel
• New: Exported client data now includes client’s current credit and tax exempt status
• Improved: Support for importing bookings with dates in the formats DD-Mon-YY/YYYY
• Improved: Advanced Filter Invoice Generating options now allow using a blank search term
• Improved: Advanced Filter Print options now allow using a blank search term
• Improved: Advanced Filter Print options now allow filtering by invoice
• Fixed: Cumulative roll-up of various fixes for issues discovered since v4.26

How To Get MIDAS v4.27…

15% OFF for our 15th Anniversary!

To celebrate our 15th year in business, all this week we’re offering 15% OFF NEW PURCHASES OF MIDAS.

We believe in giving customers maximum choice. That’s why we offer MIDAS in both a cloud-hosted edition (with monthly and annual subscription options), as well as a self-hosted (on-premises) edition for a one-time cost (with an optional subscription)

With this generous 15% discount, your organization can start scheduling with MIDAS for less than $30!

To get 15% off your initial purchase of MIDAS, simply head over to our secure checkout, and use the Promo Code MIDAS15.

You’ll need to hurry though! – This limited time offer expires on 14th March 2021

Since our previous significant update to MIDAS back in July, we’ve been continuing to work hard during the global pandemic on our next update – v4.26.

One of our main focuses for v4.26 has been on replacing the aging calendar (date picker) “widget” that we’ve been using in our software since its inception. This 3rd party component hasn’t been developed or maintained by its original author for many years now. Whilst it has served us well since our very first release, in more recent years its limitations have become more apparent.

One of its limitations has been in relation to selecting multiple dates from the calendar when adding bookings. Traditionally, this involved holding down the Ctrl/Cmnd key on your keyboard whilst picking dates. This obviously put users without keyboards – those using smartphones and tablets – at a disadvantage!

For this, and other reasons we’re now switching to a more modern calendar “widget” for date selection in MIDAS.

Highlights of MIDAS v4.26 include:

• New: Calendar widget
• New: Export Users
• New: Entering a new password now optionally blocks it if it appears in any known global data breaches
• Improved: Exporting clients can now optionally only include clients with bookings over a given date range
• Improved: Invoice statistics can now be filtered by booking type
• Improved: Support for smaller screens
• Improved: Selecting multiple calendar dates on touch devices
• Improved: Contextual help
• Improved: Invoice rendering

How To Get MIDAS v4.26…

COVID-19 Support

If your business operations continue to be impacted by COVID-19, we’re here to support you!

If your business remains temporarily closed, please see this post for ways in which we can help your business through these challenging times.

Alternatively, if your business is now tentatively restarting its operations, here are 6 ways MIDAS can help your business adjust to COVID-19.

Thank you for your continued support of our software during this unprecedented time in global history! …and remember our friendly support team continue to be here if ever you need us!

If you’ve been following our blog in recent weeks, then you’ll know that we’ve been busy during the UK lockdown. We’ve been hard at work at our next update to MIDAS v4.25, which is out now! For this update we’ve added dozens of new features and improvements, which we’re really excited about!

Highlights of MIDAS v4.25 include:

• User Interface Improvements
• Custom Field Improvements
• Re-Show The Quick Tour
• User Management Improvements
• Colorize Venues
• Client Notification Improvements
• Statistics & Reporting Improvements
• Invoice Tax Improvements
• Flexible Invoice Terms
• Apply Refunds To Invoices
• Raise Credit Notes
• Export Invoices to QuickBooks, Sage, Xero, and more!
• Merge Invoices
• Improvements to Cancellation Invoicing
• Security Enhancements

How To Get MIDAS v4.25…

Important Information For Existing Customers Regarding Invoicing in v4.25

We’ve made some changes to invoicing in MIDAS for v4.25, and we’d like to draw your attention to one specific change;

If you’ve previously manually created or modified invoices in your MIDAS system, and in doing so altered totals with the auto-recalculation option disabled, then your previous invoices may look slightly different after being updated to v4.25.

You may see the addition of balancing items or balancing credits listed on previous invoices. These may be added in some instances to ensure that the items appearing on each invoice match the invoice’s total.

For more information on this, please see our KB article: What are balancing items or credits on invoices?

If you have invoices where you’ve modified line totals without allowing MIDAS to correctly recalculate the grand total, and you wish to retain these invoices their current state (without balancing items/credits being applied), we suggest that you print these invoices prior to updating to v4.25.

It is important to note however that the presence of balancing items or credits on previous invoices will not affect an invoice’s total.

Should you have any questions or concerns in this regard, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us, and we’d be happy to help!

Thank you for your continued support of our software during this unprecedented period of global uncertainty. Please remember that if you’re an existing customer affected by the current situation, we’re here to support you!