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!

We’re all experiencing unprecedented times with the global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Firstly, if you’re an existing customer whose business is currently affected by the situation, we want to reassure you that we’re here to help! For more information, please see our recent blog post: 3 ways we’re supporting customer’s businesses affected by Coronavirus.

Now, here at MIDAS as we are a small and agile online business, and as such our operations haven’t been significantly affected at this time. For all intents and purposes, it’s “business as usual” here at MIDAS. Our sales team is still available online (via email or Live Chat) to answer any pre-sales questions you may have. Our support team is still providing prompt assistance to customer’s support queries (you can view our latest response times on our dedicated Service Status site).

As such, we’ve decided to press ahead with the release of our next update to MIDAS, v4.24, which is available now.

Highlights of MIDAS v4.24 include:

• New: Support for multi-select custom list fields
• New: Post booking email option – send clients an automated email after their bookings have taken place
• New: “Can Bypass Venue Blocks” user permission (disabled by default)
• New: Optional “Reviews” addon – automatically collect feedback, ratings, and reviews from your customers
• Improved: List of organizations in drop-down on Invoicing screen now limited to organizations with invoices
• Improved: BCC to me option when emailing an invoice/receipt now remembers user’s previous setting
• Improved: Individual client statistics now include count and sum of outstanding invoices and client’s current credit
• Improved: When assigning the “Can Process Booking Requests” permission, MIDAS will indicate if the user isn’t currently a manager of any venues
• Fixed: Cumulative roll-up of various fixes for issues discovered since v4.23

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

We hope you’re all ready and getting excited (if not already!) for the holidays just around the corner?

Here at MIDAS HQ we’re excited – not only because Christmas is now just over a week  away (where has this year gone?!), but also because we’re pleased to announce an exciting update to our booking software, which includes a number of new and improved features, including support for setup/breakdown times for bookings.

We’ve also overhauled our optional “RSS Feeds” addon, renaming it to “Data Feeds” to reflect that this improved addon will now also allow you to sync your MIDAS bookings to your external Google/Outlook (or other external) calendar – something which is often requested!

Highlights of MIDAS v4.23 include:

• New: Setup/Breakdown periods
• Improved: Modify/Delete Similar Bookings search can now be limited to certain days of the week
• Improved: Data Feeds addon (formerly RSS Feeds) now includes support for sync MIDAS to your external calendar (Google/Outlook, etc)
• Improved: You can now filter invoices by organization
• Fixed: Cumulative roll-up of various fixes for issues discovered since v4.22

How To Get MIDAS v4.23…

Thank you for your continued support of our software, and we hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!