We’re excited to announce the release today of v4.22 of our MIDAS room booking system, which includes the often requested feature of “custom client fields”.

Similar to the existing “custom booking fields” feature we first introduced back in 2010, which allows administrators to add further bespoke booking fields to their MIDAS booking system in addition of the standard booking fields, the new custom client fields feature provides similar functionality now to your client records.

What’s more, customers running self-hosted MIDAS booking systems can now also attach documents (for instance insurance certificates, signed contracts, etc) directly to client records through the use of custom client fields.

Here’s What’s New & Improved in v4.22:

• New: Custom Client fields
• New: Venue Utilization report based upon venue capacities
• New: “All Days” tick box to allow setting venue rates for all days at once
• New: MIDAS now warns if its database isn’t compatible with current software version
• Improved: Option to split resources into categories when printing bookings as a table
• Improved: Booking Grid View filter setting now persists between session
• Improved: Booking Information Panel can now be scrolled if lengthy notes, etc are present
• Improved: Booking Information Panel now remembers selected tab between sessions
• Improved: Booking Information Panel “Pin” now remembers its state between sessions
• Improved: Default Booking Type field no longer shown on Add/Modify Client dialog if no booking types defined
• Improved: XML settings file migrated to JSON
• Improved: Performance improvements (Pages now load ~200ms faster than before)
• Improved: HiContrast theme
• Improved: Initial page title now indicates friendly database name if only a single database is defined
• Improved: The MIDAS updater now also automatically updates any installed addons
• Improved: Logging for IPv6 and IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses
• Improved: Custom Logo shown when logged in (in bottom left) now auto hides if booking information panel would cover it
• Update: Stripe for SCA regulation (3D Secure support)
• Fixed: Cumulative roll-up of various fixes for issues discovered since v4.21

How To Get MIDAS v4.22…

Thank you for your continued support of our software, and we hope you’ll enjoy the new features and improvements in MIDAS v4.22!

If you have any questions or feedback, we’d love to hear from you!

We enjoy bringing you new and exciting features to our MIDAS room booking and resource scheduling software. Our latest update v4.21 which was released a few days ago is no exception!

For this latest update, we’ve been busy “under the hood”. We’ve optimized some of the back-end database structure and queries to make them even more efficient both in terms of speed and memory usage. We’ve also added a host of new invoicing features. New features include the introduction of “Deposit” invoices. We’ve also re-worked the bulk venue modification feature too to make it more user-friendly.

Here’s What’s New & Improved in v4.21:

• NEW: Deposit Invoices
• NEW: Mark invoices as complete even if not paid in full
• NEW: Ability to “clone” (copy) the contents of an invoice to a new invoice
• Improved: Selective bulk venue modification
• Improved: The “Pay invoice online” feature can now be configured to allow partial invoice payments
• Improved: Manually updating an invoice’s status allows you to “overpay”, applying the surplus as a client credit
• Fixed: Cumulative roll-up of various fixes for issues discovered since v4.20

How To Get MIDAS v4.21…

Thank you for your continued support of our software, and we hope you’ll enjoy the new features and improvements in MIDAS v4.21!

If you have any questions or feedback, we’d love to hear from you!

Earlier this month we released the latest update (v4.20) to our MIDAS room booking and resource scheduling software!

For this latest update, our main focus has been on updating and improving some of the visual elements of MIDAS, which you can read about in more depth in our previous post. We’ve also introduced a new addon for Microsoft Teams, as well as making several small improvements to MIDAS and also squashed 17 bugs that were discovered since the previous v4.19 release (don’t worry, no actual living bugs were harmed!).

Here’s What’s New & Improved in v4.20:

• New: Honeycomb, Squares, and Wood visual themes
• New: Drag & Drop Duplicate/Reschedule touch screen support
• Improved: Visual themes now all include high-resolution SVG icons
• Improved: Browser performance when loading data in the Client tab of the Booking Information Panel
• Improved: After generating invoices from existing bookings, the invoicing screen now refreshes to show newly created invoices
• Improved: Pending Booking Request screen will no longer show booking fields which have been hidden
• Change: Bulk modifying venues no longer bulk modifies venue descriptions
• Fixed: Cumulative roll-up of various fixes for issues discovered since v4.19 – see https://bugs.mid.as for details

How To Get MIDAS v4.20…

Thank you for your continued support of our software, and we hope you’ll enjoy the new visual themes and user interface improvements in MIDAS!

Whilst the UK have been basking in a prolonged heatwave, and preoccupied by the excitement of major sporting events such as the World Cup, Wimbledon, and the Formula One British Grand Prix, we’ve been beavering away on the next update to MIDAS, our popular web based room booking and resource scheduling software.

Today, we’re excited to announce that the latest update to MIDAS (v4.19) is now available!

As our customers have come to expect from our regular releases, this latest update boasts a variety of new and improved features, many of which are as a result of customer feedback.

Here’s What’s New & Improved in v4.19:

• New: “per person” venue rate – set hire charges based on number of attendees
• New: MIDAS now detects email addresses in Booking Notes & custom booking fields and offers them as additional recipients of booking confirmations
• New: “Most Used By” venue report showing who uses each venue the most
• New: %USER% and %USER_FIRSTNAME% variables available in email templates
• New: “View Only” option for “Can use invoicing” user permission
• New: Setting to specify that all outgoing email should appear sent from a single email address
• Improved: Simplified password reset process
• Improved: Individual client statistics now include indication of client’s most used venue
• Improved: Venue column width in booking grid now automatically increases in size if you add a venue with a longer name than current set column width
• Improved: Exporting invoice summaries in Excel format now formats “Invoice Dates” as Excel dates
• Improved: Buttons added to the final public booking/request screens to make another booking/request
• Improved: Remove Obsolete Bookings tool can now be limited to a specific booking type
• Improved: MIDAS will indicate if there are no venues assigned to the currently displayed venue group in the booking grid
• Improved: Unticking the “Calculate Totals?” box on a create/modify invoice screen now allows tax amount and grand totals to become editable
• Change: Client’s Invoices data in the Booking Information Panel now lists invoices in descending order (previously ascending)
• Security enhancements
• Fixed: Cumulative roll-up of various fixes for issues discovered since v4.18 – see https://bugs.mid.as for details

How To Get MIDAS v4.19…

Thank you for your continued support of our software, and we hope you’ll enjoy the new and improved features that MIDAS v4.19 has to offer!