As we head into the festive season, we’re excited to be able to squeeze in one more update to MIDAS, our Web Based Room Booking and Resource Scheduling Software, before this year draws to a close!

MIDAS v4.14 is the forth feature-rich update to MIDAS in this our 10th anniversary year. We’re really excited about this release, so keep reading to find out more…

New & Improved in MIDAS v4.14:

• New: “Tentative” bookings which auto-expire if not “confirmed”
• New: Features for hotel/overnight accommodation businesses, including:
  • The ability to book by number of nights
  • The ability to set check in/check out times
  • The ability to limit maximum length of stay
• New: Bulk approve/reject booking requests
• New: Add internal notes to invoices which are not visible to clients
• New: View complete history log for each invoice
• New: Ability to pre-select a default booking type on a per-client basis
• New: Easily upload/change your corporate logo
• Improved: Ability to define multiple closed from/until dates for each venue
• Improved: You can now control whether the Booking Alternatives feature offer earlier/later times or previous/next days
• Improved: Security Audit now checks for potentially excessive MIDAS user permissions
• Improved: MIDAS now alerts when Web Requests are enabled, yet no venues are set to be publicly requestable
• Improved: Overdue invoices now indicate the number of days they’re overdue by
• Improved: Handling of apparent “hangs” when using the “SMTP Test” button
• Improved: Plain text versions of emails now include alternative text of any included images
• Improved: Email compatibility with older email clients
• Improved: Email composer when querying a booking request now includes all accessible booking fields by default
• Security enhancements
• Fixed: Cumulative roll-up of various fixes for issues discovered since v4.13 – see bugs.mid.as for details

How To Get MIDAS v4.14…

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If you have any questions about MIDAS, why not drop us an email, or reach out to us through social media – We’d love to hear from you!

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This year we’re celebrating our 10th year developing MIDAS, our Web Based Room Booking and Resource Scheduling Software!

With exciting new and improved features being added to MIDAS several times each year, we’re pleased to tell you about our latest update – v4.13 – which has just been released!

New & Improved in 4.13:

• New: Desktop Notifications
• New: Options to only receive email notifications (on new messages, watch notifications, pending booking requests) when not logged in
• New: Option to automatically mark invoices totaling zero as paid
• New: Option to generate an invoice when directly approving booking request
• New: 15-point MIDAS Security Audit
• New: %PAIDON% Receipt template placeholder variable to denote date invoice was paid in full
• Improved: Selecting a different Theme on the login screen now takes affect immediately
• Improved: When deleting a venue, the number of bookings that will be removed from that venue is now indicated
• Improved: Now possible to set a sender name in addition to an email address for the “MIDAS Generated Emails Appear From” setting
• Improved: Advanced Print Options can now be displayed with a “long click” (in addition to a right-click) on the Print toolbar icon
• Performance & Security enhancements
• Fixed: Cumulative roll-up of various fixes for issues discovered since v4.12 – see https://bugs.mid.as for details

How To Get MIDAS v4.13…

Help Improve MIDAS!

We’re able to bring you exciting updates like v4.13 thanks in part to our Beta Testers – many of whom are just every day MIDAS users!

Our Beta Testers get early-access to upcoming releases to explore and provide feedback on. This allows us to make changes and address potential issues before each new version is publicly released.

We also reward Testers for their contributions with discounts against the cost of purchasing MIDAS, or which can be used against upgrades & renewals for an existing MIDAS system!

We’re always on the lookout for additional testers to help shape future versions of MIDAS. It’s free to get involved and you don’t need any previous experience.

→ Find out more, apply now, and help shape future MIDAS releases

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If you have any questions about MIDAS, why not drop us an email, or reach out to us through social media – We’d love to hear from you!

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We’ve been actively developing our Web Based Room Booking and Resource Scheduling Software for over 10 years now!

During this time we’ve seen many competitors come and go, and numerous customers making the switch to MIDAS. We have a genuine passion for how our software helps make life easier, saving time, money, and effort for venue administrators right across the globe, and we remain extremely customer focused.

With exciting new and improved features being added to MIDAS several times each year, we’re pleased to tell you about our latest update – v4.12 – which has just been released!

New & Improved in 4.12:

• New: Maintain a line of credit for clients, which is automatically applied to their subsequent invoices
• New: “Current Availability” venue report
• New: Support for card payments via Stripe
• New: %BOOKING_COST% and %TOTAL_COST% variables in booking confirmation/request approved email templates
• Improved: More control over generated content in various email templates
• Improved: Invoicing screen now shows “quick links” to recently created and recently finalized invoices
• Improved: Bulk invoice generation can now be limited by venue/booking type
• Change: Booking Request cancellation/notification unsubscribe links now require additional user click to confirm [Why?]
• Performance & Security enhancements
• Fixed: Cumulative roll-up of various fixes for issues discovered since v4.11 – see https://bugs.mid.as for details

How To Get MIDAS v4.12…

Help Improve MIDAS!

We’re able to bring you exciting updates like v4.12 thanks in part to our Beta Testers – many of whom are just every day MIDAS users!

Our Beta Testers get early-access to upcoming releases to explore and provide feedback on, allowing us to make changes and address potential issues before each new version is publicly released.

We also reward Testers for their contributions with discounts against the cost of purchasing MIDAS, or which can be used against upgrades & renewals for an existing MIDAS system!

We’re always on the lookout for additional testers to help shape future versions of MIDAS. It’s free to get involved and you don’t need any previous experience.

→ Find out more, apply now, and help shape future MIDAS releases

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If you have any questions about MIDAS, why not drop us an email, or reach out to us through social media – We’d love to hear from you!

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Happy New Year, folks!

We’re excited to tell you about our latest update to MIDAS – version v4.11 – which is available now and is bursting with brand new and improved features!
If you were an avid reader of our blog back in December, then you’ll already know about some of the great new features in this latest release of our popular web based scheduling software, but in case you missed it…

Here are the Key Features of v4.11:

• New: When deleting bookings, you can now send automated “Booking Cancellation” notifications to clients
• New: Setting to limit the number of bookings individual users can add to any given date
• New: Setting to limit the maximum length individual users can make bookings for
• New: Email/Print Receipts for clients paid invoices
• New: Estimated charges can now be shown on Booking Availability screen
• New: Quickly add existing resources when creating/modifying invoices
• New: See other devices you’re logged in from and remotely log them out
• New: Global session timeout setting
• New: Dynamically adding bookings now indicates start/finish time whilst dragging across the booking grid
• Improved: Recent Activity Log now records failed, locked, and suspended user login attempts
• Improved: Recent Activity Log can now be filtered by event category
• Improved: Drop-down client selectors
• Improved: MIDAS now prompts you to use an existing client if one exists
• Improved: Resource statistics can be filtered by venue
• Security enhancements
• Fixed: Cumulative roll-up of various fixes for issues discovered since v4.10

Last month we also celebrated our 10th Anniversary, so if you’re considering changing to a new scheduling system for your organization in 2016, make sure you choose one with a solid history that’s in active development… like MIDAS! ….and if you think changing scheduling systems would be a laborious task, it’s really easy to import existing data from other calendar/scheduling applications into MIDAS

How To Get MIDAS v4.11…

Remember, if things look out of place or don’t function correctly, it’s likely that your web browser is still “caching” elements of the older version of MIDAS you were using – simply clearing your cache will resolve this.

We hope you enjoy the new & improved features of MIDAS v4.11, and we’d like to wish you all the very best for the New Year!
Stay tuned for more exciting updates throughout 2016…