Did you know that MIDAS includes some powerful features which you can enable for the benefit of “non-users”?
Non-users are visitors to your website – individuals who won’t have a dedicated user account within your MIDAS booking system. You may wish to allow visitors to be able to check room availability and make booking “requests” or actual bookings online.
The “Public” features of MIDAS allow this.
The Public features of MIDAS comprise of two similar but distinctly different functions..
Public Web Bookings
The Public Web Bookings feature allows an individual to check room availability, book, and securely pay for their booking online.
Public Booking Requests
The Public Booking Requests feature allows an individual to check room availability and submit a booking “request” online. Once a booking request has been submitted, a “Manager” for that space can quickly approve or reject that request. Requests which are approved become confirmed bookings.
Setting venues to be “Public”
Now, you may not want all the spaces/rooms within your MIDAS booking system to be available for public booking/requesting.
That’s why on the Manage Venues screen, when an administrator selects a venue, there was a tick-box to make the venue “public”.
Until now, marking a venue as “Public” would apply to both Public Web Bookings and Public Booking Requests – if both features were enabled.
For MIDAS v4.41, we’ve made an improvement. You can now make each venue available for just public “Booking”, just public “Requesting”, both, or neither!
This small but significant improvement will allow now you to have some spaces directly bookable by the public. At the same time, you can have other spaces which must instead be “requested” and approved by an administrator.