In MIDAS v4.06, we’ve extended this to also allow you to define rates based upon the length of the booking as well!
For example, you can now set up a venue’s rates so that bookings lasting say less than 4 hours could be charged and invoiced at a higher rate than those lasting more than 4 hours.
You can also now define rates as “per booking” as well as “per hour” and “per day”. The new “per booking” option charges a fixed set amount for bookings.
Flexible Venue Rates
So, as per the above screenshot, let’s say you define the following rates for “Meeting Room 1”:
$100 per hour for bookings lasting 1+ hours
$80 per hour for bookings lasting 4+ hours
$450 per booking for bookings lasting 6+ hours
Bookings for “Meeting Room 1” would then be charged as follows:
Length of Booking
Total Charge
1h
$100 ($100 x 1)
2h
$200 ($100 x 2)
3h
$300 ($100 x 3)
4h
$320 ($80 x 4)
5h
$400 ($80 x 5)
6h
$450 ($450)
7h
$450 ($450)
8h
$450 ($450)
We believe this additional flexibility when it comes to charging and invoicing for use of your venues will be great benefit to our customers. Of course, for those who don’t require this level of flexibility, MIDAS can be simply set to charge a single rate for “all bookings”:
The most popular suggestion on our Feature Request page in recent times has been a desire for integration between MIDAS and an Active Directory allowing single sign-on to MIDAS using a user’s current system credentials.
We have been working to bring such integration to MIDAS for some time, and we are now pleased to announce that integration with an Active Directory will be possible starting with our forthcoming update to MIDAS, v4.06.
So, instead of a user having to log in twice (once to their computer, and then again when they open MIDAS), MIDAS can instead authenticate against your organization’s Active Directory, meaning users logged onto your network can simply open MIDAS and be seamlessly logged in each time!
Please Note: Active Directory integration will only be available if you’re running MIDAS on your own server (our “self-hosted” edition), and your MIDAS is licensed for “Unlimited” users.
We’re currently looking for beta testes who meet the above requirements (i.e. currently running a “self hosted” MIDAS with “Unlimited” users) who would be interested in testing integration between MIDAS and their Active Directory. If this is you, please contact us for more information.
Love is in the air! Yes, it’s nearly that time of year again – Valentines Day!
…and whether you’re currently considering MIDAS for your organization’s room and resource scheduling needs, or you’re an existing customer, we want to share the love with you!
That’s why for a limited time we’re offering 20% off new purchases of MIDAS, and for our existing customers; 20% off your next Annual Support Subscription renewal!
To take advantage of this limited offer, simply do the following this Valentines weekend:
We’d like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy New Year from all of us here at MIDAS HQ, and also announce the availability of MIDAS v4.05!
Improved: Background data refreshes less frequent when MIDAS isn’t the active browser tab/window
Improved: HTML5 conformance
Improved: Better error handling if update fails
Improved: Better error handling if SMTP fails
Improved: Grid Lock/Unlock action (Accesskey “u”)
Improved: Logo resolution
Improved: Full Screen support for IE11
Improved: Help Documentation (you can now also download offline documentation at https://mid.as/manuals)
Fixed: Cumulative roll-up of various fixes for issues discovered since v4.04
MIDAS v4.05 running on the new iPad Air
You can view the full Changelog for MIDAS v4.05 here
Keep Your Browser Up-to-date!
We want you to have the best possible user experience when using MIDAS in your favorite Web Browser. We support our web based scheduling software in all 5 major browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera), and a list of the minimum and recommended versions for each of these browsers we support can be found at https://mid.as/browsers.
Important Information for users of Internet Explorer 8
As we first indicated back in November 2012, and again in March 2013, we would soon be dropping support for Internet Explorer 8.
Therefore, starting with MIDAS v4.05, Internet Explorer 8 is no longer supported. That’s not to say that MIDAS will suddenly stop working in IE8, on the contrary, MIDAS may continue to function in IE8 for some time to come, and we’re certainly not “blocking” access to MIDAS if you still use IE8 – but it means that we are no longer actively supporting this obsolete browser, and therefore if you encounter any issues running MIDAS in IE8, we will no longer be addressing them, and will instead encourage you to update your web browser.
How To Get MIDAS v4.05
Existing MIDAS customers with valid Annual Support Subscriptions can update to v4.05 from within the software (MIDAS Admin Options → Manage MIDAS → Update)
Customers who have their MIDAS “remotely hosted” by us – you don’t need to do anything – We’ll be automatically updating you to MIDAS v4.05 this weekend!
If you’re not yet using MIDAS, why not start off the New Year by getting your organization’s room scheduling in order once and for all with our intuitive, popular and easy to use, web based software MIDAS!?
The most popular suggestion on our 
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
We want you to have the best possible user experience when using MIDAS in your favorite Web Browser. We support our web based scheduling software in all 5 major browsers (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera), and a list of the minimum and recommended versions for each of these browsers we support can be found at 
As we first indicated back in