We’d like to wish all our customers a very Happy Christmas from MIDAS HQ here in the UK!

2020 is a year that most will be glad to see the back of, and we know that many of our customer’s businesses have been significantly impacted by COVID-19 this year.

Since March, here at MIDAS HQ we’ve been working hard to support our customers affected by the pandemic. We put in place support for those venues which had to temporarily close, and provided guidance for those who’ve had to adjust their way of operating.

Sadly though we know that some of our customers this year have had to permanently shut their doors, and our hearts especially go out to them at this time of year.

Here at MIDAS HQ in the UK it’s been a challenging year too. We’ve been through two national lockdowns, and been in a perpetual local lockdown for coming up to 5 months now.

As a small and agile business though, we’ve been able to adapt and continue with business as usual.

Since the start of the pandemic, we’ve released 3 significant updates to MIDAS (v4.24, v4.25, and v4.26), packed with new and exciting features!

We’ve also maintained the high level of support that we know our customers value! During the pandemic, our median response time to Priority Support requests has been just 10 minutes! What’s more, EVERY Priority Support request we’ve received during the pandemic has had a dedicated human response within 6 hours of receipt!

Priority Support over Christmas:

As we’ve done in every year previous, Priority Support will be available to all customers with an active support subscription should they need it right across the festive season – even on Christmas Day itself!

This year, however, we would ask customers with non-urgent support queries over Christmas to consider waiting until the new year to contact our support team if at all possible.

The UK government are allowing a very small window over the festive season for people to travel and see family. Most of our staff have been in perpetual lockdown and haven’t seen close family members since before March, and so we’d like them to have the opportunity to be able to travel and do that this Christmas.

This may mean slightly slower responses times to support queries than usual, and is why we’re encouraging non-urgent queries to be delayed until the new year, where possible.

Thank you for your understanding and support!

However you’re spending this festive season, we’re sure it won’t feel like a “normal” Christmas. But we do wish you a happy and peaceful time, and we sincerely thank all our customers for their continued custom and support during 2020.

We’re already working on MIDAS v4.27, so stay tuned for more updates in 2021!

Have a safe and peaceful Christmas from all of us here at MIDAS HQ!

We constantly strive to provide unrivalled support to customers of our Web Based Room Booking & Resource Scheduling system. One of the things we’re most proud of is our professional, friendly, knowledgeable, and responsive customer support.

That’s why we regularly review how we’re performing on this front. We also make our findings public too. This helps ensure that customers who’ve taken out an Annual Support Subscription with their purchase of our scheduling software, are getting an unmatched support service!

To maintain our very high standards of service, we analyze the wait times between when a priority support email is received by us, and when a subsequent response is sent. And all these are responses by real people! They’re not some machine or AI generated auto-responder, but instead tailored responses from human!

We’ve now analyzed our performance again – this time for the month of June 2014 and the responsiveness of our support just keeps on getting better! When we first started analyzing our support response times, back in September 2012, we measured support response times in hours. Last September 2013, we felt the need to improve our measurements down to minutes!

The table below shows the percentage of Priority Support emails and how quickly they were answered between September 2012 and June 2014.

As you can see, between September 2013 and June 2014 we’ve improved again!! During June, ALL Priority Support emails were responded to within 3 hours of receipt. This was regardless of the day of the week, and that’s not an average – that’s…

Every single Priority Support email received in June was given a real, individually tailored, human response within 3 hours (and over 90% of those within just 1 hour)!

Now, how many companies do you know where you can get a real human response to your email that fast, any day of the week!!?

So if you’re considering MIDAS for your organization’s scheduling needs, but are perhaps worried about how good our support is or whether an Annual Support Subscription to MIDAS is worth having, well… the above figures speak for themselves!

…but if you’re still not convinced? Read some of our Customer Testimonials about our scheduling system and the outstanding level support we consistently provide!