New Features

• PreCheck-in Form can now be internally edited and/or Reset from the Mobile App.
• Horizontal Booking Calendar Available on the New App, with Payment Status Overview and new Search Filters

Rentals United Users

• Any Team Member and Rental Owner now has the ability to Request Date Blocks from the New App version and the New Web! Activate this option through the Permissions Page of each Member. After a Block is Requested, ensure to verify the dates are available in your Rentals United Account and block accordingly.

Bug fixes

• Profile Pictures of some Rentals were failing.
• PreCheck-in Forms can now be Reset internally and sent again to Guests in case they haven't filled it out properly.
• Uploading Pictures to any Task or Booking was sometimes failing randomly. It's now fixed with the last App version available.

Enhancements

• Default Permission Settings: Now anyone with the Role of Admin, Team Owner, Rental Manager and Check-in agent will have access to the Booking Cost Breakdown, by default.
• Accounting Documentation: We've changed the logic behind the system to allow Accounting Statements that gather large amounts of properties.

New Connections

Smily Plans

We are happy to announce that we are connected with the new Smily Plans system. Rental Ninja will be included in the Smily Manager plan. Ask either us or the Smily team for more info about it!

Improvements

Guests Module

A few weeks ago, in the Guests Module, the precheck-in form passport settings were opened to be configured on a Rental basis. That configuration was in the General Settings area. We have added it now to the Rental Settings area too. That could be useful for the cases you add a new rental and you need to configure it for the Guests Module. You can now do so directly from the Rental Settings area.

Tasks Module

We have improved the scheduled and recurring job forms. In the past, when changing the rentals selection in the form, the assignee and inspector were kept. Now we will only keep them in case they have access to all the new rentals selected. This way we ensure the assignee is able to complete all tasks generated, otherwise, won't be able to see them in the list of tasks!

Bug Solving

Synchronization

We fixed a bug in our synchronization service. Such bug was located in one of the redundant synchronization systems to ensure your data is fully up to date. So probably it didn't have any real impact on your data.

Bug Fixes

Smoobu Sync

Due to a change in Booking.com bookings, in particular to it's note, we experienced a problem when parsing the credit card commission amount paid to Booking.com. Now it's resolved.

Tasks Module

When creating scheduled jobs or recurring jobs, we discovered a problem where you could assign the jobs to assignees who didn't have access to all rentals. This could result in assigning jobs to users who didn't have access to the rental of the job. We have fixed this.

Improvements

Permissions

We have added a new permission! Now you can be more granular when choosing the permissions of a user to be able to see the booking cost breakdown. This way, due to data protection, you can show each user the information they really need to see upon their needs.

Bug Fixes

Tasks Module

We have fixed a couple of minor bugs in the new section of the Recurring Jobs. Whenever you were editing a Recurring Job, upon clicking in the breadcrumbs horizontal navigation, it was returning a 404 page. Another minor bug was a problem with the validation of the form when introducing the duration of the job. When using the component's arrows to increase or decrease the number, that field was not being validated correctly.

Improvements

Guests Module

On the website, in the precheck-in form view of a booking, we have a "Reset" button. We have improved that button. Before, it was just deleting new not saved items in the form. Now it resets the whole form.

Tasks Module

We have improved the code which is responsible for generating the jobs from Scheduled Jobs. Some last-minute check-in/out time updates in bookings were not updating their related jobs. We have improved that so you can be always updated even for last minute modifications.

Bug Fixes

Tasks Module - Recurring Jobs

We identified a problem in which, upon manual modification of the duration of a job that was created from a Recurring Job, buttons were not working. We have identified the issue and fix it. It affects the app, so if this happens to you, go ahead and update to the latest version!

Improvements

Rental Pictures

Whenever you visit the rentals page, we load your rentals and their main "poster" picture so by the image you can identify easily your rentals. Now, in some cases that was taking so much time because of the size of these pictures. We have improved that and now the page is much more efficient.

Bug fixes

Tasks Module

We have fixed a bug where users were able to inspect some jobs even though the job was not completed yet. That will require an app deployment, so stay tuned for new app versions in your store.

Tasks Module

We discovered a problem in the Job generation flow. Whenever a booking was canceled their jobs were removed. But if by any change the booking was restored, the jobs where not created again. We have fixed this.

Features

Tasks Module

We are happy to announce a new feature in the Tasks Module: recurring jobs! From now on, you can schedule jobs that are not related to bookings. For example: monthly maintenance works, monthly accounting tasks for the office personnel, or weekly check of the swimming pool! Enjoy it!

General: languages

German and Portuguese are here! The whole Rental Ninja ecosystem is now translated into these two languages! Download the new version of the mobile app to see the new languages.

Improvements

Internal

We have improved our code quality checks! We have added some tests which are used to test our code and improve quality. This way, we can reduce the number of bugs that reach production by testing the code before setting it to live. This time, tests are focused on testing integrations with our Channel Manager Partners!

Tasks Module

From this week onwards, whenever a Job is deleted, we are saving by who was deleted. This can help us a lot in giving you support about the reason for the deletion. It can either be a user or Rental Ninja's system, by an automatic reason.

Features

Task Module

Next week we are releasing a brand new feature in the Tasks Module! We have deployed it only for our testing team and it is currently under quality tests. Stay tuned!

Bug Fixes

Internal

We have fixed a couple of bugs we found in our internal system to ensure quality in our internal API. That API is used every time you visit a page either from your mobile App or the website.

Improvements

Rentals United

We are now synching your damage deposits from the bookings of your Rentals United account.

General

We have moved all of our Changelog to Intercom. You can now easily see it through our support center!