This month's updates include faster access to pricing screens in the system, Interactive AI booking engine early adopter program expansion, new tax option covering maximum stay limit and city tax change and finally chain manager, policy priority management enhancement.

Coming with the August update, we'll have direct navigation links between your dashboard, rate configuration and rate overwrite screens to streamline your workflow. All existing pricing functionality remains unchanged these are simply new shortcuts to help you work more efficiently.

From rate code listing: New column on the right provides direct access to the rate overwrite screen as well as season rates or derived pricing screens, if configured.

From the dashboard: Click directly to rate configuration or rate overwrite screens to view fixed values.

From rate overwrite screen: Easy links back to rate code configuration or dashboard.

For hotel groups: Chain functionality users will see rate derivation indicators where relevant in the rate code listing fixed pricing remains hotel-specific.

The booking engine that doesn't wait, it anticipates and converts

Our new interactive AI booking engine goes beyond traditional booking flows by understanding guest intent and acting in real-time to maximize conversions at every touchpoint.

Key Features:

Next steps: We'll be expanding our early adopter program soon. Contact us or learn about how the Interactive AI booking engine could work for your property or group.

Maximum stay limit:

You can now set taxes to apply only to the first few nights of a guest's stay, for jurisdictions with this requirement. Simply configure this setting in your CRS and it will automatically calculate taxes according for each booking. For areas where this is common: Consider updating your booking engine labels and or descriptions where relevant to help guests understand how their taxes are calculated, giving them confidence to complete their reservation.

City tax change:

You now have full flexibility with city tax settings they can be included or excluded from deposit calculations based on your property's needs. This removes the previous restriction and gives you complete control over how city taxes are handled at booking.

As our chain manager functionality continues to evolve, we have now included the priority field for guarantee and cancellation policies.

Upon assigning the policy and priority to individual properties, the following rules will apply:

Policy detail checkbox is unchecked

Policy detail checkbox checked this is a new override function

Multi-property updates: When pushing policies to multiple hotels simultaneously, you'll see update successful if at least one property updates successfully. Any properties that didn't update will display specific warning messages for easy resolution.

The system prevents conflicts by detecting existing priority values at the property level. When a duplicate priority is found:

New policies without existing records and not policy from chain are assigned priority zero.

Updates are automatically updated and available in the CRS.