April 2011 Newsletter

By Jason Morehouse

Booking ManagementBooking Management

Planning travel using a tablet

Where does the time go?  Seems it’s been a while since our last newsletter. We’ve been busy here at Checkfront, and this is a good time for an update.

In February we announced that Checkfront merchants surpassed 3 million (USD) in online bookings since releasing version 1.0 of the system last June. Amazingly, we’re happy to report that this has climbed to just shy of 5 million. Hats off to our merchants!

The last 8 months have proven an amazing experience for us. We are ever so grateful for the continued support of our customers and those who have offered feedback along the way.

Latest And greatest

In our never ending quest to build the best cloud booking application, there have been several notable additions to the platform.

Quick invoice edit

Quickly change existing bookings while viewing an invoice. Add new items, edit the quantity, dates, and manually adjust pricing. Learn how to edit bookings.

Accept bookings and customer love on Facebook

Version 2.0 of our Facebook App has been release and includes in-App purchases, integrated analytics and the ability to offer discounts instantly to customers who “Like” your page. Learn more about our Facebook booking tool.

Mailchimp add-on

Allow your users to automatically opt into your Mailchimp e-mail campaigns at the time of booking.

Preferred columns in reports

Select preferred fields to show up in your reports. Include custom fields as defined in your field editor.

Better integrated support and billing

Support ticket history and subscription receipts are now available directly from your support portal.

New Chrome extension

This extension takes advantage of additional caching capabilities, native browser notifications, and adds a quick launch to your Chrome startup page.

iCal Events in booking receipts

Include calendar event requests in email receipts, and offer customers the ability to add a booking to their personal calendar. Learn more about iCal Events.

Other recent updates

API enhancements, new documentation, database export functionality, and many other service updates.

Where to Now?

Along side our continued efforts to refine the existing feature set, we’ll be turning our focus to our front-end integrations. This includes brand new plugins for WordPress and Joomla!. We’ll also be making available some new front-end add-ons focused on customer engagement.

We will be making more tools available for developers looking to build custom integrations with our API, such as our PHP and Rails SDK.

Amazing rates from VersaPay

Although available on the platform for a while now, we wanted to take this opportunity to welcome Versapay as an official partner of Checkfront and integrated payment processor.

VersaPay focuses on e-commerce and tourism businesses to offer tourism related services like seasonal closures and mobile processing. VersaPay is pleased to offer preferential re-negotiated rates to Checkfront customers starting with 1.89% MDR*. See here for more information or call Call Peter Fitzpatrick at 866-999-8729.

Regards,
– The Checkfront Team

Start your free 21-day trial!

Online bookings. Flexible pricing. Outstanding support.