Lodgit Desk Changelog

What's new in Lodgit Desk 3.1.1

Mar 12, 2024
  • EPC QR code can now be displayed on invoices for payment by smartphone if the payment method bank transfer has been selected.
  • New DPR data cleansing: Letters can now be permanently deleted. Please observe the statutory retention obligations!
  • Changed In the occupancy list in the reception window, you can now also search by channel manager number and channel booking number in the universal search field.
  • Changed User management: The time until automatic logout can now be set individually on each computer on which Lodgit Desk is installed.
  • Changed After generating a test database, booking labels are now also available in test bookings.
  • Fixed The name of individual booking labels can now be changed.

New in Lodgit Desk 3.0.12 (Feb 19, 2024)

  • The priority can now be set for each booking status. This priority determines – in the event of overbooking – the display sequence in the booking plan.
  • Interface “AVS”: The guest’s e-mail, which is required for the digital guest card, is now also forwarded. The authorisation for the guest card is stored in the guest administration.
  • The deletion of old offers and confirmations has been implemented.
  • The language of database error messages has been improved.
  • The import of texts from a Lodgit Lingua database in the text administration functioned very slowly.
  • Links from Lodgit Desk to the documentation and the Lodgit website have been fixed.

New in Lodgit Desk 3.0.9 (Oct 20, 2023)

  • [FIXED] Behaviour on disconnection to CubeSQL database server revised.
  • [FIXED] UIn very rare cases of unstable network connections to CubeSQL, data could not be persistently written to the database. This problem affects versions 3.0.6 to 3.0.8.
  • [FIXED] Hint texts in the booking window were greyed out.
  • [FIXED] Labels can again be added and removed via the booking window.

New in Lodgit Desk 3.0.8 (Oct 17, 2023)

  • [NEW] Extension of user management: New access restrictions for bookings and guest management.
  • [CHANGED] Extension of the Protel interface.
  • [CHANGED] The display of the booking label text can now be optionally switched off in the booking plan.
  • [FIXED] Despite interrupted connection to the cubeSQL database server, synchronization was performed.
  • [FIXED] When adding a new guest, communication data of the previously selected guest was transferred to the new guest in rare cases.
  • [FIXED] When printing the confirmation again, only the default texts of the language "German (Default)" were printed.
  • [FIXED] In rare cases, a negative intermediate status was incorrectly reported when creating a Z-report.

New in Lodgit Desk 3.0.7 (Sep 29, 2023)

  • [NEW] Support added for macOS 14 Sonoma.

New in Lodgit Desk 3.0.6 (Sep 25, 2023)

  • The calculation of the person-dependent percentage bed tax calculation has been added.
  • It is now possible to assign multiple labels to a booking.
  • Generation of letters/emails from the booking. These letters/emails can then be viewed in the booking window in the "Correspondence" section.
  • Quick opening of the default email program from the booking window, if the main guest has an email address.
  • It is now possible to select multiple extra items and packages in the booking window and thus delete them at the same time.
  • It is now possible to mark multiple invoices in the "Open invoices" window and thus hide them for the dunning run at the same time.
  • A more detailed error message is now displayed when it is detected that the TSE certificate has expired.
  • The opening of the invoice window has been revised. The invoice window now appears on the screen from which it was opened.
  • When a TSE is initialized, the security key currently used according to the settings is now entered in the 'Old security key' field.
  • Under very rare circumstances, an unexpected error occurred when printing the accommodation statistics.
  • Occupancy plan: The selection rectangle was not displayed under macOS.
  • Under certain circumstances, the program crashed when the connection to the CubeSQL database server was interrupted.
  • The drop-down menu for managing the templates for the booking notes is now working again.
  • TSE Error "TSE1_ERROR_NO_TIME_SET" fixed.

New in Lodgit Desk 3.0.5 (Jul 18, 2023)

  • [NEW] When sending e-mails via the SMTP interface V2, it's now possible to choose between "STARTSSL" and "SSL/TSL.
  • [CHANGED] If the certificate of a TSE is about to expire, either an information window or the reorder page of an Epson TSE can be opened via a dialog window.
  • [CHANGED] Guest management > Guest information: The action button next to the email address now optionally allows the following actions:
  • Passing the displayed email address to the default email program.
  • Open the "Create letter" window with the desired e-mail address preselected.
  • [FIXED] Improved display of error message when sending e-mail via SMTP
  • [FIXED] For the TSE PIN and PUK alphanumeric values are allowed again

New in Lodgit Desk 3.0.4 (Jul 12, 2023)

  • [NEW] Channelmanager: SiteMinder - Reservation Rates (e.g. "with breakfast", "without breakfast") can now be automatically linked to the matching extra items in Lodgit.
  • [NEW] When sending HTML emails, it is now possible to define the colors as well as to include a hotel logo.
  • [NEW] For a booked package it is now possible to change the dates of all included extras at the same time - including start date, end date, (guest) number.
  • [NEW] New hint/Alert when the Technical Security Unit (TSE) certificate is due to expire in 2 months or less (incl. new status icon).
  • [NEW] In the "Create receipt" window, it is now possible to filter the list of extras from the extra item management by name.
  • [CHANGED] When deleting entries, the user who made the deletion is saved. The corresponding information is displayed in the "Deletion Log (Entries)".
  • [CHANGED] When working with invoices, the user who edited the invoice is saved. The corresponding information is displayed in the "Change log - Invoices".
  • [CHANGED] Sending e-mails via SMTP server is the new default setting.
  • [FIXED] The TSE Wizard can now be closed via a button in each operating step.
  • [FIXED] When initializing a TSE, the query of the old security key is available.
  • [FIXED] In some areas of the program, the guest name/company name was not displayed correctly if there was a "&" in the name.
  • [FIXED] The login window was blocked by the synchronization status window in rare cases.
  • [FIXED] For birthday notices, the option "Consider only present guests" is now applied correctly.
  • [FIXED] Datev control key > Affected accounts: Settings related to accounts are now deleted correctly.

New in Lodgit Desk 3.0.3 (May 4, 2023)

  • [FIXED] It is now possible again to change booked extra items and packages in the booking window.
  • [FIXED] When calculating the percentage value for creating deposits, the lodging price is now taken into account again.
  • [FIXED] When duplicating bookings, the price definitions were doubled.

New in Lodgit Desk 3.0.2 (May 4, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • It is now possible again to change booked extra items and packages in the booking window.
  • When calculating the percentage value for creating deposits, the lodging price is now taken into account again.

New in Lodgit Desk 3.0.1 (May 3, 2023)

  • [NEW] User Management (Beta status, please request month long trial!):
  • Create and manage user accounts
  • Create and assign access rights
  • Configure and assign different user roles
  • Security function: automatic logout after 60 min without user activity
  • [NEW] If a booking contains a previously blocked guest, this will be specially marked by:
  • Display of the guest name in the colour red in the booking window
  • The booking description displayed in the colour red in the booking plan
  • Display the guest name in the colour red in the guest list
  • Online bookings: Entry note in the error log of the online systems
  • [NEW] Online booking notes can be optionally printed in the check-in list and the check-out list
  • [CHANGED] Online booking notes are displayed (again) in the "General" section of the booking window
  • [CHANGED] Display of the license expiration for the TSE module can now be hidden
  • [CHANGED] Channel Manager: HotelSpider endpoint updated
  • [FIXED] macOS Security Response 13.3.1 (a) Update prevents programme startup
  • [FIXED] Correct display of the total price of the booking in the "General" section of the booking window
  • [FIXED] Serial printing of correspondences as PDF failed as soon as two or more documents had the same number
  • [FIXED] Internal error as soon as the guest history "Reminders" was called and reminders existed for this guest
  • [FIXED] "Birthday hints" window was no longer displayed at program startup
  • [FIXED] Guest management: Guest is now correctly recognised as main contact in the guest history "Bookings" again

New in Lodgit Desk 2.9.2 (Mar 6, 2023)

  • [FIXED] When merging guests, all future bookings were incorrectly assigned to the selected guest, regardless of whether they belonged to the duplicate or not.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.8.7 (Nov 14, 2022)

  • [FIXED] Crashes on Intel / Preventura systems fixed.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.8.6 (Oct 17, 2022)

  • [CHANGED] Lists/utilisation and key figures: various options can now be used to calculate utilisation.
  • [FIXED] Some translations changed.
  • [FIXED] The footer is now always correctly displayed on the first page in the print templates.
  • [FIXED] Connection to AVS servers ensured.
  • [FIXED] Settings/bookings/editing/sharing bookings: Settings through the radio buttons are taken over correctly.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.8.4 (Sep 27, 2022)

  • [NEW] Support Vectron API Protocol Version 1.3
  • [FIXED] Mapping for channel managers was not displayed correctly for some cases.
  • [FIXED] Finance reports: show loading bar after changing the finance events time frame.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.8.3 (Sep 5, 2022)

  • [CHANGED] Text change: For the minLOS settings in Lodgit Desk, overnight stays are now correctly referred to as "nights" and not "days".
  • [FIXED] Indices regenerated to increase performance.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.8.2 (Aug 24, 2022)

  • [CHANGED] Optimization of the database leads to improved performance, especially for large databases with many rental objects.
  • [FIXED] Speed of the occupancy plan improved.
  • [FIXED] OBS bookings: The value for the address field "Addition" is now saved properly.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.7.1 (Mar 2, 2022)

  • [NEW] The extra item list can now be exported into CSV format.
  • [NEW] macOS: The encryption types AES128, AES256 and SSL are now supported when connecting to the CubeSQL database server.
  • [CHANGED] Canceled online bookings are now ignored by default when searching for available rental units in the booking plan.
  • [CHANGED] If an invoice was not fiscalized correctly, the TSE fiscalization process can now be run again.
  • [CHANGED] Printing the TSE signature text can now be disabled. In this case, the QR code is displayed next to the recipient address.
  • [FIXED] Opening of the software is faster due to database optimizations.
  • [FIXED] Overlong booking names no longer slow down the booking plan.
  • [FIXED] The Lodgit logo is displayed in the "About Us" window.
  • [FIXED] Opening a booking in the channel manager event log is possible again.
  • [FIXED] The action button of the channel manager event log "Settings" now correctly opens the "Synchronization and Online Modules" window.
  • [FIXED] Creating offers for group bookings: When the offer window is open, the checkbox for printing "Short description" is visible.
  • [FIXED] Creating confirmations for group bookings: When the offer window is open, the checkbox for printing "Short description" is visible.
  • [FIXED] Lodgit generally warns now of missing cash closings, i.e. the option "Billing options > Remind of cash closing" is now enabled by default.
  • [FIXED] The Spanish translations of the user interface have been revised.
  • [FIXED] In the Vectron interface, the unnecessary conversion of text encoding has been removed.
  • [FIXED] Windows: line spacing in the footer text in combination with the [PAGE_NUMBER] placeholder has been corrected, the placeholder is now also replaced correctly.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.6.4 (Jan 4, 2022)

  • [NEW] By using the placeholder "[PAGE_NUMBER]" in the letter footer, page numbers for offers, confirmations, invoices and receipts can now be inserted.
  • [FIXED] Windows: The update process at programme start was not recognised as finished under very rare circumstances. This caused Lodgit to hang up on start.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.6.3 (Dec 15, 2021)

  • [FIXED]: When exiting, Lodgit Desk now logs off automatically from cubeSQL database server.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.6.2 (Dec 6, 2021)

  • [FIXED] Windows: The check for a new update did not work anymore.
  • [FIXED] Windows: The resolution of the reservation schedule was blurred.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.6.1 (Nov 23, 2021)

  • [NEW] Cleaning list: Added the option to hide already cleaned rental units for the current day.
  • [NEW] Implementation of the new "Updater" for Windows, so that updates can be applied conveniently and directly from the application.
  • [NEW] Channelmanager Cultuzz and MappingMaster: Mapping of Lodgit packages to Channelmanager products.
  • [NEW] Invoice export of multiple invoices: Accounting tasks can now be performed more conveniently.
  • [NEW] Logistic costs can be hidden in quotations or confirmations.
  • [NEW] A help line has been added to the booking calendar, so a clicked day is displayed more clearly.
  • [NEW] Lodgit alerts new customers by default when a "cash close" needs to be made.
  • [NEW] The status of bookings is now displayed as a column in the guest history bookings.
  • [NEW] If no rental units / properties are selected, the booking calendar will display a note quickly explaining missing bookings.
  • [CHANGED] Bookings with the "highest status" are displayed above others in case of overbookings.
  • [CHANGED] The availability search ("Quick Search" at the top right of the main program screen) now also shows free capacity of a rental unit if a cancelled online booking is entered in the search period. "Canceled online bookings" will therefore be ignored in this search from now on. This can also be defined for other booking statuses via the settings.
  • [FIXED] The updater is now executed before the database version check. Users of Cube-SQL can therefore now conveniently use the updater on any operating system to update Lodgit.
  • [FIXED] Implementation of various texts and translations for Lodgit regarding the TSE module.
  • [FIXED] The print preview "scroll buttons" +/- have been corrected.
  • [FIXED] The default subject line of invoice emails in the initial Lodgit database no longer incorrectly displays "Correction invoice".
  • [FIXED] The logistic unit price is now calculated correctly in offer emails (without PDF) if the booking includes a "City Tax" which is included in the logistic costs.
  • [FIXED] Empty packages are no longer lost by splitting a booking.
  • [FIXED] VAT settings on the Protel interface were not processed correctly. The interface has been made more understandable and bugs have been fixed.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.5.7 (Sep 21, 2021)

  • [FIXED] Receiving invoice items from a VECTRON-POS was no longer possible.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.5.6 (Sep 17, 2021)

  • [FIXED] The export of invoice data via the RKSV interface was no longer possible.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.5.5 (Sep 14, 2021)

  • [NEW] Agent statistics: Display of the respective agent of a booking in the list as soon as the option "All bookings" is selected.
  • [NEW] Sending of emails and letters has been implemented in the context menu of the following lists: Check-In list, Check-Out list.
  • [NEW] Creating a common registration form has been implemented in the context menu of the following lists: Check-In List, Check-Out List, Current Guests (left sidebar of the reservation schedule).
  • [NEW] Opening the cleaning list and the extras list is now possible using keyboard shortcuts.
  • [NEW] New Spanish template texts for the text management.
  • [NEW] Some of the Spanish texts in the software interface have been revised.
  • [NEW] If the last cash balance was too long ago or is missing completely, a warning message is displayed when creating invoices and receipts with the payment type "cash". When and whether this warning occurs can be configured in settings.
  • [CHANGED] After creating a confirmation, the booking status is now changed to "Confirmed" instead of "Booked".
  • [CHANGED] Multiple entries in the check-in list and check-out list can now be selected. This enables quickly opening multiple bookings and a faster creation of letters and emails to guests arriving or departing.
  • [CHANGED] When exporting the data of the cash statements via DSFinV-K export, the created files are no longer saved directly in the selected folder but in a subfolder called "dsfinvk_export".
  • [FIXED] Accounting export: No text was displayed for accommodation services. The field for "Text" was empty.
  • [FIXED] Loading the exchange rates for the second currency was no longer possible.
  • [FIXED] Under very rare circumstances there was an internal error when printing from cashbook archives
  • [FIXED] Under very rare circumstances it was not possible to exit the programme because Lodgit Desk wrongly assumed that data would still be sent to the TSE.
  • [FIXED] Several errors in the DSFinV-K export corrected. The export is now readable with the latest stage of Amadeus Verify, an important tool to verify used by several financial entities of the German government.
  • Certificate data was missing or incomplete in the export.
  • Incorrect allocation of the TSE data to the document data
  • Incorrect calculation of some values
  • Incorrect display of values
  • Missing values
  • When generating the data for "Orders" the wrong line break was used.
  • When generating the data for "Orders", a line break was always added at the end of the data to be certified
  • When generating the data for "receipts", "^0.00Unbar" was incorrectly appended to the data to be certified for a total of "0.00"

New in Lodgit Desk 2.5.4 (Jul 7, 2021)

  • NEW:
  • When synchronizing the online booking system, the fields "mobile" and "alternative e-mail address" can now also be stored in the guest data.
  • Creating receipts: It's now possible to define your own account numbers for the account in the settings of the accounting export for the receipt types "Bank to cash" and "Cash to bank".
  • After successfully creating a GoBD export the created folder with the exported files will now be opened automatically.
  • When sending out an already existing document as an e-mail or e-mail with PDF via SMTP the state of the checkbox "Copy to myself" will be remembered
  • Guest list: new filter for booking groups
  • Guest list: new columns for date of birth and nationality which can be selected optionally for printout
  • CHANGED:
  • The guests contact details will now be displayed in the table without line break. The line break remains on printouts to ensure a better readability.
  • The contact details (e-mail, phone, street, post code, city, country) will now be exported each with its own column .
  • Vectron: It is now possible to choose if invoice items with the value of "0" should be imported or ignored.
  • Extra items and packages of the type "Vectron delivery note" can now be deleted again.
  • Vectron Log: Adding a Vectron transaction to a booking is now possible even if they have been marked as "cancelled" in the log.
  • FIXED:
  • The file permissions for the exported TSE .tar files have been changed so that it's now possible for the user to read and write them.
  • Several errors in the compilation and export of the DSfinV-K data have been corrected
  • Entering data for transactions of the AVBestellung type in data_payment.csv, payment.csv and cashpointclosing.csv is now prohibited.
  • The correct cash point closing data is now used for the compilation of the references
  • The field KEINE_UST_ZUORDNUNG in cashregister.csv is now correctly filled with 0 or 1
  • The field ART_NR in lines.csv is no longer empty but filled with internal IDs
  • BON_ID, currency code and the items are now set correctly for AVBestellungen
  • Cash differences are now registered correctly as a transaction of the type "receipt"
  • Payment data of invoices for which a payment was not made at the same time as the invoice creation were not exported.
  • Under very rare circumstances an internal error occurred in the financial report when relating to "Paid on" date.
  • When exporting the extras list as CSV or XLS some values were stored in the wrong columns
  • When cancelling the print dialogue in the preview window for "E-mail with PDF" the window is now closed properly
  • In some environments, the data from a Vectron-EPOS was sent to Lodgit twice.
  • When writing entries into the Vectron-Log, the property "expense = no" was not assigned correctly.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.5.3 (Jun 19, 2021)

  • FIXED:
  • Creating PDFs with TSE-QR-Code was not possible under some very rare circumstances.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.5.2 (Jun 16, 2021)

  • [FIXED] When adding packages to a booking, the package content was not saved when clicking the "Save" button.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.5.1 (Jun 15, 2021)

  • [NEW] DSFinV-K Export of the German Cash Security Ordinance (KassenSichV) implemented. This export is still in "beta" status, as the data generated may not correspond 100% to the DSFinV-K interface description. A further validation of the data is still pending.
  • [NEW] Update of the settings for the use of the interface "Fiscalisation (KassenSichV)". It is now mandatory to specify the location.
  • [CHANGED] The TSE User PIN can now be stored in the database so that it is no longer necessary to enter it when starting the programme.
  • [CHANGED] In case of an unstable data connection to the database (cube SQL Database Server), the interface cash register systems "Protel compatible" and "Gastware" was deactivated under certain circumstances.
  • [CHANGED] The display of the TSE device ID in settings has been made more user-friendly.
  • [CHANGED] When exporting account transactions via the DATEV accounting export, the fixed write indicator is now set to "Off".
  • [CHANGED] Interface to Vectron POS system updated to support VGPMS interface version 1.20.
  • [CHANGED] When importing the restaurant bill from Vectron into Lodgit, this is now assigned to the system extra item "Vectron delivery note" as soon as a delivery note ID is transmitted by Vectron.
  • [CHANGED] Extra items of the type "Vectron delivery note" can no longer be changed in the booking window.
  • [CHANGED] When transmitting restaurant bills via the Vectron interface, the transmitted tax rate is now saved. The marking "expenditure" is therefore no longer applicable.
  • [CHANGED] In the window "Extra items" the individual booking-related name of the extra items entered in the booking window is now also displayed.
  • [CHANGED] With the accounting export it can be specified whether for extra items of the type "Vectron delivery note" the Vectron delivery note number should also be exported.
  • [FIXED] The text of the buttons in the booking window is now white as soon as the background colour of the button is dark.
  • [FIXED] When sending offers and confirmations, the names of the packages were not printed as soon as they had the property "surcharge" and the package content of added packages should not be printed.
  • [FIXED] The information window that a TSE must now be used when creating invoices and receipts in Germany is only displayed as soon as Lodgit Desk has a valid licence.
  • [FIXED] Under certain circumstances, Lodgit Desk froze when using the Vectron cash register interface.
  • [FIXED] When activating the interface "Fiscalisation (KassenSichV)" the timer, which is necessary to fiscalise booking changes, was not started properly. This only occurred after a restart of the programme.
  • [FIXED] The settings for "Tip" and "Transaction Sub Numbers" for the Vectron cash register interface were not saved correctly in settings.
  • [FIXED] If Vectron only transfers the total amount but not the individual items when transferring restaurant consumption, the total amount is now correctly assigned to the booking as an extra item of the type "POS system".

New in Lodgit Desk 2.4.8 (Mar 25, 2021)

  • [CHANGED] For the 64 Bit Windows version the automatic check for a version update was reactivated.
  • [FIXED] Invoices with the payment type "Cash" could no longer be created for the current day if a cashpoint closing has already been created

New in Lodgit Desk 2.4.7 (Feb 25, 2021)

  • [FIXED] When exporting lists in Excel .xlsx format, the error "Unknown type: 38" occurred under certain circumstances.
  • [FIXED] Correction of the data displayed in the qrCode (TSE signing). Under certain circumstances, the wrong signing algorithm was used.
  • [FIXED] When printing documents as PDF/Email with PDF those contained an additional blank first page.
  • [FIXED] When creating a new booking via the booking menu, an internal error occurred after selecting the rental unit in the booking window.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.4.5 (Feb 23, 2021)

  • [NEW] Group booking [gt] Grouping of similar accommodation services (lodging [&] extras) in offers, confirmations and invoices, resulting in a significant reduction of their number of pages.
  • [FIXED] Correspondence [gt] Correction of print data for the columns "Persons", "Number" and "Description" in case the number of persons and/or number should be zero.
  • [FIXED] Booking [gt] Corrected calculation of the number of adults if child discounts were defined in a booking and the number of children was equal to or greater than the max. number of beds.
  • [FIXED] Cash register function [gt] Various corrections in the Z-Bon counting protocol. Among other things, 5 Rappen were counted as 5 francs in the Z-Bon counting protocol.
  • [FIXED] Cash register function [gt] The Z-Bon could not be created under rare circumstances if the final amount of the cash register was 0.
  • [FIXED] CityTax [gt] When creating down payment invoices, the CityTax amount was missing in the subtotal if the display type "Display: as explanation text" and a net design were used.
  • [FIXED] Package Management [gt] Under very rare circumstances, when changing an extra item in a package, it' s VAT rate was saved rounded down to the nearest full numerator.
  • [FIXED] Accounting export [gt] After creating an export, the entries of type "Cash shortfall/excess cash" were not correctly set to the status "Actual exported".
  • [FIXED] When creating invoices, the texts for Tax Gross CityTax and Tax Gross Down payments were not saved.
  • [FIXED] Not all column headers were displayed in the lodging list.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.4.4 (Dec 2, 2020)

  • [FIXED] Cash book: when creating the Z report, decimal places were not taken into account in the "bank to cash" transfer.
  • [FIXED] In very rare cases the lodging price was incorrectly calculated if a bed tax with the properties "fixed price" and "in addition to lodging price" was assigned to a booking.
  • Changes in Version 2.4.3
  • [NEW] Within the TSE signature, the QR code can be reduced in size and the position relative to the TSE signature text can be changed./p[gt]
  • [CHANGED] Printing the TSE signature on invoices and receipts is no longer done on a new page. The TSE signature block now remains on the same page as the invoice text as long as it fits completely on this page.
  • [CHANGED] Guest management: The character limit for the input field "Debtor account" was increased from 6 to 9.
  • [CHANGED] When entering the User PIN for the TSE login, alphanumeric characters can now be entered.
  • [FIXED] Under certain circumstances, an internal error occurred when establishing a connection with the TSE if spaces were entered in the IP address field.
  • [FIXED] Occupancy plan [gt] Toolbar: The label text of some icons was cut off and is now visible again.
  • [FIXED] Under very rare circumstances, the price of group bookings was incorrectly added up if a percentage city tax was assigned to the bookings.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.4.3 (Nov 24, 2020)

  • [NEW] Within the TSE signature, the QR code can be reduced in size and the position relative to the TSE signature text can be changed./p[gt]
  • [CHANGED] Printing the TSE signature on invoices and receipts is no longer done on a new page. The TSE signature block now remains on the same page as the invoice text as long as it fits completely on this page.
  • [CHANGED] Guest management: The character limit for the input field "Debtor account" was increased from 6 to 9.
  • [CHANGED] When entering the User PIN for the TSE login, alphanumeric characters can now be entered.
  • [FIXED] Under certain circumstances, an internal error occurred when establishing a connection with the TSE if spaces were entered in the IP address field.
  • [FIXED] Occupancy plan [gt] Toolbar: The label text of some icons was cut off and is now visible again.
  • [FIXED] Under very rare circumstances, the price of group bookings was incorrectly added up if a percentage city tax was assigned to the bookings.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.4.2 (Nov 6, 2020)

  • CHANGED:
  • Customer accounts can now have 9 digits in the settings.
  • It is now no longer possible to create a Z report if the count report is not filled in.
  • When printing a receipt via the receipt printer, the system now checks whether the IP address and port for the receipt printer have been defined in the settings.
  • FIXED:
  • 32Bit Windows-Version: Under certain circumstances a negative result occurred when entering the counting protocol for the Z-report.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.4.1 (Nov 6, 2020)

  • NEW:
  • Connection of Lodgit Desk to a certified technical safety device (TSE), which can be purchased here (Link in German), according to KassenSichV 2020 possible:
  • Sign/certify orders placed in Lodgit Desk in the form of bookings available in the working database;
  • Sign/certify invoices and print TSE status information (including QR code);
  • Sign/certify receipts and print out TSE status information (including QR code);
  • Invoices and receipts, which are created in the work database, are signed/certified on the TSE as "receipt".
  • Invoices and receipts which are generated in the test database are signed/certified on the TSE as "AV Training".
  • As soon as rental properties are available that have been assigned to the country "Germany", a message will be displayed when starting Lodgit Desk that the use of a Technical Security Device (TSE) is mandatory in Germany, as soon as the possibility of recording cash payment transactions exists.
  • As soon as the interface "KassenSichV TSE" is or was activated, it is no longer possible to shorten a booking for which the accommodation service was invoiced.
  • As soon as the interface "KassenSichV TSE" in Lodgit Desk has been activated once, it is no longer possible to undo the last cash balance (Z-Bon).
  • Booking independent vouchers of type "Sales" can now also be printed on a receipt printer.
  • Create an X-Bon using the "Cash book (list of cash receipts)" window.
  • Create a Z-Bon using the "Cash book (list of cash receipts)" window.
  • Overview of income and expenses by tax rate.
  • Counting protocol and thus recording of the cash deficit/excess amount.
  • Cash shortfalls/excesses are listed in the "Accounting export" list and can be entered in the desired account.
  • The result of the counting protocol determines the new cash balance.
  • It is not possible to create a Z-Bon if one or more intermediate cash register balances have a negative value.
  • It is not possible to create a Z-Bon if the final balance of the cash register has a negative value.
  • CHANGED:
  • The additional module "Kassa Austria RKSV" was renamed to Kassensicherung (DE: KassenSichV, AT: RKSV)" and is strongly recommended to users with objects in Germany and Austria to settle cash payments in Lodgit Desk.
  • It is no longer possible to change the number of persons in a booking once the accommodation service has been invoiced.
  • FIXED:
  • Interface "Kassa Austria RKSV" [gt] Under very rare circumstances the calculation of the item quantity was not correct.
  • GoBD Journal Data [gt] Under very rare circumstances, the item quantity calculation was not correct.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.3.7 (Jun 30, 2020)

  • [NEW] In the additional module Kassa Austria (RKSV) it is now possible to transfer 5 % as VAT rate to the cbird-USB cash register.
  • [CHANGED] The error display of the electronic registration form system AVS was improved.
  • [CHANGED] Window positions are remembered, even if a window is moved to another monitor. It now opens on the last monitor used.
  • [FIXED] Added caption to the last table columns of the accommodation tax list.
  • [FIXED] Under very rare circumstances, rounding differences occurred when calculating the overnight stay price if an overnight stay tax was included as a fixed amount with VAT.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.3.6 (May 5, 2020)

  • [FIXED] Under very rare circumstances, an internal error occurred in the correspondence section of the booking window, leaving the correspondence list empty.
  • [FIXED] In the tooltip of the booking plan the invoice of the accommodation was no longer displayed as soon as it had the status "Paid".

New in Lodgit Desk 2.3.5 (May 4, 2020)

  • [NEW] In the booking window in the correspondence section, the payment method is now also displayed in addition to the payment on the date of an invoice.
  • [NEW] When deleting bookings via the booking plan, the delete dialog now shows both the booking number and the name of the main contact.
  • [NEW] The tooltip for bookings in the booking plan now shows the following additional information for correspondence:
  • Date of offer deadline or date of offer confirmation deadline
  • Date of the deadline for confirmation of the confirmation
  • Date of payment or paid on date of invoice
  • Payment method of the invoice
  • [NEW] The About window now shows whether the installed version is 32 bit or 64 bit.
  • [CHANGED] When saving the booking plan (image and export) the color of the booking bars is now dependent on the color "background" for the booking plan.
  • [CHANGED] When using the 64Bit version of Lodgit Desk under Windows the internal updater is switched off for the time being.
  • [CHANGED] When manually searching for updates for Lodgit Desk 64 Bit under Windows, the download website of Lodgit now opens.
  • [CHANGED] In the booking window under Correspondence, the search for correspondence related to this booking has been improved.
  • [CHANGED] When printing a draft invoice, the hint to the draft invoice is now printed as text instead of an image.
  • [FIXED] Under Windows, the text of selected lines in some lists was no longer readable. This affected "Booking window [gt] Correspondence", "Extra item management", "Package management" and several statistics lists.
  • [FIXED] When saving the booking plan as an image, a white image was created.
  • [FIXED] When saving documents as PDF, the transparent areas of the letterhead image were printed in black from the 2nd page onwards.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.3.3 (Feb 13, 2020)

  • FIXED] When opening the Documents window, the settings for the number range were not loaded correctly.
  • [FIXED] When opening the Sales Quotation, Confirmation, Invoice, and Documents windows, the settings for the 2nd currency were not loaded correctly.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.3.2 (Feb 11, 2020)

  • Fixed:
  • Windows: The internal update search now refers to the download page instead of the internal download program.
  • Under certain circumstances, opening the "Correspondence" list was extremely delayed or no longer possible.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.3.1 (Feb 10, 2020)

  • NEW:
  • MacOS: The installer for is notarized.
  • CHANGED:
  • Update of the Vectron interface to version 1.2 with VGPMS Script version 1.8.
  • When searching for rooms via the Vectron interface, Lodgit Desk also includes the short name of the rental unit in addition to the name of the rental unit.
  • The generated files in the GoBD export have the same structure as up to Lodgit Desk version 2.2.1.
  • FIXED:
  • MacOS: When starting Lodgit Desk under macOS 10.15 (Catalina) both the booking plan and the booking list were not visible.
  • Down payment invoices could be set to unpaid after they were settled in a final invoice.
  • MacOS: When sending support tickets directly from Lodgit Desk an internal error occurred.
  • The context menu in the Cash book window was not initialized correctly if no list entry was selected.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.2.4 (Oct 29, 2019)

  • [CHANGED] Update of the Vectron interface to version 1.2 with VGPMS Script version 1.8.
  • [CHANGED] When searching for rooms via the Vectron interface, Lodgit Desk also includes the short name of the rental unit in addition to the name of the rental unit.
  • [CHANGED] The generated files in the GoBD export have the same structure as up to Lodgit Desk version 2.2.1.
  • [FIXED] Down payment invoices could be set to unpaid after they were settled in a final invoice.
  • [FIXED] The context menu in the Cash book window was not initialized correctly if no list entry was selected.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.2.3 (Aug 26, 2019)

  • [FIXED] Windows: A dropdown list was displayed incorrectly in the "Electronic registration forms" module.
  • [FIXED] Some error messages in the module "POS systems" did not contain enough information.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.2.2 (Aug 22, 2019)

  • [FIXED] Under certain circumstances, it was not possible to create documents from the booking window on Windows 8-based systems.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.2.1 (Aug 21, 2019)

  • [NEW] It is now possible to enter a description for the rental units, which is displayed as a tooltip in the occupancy plan for the respective rental unit.
  • [NEW] Possibility to quickly delete credit card data (section "Online booking" in the booking window) and booking notes created (GDPU data deletion).
  • [NEW] The Logis accounting account can also be customized for VAT rate and rental unit.
  • [NEW] Only the last 6 editors are displayed for the electronic registration forms.
  • [NEW] In the settings, you can define a standard setting for the cancellation date. This is preselected when you cancel an invoice and create a correction invoice.
  • [NEW] It is now possible to set whether customer-related debtor accounts should be used.
  • [NEW] Optionally, you can now print the date of the extra items in the invoice.
  • [NEW] Additional recipient data on the invoice or on documents of the type "Receipt with recipient".
  • [CHANGED] The conditions for generating or updating INHOUSE.DAT (cash register interface "Protel compatible") or GWCHECKIN.DAT (cash register interface "Gastware") have been revised and adapted to new conditions.
  • [CHANGED] The centering of the occupancy plan when searching for free rental units in the occupancy plan has been revised.
  • [CHANGED] When receiving a UDP message to update the occupancy plan, the left sidebar of the occupancy plan, the banderole "Assign booking" and the cleaning status of the rental units are now also updated.
  • [CHANGED] When manually updating the occupancy plan with the help of the menu option "Display [gt] Update view" (macosx: CMD+R, Windows Ctrl+R) the left side bar of the occupancy plan, the banderole "Assign booking" and the cleaning status are now updated in addition to the occupancy plan.
  • [CHANGED] Windows: In the popups either the superfluous blank lines were removed or they are now defined as unselectable.
  • [CHANGED] The conditions for updating the occupancy plan and the left sidebar have been revised and adapted to new conditions.
  • [CHANGED] macOS: Change the program font to "System".
  • [CHANGED] When connecting to the CubeSQL database server, the UDP group name can now also be specified individually. This allows a more stable communication via UDP between the individual Lodgit Desk instances within a network.
  • [FIXED] Pictures for the correspondence type revised.
  • [FIXED] Windows: The "Bring all booking windows forward" function has been improved
  • [FIXED] When calculating the CityTax a rounding error occurred under very rare circumstances, if a fixed amount was set and the option "Included in the logis" was selected.
  • [FIXED] Various fields in the text administration were not displayed correctly under certain circumstances.
  • [FIXED] If the settings were changed to a different registration form system, it sometimes happened that another rental object received the focus.
  • [FIXED] In rare cases, an internal error occurred when updating the "Transactions" menu.
  • [FIXED] In rare cases, an internal error occurred when editing data in a list.
  • [FIXED] nder certain circumstances, the scissors cursor was not displayed when splitting a booking.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.1.8 (Jun 12, 2019)

  • [NEW] Connection to the locking system "Häfele"
  • [CHANGED] Locking system "Salto": display of the optional access number in the windows for "Code card", "Send mobile key" and "Read card"
  • [FIXED] Locking system "Salto": The setting as to whether the short name or the name of a rental unit is to be used is now also taken into account when the CheckOut status is sent.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.1.7 (May 13, 2019)

  • [NEW] Salto locking system: The "Send mobile key" window now displays the type of telephone number when selecting a number
  • [NEW] A button for opening the settings for locking systems is now available in the "Interfaces" section of the booking window.
  • [NEW] A warning message about the protocol version is now displayed immediately when trying to open the "Send Mobile Key" or "Extend Key" window via the booking window, although Salto protocol version 1.20 is not set.
  • [NEW] Salto locking system: In the "Send mobile key" window, the guest administration can now be opened using the arrow symbol in the list of guests.
  • [CHANGED] The modification of the guest data in the window "Send Mobile Key" was deactivated.
  • [FIXED] The cBird export date was not displayed in the Correspondence list.
  • [FIXED] In the "Finances" list, a second line with payment method unknown may have appeared for each invoice.
  • [FIXED] An internal error occurred in the "Finance" list if the filter for objects was set to "All valid objects" and the evaluation "Rental unit (detail)" was set.
  • [FIXED] The "number of nights" in the booking window may not match the difference between arrival and departure.
  • [FIXED] Under certain circumstances, the presentation of the booking in the occupancy plan did not correspond to the arrival and departure details.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.1.6 (Apr 15, 2019)

  • [NEW] New version (1.20) of the SALTO locking system interface implemented. This version contains the following new features:
  • Sending Mobile Keys
  • Extend keys
  • Disable lost keys
  • Processing of PMS additional authorizations up to no. 62 possible (previously max. no. 9)
  • [NEW] In the sales agent statistics, you can now also filter by "Created on date" of postings.
  • [NEW] Version of the interface to the POS system Gastware updated.
  • [CHANGED] Display of booking bars in booking plan improved. The automatically appended "..." for truncated texts were removed, so that now the entire width of the booking bar can be used to display the text.
  • [CHANGED] The values for "Occupancy" and "Free rental units" displayed in the sidebar of the main window are now only calculated when the search is initiated. This speeds up the search period entry for large databases under macOS considerably.
  • [FIXED] Opening the "Finances" list was sometimes very slow or not possible at all for very large databases.
  • [FIXED] Display error when moving the window splitter in the settings of the electronic message system Feratel.
  • [FIXED] Under certain circumstances, the invoice window was displayed although there were no more items to be settled.
  • [FIXED] Windows: When changing the size of the page list or the booking list in the main window, the window menu bar disappeared.
  • [FIXED] macOS: If the invoice window was opened and then the booking window was closed with "CMD + W", an internal error occurs afterwards if an invoice is successfully created.
  • [FIXED] When creating dunning notices, the letterhead was tripled if several dunning notices were created at the same time and the option "Preprinted letterhead" was selected in the settings under Letter layout.
  • [FIXED] The booking list was initialized, even if it had the status "hidden" when the program was started.
  • [FIXED] Display of settings for the "SALTO locking systems" interface optimised for small screens.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.1.5 (Jan 17, 2019)

  • [FIXED] After installing version 2.1.4, an internal error occurred when creating offerings, confirmations, invoices and correction invoices when the database was originally created with Lodgit Desk version 1.8.8 or older. This internal error caused that the corresponding documents were created but did not contain any positions.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.1.4 (Jan 15, 2019)

  • [NEW] In addition to the navigation buttons for month and year there now is a today button below the reservation schedule.
  • [NEW] The positioning of the current day in the occupancy plan can now be set more individually by double-clicking or using the today button.
  • [CHANGED] The default folder for the database now is UserHome instead of UserHome/Documents.
  • [FIXED] The response of the Salto server (module "Hotel Locking Systems") could no longer be evaluated by Lodgit Desk.
  • [FIXED] When writing a locking system card via the "Salto" interface, an internal error always occurred.
  • [FIXED] The opening of the booking window works more smoothly.
  • [FIXED] When opening a booking by double-clicking this booking was occasionally moved unintentionally within the reservation schedule.
  • [FIXED] When opening the list "Lodging List" the wrong selection button was possibly active.
  • [FIXED] The tooltip in the reservation schedule may not have been displayed correctly in case of overlapping bookings.
  • [FIXED] The reservation schedule was extremely slow under Windows when scrolling the plan to the left and/or right.
  • [FIXED] When the confirmation was printed again, neither the recipient address nor the sender address was displayed or printed.
  • [FIXED] The letterhead or the margin from the text to the upper edge was too high or too large when printing the confirmation.
  • [FIXED] The option "Scale down when oversized" when printing documents with an image as letterhead did not work anymore.
  • [FIXED] Interface "POS systems" (Vectron POS system): When using the VGPMS financial path "VGPMS Card" in the Vectron POS, an internal error was generated in Lodgit Desk. Now the error message "There is currently no Card System in Lodgit Desk" is displayed correctly in the Vectron POS instead.

New in Lodgit Desk 2.1.3 (Nov 14, 2018)

  • [CHANGED] Sending e-mail "using default e-mail program " revised and new selection option for the delivery to the default e-mail program added.
  • [CHANGED] Preferences for sending emails using the default email program are now saved locally per user/computer and no longer in the database.
  • [FIXED] Under certain circumstances, the printing was enlarged when printing under Windows.
  • [FIXED] Windows: When sending mails via the standard e-mail program, some issues occurred (e.g. attachments with PDF were sent as winmail.dat, some recipient addresses were not found).
  • [FIXED] macOS: If the printout size was set to a value different from 100%, the first page was printed enlarged.
  • [FIXED] Letterhead images placed in the letter layout were shown blurred if they had a pixel density (dpi) greater than 72.
  • [FIXED] An error occurred when opening the "Birthday reminders" window when a "Limit to bookings within the period of" X months was set in the preferences for birthdays.
  • [FIXED] The transparency setting for bookings in the reservation schedule did not work correctly under Windows.
  • [FIXED] Windows: Bookings in status Offer with expired offers were no longer displayed correctly with higher transparency in the reservation schedule.
  • [FIXED] Lodgit Desk categories could sometimes not be assigned to a channel manager category (not selectable), although there were rooms to be synchronized with this category.
  • [FIXED] The transfer of extra items mapping for channel managers has been improved.
  • [FIXED] When activating the option "show only synchronized rentable units or their types" in the channel manager category assignment, an internal error occurred if the rental object was a multiple-object system.
  • [FIXED] When changing the dates in the guest administration, the booking window and other dialogs, delays occurred, so that a saving of the changed data might not be implemented.
  • [FIXED] Redundant context menu in the "Accounting export" window has been removed.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.18.12 (Jul 2, 2018)

  • Stability improvement in communication with channel managers. This refers to loading the categories for assigning the Lodgit Desk rental units with the channel manager categories.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.18.11 (Jun 5, 2018)

  • In the interface "Locking systems > Salto" , you can now specify whether the short description or the long description of the rental units is to be transmitted as standard.
  • When changing the booking note for bookings with the status Tentative, the prices were always loaded from price management, although no price-relevant booking information was changed.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.18.8 (May 15, 2018)

  • [NEW] Guest management: Data in user-defined fields can now be imported and exported.
  • [NEW] Red banner as a warning in the occupancy schedule if online bookings without rental unit exist. Bookings with the status "Canceled online booking" are ignored.
  • [NEW] Required interface change for the electronic registration form system "Feratel" to the new system version "Deskline" was implemented.
  • [NEW] Financial reports > Extra items: Here you can now generate reports according to the name from the extra item management or the adjusted name from the posting window.
  • [NEW] Cash documents are now also included in the list "Financial reports > Extra items".
  • [CHANGED] Optimization of the window for "Change invoice recipient".
  • [CHANGED] Extension of the options in the gear menu under "Booking window > Accommodation tax".
  • [CHANGED] Extension of the possibilities in the gear menu under "Booking window > Extra items".
  • [CHANGED] Correspondence -> Documents -> Reference/Display document info.
  • [CHANGED] Sorting of "custom" field types in guest management adapted.
  • [CHANGED] When tickets are sent to the support team, they are placed in the "Support" or "Support (en)" queue depending on their language.
  • [CHANGED] With the "Salto" locking system interface, the data for the coding station is now stored locally and no longer in the database.
  • [CHANGED] Searching in the booking list now combines search field and period.
  • [CHANGED] Addition of additional columns for the accounting export (DATEV).
  • [CHANGED] A number range can be used for selected "manual" registration forms.
  • [CHANGED] Windows > Booking Assistant > The automatic adjustment of arrival/departure if departure before arrival has been revised.
  • [CHANGED] Unified time of saving the Vectron settings. This is now generally done when closing the settings window.
  • [CHANGED] Text encoding for Vectron interface changed to "WindowsLatin1".
  • [CHANGED] The price assistant now ignores rental units with a base price of "per month/...", "per year/...", "all-inclusive/...".
  • [CHANGED] Settings for Cultuzz > connection now via https + port 443 + tls1.1
  • [CHANGED] Settings for MappingMaster > Connection now via https + port 8443 + tls1.1
  • [CHANGED] Settings for Dirs21 > Connection is now done with tls1.1
  • [CHANGED] Settings for Hotel Spider > Connection is now done with tls1.1
  • [CHANGED] Standard ConnectionType for SMTP is now TLSv1
  • [FIXED] Catch now occurs when an invalid date is transmitted during synchronization of Channelmanager Notifications.
  • [FIXED] Error during import into the guest administration if the column separator is present in column data.
  • [FIXED] In rare cases, an internal error occurred when changing the Channel Manager setting for catergories (checkbox).
  • [FIXED] Saved data for cross-object online booking system was not displayed.
  • [FIXED] The field for entering the G/L account number length was not visible in the accounting export (Datev).
  • [FIXED] An internal error occurred when activating the Vektron interface in the settings.
  • [FIXED] When receiving new online bookings, the settings (filters) of the booking list were no longer functional.
  • [FIXED] When receiving new online bookings, a display error may have occurred within the booking list.
  • [FIXED] When sending e-mails, self-defined currency codes were not displayed.
  • [FIXED] Display error when reducing the size of the main window.
  • [FIXED] "Jumping" of the booking in the booking plan after changes to the booking prices and subsequent postponement of the booking via the booking plan.
  • [FIXED] Under Windows the shortening of a billed booking via the booking window, at a change of month, did not work correctly.
  • [FIXED] Some country names had been displayed in the wrong language.
  • [FIXED] Last setting regarding the object was not remembered in the CheckOut list.
  • [FIXED] Under very rare circumstances, an internal error occurred when moving extras and folders in the extra item administration.
  • [FIXED] Under very rare circumstances, an internal error occurred when opening the "Financial Reports" window.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.18.7 (Jan 4, 2018)

  • [NEW] Added new guest property "Permission granted for advertising mailings". Setting is done via the guest administration.
  • [NEW] Added new "Intelligent Groups" in the guest management. These are called 'Permission "Advertising Mailing"' and 'Permission "Review Portal"'.
  • [FIXED] An error occurred when updating from older databases to the latest version, which prevented the update from being carried out.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.18.6 (Jan 4, 2018)

  • [NEW] New POS interface "Vectron"
  • [NEW] New internal payment type "Other", which can be selected as a reference when creating a new payment type.
  • [NEW] Extension of the AVS registration form with the field "ue-e-gelt", which can optionally be filled and transmitted with the accommodation payment.
  • [CHANGED] Created separate standard extra items for each channel manager. Extra items transferred from the channel managers are assigned to this extra item unless otherwise specified.
  • [FIXED] In rare cases, CityTax with the setting "Deduction of the accommodation price" used the wrong tax rate in the invoice printout for the tax summary.
  • [FIXED] Down payment invoices can no longer be cancelled as soon as a down payment contained therein has already been cleared in a final invoice.
  • [FIXED] When creating offers and confirmations, an internal error occurred if the order of the extra items or packages in the offer or confirmation window was changed before printing.
  • [FIXED] The status "deleted" for payment methods was incorrectly saved in the GoBD journal. The value for "Active" was used instead of "deleted". Journal has been reinitialized at this point.
  • [FIXED] Fixed display errors in the "SiteMinder Categories" and "HotelSpider Categories" windows.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.18.5 (Jan 4, 2018)

  • [FIXED] When the cash accounts were settled, there was an error and an incomplete settlement of the accounts if there were unpaid cash invoices. The corresponding cash settlement must therefore be reversed and re-created.
  • [FIXED] Under certain circumstances, an internal error occurred when printing out the accommodation statistics.
  • [FIXED] Under certain circumstances, the category prices specified in the price management system were not transmitted to the Lodgit online booking system.
  • [FIXED] Under very rare circumstances, there was a rounding difference between the final amount displayed in the cash journal of the last cash balance and the final amount displayed in the corresponding printout of this cash balance.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.18.4 (Nov 1, 2017)

  • [CHANGED] When opening the guest administration via the booking window, the preselected guest is now automatically jumped to in the list.
  • [FIXED] When you set a down payment invoice to Paid, the system enters the invoice date, not the paid date as the "Paid on" date for the down payment.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.18.2 (Oct 25, 2017)

  • [NEW] Lodgit Desk also localized in Spanish.
  • [NEW] Text templates for correspondence are available in Spanish.
  • [NEW] Data export GoBD for Germany incl. GoBD Journal.
  • [NEW] For receipts (sales) there are now different print templates for "receipts with invoice recipient" and "receipts without invoice recipient".
  • [NEW] For the Datev export, you can now specify for which accounts the BU key defined for the corresponding tax rate is to be transferred.
  • [NEW] The description of the price definitions in the "Prices" window can now optionally be printed on the correspondence. An corresponding placeholder has been added to the text management.
  • [NEW] Placeholder for "down payment invoice number (final invoice)", room type and room name has been added for the down payment texts.
  • [NEW] The printable texts can now also be adapted for receipts.
  • [NEW] If the interim/final amount is negative, the corresponding line in the cash journal is now highlighted in red.
  • [NEW] When you create the cash balance, a warning message is now displayed if either an interim amount or the final amount is negative.
  • [NEW] Guest management: It is now possible to define which fields are added automatically when a new guest is created via the plus button.
  • [NEW] Input help when entering the IP address for the connection to the Cube SQL database server. Spaces entered at the beginning or end are automatically removed.
  • [NEW] The help is now only available as an online help and can be called up via F1 as usual.
  • [NEW] Sending of the completion of multiple electronic registration forms is now possible for the "JetWeb Feratel v5" registration form system.
  • [NEW] In the Channel Manager HotelSpider, the age of the guests is now displayed in the booking window (section Online booking) in the display of the other transmitted data.
  • [NEW] GoBD: When printing a draft invoice, it is now also saved and can be viewed in the correspondence window.
  • [NEW] GoBD: When the payment method of an invoice or correction invoice is changed, a new version of the invoice or correction invoice is created. The older versions of this invoice or correction invoice can be viewed in the correspondence.
  • [NEW] GoBD: When the recipient of an invoice is changed, a new version of the invoice is created. Older versions of this invoice can be viewed in the correspondence.
  • [CHANGED] Changed the name of some windows and menu entries. Menu item "Archive" now reads "Correspondence", window "Finances" now reads "Finance", window "Cash box" now reads "Create receipt".
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: When you reassign the same number (invoice number, receipt number), the system now displays a warning message. All invoices, correction invoices and documents that have already been created are taken into account.
  • [CHANGED] The movement of bookings for which the accommodation has been settled is prevented.
  • [CHANGED] Button to the window "Create receipt" in the window "Cash book".
  • [CHANGED] Button to the window "Cash book" in the window "Create receipt".
  • [CHANGED] The button for address format in the guest administration has been made more prominent.
  • [CHANGED] Added extended timeframe display in the Cashier Closings window.
  • [CHANGED] The Price Wizard in the Channel Manager settings window has been reworked.
  • [CHANGED] The setting for currencies and payment methods has been revised.
  • [CHANGED] The prices for Channel Manager categories can only be edited for assigned categories.
  • [CHANGED] The default value for the checkmark in "Show status window at sync" is now "off".
  • [CHANGED] A "Checkout" button has been added to the electronic registration form systems "JetWeb Feratel v5" and "JetWeb IncommingSoft" to make it clearer that they must be checked out.
  • [CHANGED] Print function for electronic registration form system "JetWeb Feratel v5" revised.
  • [CHANGED] Added a check that when creating, editing or changing an electronic registration form the departure is greater than the arrival date and the registration form is created for at least one booking.
  • [CHANGED] During creation or change of an electronic registration form the verification of the registration data has been improved.
  • [CHANGED] When closing a registration form, the list of electronic registration forms will now display if it has already been completed according to Feratel.
  • [CHANGED] Registration form data, if available, of deleted entries will be displayed in the list of electronic registration forms.
  • [CHANGED] Canceled registration forms are displayed in the list of electronic registration forms.
  • [CHANGED] In the "Receipts" window in the "Sales" section, when changing the correspondence language, the data of the "Extra items" list displayed on the left is now filled again according to the settings in the text management.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: When creating documents, the image used for the header area (as with letterhead text and footer text) is now also saved, so that it is also loaded when the settings for the corresponding letter layout are changed.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: When you create an invoice, correction invoice, or document, the invoice/document date must no longer be in the future.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: When you reprint a document that does not contain an invoice recipient, the word "COPY" is noted on the document.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: From now on, only the payment method can be changed for correction invoices. It is possible to change the status of the correction invoice if it has the status "Open".
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: The change of payment method from and to "cash payment" has been removed for invoices and correction invoices.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: Invoices, correction invoices and receipts with the payment method "cash payment" are set to "paid" immediately upon creation.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: With the "Set to Paid" option for invoices, correction invoices or receipts for which the payment type "Cash Payment" has been selected, the invoice / correction invoice/document date is always used for the payment date.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: In the case of "Set to Paid" of an already created invoice or correction invoice, the payment date must be the same as or after the date of the invoice or correction invoice and must not be in the future.
  • [CHANGED] Invoices are now always cancelled using the "Cancel with cover letter" function.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: Cash book closing once it has been created is fixed and cannot be reversed.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: When the cash balance is created, the closing date can be up to 2 days in the past.
  • [CHANGED] For invoices that have the status "Paid", you can change the invoice recipient.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: It is not possible to change the invoice recipient for cash payments whose invoice date lies before the last cash balance.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: It is possible to change the invoice recipient for invoices as long as they have not yet been exported via the accounting export.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: Resetting the export status during accounting export has been removed.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: Already exported data can now be exported again when exporting accounting data.
  • [FIXED] Display error when displaying the booking list via CMD+F fixed.
  • [FIXED] It was not possible to print out cash accounts that did not contain any entries.
  • [FIXED] The labels of deleted guests were still displayed in the guest administration in the corresponding menus for "Communication" and "Additional information".
  • [FIXED] Receipts were not taken into account when checking whether a change of currency is allowed.
  • [FIXED] The totals row is now exported when exporting accommodation statistics to xlsx.
  • [FIXED] When exporting the extra item list to xlsx, the totals row is now exported as well.
  • [FIXED] Sending the error report from Windows works again.
  • [FIXED] Settings for normal capacity for capacity utilization and key figures are again made customizable.
  • [FIXED] Under rare circumstances, it was no longer possible to create your own room types.
  • [FIXED] Blocked periods were not transferred if the to-date was later than 2 years in the future.
  • [FIXED] For hidden room types/objects, overbookings were not displayed correctly in the occupancy plan in the menu.
  • [FIXED] Changing the currency was not possible under very rare circumstances.
  • [FIXED] Self defined payment methods could not be removed.
  • [FIXED] Under very rare circumstances, a booking could be moved despite being fixed (period, rental unit).
  • [FIXED] Under very rare circumstances, there was a display error in object management (rental units) with the selection buttons for bookable packages.
  • [FIXED] Internal error when importing guest data if the guest's language should be imported.
  • [FIXED] An internal error occurred in rare cases when changing the bill-to party.
  • [FIXED] When importing POS data via the "Standard (Protel compatible)" interface, the article ID is now displayed if no description has been found.
  • [FIXED] During the search in the guest administration, guests with umlauts were not found, although the search term (including upper and lower case letters) matched the entered value.
  • [FIXED] If Lodgit Desk was connected to the Cube SQL database server and the backup settings were called in Lodgit Desk, an internal error may have occurred.
  • [FIXED] An internal error could occur if the connection to the Cube SQL database server was interrupted.
  • [FIXED] When using an cross-object online booking system, the sync could not be executed correctly if no arrival and departure times were defined for this system.
  • [FIXED] Revised the check when deleting a booking to see whether a valid electronic registration form has been created for it.
  • [FIXED] If during the sync guest data were transferred, which contained quotation marks, the guests were not found correctly and a new guest was always created.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.18.1 (Oct 24, 2017)

  • [NEW] Lodgit Desk also localized in Spanish.
  • [NEW] Text templates for correspondence are available in Spanish.
  • [NEW] Data export GoBD for Germany incl. GoBD Journal.
  • [NEW] For receipts (sales) there are now different print templates for "receipts with invoice recipient" and "receipts without invoice recipient".
  • [NEW] For the Datev export, you can now specify for which accounts the BU key defined for the corresponding tax rate is to be transferred.
  • [NEW] The description of the price definitions in the "Prices" window can now optionally be printed on the correspondence. An corresponding placeholder has been added to the text management.
  • [NEW] Placeholder for "down payment invoice number (final invoice)", room type and room name has been added for the down payment texts.
  • [NEW] The printable texts can now also be adapted for receipts.
  • [NEW] If the interim/final amount is negative, the corresponding line in the cash journal is now highlighted in red.
  • [NEW] When you create the cash balance, a warning message is now displayed if either an interim amount or the final amount is negative.
  • [NEW] Guest management: It is now possible to define which fields are added automatically when a new guest is created via the plus button.
  • [NEW] Input help when entering the IP address for the connection to the Cube SQL database server. Spaces entered at the beginning or end are automatically removed.
  • [NEW] The help is now only available as an online help and can be called up via F1 as usual.
  • [NEW] Sending of the completion of multiple electronic registration forms is now possible for the "JetWeb Feratel v5" registration form system.
  • [NEW] In the Channel Manager HotelSpider, the age of the guests is now displayed in the booking window (section Online booking) in the display of the other transmitted data.
  • [NEW] GoBD: When printing a draft invoice, it is now also saved and can be viewed in the correspondence window.
  • [NEW] GoBD: When the payment method of an invoice or correction invoice is changed, a new version of the invoice or correction invoice is created. The older versions of this invoice or correction invoice can be viewed in the correspondence.
  • [NEW] GoBD: When the recipient of an invoice is changed, a new version of the invoice is created. Older versions of this invoice can be viewed in the correspondence.
  • [CHANGED] Changed the name of some windows and menu entries. Menu item "Archive" now reads "Correspondence", window "Finances" now reads "Finance", window "Cash box" now reads "Create receipt".
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: When you reassign the same number (invoice number, receipt number), the system now displays a warning message. All invoices, correction invoices and documents that have already been created are taken into account.
  • [CHANGED] The movement of bookings for which the accommodation has been settled is prevented.
  • [CHANGED] Button to the window "Create receipt" in the window "Cash book".
  • [CHANGED] Button to the window "Cash book" in the window "Create receipt".
  • [CHANGED] The button for address format in the guest administration has been made more prominent.
  • [CHANGED] Added extended timeframe display in the Cashier Closings window.
  • [CHANGED] The Price Wizard in the Channel Manager settings window has been reworked.
  • [CHANGED] The setting for currencies and payment methods has been revised.
  • [CHANGED] The prices for Channel Manager categories can only be edited for assigned categories.
  • [CHANGED] The default value for the checkmark in "Show status window at sync" is now "off".
  • [CHANGED] A "Checkout" button has been added to the electronic registration form systems "JetWeb Feratel v5" and "JetWeb IncommingSoft" to make it clearer that they must be checked out.
  • [CHANGED] Print function for electronic registration form system "JetWeb Feratel v5" revised.
  • [CHANGED] Added a check that when creating, editing or changing an electronic registration form the departure is greater than the arrival date and the registration form is created for at least one booking.
  • [CHANGED] During creation or change of an electronic registration form the verification of the registration data has been improved.
  • [CHANGED] When closing a registration form, the list of electronic registration forms will now display if it has already been completed according to Feratel.
  • [CHANGED] Registration form data, if available, of deleted entries will be displayed in the list of electronic registration forms.
  • [CHANGED] Canceled registration forms are displayed in the list of electronic registration forms.
  • [CHANGED] In the "Receipts" window in the "Sales" section, when changing the correspondence language, the data of the "Extra items" list displayed on the left is now filled again according to the settings in the text management.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: When creating documents, the image used for the header area (as with letterhead text and footer text) is now also saved, so that it is also loaded when the settings for the corresponding letter layout are changed.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: When you create an invoice, correction invoice, or document, the invoice/document date must no longer be in the future.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: When you reprint a document that does not contain an invoice recipient, the word "COPY" is noted on the document.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: From now on, only the payment method can be changed for correction invoices. It is possible to change the status of the correction invoice if it has the status "Open".
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: The change of payment method from and to "cash payment" has been removed for invoices and correction invoices.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: Invoices, correction invoices and receipts with the payment method "cash payment" are set to "paid" immediately upon creation.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: With the "Set to Paid" option for invoices, correction invoices or receipts for which the payment type "Cash Payment" has been selected, the invoice / correction invoice/document date is always used for the payment date.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: In the case of "Set to Paid" of an already created invoice or correction invoice, the payment date must be the same as or after the date of the invoice or correction invoice and must not be in the future.
  • [CHANGED] Invoices are now always cancelled using the "Cancel with cover letter" function.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: Cash book closing once it has been created is fixed and cannot be reversed.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: When the cash balance is created, the closing date can be up to 2 days in the past.
  • [CHANGED] For invoices that have the status "Paid", you can change the invoice recipient.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: It is not possible to change the invoice recipient for cash payments whose invoice date lies before the last cash balance.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: It is possible to change the invoice recipient for invoices as long as they have not yet been exported via the accounting export.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: Resetting the export status during accounting export has been removed.
  • [CHANGED] GoBD: Already exported data can now be exported again when exporting accounting data.
  • [FIXED] Display error when displaying the booking list via CMD+F fixed.
  • [FIXED] It was not possible to print out cash accounts that did not contain any entries.
  • [FIXED] The labels of deleted guests were still displayed in the guest administration in the corresponding menus for "Communication" and "Additional information".
  • [FIXED] Receipts were not taken into account when checking whether a change of currency is allowed.
  • [FIXED] The totals row is now exported when exporting accommodation statistics to xlsx.
  • [FIXED] When exporting the extra item list to xlsx, the totals row is now exported as well.
  • [FIXED] Sending the error report from Windows works again.
  • [FIXED] Settings for normal capacity for capacity utilization and key figures are again made customizable.
  • [FIXED] Under rare circumstances, it was no longer possible to create your own room types.
  • [FIXED] Blocked periods were not transferred if the to-date was later than 2 years in the future.
  • [FIXED] For hidden room types/objects, overbookings were not displayed correctly in the occupancy plan in the menu.
  • [FIXED] Changing the currency was not possible under very rare circumstances.
  • [FIXED] Self defined payment methods could not be removed.
  • [FIXED] Under very rare circumstances, a booking could be moved despite being fixed (period, rental unit).
  • [FIXED] Under very rare circumstances, there was a display error in object management (rental units) with the selection buttons for bookable packages.
  • [FIXED] Internal error when importing guest data if the guest's language should be imported.
  • [FIXED] An internal error occurred in rare cases when changing the bill-to party.
  • [FIXED] When importing POS data via the "Standard (Protel compatible)" interface, the article ID is now displayed if no description has been found.
  • [FIXED] During the search in the guest administration, guests with umlauts were not found, although the search term (including upper and lower case letters) matched the entered value.
  • [FIXED] If Lodgit Desk was connected to the Cube SQL database server and the backup settings were called in Lodgit Desk, an internal error may have occurred.
  • [FIXED] An internal error could occur if the connection to the Cube SQL database server was interrupted.
  • [FIXED] When using an cross-object online booking system, the sync could not be executed correctly if no arrival and departure times were defined for this system.
  • [FIXED] Revised the check when deleting a booking to see whether a valid electronic registration form has been created for it.
  • [FIXED] If during the sync guest data were transferred, which contained quotation marks, the guests were not found correctly and a new guest was always created.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.17.4 (Jan 30, 2017)

  • [FIXED] The booking list filter settings were not always saved for the next program start.
  • [FIXED] The bookings list was not automatically reloaded when new online bookings were received.
  • [FIXED] In the DATEV book keeping export a "+" was used as decimal point instead of the correct ","

New in Lodgit Desk 1.17.3 (Jan 26, 2017)

  • [NEW] When generating a receipt via the cash register window you can now choose a number from the invoice number range.
  • [NEW] For sales reciepts there is now the possibility to add further information in a text field.
  • [CHANGED] When opening the cash register for the first time the payment method cash is selected.
  • [CHANGED] The Windows version now also changes the until date in the calender search of the reservation schedule if a later from-date is selected.
  • [FIXED] Removed faulty thousands delimiter from the book keeping export.
  • [FIXED] Account movmements (debit/credit) in the book keeping export respective purchases, money transfers (cash register to bank) and private withdrawals were inverted.
  • [FIXED] When printing on too narrow paper there was a fatal error.
  • [FIXED] Changes to the description of rentable units, rentable units, extras and packages were sometimes not synced.
  • [FIXED] The button to add something in the cash register was not always activated correctly.
  • [FIXED] Windows: You can now use ctrl+a in the list of the guest management window to select all.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.17.2 (Jan 19, 2017)

  • [NEW] In the DATEV accounting export you now can determine which information is shown in the posting text.
  • [NEW] The setting which objexts and rentable units are shown is now saved.
  • [CHANGED] Revision of the contextmenu for the repeated printing of cash receipts.
  • [FIXED] Error when closing the cash desk window while no rentable units were in the database.
  • [FIXED] While generating a cash receipt (cash desk window) there was an internal error if no rentable units were in the database.
  • [FIXED] While generating a cash receipt an internal error occurs when the additional module RKSV is active.
  • [FIXED] Printing a cash receipt via the context menu of the cash book causes an internal error.
  • [FIXED] The labels "invoice" and "corrective invoice" were exchanged in the cash book.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.17.1 (Jan 17, 2017)

  • [NEW] Create invoices independently from bookings
  • [NEW] Enabled default consent for data transfer to rating portals
  • [NEW] New filter possibilities in the bookings-list
  • [NEW] Added button to call a guest directly from the guest-history. Provided telephone software is configured on the computer.
  • [NEW] The number of the cancelled invoice is displayed next to the number of the correction invoice in the guest history.
  • [NEW] Guest history (bookings) now includes the number of guest-nights
  • [NEW] Expansion of some lists in the guest history to include summations
  • [NEW] Account movements with an amount of 0 can now optionally be removed from the accounting export (DATEV).
  • [NEW] New filter in the archive to locate offers and confirmations for deleted bookings.
  • [CHANGE] Adjustment of purchases, transfers (cashbook <-> bank) und private deposits and -withdrawals
  • [CHANGE] Purchases, sales, transfers and private deposits and -withdrawals can no longer be erased from the cashbook
  • [CHANGE] Renamed "cancellation credit" to "corrective invoice"
  • [CHANGE] bookings with the status "cancelled online booking" are ignored during billing
  • [CHANGE] The "DATEV" accounting export now shows the name of the invoice recipient
  • [CHANGE] The options "bundle identical extra items" and "names of rental units behind extra items" can no longer be selected together
  • [FIXED] In very few instances of "detailed" transmissions during RKSV export rounding differences occurred
  • [FIXED] An error occurred while transferring data to TripAdvisor Review Express causing no data to be transferred
  • [FIXED] While retransmitting invoices (state "cancelled") to cBird negative values were transferred
  • [FIXED] While retransmitting invoices (state "paid") to cBird positive values were transferred
  • [FIXED] During synchronization of occupied times bookings too far in the future were ignored
  • [FIXED] The "DATEV" accounting export now contains two positions after the comma
  • [FIXED] The export (xslx) of the cleaning list (week/month) caused an internal error if only one object was selected
  • [FIXED] There was a very rare possibility for the "paid at" date of a deposit was overwritten/deleted during saving in the booking dialogue
  • [FIXED] When setting the status to "checked out" in the bookings dialogue the value "number of bookings" of the respective main guest was not incremented or reduced
  • [FIXED] The booking list now also shows future booking in the filter "services not yet billed"

New in Lodgit Desk 1.16.4 (Nov 8, 2016)

  • [FIXED] During the synchronization of cancellations of online bookings from a channel manager an internal error occured, which let to an abortion of the sync process.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.16.1 (Nov 3, 2016)

  • [NEW] Price Management: It is now possible to enter prices depending on the length of stay
  • [NEW] Price Management: It can now be specified that the price on check in day should be valid for the entire booking even if the booking is actually part of multiple different pricing
  • [NEW] Added a setting to choose how certain accommodation prices, extra items and accommodation tax rates are to be treated when splitting a booking
  • [NEW] When importing guests the language of the guest can now be imported as well
  • [CHANGED] Reworked the handling of booking change notifications from the channel manager. Now a new booking will be generated according to the updated booking data and the old booking will be given the "Cancelled Online Booking" status
  • [CHANGED] When setting up prices using the price management assistant the maximum number of persons per rentable unit or category will now be taken into consideration.
  • [CHANGED] The registration form for a booking can now be quickly created from the context menu of the respective booking
  • [FIXED] Bookings without a rentable units were sometimes mistakenly marked as overbookings in the booking window
  • [FIXED] When cancelling invoices the respective bookings were sometimes not properly unlocked for other users connected to the database server
  • [FIXED] Under very rare circumstances opening a booking window lead to an internal error
  • [FIXED] It was possible to reload prices from price management for bookings that have already been invoiced
  • [FIXED] Protel-compatible EPOS interface: Assigning the transmitted name is now also possible for product group number 0
  • [FIXED] Vacancies for more than two years were sent to the online booking system if the reservation schedule contained a booking further than two years in the future
  • [FIXED] Obsolete bookings not assigned to a rentable unit were transmitted during synchronisation

New in Lodgit Desk 1.15.17 (Sep 9, 2016)

  • Statistics for city tax
  • Several bug fixes

New in Lodgit Desk 1.15.11 (Apr 28, 2016)

  • [NEW] Additional module: Kassa Austria RKSV: Interface to the EPOS cBird in order to comply with the Austrian Registrierkassensicherheitsverordnung (RKSV)
  • [NEW] It can now be specified if the number of the cancelled invoice should be displayed next to the number of the cancellation credit in the accounting export
  • [NEW] The number of the cancelled invoice is now displayed next to the number of the cancellation credit in the booking window and the archives
  • [NEW] The booking list can now be printed out and exported as PDF, CSV or Excel file
  • [NEW] Settings of the reservation schedule: Displaying the mouse-over tooltips for bookings can be deactivated
  • [NEW] Booking windows > Services: The discounted price is now displayed next to the accommodation price
  • [NEW] Notes of the main- and accompanying contacts are now displayed in the "General" section of the booking window
  • [CHANGED] Amounts in newly created cancellation credits are now displayed as negative values
  • [CHANGED] Renamed certain price units and modified their order
  • [CHANGED] Improved the order of how rules in the price management are applied by now also considering the price itself. Previously: "From-date, Created on date". Now: "From-date, Price, Created-on date"
  • [CHANGED] An existing discount of a main booking is now also applied when creating or extending a group booking
  • [CHANGED] Option: "Only show deposit payments in final invoice" is no longer available as this option frequently lead to errors in the financials
  • [CHANGED] The price assistant now detects the maximum number of persons per selected object/category/room
  • [CHANGED] Automatically meaningfully adapting the check-in date when modifying the check out-date and vice versa
  • [CHANGED] When adding a predefined deposit to a booking the description text is now pre-populated
  • [FIXED] Certain texts in the text management were not saved properly
  • [FIXED] It was not possible to delete a label via the reservation schedule
  • [FIXED] Wrong error message was displayed when the CSV export failed
  • [FIXED] Editing screen for extra items that have been invoiced was still active
  • [FIXED] When changing the main contact an applicable discount will now again be applied to all group members
  • [FIXED] Selection rectangle in the reservation schedule was no longer visible
  • [FIXED] It was not possible to delete a received on date for deposits without deposit invoices
  • [FIXED] Resetting the dates in case of wrong entries in certain lists
  • [FIXED] A change of recipient of packages in the booking window was not detected
  • [FIXED] Saving an image for the letterhead was no longer possible in server mode
  • [FIXED] An internal error occurred when duplicating prices when the check-in or check-out date was missing
  • [FIXED] Improved error handling when no folders were specified for the EPOS interface or the specified folders did no longer exist
  • [FIXED] CSV export of the list of letters in the archives was not possible
  • [FIXED] The CSV export of the cancellation credits (archives) exported the letters instead
  • [FIXED] Tax keys were attributed incorrectly for the DATEV export
  • [FIXED] The object management can again be opened via the menu
  • [FIXED] Details of some items were not always printed when tax, amount and price had the value 0
  • [FIXED] Indication error after syncing on Windows
  • [FIXED] Indication error when showing the booking list below the reservation schedule

New in Lodgit Desk 1.15.7 (Feb 11, 2016)

  • [NEW] Cancellation refunds now have an own numbering
  • [NEW] Added an icon to indicate if automatic sync has been turned on
  • [NEW] Added an icon to indicate if an error has occurred with the last attempt to automatically sync
  • [NEW] When closing the price management incomplete price definitions can now easily be discarded
  • [NEW] Added placeholders for the check-in and check-out time of a main booking to use in the beginning and finishing paragraphs of offers, confirmations and invoices
  • [NEW] Added a placeholder for the booking numbers, check-in and check-out date in the texts for deposits
  • [NEW] You can now define which unsaved changes in the booking window should be saved automatically
  • [NEW] New setting to define if the open items for accommodation and extra items should be pre-selected alongside the deposit items when opening the create deposit invoice window
  • [CHANGED] Switching off the option "Show status window when automatically synchronizing" now also suppresses a pop up window displaying if an error occurred
  • [CHANGED] Displaying a pop up window to indicate if exporting lists as .csv or .xsls (Excel) has succeeded or failed
  • [CHANGED] Improved error-handling when entering dates into lists
  • [FIXED] The last valid offer was not properly set to the "Valid" status after having created a confirmation
  • [FIXED] When creating a new offer not all confirmations attributed to the booking were properly set to the "Invalid" status
  • [FIXED] When creating a new booking using the menu item "Bookings... > New" the check-in and check-out times will now be automatically set according to the settings in object management when assigning a rentable unit
  • [FIXED] Creating an electronic registration form is now again possible via the booking window
  • [FIXED] Fixed flashing tooltip error in the reservation schedule on Windows
  • [FIXED] An internal error occurred when starting Lodgit in database server mode.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.15.6 (Feb 8, 2016)

  • [CHANGED] The booking assistant now displays a message when no vacant rentable unit was found in the requested search timeframe
  • [CHANGED] Added validation to check if an image file for the letter header is corrupted/readable
  • [CHANGED] When closing the invoice window the booking window will no longer be re-initialized if only the invoice preview has been opened but no actual invoice has been created
  • [CHANGED] Changes to the booking window can now be saved by pressing ctrl+s (windows) and cmd+s (MacOSX)
  • [CHANGED] Changed the display order of overbooking in the reservation schedule. The booking which has been created latest will now always be displayed on top when refreshing the schedule.
  • [CHANGED] Addition to the POS interface "Protel-compatible". The 5th parameter of the line G will now be taken into account and interpreted as the product name when reading the roombook.dat file.
  • [CHANGED] The notification for overbookings can now be deactivated for certain booking status
  • [CHANGED] Updated the watermarking of invoice preview prints.
  • [CHANGED] It is now possible to create offers/confirmations/invoices when both a main contact as well as a rentable unit was assigned to a booking regardless of the booking status
  • [CHANGED] revised enter date for arrival and departure in the booking window
  • [CHANGED] Automatically saving unsaved changes to the booking data when creating offers/confirmations/invoices in the booking window.
  • [FIXED] Creating tickets inside Lodgit Desk is now possible again.
  • [FIXED] For deposits with deposits invoice the "paid on" date could be set manually.
  • [FIXED] Deposits could be invoiced in the final invoice under some circumstances when the corresponding deposit invoice was still open.
  • [FIXED] Bookings with the status "Cancelled Online Booking" can now no longer be edited. Buchungen im Status "Stornierte Online-Buchung" können nun nicht mehr bearbeitet werden.
  • [FIXED] Cancelling an electronic AVS registration form was not possible
  • [FIXED] When creating bookings with the booking assistant the setting "is a guest" will now be selected again by default.
  • [FIXED] Received deposits will now be displayed correctly in the overview section of the booking window.
  • [FIXED] Under certain circumstances an internal error occurred when closing all open booking windows via the menu "windows".
  • [FIXED] When changing the database (work database test database, server mode local mode) an internal error occurred under certain circumstances.
  • [FIXED] Under certain circumstances invoices for an online booking were always created in German even if the booking language was actually set to a different language Unter Umständen war die Sprache der Rechnungen bei Onlinebuchungen "Deutsch" auch wenn in der Buchung eine andere Sprache eingestellt war.
  • [FIXED] Changing the time frames of prices (price management, channel manager > prices) produced an internal error in rare cases
  • [FIXED] Sending an electronic registration form was not possible when any guest data contained an apostrophe
  • [FIXED] Internal error when the folder to save PDF files in did no longer exist
  • [FIXED] In very rare cases an internal error occurred when refreshing the reservation schedule or selecting bookings in the schedule
  • [FIXED] Creating/deleting/changing group bookings will now cancel all offers and confirmations of bookings affected.
  • [FIXED] Button in the booking window to open the settings window for the electronic registration forms is now working again
  • [FIXED] Under certain circumstances an internal error occurred when switching between local and server database or reconnecting to the server database.
  • [FIXED] A deletion of online payment methods for online bookings was no longer possible.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.15.5 (Feb 8, 2016)

  • [FIXED] Changing the price unit for the accommodation in the booking window was no longer working.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.15.4 (Feb 8, 2016)

  • [CHANDED] Guest Managament > Guest Profile: When adding a new entry under "Additional info", the option for "travel document" will be selected first
  • [CHANDED] The Maximize button is now active for all resizable windows
  • [FIXED] Button for printing electronic registration forms wasn't active
  • [FIXED] When doing a dunning run, the texts were sometimes not loaded correctly from the Text Management.
  • [FIXED] When adding an extra item to a booking that didn't have a price unit, Lodgit produced an internal error
  • [FIXED] In rare cases, synchronization caused an internal error
  • [FIXED] Imported online booking didn't always show the correct end total in the booking window statistics until the booking was edited.
  • [FIXED] When combining extras and/or packages to a new package in the booking window, the new package had a strange name.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.15.3 (Feb 8, 2016)

  • [CHANGED] Options "Always show all units" and "non-affected bookings" in the Cleaning List for the current day improved
  • [CHANGED] Display of tax rate in the list of extras/packages in the booking window
  • [CHANGED] Warning whenever the departure date of a checked out booking is in the future
  • [FIXED] When combining price time frames, the time frames weren't deleted correctly.
  • [FIXED] Warning that changes were made by a third party showed up incorrectly
  • [FIXED] Deleting and editing extras/packages was sometimes not possible
  • [FIXED] Display error when printing the daily cleaning list
  • [FIXED] Booking with today's arrival date could not be set to "Checked In" in the booking window
  • [FIXED] Display error in the window for sending tickets

New in Lodgit Desk 1.15.1 (Feb 8, 2016)

  • [NEW] Complete overhaul of the booking window
  • [NEW] Amounts displayed in first view of the booking window
  • [NEW] The booking window now contains an Overview page
  • [NEW] Whether a booking is an "overbooking" will now be displayed within the booking window. When changing the dtae range or rentable unit, the overbooking status will be recalculated
  • [NEW] Locking a booking can now be done separately for the date range and the rentable unit.
  • [NEW] Flexible date range for the Deposit List
  • [CHANGED] Online bookings without a unit will now have a fixed date range (no fixed unit)
  • [CHANGED] Draft invoices will be better marked as such
  • [FIXED] When creating a PDF on a Windows system, the PDF was sometimes not created whenever the location or name of the file was changed
  • [FIXED] Booking weren't always unlocked properly on the server modus after the user was finished editing them
  • [FIXED] When printing/creating offers/confirmations/invoices containing city tax, there sometimes was an internal error
  • [FIXED] Display error in the side bar whenever the sidebar was hidden and the window preferences were reset
  • [FIXED] The extras option to adjust the number of people whenever the booking was changed wasn't used properly

New in Lodgit Desk 1.14.17 (Feb 8, 2016)

  • [CHANGED] Group Bookings: If a main contact is listed in several bookings as a guest, the "Is A Guest" tag will be added to each booking.
  • [FIXED] Duplicating/Splitting a booking with city tax was not possible.
  • [FIXED] When opening the Financials, the analysis wasn't shown in some cases.
  • [FIXED] In some cases, the Guest History of the Bookings was empty, even if the guest was listed in a booking.
  • [FIXED] Performance Indicator Chart: When selecting a year, the chart showed one too many months.
  • [FIXED] In some cases, generating a PDF file caused an internal error
  • [FIXED] When opening/closing a booking window, there's now a check for whether the booking could be found.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.14.16 (Feb 8, 2016)

  • [NEW] The number of units added into the database is now listed in the Software Activation dialogue.
  • [FIXED] When opening the menu "Bookings", an internal error occurred

New in Lodgit Desk 1.14.15 (Feb 8, 2016)

  • [NEW] You can now create a support ticket from within Lodgit Desk
  • [CHANGED] Electronic Registration System: The settings are now in the Preferences and the lists under Lists
  • [CHANGED] Overbookings are now displayed better in the context menu of the reservation schedule
  • [CHANGED] Automatic search in the lists now require a full 4-digit year date
  • [CHANGED] Pre-set payment methods can now be deactivated
  • [CHANGED] Invoices without payment method: If an invoice was accidentally created without a payment method, it will now be shown in the Financial Reports. Those invoices cannot be cancelled or set to "paid".
  • [CHANGED] Better overview over the license in the Software Activation Window
  • [CHANGED] Selection for details in the cleaning list now easier
  • [CHANGED] Cleaning: A cleaning interval depending on weekdays as well as "on arrival and final cleaning" added
  • [CHANGED] Texts: Texts for the City Tax is displayed easier
  • [CHANGED] Space between email text and email signature was reduced to one line
  • [CHANGED] Names of rentable units are now displayed only up to 40 characters in the reservation schedule
  • [CHANGED] When printing a weekly cleaning list, the dates are now displayed above the weekdays
  • [FIXED] The license allotments weren't interpreted properly.
  • [FIXED] The link to an offer/confirmation wasn't always set correctly in the booking
  • [FIXED] Expired offers weren't always displayed "faded out"
  • [FIXED] Sums in the List of Outstanding Invoices are now updated automatically as soon as changes are made to an invoice
  • [FIXED] When a booking was moved to another unit, the occupancy rate and list of vacant units in the sidebar wasn't always updated
  • [FIXED] In very rare cases, a guest of an online booking wasn't set correctly
  • [FIXED] Automatic sending of data to review portals wasn't working
  • [FIXED] In the cashbook archives, cancellations with deposits (without deposit invoices) weren't always displayed correctly
  • [FIXED] In the Financials, deposits without invoices were shown, even if the box "invoices" wasn't checked
  • [FIXED] The DATEV financial export led to an internal error in the event that there was an invoice with city tax
  • [FIXED] In very rare cases, when deactivating the city tax, it wasn't displayed correctly in future bookings.
  • [FIXED] In the assistant for Price Management, the prices weren't always hidden correctly when unchecked

New in Lodgit Desk 1.14.13 (Sep 28, 2015)

  • [NEW] New registration form: "Germany"
  • [NEW] New template for offers/confirmations: Displaying the items without adding them up or displaying the total value
  • [CHANGED] On offers/confirmations/invoices using the net price template the price of each single item can now be displayed with up to six fractional digits preventing unintended rounding errors
  • [CHANGED] When creating a new electronic registration form the last editor will be preselected if possible
  • [CHANGED] When creating e-mails with PDF attachments the MacType, MimeType and MacCreator of the attachment will now be specified.
  • [FIXED] Invoices with net price template used the gross value of extra items
  • [FIXED] Offer-, confirmation-, and invoice number as well as bookings notes will be displayed again in the tooltips in the reservation schedule
  • [FIXED] Umlauts will now be displayed correctly in the subject lines of e-mails sent via SMTP

New in Lodgit Desk 1.14.12 (Sep 28, 2015)

  • [NEW] Protection against accidentally changing bookings in the reservation schedule: Moving, extending or deleting bookings in the schedule can be deactivated for some or all booking statuses.
  • [NEW] Possibility to define an additional currency with the respective exchange rate which can be printed on offers, confirmations and invoices additionally to the main currency.
  • [NEW] Users of the "Interface: Review Portals" can now use the new review portal "iiQ-Check"
  • [NEW] Now displaying the date of birth when creating the electronic registration form
  • [NEW] Booking list: New filter for online bookings not assigned to a rentable unit
  • [NEW] New design templates for invoices and cancellation credits
  • [CHANGED] Fixed bookings can no longer be deleted
  • [CHANGED] Improved deleting of bookings using the delete key.
  • [CHANGED] Possibility to select the sender in the dunning run
  • [CHANGED] Removed color setting for the booking status "Overbooking"
  • [CHANGED] Simplified selecting a design when creating offers, confirmations, invoices and cancellation credits.
  • [CHANGED] Moving bookings with pressed down Shift/CMD-key is now no longer possible
  • [CHANGED] Replaced the help function on Windows with a PDF file
  • [FIXED] Texts for the dunning run were not saved correctly
  • [FIXED] Missing column spacing in the detail view of the Agent Statistics
  • [FIXED] When duplicating or splitting a booking some information was not properly sent to the channel manager
  • [FIXED] Automatic deleting of outdated backups
  • [FIXED] Reworked the compilation of data for CustomerAlliance
  • [FIXED] Reworked the interpretation of error messages from CustomerAlliance.
  • [FIXED] Internal error occurred when opening the settings window for electronic registration forms
  • [FIXED] Non identifiable errors produced an empty error window during sync
  • [FIXED] Sending E-Mails: Displaying the error messages for MAPI-errors lead to an internal error
  • [FIXED] Channel manager: Removing the mapping of extras/packages was not possible
  • [FIXED] Internal error on Windows 10 when opening the settings for objects and rentable units
  • [FIXED] The license status was not correctly checked when opening the settings window for the electronic registration forms
  • [FIXED] In very rare cases rounding errors occurred when calculating the lodging price with pricing units "per week", "per week/person". Internally they were always rounded to two decimal places. Warning: Offers, confirmations and invoices that have already been created will not be subsequently corrected.
  • [FIXED] In very rare cases the room names were not displayed properly in the reservation schedule
  • [FIXED] Inclusive items were not properly considered on deposit invoices when they had already been invoiced.
  • [FIXED] Internal error when deleting guests in the booking window using shortcuts
  • [FIXED] Reactivated automatic allocation of packages when moving bookings in the tentative status

New in Lodgit Desk 1.14.11 (Sep 28, 2015)

  • [CHANGED] Financial Export for DATEV Pro now only exports the BU keys for manual cash expenses
  • [FIXED] Deleting the main booking of a group caused an internal error.
  • [FIXED] When deleting the main booking of a group, a new main booking wasn't always elected.
  • [FIXED] Guest History: Bookings from previous years weren't displayed if the guest was only main contact of a booking but wasn't listed as arriving guest.
  • [FIXED] Mac OS X 10.7 and Windows Vista couldn't synchronize properly.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.14.9 (Sep 28, 2015)

  • [FIXED] The cleaning list wasn't displayed correctly.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.14.8 (Sep 28, 2015)

  • [NEW] Statistics for City Tax
  • [FIXED] In some cases, overbookings weren't correctly displayed in the filtered booking list.
  • [FIXED] Removing a booking from a group caused an error message in rare cases.
  • [FIXED] Booking Assistant: When creating a group booking, the main contact wasn't listed as arriving guest in the booking.
  • [FIXED] The booking list was always displayed during software launch, even if it had been hidden on the last use.
  • [FIXED] Interface Review Portals: The connection to CustomerAlliance is now working again.
  • [FIXED] Guest History: Bookings from previous and following years are now displayed correctly.
  • [FIXED] When searching for vacant units in the reservation schedule, the highlighted area was a day too long.
  • [FIXED] Deleting a booking without a main contact caused an error

New in Lodgit Desk 1.14.6 (Sep 28, 2015)

  • [NEW] Financial Export now offer DATEV-compatible export
  • [NEW] New placeholder for the validity date of an offer with return confirmation available in the Text Management.
  • [NEW] In the Agent Statistics (Details) will now show the number of guests in each booking.
  • [NEW] When creating offers and confirmations, users can now decide to immediately lock a booking after creation.
  • [CHANGED] Electronic Registration System Ferate: Now sends type of guests for each guest
  • [CHANGED] EPOS systems interface: File for checked-in guests can optionally be ended with a carriage return
  • [CHANGED] EPOS systems interface: File for checked-in guests will now be updated as soon as a booking status is changed to or from "Checked In", the tme frame, main contact or arriving guests of a checked in booking are changed.
  • [CHANGED] Arrival and departure time fields now save times better.
  • [CHANGED] Changed a few error and warning texts in windows and error messages.
  • [CHANGED] Upon first installation of Lodgit Desk, the database will be initialized faster
  • [CHANGED] When creating a deposit invoice, only the deposits will now be selected in the invoice window.
  • [CHANGED] Bookings that came in through the channel manager and couldn't be entered directly into the reservation schedule will now show the channel object ID and/or channel object name, if possible.
  • [CHANGED] Invoice window: Selecting numbering circles and cancelled invoice numbers is now more intuitive
  • [CHANGED] For group bookings you can now create any correspondence according to the status of the main booking and the booking you've opened.
  • [CHANGED] When an online booking comes in that cannot be immediately drawn into the reservation schedule, it will not be automatically locked (not matter the preferences).
  • [FIXED] Rounding process for the tax amounts was adjusted to prevent errors for large invoices with many small items.
  • [FIXED] Reservation schedule can now be smoothly pulled to the left and right again.
  • [FIXED] When printing the Financial Reports, the footer wasn't printed on pages 2 and further
  • [FIXED] In very rare cases, the update process of the database ended with an error message.
  • [FIXED] When using a cancelled invoice number, the last number of the numbering circle was sometimes counted upwards.
  • [FIXED] When a group booking was dissolved, sometimes the main contact of other bookings was removed.
  • [FIXED] Display error in the window "Synchronization and Online Modules" fixed
  • [FIXED] Windows: When exporting the lists or guest files into Excel files, special characters in the file names were sometimes not displayed correctly.
  • [FIXED] Synchronization failed with an error message when the booking list contained online bookings not assigned to a rentable unit

New in Lodgit Desk 1.14.4 (Sep 28, 2015)

  • [NEW] You can now define for each computer whether or not they're processing the automatic synchronization with the online modules. We recommend synchronizing automatically only with computers that have a stable internet connection.
  • [NEW] Time of the last successful synchronization now displayed unter "Synchronization and Online Modules"
  • [CHANGED] Maximum image dimensions for letter head is now 1400x2000px.
  • [CHANGED] Smallest synchronization interval is now 10 minutes.
  • [CHANGED]If bookings with the status "Booked", "Checked In" and "Checked Out" belong to a group whose main booking has a lower status, you can now create an invoice for the group regardless.
  • [FIXED] Error when cancelling invoices if the cancellation was only saved as a PDF document.
  • [FIXED] When creating bookings via the Booking Assistant, the booking label wasn't immediately displayed.
  • [FIXED] In the booking window under "Label/Tag", the selection for the booking label wasn't saved correctly.
  • [FIXED] In very rare cases bookings were imported into the reservation schedule twice.
  • [FIXED] The error message for a failed synchronization process was displayed multiple times.
  • [FIXED] During the first initialization of Lodgit Desk the values in the Preferences window weren't set correctly.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.14.3 (Sep 28, 2015)

  • [CHANGED] fundamental impovements of e-mail delivery via SMTP (Windows, MacOSX) and MAPI (Windows)
  • [CHANGED] The booking number is now shown in the group section of the booking window as well as in the booking list (below the reservation schedule)
  • [CHANGED] Changed the hotspot of the pen- and hand cursors in the reservation schedule
  • [CHANGED] Letter layouts: Limited the maximum image size (in pixels) of the header/logo graphic

New in Lodgit Desk 1.14.2 (Mar 10, 2015)

  • [NEW] Assistant for adding category and unit prices
  • [NEW] Online bookings can now be automatically fixed as soon as they're imported.
  • [CHANGED] Reservation Schedule: font size of unit names bigger
  • [CHANGED] Price units of extra items: Unit "per night" is now "per night (Qty from date)"; only "per night" will be printed out. The same happens for the units "per day", "per week", "per month" and "per year".
  • [FIXED] In some cases using the database server was quite slow.
  • [FIXED] Window when quitting the software (Create backup yes/no) can no longer be put into the background.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.14.1 (Mar 10, 2015)

  • [NEW] Emails can now be sent with an encryption (tls/ssl).
  • [NEW] Unit category is now listed (in short) in the title bar of a booking window.
  • [NEW] It's now easier to re-use numbers of formerly cancelled invoices.
  • [NEW] User can select numbering set when creating an invoice
  • [NEW] Booking List: Last filter setting will be remembered upon re-opening the software
  • [NEW] Booking Window: Show paid on or pay by date in the list of invoices
  • [NEW] Siteminder: Select server of each region
  • [NEW] The accounting export will now display an error message if an account number is 0
  • [NEW] List of unpaid invoices: Invoices can now be hidden manually
  • [NEW] Letter layouts can now be defined separately for offers, confirmations and invoices
  • [NEW] Default location for saving PDF files can now be set manually
  • [NEW] EPOS System Interface: Generating the files GWCHECKIN.dat or INHOUSE.dat immediately upon switching a booking's status to "Checked In" (formerly 2 minutes)
  • [CHANGED] Booking Assistant: Bookings with the status "Disabled" no longer need a main contact
  • [CHANGED] Booking Assistant: Bookings with the status "Disabled" will not be added as groups
  • [CHANGED] Booking Assistant: Improved date entry
  • [CHANGED] Bookings with the length of one day are displayed better in the reservation schedule
  • [CHANGED] Channel Manager: Improved error messages
  • [FIXED] Incorrect correspondence language when creating new bookings with the booking assistant
  • [FIXED] Error when trying to display lists with the time frame 'all years'
  • [FIXED] Error when creating a new database and receiving UDP messages at the same time
  • [FIXED] Local backups are not created when the database server is used, as the cubeSQL server is responsible for creating updates then.
  • [FIXED] Error when doing the automatic update
  • [FIXED] Lodgit Desk quit whenever the connection to the database server couldn't be established.
  • [FIXED] When adding a new guest, communication data of an old guest was sometimes added.
  • [FIXED] Error when duplicating rentable units
  • [FIXED] Error while opening the administration window of "Synchronization and Online Modules"
  • [FIXED] No result when selecting the time frame All/All in the archives
  • [FIXED] Duplicated display of the context menu
  • [FIXED] Drop down menus in the booking list weren't initialized properly
  • [FIXED] Display error in the reservation schedule when displaying very long bookings

New in Lodgit Desk 1.13.7 (Mar 10, 2015)

  • [NEW] Interface for Channel Manager Siteminder
  • [NEW] Channel Manager: The channel manager category of each online booking is now listed within the info area "Online Booking" in the booking window.
  • [CHANGED] Booking Assistant: You can now add a new booking with the status Tentative without having to add a main contact.
  • [FIXED] WHen trying to crate a group booking in the reservation schedules, the names of the main contacts were sometimes displayed twice.
  • [FIXED] When creating an offer with city tax (displayed underneath the accommodation), the values weren't printed correctly.
  • [FIXED] When a guest import via CSV file was cancelled, the import dialogue opened itself anyway.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.13.6 (Mar 10, 2015)

  • [NEW] Towel and linen change interval can now be set independently from the cleaning interval.
  • [CHANGED] In the overviews of the Check-In and Check-Out lists, booking notes will no longer display line breaks. When printed, the lines will be shown.
  • [FIXED] In rare cases, an invoice could not be created.
  • [FIXED] Importing guest data from a CSV file wasn't possible.
  • [FIXED] In some cases when using the database server, changes made weren't immediately visible on other Lodgit installations.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.13.5 (Mar 10, 2015)

  • [NEW] Date can be changed when creating letters
  • [NEW] Placeholders for guest name, check-in and check-out dates available in the subject line of e-mails for offers, confirmations and invoices
  • [NEW] Guest history can be printed
  • [NEW] List of open invoices can be printed
  • [NEW] Added "P.O. box" field to contact details in guest management
  • [FIXED] Windows: A wrong time was set when saving invoices with the current date as invoice date.
  • [FIXED] When exporting lists the created Excel files were corrupt in rare cases.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.13.4 (Dec 9, 2014)

  • [NEW] When starting up Lodgit Desk or changing the database a database integrity check will be performed
  • [NEW] Chronological filtering options for the booking list
  • [NEW] CityTax: Can now be set up and added to a booking either as a percentaged or a fixed value.
  • [NEW] Guest import end -export: Creation date of a contact can be imported and exported as well
  • [CHANGED] Changed generation and displaying of charts
  • [CHANGED] Texts in the lodging- and extras lists
  • [CHANGED] Automatic incrementing of the short description numbering when creating a rentable unit
  • [CHANGED] When switching from the local to a server database synchronization for the local db will be switched off
  • [CHANGED] Additional text infos concerning certain place holders in the address format.
  • [CHANGED] Additional text infos in the backup settings and for various help buttons.
  • [CHANGED] Connection between Lodgit and the channel managers now using TLS
  • [CHANGED] When changing the VAT rate for a time frame in the booking details window other time frames will be attributed the same VAT rate as well.
  • [FIXED] Occasionally it was impossible to print the check in list.
  • [FIXED] On very rare occasions there was a problem printing correspondence on Mac OS X that was originally created on Windows
  • [FIXED] The same internal correspondence reference number was occasionally assigned multiple times
  • [FIXED] Paid-on date was not always properly stored for deposits with invoices.
  • [FIXED] In very rare cases an extra item added to a booking was not displayed in the booking window
  • [FIXED] A multi-object system could not be attributed to a channel manager when the channel manager was activated for one of the single objects before.
  • [FIXED] Online-bookings: Payment method Heidelpay was not mapped correctly for deposits
  • [FIXED] In the window for saving a letter template the "name" field was black.
  • [FIXED] Performance indicator changed to net
  • [FIXED] Printing the booking export has the headline "Agent statistics"
  • [FIXED] Wrong translation in "Allgemeiner Meldeschein 2" (EN)
  • [FIXED] VAT of extras was wrongly transmitted as integer when synchronizing.
  • [FIXED] Error with dunnings of invoices of deleted guests.
  • [FIXED] In very rare cases the box to enter the date was not initialized properly in the bookkeeping export.
  • [FIXED] When printing statistics the page number wasn't always set correctly

New in Lodgit Desk 1.13.3 (Jul 2, 2014)

  • New feature: Booking Assistant for easier creation of (group) bookings

New in Lodgit Desk 1.13.2 (Jun 4, 2014)

  • [FIXED] The time frames of stays were not correctly displayed in invoices of group bookings.
  • [FIXED] Windows: Modifications of the error correcting of check-in and check-out dates in the case of a check out date being before the check in date
  • [FIXED] Filtering out of ASCII control characters when synchronizing the database
  • [FIXED] Under certain circumstances using the CubeSQL database server caused Lodgit Desk to freeze

New in Lodgit Desk 1.13.1 (Jun 4, 2014)

  • [NEW] Accounting export window now allows the usage of the tax ID instead of the tax rate
  • [NEW] Added interface for channel manager "MappingMaster"
  • [NEW] Added possibility to combine multiple objects into one multi-object system for the additional modules "Lodgit Online Systems" and "Interface: Channel Manager".
  • [NEW] Identical extra items (without an allocation to a package and without the "inclusive" status) can now be combined when creating offers, confirmations and invoices.
  • [NEW] Implemented new designs for offers, confirmations and invoices.
  • [NEW] Implemented a letter layout selector when creating offers, confirmations and invoices as well as for the dunning run
  • [NEW] Added possibility to re-select the letter layout when printing offers, confirmations and invoice anew from the archives.
  • [NEW] Implemented printing of return confirmations for existing offers and confirmations
  • [NEW] List of unpaid invoices: Display outstanding amounts according to dunning level.
  • [NEW] Display of the 'created on' date of a deposit in the deposits list.
  • [NEW] Dunning run: Taking into account already completed deposit payments for invoices without a separate deposit invoice.
  • [NEW] Extension of the search function in the agent statistics enabling to filter bookings either according to check-in or check-out date.
  • [CHANGED] Create invoice window: Simplified display of missing deposit information.
  • [CHANGED] Adjusted the interface for the electronic registration form system "JetWeb Feratel v5"
  • [CHANGED] Activated the feature "E-mail with PDF attachment" in the archives for offers, confirmations, invoices and cancellation credit letters which have only been printed or immediately saved without printing.
  • [CHANGED] Improved the layout of the "create offer" and "create confirmation" window
  • [CHANGED] Archives + Guest management history: Modifications in the context menu
  • [FIXED] Occupation list: Corrected the calculation of vacant time frames
  • [FIXED] On very rare occasions creating a letter in the guest management was not possible
  • [FIXED] On very rare occasions changing the letter layout in preferences was not possible
  • [FIXED] On very rare occasions labels of imported only bookings were not properly displayed in the reservation schedule.
  • [FIXED] On some occasions connectivity issues occured when using a non-system-proxy.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.12.6 (Apr 2, 2014)

  • [NEW] Added review system "Customer Alliance".
  • [NEW] Added new analysis in "Financials".
  • [NEW] Online Bookings: Data about credit cards, wire transfer and debit can now be deleted in Lodgit Desk.
  • [NEW] Guest List: In addition to the booking number, the group number can now be displayed.
  • [CHANGED] Invoice Window: Improved handling and displaying of missing deposit payment information
  • [FIXED] Labels of imported online bookings were occasionally not properly displayed in the reservation schedule
  • [FIXED] The automatic update from within Lodgit Desk was sometimes not possible.
  • [FIXED] Updating license information was sometimes not possible.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.12.5 (Feb 26, 2014)

  • New channel manager interface added;
  • new electronic registration system added;
  • user-requested features added and minor bug fixes

New in Lodgit Desk 1.12.3 (Dec 4, 2013)

  • [NEW] Added new general registration form in German.
  • [NEW] Added additional module "Review Portals". Interface to review portal "ReviewExpress" by Tripadvisor implemented.
  • [NEW] Booking window: User can now bundle extras and packages into new packages as well as dissolve existing packages
  • [NEW] EPOS System "Standard (PROTEL)": Imported extras can now be bundled into a package.
  • [NEW] Extras Management: Added import function for CSV files.
  • [CHANGED] Channel Manager: When importing prices from the Price Management, default occupancy and price unit are now being ignored.
  • [CHANGED] Financials: When a rentable unit is moved into a new object, its revenue up until the time of the move is still listed with the old object (although it's highlighted) and its new revenue will be listed with the new object.
  • [FIXED] In very rare cases the prices from the Price Management weren't correctly imported into a new booking
  • [FIXED] When printing / exporting the financials there were incorrect list titles in some cases
  • [FIXED] EPOS Systems > PROTEL: In very rare cases, the allocation of tax rates wasn't always possible.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.12.2 (Sep 26, 2013)

  • [FIXED] Accounting Export: Deposit payment without split invoices resulted in an incorrect amount for the payment of the final invoice being listed in the accounting export.
  • [FIXED] Online Modules: During the synchronization with the channel manager, deleted objects will no longer be taken into account.
  • [FIXED] Database Server: In some rare cases the non-availability of the virtual server cubeSQL caused Lodgit Desk to quit unexpectedly.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.12.1 (Aug 26, 2013)

  • [FIXED] Error was fixed.
  • [CHANGED] An existing feature in the program was changed.
  • [NEW] A new feature in the program

New in Lodgit Desk 1.12 (Aug 8, 2013)

  • [NEW] Interface to the Electronic Registration System
  • [NEW] You can now also search the Financials by "paid on" date.
  • [NEW] Chart for analysis "by rentable unit" in the Financials added.
  • [NEW] You can now define the default occupancy for new bookings in a unit (default setting: minimum occupancy).
  • [NEW] When splitting a price time frame in the booking window you can now add a description.
  • [NEW] When creating a simple registration form you can now define up to which age the guests are considered "children".
  • [NEW] Visual warning in case of locked or malformed database was added.
  • [CHANGED] Offer window: The setting "open-ended" for the validity date will now be remembered and automatically selected during the next creation of an offer.
  • [CHANGED] Text Management: The amount descriptions (Total, Sub-Total) on invoices and invoice cancellations can now be defined separately, depending on whether or not a deposit is being included on the invoice.
  • [FIXED] In rare cases, the booking times were not listed in offer emails.
  • [FIXED] Object Management: In rare cases it was not possible to add a new rentable unit.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.11.4 (May 16, 2013)

  • [NEW] When creating an invoice, the user can now also enter a specific date for the due date.
  • [NEW] Channel Manager DIRS21: More booking data will now be imported.
  • [CHANGED] Text Management: The list of rentable units will now be organized divided by their objects.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.11.3 (Apr 11, 2013)

  • [NEW] Synchronization settings for Online-Systems: User can now setup time frames during which rentable units may not be booked online regardless of existing bookings in the system during that time.
  • [NEW] List of deposits for showing all deposits in the system (settled or not).
  • [NEW] New analysis option in the financials to show revenue by rentable unit.
  • [NEW] New default options and settings for deposits (terms for due dates, default amount in percent, calculation from all bookings within a group).
  • [NEW] Cleaning list: now shows the number of towels and linens needed in the daily cleaning list.
  • [NEW] Quick search module option for the "Online Booking System".
  • [NEW] Implemented new payment method "Cash Deposit" for deposits without deposit invoices. This replaces the payment method "Cash". Such deposits will not be listed in the cashbook.
  • [NEW] Resetting the window preferences now also resets the column widths in the lists.
  • [CHANGED] The modules "Online Booking System" and "Booking Calendar & Owner-Booking" merged into the module "Online-Systems".
  • [CHANGED] Accounting export: will now also list deposits if option "only show in final invoice" is selected.
  • [CHANGED] Better performance for databases with a large amount of data
  • [CHANGED] The Guest Management will now list all guests whose birthdays fall into the time frame selected in the Preferences > Birthday reminders area.
  • [FIXED] Windows for Offers / Confirmations / Invoices: In rare cases the drop down menü for print options wasn't displayed correctly.
  • [FIXED] Sorting of deposits in booking window
  • [FIXED] In rare cases there were random items added to an invoice whenever only a deposit was listed on it.
  • [FIXED] Lodging List > Charts: In rare cases there were discrepancies between the numbers in the chart and those in the list.
  • [FIXED] Financials: Deposits with deposit invoices were sometimes listed with an incorrect payment method
  • [FIXED] Extra items that are linked to the booking duration will now be adjusted accordingly whenever the booking's arrival or departure dates are changed.
  • [FIXED] The cash book can now be balanced again.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.11.1 (Apr 8, 2013)

  • [NEW] Synchronization settings for Online-Systems: User can now setup time frames during which rentable units may not be booked online regardless of existing bookings in the system during that time.
  • [NEW] List of deposits for showing all deposits in the system (settled or not).
  • [NEW] New analysis option in the financials to show revenue by rentable unit.
  • [NEW] New default options and settings for deposits (terms for due dates, default amount in percent, calculation from all bookings within a group).
  • [NEW] Cleaning list: now shows the number of towels and linens needed in the daily cleaning list.
  • [NEW] Quick search module option for the "Online Booking System".
  • [NEW] Implemented new payment method "Cash Deposit" for deposits without deposit invoices. This replaces the payment method "Cash". Such deposits will not be listed in the cashbook.
  • [CHANGED] The modules "Online Booking System" and "Booking Calendar & Owner-Booking" merged into the module "Online-Systems".
  • [CHANGED] Accounting export: will now also list deposits if option "only show in final invoice" is selected.
  • [CHANGED] Better performance for databases with a large amount of data
  • [FIXED] Windows for Offers / Confirmations / Invoices: In rare cases the drop down menü for print options wasn't displayed correctly.
  • [FIXED] Sorting of deposits in booking window
  • [FIXED] In rare cases there were random items added to an invoice whenever only a deposit was listed on it.
  • [FIXED] Lodging List > Charts: In rare cases there were discrepancies between the numbers in the chart and those in the list.
  • [FIXED] Financials: Deposits with deposit invoices were sometimes listed with an incorrect payment method

New in Lodgit Desk 1.10.9 (Feb 6, 2013)

  • [CHANGED] Graphical interface of the Text Management was optimized.
  • [CHANGED] In preparation for the integration of deposits without separate invoices into the financial export, it is no longer possible to select the payment method "Cash" for such deposits.
  • [FIXED] In very rare cases, the synchronization with the channel manager wasn't possible.
  • [FIXED] Graphical errors that existed when making the Guest Management window larger or smaller in Windows were fixed.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.10.8 (Feb 4, 2013)

  • [NEW] Interface for channel manager DIRS21. Allows sending availabilities, prices and minimum booking duration to the channel manager and importing bookings from online channels into Lodgit.
  • [CHANGED] Changes made to the price units "per month" and "per year". A year or month is now counted until the corresponding date of the following month or year (e.g. 15th to 15th or Jan 6th to Jan 6th).

New in Lodgit Desk 1.10.6 (Jan 23, 2013)

  • [NEW] Invoice window: Printing out the name of the contact person in a company guest file can now be suppressed.
  • [NEW] Invoice window: Can now select whether the general salutation is to be used for company guest files.
  • [NEW] Guest list: Added the option to print out phone number and/or email address separately from each other.
  • [NEW] Texts: Placeholders [FIRSTNAME] and [LASTNAME] can now be used.
  • [CHANGED] Channel Manager: Entering of pricing info was changed.
  • [CHANGED] Guest management: Initial search time frame of the guest history was changed to "All".
  • [CHANGED] When the invoice window is opened, the language selected automatically is that of the main booking.
  • [CHANGED] When creating correspondence, the country name in the address is now listed in English or German depending on the language preference set with the recipient.
  • [FIXED] In some cases, bookings that were moved into another unit using the booking window were not instantly shown in the reservation schedule.
  • [FIXED] Financials: Manually added cashbook entries were seen as invoices.
  • [FIXED] Booking window: Optimizations for Windows in the calendar element for adjusting the booking time frame.
  • [FIXED] During the synchronization, some unused rentable objects were sent.
  • [FIXED] Sidebar: Changes to the occupancy rate and availabilities are now loaded correctly again.
  • [FIXED] Deleting entries from the booking list is now possible again.
  • [FIXED] When creating confirmations, the placeholder [CURRENCY] was not always substituted.
  • [FIXED] When creating an offer, the booking(s) weren't always set correctly from the status "Tentative" to "Confirmed".

New in Lodgit Desk 1.10.3 (Dec 13, 2012)

  • [NEW] Channel Manager: Import of arriving guests listed in the online booking
  • [NEW] Channel Manager: Arriving guests are listed by their age (cultuzz) in the booking window under "Online Booking"
  • [NEW] Channel Manager: Imported bookings will receive the corresponding agent (cultuzz channel). If the agent (cultuzz channel) is not already in Lodgit Desk, it will be automatically added.
  • [FIXED] The problem of a phone number or email address being added multiple times to a guest profile when importing online bookings is now fixed.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.10.2 (Dec 6, 2012)

  • [FIXED] Channel Manager: Editing the base prices wasn't always possible.
  • [FIXED] Cashbook: The entries weren't sorted by date / time.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.10.1 (Dec 5, 2012)

  • [NEW] Interface for channel manager CultSwitch by Cultuzz. Allows sending availabilities, prices, minimum and maximum booking duration from Lodgit to the channel manager and importing booking from online channels into Lodgit.
  • [NEW] Lodgit Online Booking System: Minimum booking duration adjustable for each object separately; optional restrictions on arrival and departure weekdays.
  • [NEW] Agent commissions can now be calculated with "per unit/night".
  • [CHANGED] Lodgit Online Booking System: The preferences for the synchronization can now be found under "Administration > Synchronization and Channel Manager".
  • [CHANGED] Statistics for accommodation and/or extras revenue with the price units "per month", "per month/piece", "per month/person", "per year", "per year/piece", "per year/person" are now calculated nightly. Example: An entire month is now valid from the 1st until the 1st as opposed to the 1st until the last of that month.
  • [CHANGED] Reservation Schedule > Booking List: The column "Created On" now lists the time of day as well as the date.
  • [CHANGED] Expired License: Adding an existing booking to an existing group booking is now available.
  • [CHANGED] Height and width of the preferences window can now be adjusted.
  • [FIXED] Reservation schedule: The number of vacant units of a certain category (in the side bar) is now calculated based on the selected objects.
  • [FIXED] Windows: You can now print out multiple copies of the reservation schedule in one go.
  • [FIXED] Preferences > Letter Layout: Sometimes, the text field flickered when the texts for header or footer were being edited.
  • [FIXED] Sometimes, bookings in the status "Cancelled Online Booking" could not be deleted via the menu bar or context menu.
  • [FIXED] Sometimes, the main contact wasn't added to the guest list of an online booking automatically.
  • [FIXED] Accounting Export: Split invoices for deposits were not correctly marked as "exported" after they were exported.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.9.16 (Aug 29, 2012)

  • [FIXED] Great performance improvements for the display of a large number of bookings.
  • [FIXED] Reservation schedule: When searching for vacant units, the time frame was highlighted with another day attached.
  • [FIXED] Fixed display error in the payment window for archives.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.9.15 (Aug 28, 2012)

  • [NEW] Booking window: It is now possible to split and merge price time frames of any booking.
  • [FIXED] Performance improvements
  • [FIXED] Reservation schedule: When searching for vacant units, the time frame was highlighted with another day attached.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.9.14 (Aug 16, 2012)

  • [BUGFIX] Fixed a display error in the charts.
  • [BUGFIX] Added proxy support for SOAP(wsdl).
  • [BUGFIX] Object Management: added check for minimum and maximum number of beds.
  • [BUGFIX] When moving a booking in the reservation schedule, the time frames weren't always adjusted correctly.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.9.13 (Jul 17, 2012)

  • [NEW] Reservation schedule: A room can now also be set to the status "currently being cleaned".
  • [FIXED] Error in 1.9.9: When creating a cashbook balance, the carryover was saved incorrectly. Unfortunately, correcting this must be done manually. Please undo all cash balances you've made since the last update within the cashbook archives.
  • [FIXED] On rare occasions, a negative value was shown in the analysis for performance indicators and occupancy.

New in Lodgit Desk 1.9.9 (Jun 21, 2012)

  • new list Number of Guests;
  • inclusion of flat fee packages;
  • reset invoice status to "open";
  • can now color tag bookings e.g. to display VIP guests

New in Lodgit Desk 1.9.8 (May 24, 2012)

  • integration of sql database server, accounting export, 4-level dunning system

New in Lodgit Desk 1.9.1 (Apr 2, 2012)

  • integration of sql database server,
  • accounting export,
  • 4-level dunning system

New in Lodgit Desk 1.8.7 (Oct 12, 2011)

  • extended cleaning list with new cleaning status "towel change";
  • extras packages can now be sorted into categories for easier access;
  • detailed agent statistics listing every booking for each agent; sorting options for units on offers and confirmations for group reservations

New in Lodgit Desk 1.8.5 (Aug 19, 2011)

  • several lists can now be exported as Excel spreadsheets

New in Lodgit Desk 1.8.4 (Jul 27, 2011)

  • guest list and charts integrated

New in Lodgit Desk 1.8.2 (Jun 28, 2011)

  • English localization integrated