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Custom Reservation Statuses, Jump-to-Month and Other New Features

Darko Kontin — Mon, 31 May 2010 09:00:11 +0000

Yesterday we upgraded VELUMrent to a new version. Here is a rundown of a few new features that came with this version…

Custom reservation statuses

VELUMrent now supports up any number of custom reservation statuses. Every status has a changeable name, color and type. By default you’ll only see two statuses. You can edit them or add additional statuses in the Settings menu.

Note that you can now choose the type of every status. This option enables you to choose if it’s possible to freely move reservations around the reservations calendar or if you’ll need to confirm such changes. This option is a safety mechanism for confirmed and approved reservations so they are not moved by mistake.

Restore last session

There were quite a few feature requests for specifying what is the first thing VELUMrent shows after users log in. Some users wanted an option for choosing a default time filter while others requested a default date to be opened.

However, as many users use the same login credentials but want to see different parts of VELUMrent on log in, adding a single setting for the whole account was not the right solution. So to make this possible we implemented browser cookies into VELUMrent. Using cookies VELUMrent can remember you last used settings and then restore them when you log back in.

The great thing about cookies is that they are unique for every browser. This way every member of your staff will have their own settings saved for the computers/browsers they use without interfering with other user settings on other devices.

Jump-to-Month feature

This feature further extends the functionality of two sidebar navigation calendars. By clicking the month or year number in the calendar header you’ll activate a drop-down menu from where you can choose a specific month and year to jump to.

This feature reduces the number of required clicks, and therefor required time, which takes to jump to a distant month or year on reservations calendar.

Visit VELUMrent’s change log to see other made changes.

Say Hello To New Free VELUMrent Plan

Darko Kontin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:14:11 +0000

Today we upgraded VELUMrent to a new version and the biggest news is the implementation of a completely free account (so no more 30 days trials and unavailable accounts if you downgrade your plan).

The Free VELUMrent plan has all the features as the paying plans and the only limitation it has is the number of properties it can show. This number is limited to three.

We also added some new features, some we already planned to include and other were Yours feature suggestions. To check them out please view our change log here.

This way we’d like to thank everyone for they feedback and encourage you evan more to let us know what you think and need so we can improve our product and help your businesses through VELUMrent.

Best regards.

New VELUMrent upgrade

Darko Kontin — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:36:02 +0000

We had quite a few busy weeks this and past month developing new features for VELUMrent and preparing the site for redesign.

The site redesign should be done in one or two weeks. To be notified in time about those changes please follow us on Twitter (this is the fastest way to receive news about things that are happening with Constructive Code and VELUMrent).

So what’s new in VELUMrent version 1.1.0?

All together there are more than 10 new features and more than 11 bug fixes available in this release.

New added features will make working with new and existing reservations much faster and simpler. Now by clicking the date on every reservation will open this reservation for editing.

By clicking the empty space on the reservation grid you’ll automatically open a new reservation dialog with the dates and the unit predefined to the clicked space.
While editing or creating a new reservation we’ve also included a quick search field for customers so you can easily and quickly find the customer you’ve been looking for.

We’ve also added couple of new settings in the Settings menu so now you can choose between 10 new colors for confirmed and unconfirmed reservations or change the date format to suit your needs.

Public View has also been changed so it looks exactly the same as the the reservation grid you are using. Evan the fast switching languages are available there for customers to choose from.

To see which other features and bug fixes were included in this upgrade check our VELUMrent change log at http://www.constructivecode.com/velumrent-change-log/.

You can use this page to see all past and future changes to the application as we make them.

By now all VELUMrent user accounts should have been upgraded to this release. This and all feature upgrades are free.

Let us know how do you like the new features and what other features would you like to see in the future releases.

We’re looking forward hearing from you.

VELUMrent 1.0. is released

Darko Kontin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:12:53 +0000

Before I start allow me to clarify what is VELUMrent.

VELUMrent is web based rental application. If you own a small or mid-sized business that rents houses, apartments, boats, cars, …, VELUMrent might be just the thing you are looking for. As VELUMrent was in public beta until yesterday it couldn’t be used for any regular business, but now when the official 1.0. release is out it is ready for everyone who is in a need or interested in such solution to try it out and use.

All features that we intended implementing in this first release are here. To see which features VELUMrent offers visit the Features page. Even better way of experiencing those features is to try them by registering for VELUMrent’s free 30 day trial. To register for this trial simple follow this link to VELUMrent’s login screen, click Register and fill out the required information. The whole process should not take more than 60 seconds.

If you are interested in VELUMren’s pricing check out the Pricing and Sign up page for more details. You’ll see that our subscription plans won’t be hard on your budget. We even included some special discounts on longer lasting subscription plans to award your trust.

We also have our first official customer that will transfer their business completely to VELUMrent by the end of this week. Hopefully you’ll be hearing more about this in one of our future blog posts.

What is next on our schedule? Well, we intend to concentrate more resources on marketing to get the whole thing going and to get some momentum. So if you are interested in posting some VELUMrent banners on your site or writing some reviews about it please let us know :). We are also continuing with development of VELUMrent and improving it even more. We have many new features we are looking forward implementing and if you have your own suggestions or requests please let us know and we will consider every one of your requests. Off course all paying accounts will receive those features for free in future VELUMrent upgrades.

That would be all for now. Don’t forget to follow our updates on Twitter or to contact us about any questions you might have.