Yesterday we released a new feature – Automatic login URL – that will save a lot of time for all users who access VELUMrent regularly (visit VELUMrent’s change log to se what else is new).

The idea behind it was to have a single link (web address) that will automatically log you into VELUMrent so you can immediately start using it and manage reservations.

How to activate and start using automatic login link?

To use this link you’ll have to:

1. Copy the following link to your web browser: http://www.velumrent.com/Login.aspx?username=YOUR_USERNAME&password=YOUR_PASSWORD

2. Replace the part of this link saying YOUR_USERNAME with the username of your VELUMrent account, and the part saying YOUR_PASSWORD with the password for that account.

3. Save this link to your bookmarks so you won’t have to modify it every time and so it isn’t more than a click away.

From now on you’ll only have to click this bookmark to immediately get logged into VELUMrent and stop wasting time on manual logging.

Automatic entering of username

If you don’t want to get automatically logged into VELUMrent you can still use the old URL that will take you the the Login page, or start using a modified automatic logging URL that will just fill the username field for you and leave the password field empty.

To fill just the username field use this URL:

http://www.velumrent.com/Login.aspx?username=YOUR_USERNAME

Security

Logging to VELUMrent using automatic login URL is no less safe than logging using the standard Log in page. The only thing all VELUMrent users should make sure is that nobody gets unauthorized access to their computer bookmarks and through them to you VELUMrent account information.

We hope that this new feature will help you evan more to speed up and make you daily work in VELUMrent easier and more enjoyable.

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.

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VELUMrent, our booking solution for small and medium businesses, had couple of upgrades in the last few months. Most of those upgrades were minor upgrades like bug fixes reported by active VELUMrent users. To see what exactly has been fixed and added check VELUMrent’s change log here.

Currently we are putting all feature suggestions that we received from our customers but didn’t not have time to implement before on top of our pending features list. And in the next two weeks we’ll filter, combine and sort them all down until we create a list of features that will be available  in next upgrade. And as you can see this upgrade is going to be a major VELUMrent upgrade.

So if you have some feature suggestions and requests or some other issues with VELUMrent please let us know so we can consider and add them to the list as well so they are available in this major upgrade.

We won’t roll out all of the new features at once. Most likely they will be introduced to you over several separate system upgrades.

Second announcement we wanted to make today is that we are revitalizing this blog. Next to posts about VELUMrent news and updates we will also start writing periodical posts on how to use booking software, grow you business with it while saving money and time and much more.

We are going to cover a lot of VELUMrent’s features with these blog posts so if you are not sure if and how you should use some of those features this is going to be a great way to see how you can apply them to your business. Next to current feature we will also discuss some future futures that are coming and some features which are not coming and why.

Any comments, suggestions and criticism is always welcomed through comments below or by e-mail.

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.

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.