Version 3.1.2101 Released 18/08/2008
  
Enhancements• Allow a facility to be excluded from the insurance charge by adding a "Charge insurance (where applicable)" checkbox to the Facility form. This option is only available when an Insurance percentage has been entered using Pricing Defaults.
 • A new Allocate Payments On Accounts task has been added to the Accounts page make it easier to allocate deposits and other payments on account to invoices. This task is automatically called when using Generate Invoices  if there are any deposits, overpayments etc need allocating.
 • When saving a new invoice using Issue Invoice, if the Hirer has a payment on account the option is given to allocate it to any outstanding invoices.
 • Each Hirer's account balance is shown on the Hirer page.
 • Allow 50mins as an additional interval when checking availability.
 • Increase the length of invoice line description to 500 characters to allow for comments on individual bookings.
 • Restrict the length of the comments item on individual bookings to a maximum of 250 characters.
 • Optimise the display of the facility list on the Calendar, Facilities and Check Availability pages to reduce the number of requests made to SQL Server. (This will only really be noticeable when there are a lot of facilities and/or the network is slow.)
  
Fixes• Overcome the reduction in performance of the Check Availability form as a result of introducing support for concurrent bookings in the previous release.
 • When using a 100% discount using the Changes Prices task on the Booking form some prices (e.g. 40.01) can result in a very very small price which should be zero.
 • Entering prices prefixed with a £ sign (or any other Shift+number or Alt+Number or Alt GR+Number) results in an error when using the Changes Prices task on the Booking form.
 • Adding a new Price Band called "No Charge" results in a duplicate price band which, after saving, results in error messages. Manage Price Bands now prevents the creation of price bands with the same name as an existing one and shows the "No Charge" price band to make it clear that it already exists.
 • The Email Support menu option doesn't work if the backup folder is not accessible from the pc.
  
Version 3.0.2100 Released 21/04/2008
  
Enhancements• A new day view has been added to the Calendar page to supplement the list view of bookings. This new view is similar to that used in Microsoft Outlook and makes it easier to see availability between bookings.
 • The "Change Prices" task on the Booking form has been changed so that the price group can now be changed on individual bookings.
 • The Facility form has been changed to allow more than one booking at the same time. This is particular useful when you want to keep track of bookings for facilities such as pcs in a IT Suite when it isn't important which pc is being booked.
 • The default template for the Booking Confirmation has been changed to show nett, vat and gross for each date booked. To use the new template you will need to reset your template to the default one and reapply any changes you have made.
 • A "Details" tab has been added to the Hirer form which allows you to enter the Hirer's web address and a default booking description.
 • The Booking Date form displayed when you use the "View Date task" now allows a comment to be added to individual bookings. This is then appended to the facility name on the calendar, booking form, booking confirmation letter and invoice. It can be used to clarify the details of a booking (for example for a catering booking it could say "Buffet for 25" and would appear as "Catering: Buffet for 25")
 • When using the "Cancel Booking" task on the Calendar page a comment can now be entered. This can be used to enter a reason why the booking was cancelled.
 • Bookings which have been invoiced are highlighted with an invoiced icon on the Booking Calendar page.
 • The reference can be printed on statements by including the merge field "Reference" on each line on the statement template.
 • Price bands are now maintained using the Manage Price Bands task on the Price List.
 • Support for displayed configured for 120dpi has been improved
  
Fixes• Selecting the "All Hirers" option on "Start Mail Merge" now includes any Hirers who haven't made any bookings.
 • Clearing the "Enable Sat/Sun/Hol Pricing" check box on the "Change Price Group" form now clears Sat/Sun/Hol prices without having to repeat the task
 • If a grandfather facility is booked it now shows on the Calendar page when you select the grandchild facility using the facility selector
 • Start Mail Merge no longer outputs a "Word cannot open datasource" error when no hirers are selected. This has been replaced with a message saying "No Hirers selected"
  
Version 2.1.2091 Released 19/11/2007
  
Enhancements• Include DateBooked on the Booking List report
  
Fixes• When restoring ignore time zone on date/time fields to overcome problems arising from backing up in one time zone and restoring in another
 • "Change Price Group" task on Price List errors if no price group is selected
 • Selecting times on "Check Availability" does update the availability if you enter times as follows: type "18" and then use the drop down list to select "18:00"
 • When adding a regular booking using "Check Availability", changing the interval resets the End date of the recurrence
 • When using the "Send to Excel" task on the "Booking Analysis by Facility" report the column type of Income appears as text and not decimal.
 • When using the "Send to Excel" task on the "Booking List" report the column type of Net Price appears as text and not decimal.
  
Version 2.1.2090 Released 18/09/2007
Enhancements• A new "Facility Selector" on the Calendar page allows you to restrict the list of bookings to a specific facility or group of facilities.
 • When adding a booking and changing prices using the Booking form you now have the option of changing the price band and/or discount level the Hirer should be charged without entering a special price.
 • Letters can be sent to all hirers or a group of hirers using the "Start Mail Merge" task on the Hirer page.
 • The time of several bookings can be changed at the same time using a new "Change Time" task on the Booking form.
 Prices can now be entered with up to 6 decimal places to allow more accurate calculation of VAT and gross prices
 Printing insurance reminder letters now give you the option of printing the letters only for Hirers with bookings after a specified date.
 • When you cancel a booking on the Calendar page you how have the option of deleting it completely as well as marking it as cancelled.
 • When printing invoices you now have the option of them summarised by facility. The default style of invoice (detailed or summary) can be set using the Options Wizard. NB. This only applies to invoices produced using "Generate Invoices" after this upgrade was installed.
 • Hirers, who are individuals rather than groups, can now be set up without a title, first name and last name on the Hirer form. This will stop the name appearing twice in letters and invoices
 • The maximum length of a Hirer's name on the Hirer form has increased from 50 characters to 100.
 • Contact phones numbers have been added to the Booking Calendar report.
 • Some additional fields can now be included on the templates used for printing booking confirmations, invoices etc. (e.g. hirer name or address can be shown at the end of the booking confirmation to facilitate customised terms and conditions, hirer name can be printed at the end of an invoice to facilitate a "tear-off" remittance advice).
 • When using the "Edit Date" task on the Booking form to change the duration of a booking with a special price, the nett price is recalculated on a pro-rata basis (e.g. if a special price booking of 1 hour is increased to 2 hours the price is doubled). NB: Prices calculated from the Price List are already handled in this way and this change just brings the handling of "special price" bookings into line.
 • The Receipts and Refunds report now supports selection on the date paid/received and includes a grand total on the amount paid. This allows the report to be used to reconcile the amount to be banked for a specified period.
 • The performance of the Accounts page when listing outstanding items has been improved considerably.
 • A progress bar has been added to the Booking form to improve feedback on bookings which have a lot of facilities and/or dates.
 • The performance of the "Remove Date" task has been improved on the Booking form when it has a lot of facilities and/or dates.
 • Outstanding credit notes are no longer highlighted as being overdue on the Accounts page.
 • You can now restore a database backup produced using a previous version.
 • The "Check for Updates" menu option has been changed to overcome problems with firewall security.
 • Installation CDs have been updated to include Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Service Pack 2.
  
Fixes• Monthly Booking Calendar doesn't print correctly (shows "Sun" as "1") when the 1st of the month falls on a Sunday.
 • Options form errors when setting a new default vat rate after deleting the current default.
 • VAT rates screen of the Options Wizard should read "Press "Finish" to save your changes" rather than "Press Next for Holiday Dates"
 • Change justification of day number on Monthly Booking Calendar so that it always prints on the left rather than right on ones without bookings and left with bookings (nb. Need to reset the template to the default for this to become effective)
 • When no holiday price has been entered on the price list a booking entered for a holiday which falls on a saturday or sunday should pick up the "Saturday" or "Sunday" price (if entered) rather than the "All other days" price. (The "All other days" price should be used only if no "Saturday" or "Sunday" price has been entered on the price list.)
 • When adding a new User a red stop sign should not be shown against the read permission for the Facilities page.
 • Extra validation check introduced when setting user permissions to ensure that all users have read access to the calendar to prevent error at logon.
 • When deleting a line on an invoice or credit note the invoice totals should be updated straightaway rather than on the next mouse-click.
 • Restore Backup shouldn't fail if the backup folder contains files which don't conform to the normal naming convention (e.g. booking.bak)
 • Options Wizard shouldn't error when clicking "Finish" if fields such as ("start invoice no", "first few hours") are left blank (use a default value instead)
 • The error "There is no row at position 0" is reported when printing a confirmation for a new booking and adding the booking to an existing booking form.
 • When the price list is configured for a single price (i.e. no subs hour price) if you zeroise a price (e.g. for a holiday price) it doesn't remove it from the database table when saved (though it does do it on subsequent saves).
 • If SQL Server or the User's login (if using windows authentication) is configured for a language other than english (e.g. british english) errors can occur converting dates.
 • Price Group form should read "Enable Saturday/Sunday/Holiday Pricing" rather than "Enable Saturday/Sunday/Weekend Pricing"
 • Booking Form should include VAT on insurance premium in gross total shown on the screen.
 • If you have a word document open when you email a booking confirmation it can attach the wrong document
  
  
Version 2.0.2081 Released 26/04/2007
Enhancements• Overcome problems with mail merges introduced by Windows Vista "Virtualisation" whereby updates to files stored in the "program files" folder can be saved in a compatibility folder. Whilst this does not cause a problem in most cases it appears that Microsoft Office products don't look in the compatibility folder when automated by another program such as Booking Pro. This issue with Windows Vista has been overcome in this release.
 • Check Availability form changed to allow the interval displayed to be changed from the default of 30 minutes (e.g. for 40min squash court bookings)
 • Bookings notes can be included on the Booking Confirmation template.
  
Fixes• Insurance total not calculated correctly on multi-page booking confirmation letters.
 • When saving some new users (e.g. KIRSTY or WILLIAM) an "Incorrect syntax near '0'. Unclosed quotation mark before the character string" occurs because of a "'" in the encrypted user name.
 • Receipts show as zero on Accounts List report
  
Version 2.0.2080 Released 11/12/2006
  
Enhancements• Booking Calendar report improved to allow printing of weekly and monthly booking calendars using Microsoft Excel and to selection of the facilities to be included
 Check Availability changed to make it easier to enter times which aren't in the drop-down (e.g. 11:15)
 • "Look for" on the Accounts page changed to allow selection of preset views of items including "Outstanding Items", "Last 7 days", "Last 30 days".
 • "Print Receipts" task added to Accounts page
 • Show number of items listed on Calendar, Hirers, Facilities and Accounts pages
 • Show provisional and standby bookings on the Booking Calendar report
 • Remember the dates and times last used on the Check Availability form when clicking on "Add facilities" on a new Booking Form.
 • Add a column for contact type to the Hirer List report
 • Show VAT rate on list of bookings when generating invoices
 • Allow due date to be printed on an invoice.
 • Allow the number of lines on an invoice to be changed.
 Invoicing Defaults in the Options Wizard changed to introduce the option of preventing the deletion of invoices, credit notes, payments and receipts.
 • When the Price List is saved you now have the option of leaving the prices of un-invoiced bookings unchanged
 • Change Print Confirmation task on Booking form to allow booking confirmation to be emailed using the email address on the Hirer form.
 • The "Email Support" option on Help menu gives the option to attach a backup file. If message can't be sent using Microsoft Outlook a new dialog is displayed containing the details of the message to be sent (inc. path to backup file).
 Holiday dates now appear on the calendar page and added using the new "Add Holiday Date" task.
 Facilities and Hirers can now have more than one note and each note can have a reminder set.
  
Fixes• When adding a booking which finishes at midnight entering a time of "00:00" is not handled correctly. Bookings ending at "00:00" are now automatically changed to end at "23:59".
 • When viewing the Accounts List report in Print Preview the date of each line shows as the current date. This has been corrected and the column name changed from "Date" to "TransactionDate"
 • Statements may not print correctly when two Hirers have the same name
 • Check Availability does not allow you to change the start date of a regular booking to today's date if the Calendar page has a different date selected
 • The "Change Prices" task on the Booking form always sets the price to special even when the price hasn't been changed. This can cause confusion because special priced bookings are not updated when changing the discount level for a Hirer.
 • Clicking on "Booking Notes" column heading on the Calendar can occasionally report an error.
 • When using "Generate Invoices" the VAT code isn't always set correctly on the invoice record although the VAT amount is always shown correctly. This problem only affects invoices forms and reports and doesn't affected printed invoices.
 Restoring a backup taken with a previous version of Booking Pro can cause problems because of differences in the database design. As such you can now only restore a backup from a previous version with the assistance of BPR Solutions.
 • Hirers with names beginning with "Y" or "Z" now appear before the "Grand Totals" on the "Invoice Analysis By Month" report
  
Version 1.2.2060 Released 14/03/2006
 
Enhancements• Add special price column to Booking List report
 • New "Save Report" task on Reports page to all report to be saved in one of the following formats: Adobe Acrobat, Web Page or Rich Text
 • Improvements to the formatting of reports
 • When saving a Booking form for a Hirer who already has bookings, the list of booking forms can now be sorted by clicking on column headings
 Prices page on Options form changed to allow a different VAT rate to be specified for insurance premiums
 • New VAT rate of 5% introduced on VAT page of Options form for Insurance Premium Tax (IPT)
 Price List changed to introduce a Prices form to make entering and changing prices easier
 Facility form changed to remove option for individual pricing. Individual prices are automatically converted to price groups on the price list.
 • Add duration and status columns to Booking List report
 • Four new reports - "Booking Analysis By Facility", "Booking Analysis By Hirer", "Receipts and Refunds" and "Invoice Analysis By Month"
 • Show booking notes on Calendar page
 • Make items on Price List form appear in Price Group sequence
 • Add Reference to list of columns on Accounts page
 Generate Invoices changed to set Invoice Reference to a list of Booking References covered by the invoice
 • Saving a credit note automatically prompts you to enter a receipt to allocate the credit against a corresponding invoice.
 • "Issue Credit Note" task added to Invoice form to create a credit using the details from the invoice
 • Options of 6 and 7 years added to Database Maintenance
 • Option added to Facility form to disable the double check
 • "Stop Double Booking" column added to Facility List report
 Users form in Security changed to support access to database from third-party products (e.g. Excel). This feature is designed to work with the "bprsolutions" instance of the database service and may not work if you are using a different instance.
 • Performance of Check Availability form improved when there are many sub-facilities.
 • Add "Age" (in days) to Unpaid Invoices report
 • Add "Price Band" and "Discount" to Hirer List report
  
Fixes• If backup path is no longer valid restore fails with an error message
 • The list of facilities on the Booking Date form should not include facility groups
 • Adding a facility group immediately after deleting a facility reports an error
 • "Priced By" column for Price Groups doesn't show correctly on Price List report
 • Accounts page way show some outstanding invoices as "Paid". This is purely a cosmetic issue.
 • Print Preview doesn't display correctly on some printers. This has necessitated the removal of some print preview functionality (e.g. find text)
  
Version 1.2.2040 Released 08/11/2005
 
Enhancements• New Advanced Find form and links from Hirer and Facility forms
 Prices page on Options wizard changed to allow different price for the first n hours rather than just the first 1 hour.
 • Add special price column to Booking List report
 • New "Save Report" task on Reports page to all report to be saved in one of the following formats: Adobe Acrobat, Web Page or Rich Text
 • Improvements to the formatting of reports
  
Fixes• View Facility and View Hirer on Calendar page report an error if a booking isn't selected
 • Cancelled bookings shouldn't be included in the totals on the Booking Form
  
Version 1.2.2020 Released 1/11/2005
  
EnhancementsSecurity improved to allow permissions to be specified for individual users.
 • Allow facilities to be divided up and hired out in part or as a whole
 • Add a remarks column to the Booking form to show whether or not an entry has already been invoiced
 • Extend change prices on the Booking form to allow changes to be applied to selected dates in addition to all dates
 • New Aged Debtors report
 • Booking Calendar report changed to show the name of the primary contact under the name of the Hirer
 • Top and bottom margins on Booking Calendar decreased to allow more bookings to be listed on each page
 • Clicking on column headers in the Calendar, Hirers and Accounts sorts by that column
 • Amount paid column added to Invoice Totals report
 • Invoices are not marked as overdue if the settlement days invoicing default is set to zero.
 Database Maintenance option added to Tools Database menu
 Restore Database moved from File menu to Tools Database menu
 • File Open menu changed to allow file templates to be reset to their default layout
 • Allow invoiced bookings on a Booking form to be deleted after displaying a warning message
 • Length of address on Hirer form increased from 100 to 200 characters
 • Improvements to permission checking at start up to ensure that User has correct .NET trust and file access permissions
 • Improvements to error messages displayed when user doesn't have correct file permissions to backup directory
 • History of changes added to Help menu and Check for Updates form
 • When exporting to Excel format dates without a time as dd/mm/yyyy rather than dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss
 • Add description column to Booking List and Future Provisional Bookings reports
 • Add price band, discount and insurance details to list of Hirers.
 • On list of Hirers highlight in red any Hirers whose insurance has expired.
 • When adding a regular booking the interval between dates now includes 5, 6,7 or 8 weeks
 • Improve validation of database server name on Database Settings form by replacing any "/" with "\"
 • Add mobile number to Hirer List Report
  
Fixes• Display help correctly on Options form.
 • Report column widths sometimes calculated incorrectly
 • Reference numbers of receipts, refunds and bookings changed after restoring a backup
 • Cannot delete invoices after restoring a backup because table constraints not reset correctly
 • When exporting reports to Excel times do not show correctly in 24 hour format
 • Very long hirer names should be truncated on Booking Calendar rather than wrap on to next line and overwrite contact name
 • Unable to save Stand-by booking which clashes with another booking
 • Facility List report doesn't show facilities which aren't part of a group
 • Print Reminders show invoice twice if Hirer has both a primary contact and an invoice contact
 • New receipt aren't saved correctly if you use the Print Receipt option before saving
 • Statements won't print for Hirers with an apostrophe in the name
  
Version 1.2.2011 Released 14/6/2005
  
Enhancements• None
  
Fixes• Statement template not shipped with installation media
  
Version 1.2.2010 Released 6/4/2005
  
Enhancements• Improve the formatting when sending a report to Excel by using Format->Cells and setting the vertical alignment to Top and using Format->Rows->Autofit
 • Remember column widths on calendar, hirers and accounts, booking form and price list
 • Allow facility groups within groups to support multiple sites
 • Improve error handling when database/network goes offline (in load and closing events)
 • Only show backups relating to current database when restoring.
  
Fixes• Calendar dates too wide when running 800x600 with a date range selected. Use a smaller font size when displaying date range.
 • Discounts with decimal points are rounded to nearest whole percentage on Booking Dates. N.B. Each Hirer must be saved to implement the correct the discount on any booking dates
 • General Network Error when accessing data after being signed on for a few hours.
  
Version 1.2.2009 Released 9/3/2005
  
Enhancements• Make address box on Invoice form longer
 • Add contact mobile number to Hirer form
 • When a Hirer's discount is changed update any uninvoiced bookings which don't have a special price.
 • Change Hirer form to allow entry of a separate invoice address and if present include on invoices (inc. generate invoices), credit notes
  
Fixes• Incorrect positioning of Setup Checklist when toolbar is at top of screen.
 • Hirer form and Facility form prompt to save on cancel even when no changes have been made.
 • Print county before postcode
  
Version 1.2.2006 Released 21/3/2005
  
Enhancements• Allow times to be entered as hh.mm as well as hh:mm
 • Allow first invoice number to be specified on Options form
 • Print contact name as first line of address on booking confirmations, receipts and insurance reminders
 • Allow up to 3 decimal places to be entered in the discount field on the Hirer form
 • Show facilities with no pricing on the Price List form
  
Fixes• None
  
Version 1.2.2005 Released 18/2/2005
  
Enhancements• Improvements to error handling
  
Fixes• Incorrect the message displayed when printing statements (referred to invoices)
  
Version 1.2.2004 Released 17/2/2005
  
EnhancementsPrinting of statements from Accounts
  
Fixes• None
  
Version 1.2.2003 Released 15/2/2005
  
Enhancements• New Check Availability form used when adding a booking
 • New Setup Checklist to help new users implement the system
 • New Price List form
 • Improve error handling to report .NET Framework low trust errors.
  
Fixes• Next button shouldn't be disabled when downloading updates
 • Incorrect message displayed when there are no insurance reminders to print.
 • Future Provisional Booking report should only print future bookings
  
Version 1.2.2001 Released 24/1/2005
  
Enhancements• Change Prices task added to Booking form
  
Fixes• None
  
Version 1.2.2000 Released 12/1/2005
  
Enhancements• Change Facility task added to Booking form to allow existing bookings to be moved to a different facility
 • Allow multi-select on the Booking form to allow multiple bookings to be changed, cancelled and deleted
 • Allow notes to be recorded on the Booking form and printed on the Booking Calendar report.
 • Introduce support for insurance (both third-party and charged) including printing of insurance renewal reminder letters
 • New backup and restore options on the File menu
 • Support for print invoice reminder letters in accounts
 • New warning on the Booking form when adding a booking which falls on a holiday date specified on the Options form
 • Include name and address on a receipt
 • Show cancelled bookings on the Booking Calendar report
 • When adding a new booking default the booking date to that selected in the calendar
 • New Reports form plus range of additional reports
 • Allow reports to be sent by email as an attachment
 • Allow updates to be downloaded from the BPR Solutions website using the Check for Updates option on the Help menu.
 • Support for VAT exemption on bookings of 10 or more sessions
  
Fixes• Spacing between fields on reports not allows correct
  

 


Last Updated: 28/11/2006