Archive for November, 2010

Drag and Drop Guest Editing!

Interested in being able to drag and drop guest reservations from one time slot to another?

Dragging and dropping is the action of selecting one guest, and moving them to a different location, within Zaui.

Well have just completed some major changes to the “interval activities” time slot scheduling screen allowing you to drag and drop guests within an activity, changing their activity times.

For those of you either not using “interval activities” or looking for more information on what this activity is best suited for, then have a read of this article.

Historically, you would have been required to load the reservation, and subsequently switch your guests from one time slot to the next, then commit your changes.  Easy, simple, and quick — but we just made it even easier and faster!

There is a new icon ( ) on the time slot scheduling screen.  This icon, allows you to drag a reservation from one time slot to another within the same activity, on the same day.

With this change, all that can be done by simply dragging and dropping your guest from one time slot to the next.  Zaui also will attach a history note, recording who made the change, when and what the original and new times are.

Pretty cool, huh?

This feature will be rolled out to your system over the coming weeks.

–Your Zaui Team

Moving guests made simple!

If your using the activity type in Zaui called “interval activities“, then your very familiar with what we call the “interval schedule screen“.

If your not using interval activities, or are not familiar with them, we suggest having a read in the help system on how these specific types of activities are used.  Quickly, however, a interval activity is one that runs throughout your day at defined times, with a defined inventory.  Examples are Ziplines, Bungy or even some airport shuttles – where your activity might start a 9 am and run until 5 pm, every 45 mins with an inventory of 10 spots.

The time slot screen, is the enter day schedule for a single interval activity.  It allows your guest service staff, or reservations staff to have a overview of the entire day for a single activity (different then the manifest, since you can pull manifests for each time slot).

At any rate, were making editing of guests in time slots on this screen and moving them from time to time much simpiler and easy.

Soon you will be able to “drag and drop” existing guests from one time slot to another.

Stay in touch here for when this feature will be made available in your Zaui system.

–Your Zaui Team

Activity / Schedule route manifests

We have had a number of requests to indicate on the desktop manifest which bookings originated off the internet, and which were from a walk-in, call center (back office) booking.  Typically in the system we indicate this using a standard green dot to indicate those bookings from the internet.  This has now been added to the desktop manifest.  Its intent is for informational purposes only, and has no operational significance.

Your Zaui Team

New gift certificate – expired report

We have just added a new report which shows you all expired gift certificates that you have in your system.  The report is available from the typical report menu, under the section of Gift Certificates.  This report is a great way to stay on top of those certificates that are already expired, or those coming up for expiration.

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