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September 2008 Blog Posts (4)

16th Sept - New release - tax inclusive and some more cost tokens

Tonights release includes

Tax inclusive setting

Previously you would load your prices ex. tax - and configure the sales tax values. TourCMS, within a booking, would then calculate and add the appropriate tax at point of booking.

However, this was causing rounding problems for countries where sales tax is heavily used as people mainly create their sale price (tax inclusive) then worry about non-nice numbers for their internal accounts. TourCMS now supports… Continue

Added by TourCMS team on September 15, 2008 at 11:30pm — No Comments

13th Sept - New release - Commas in currencies and new customer API

We have improved how financial figures can be entered into TourCMS - and displayed.

We now support the following 4 formats (showing the number one thousand)

1000.00 (Default)

1000,00

1,000.00

1 000,00

You can change this on a website by website basis (for the online booking engine and booking documentation tokens) - as well as within the account settings - for how data is displayed inside TourCMS.

Finally, we have released a new… Continue

Added by TourCMS team on September 13, 2008 at 11:30am — No Comments

5th September - New release - Agent and customer login (to online booking)

Couple of changes to the online booking engine

Firstly you can now request that either an agent or an existing customer can (or must) login at the start of the online booking process. If you make it mandatory the availability screen will not show until they are logged in.

If you want both agent and customer login then you are going to have to create two booking engines (on your same account) - go to Configuration & Setup - websites - and add a second… Continue

Added by TourCMS team on September 5, 2008 at 6:30pm — 6 Comments

3rd Sept - New release - New support for Google Chrome

Some minor changes gone live today

Change in how RTF documents open

We have tweaked TourCMS to take advantage of the new Google Chrome web browser that has been designed for web based applications (like TourCMS). As a result we have tweaked how RTF documents open in your web browser. Now they download straight to your desktop (if you are using Google Chrome or Firefox).

The existing functionality (open in a new browser window) is still available - but from… Continue

Added by TourCMS team on September 3, 2008 at 10:00pm — 3 Comments