Alex Reservations: Smart Restaurant Booking

2.3.5

• Fixed issue with SMS reminders

2.3.4

• Added API to create bookings from other platforms

2.3.3

• Fixed issue with email automation

2.3.2

• Added no-show statistics
• Added customer tags field when creating a new booking
• Added 2 new languages: Catalan and Slovak
• Added new tag {day} for emails and sms templates
• Added new field Birthday to the reservation form
• Fixed an issue with the receipt link in the email template
• Fixed an issue with the payment method label translation in the reservation form
• Fixed issue in customer reports

2.3.1

• Added new Google Tag Manager event: reserve_visit, reserve_init, reserve_complete
• Added Facebook Pixel event tracking
• Added CSV export option in the Bookings report
• Added translations for Booking Tags

2.3.0

• Added new tables options to the floor plan editor
• Added drag and drop to the floor plan editor to change the shape of the table
• Added option to set a date in the calendar as FULL instead of closed
• Added new scheduling options for automatic feedback emails: 15, 30, and 45 minutes
• Added new currencies
• Fixed issue when showing the tag ‘Day closed’ in the reservation editor
• Fixed issue with Upayments gateway integration
• Fixed issue with iframe when embedding form in other websites
• Fixed issue with editing Table Tags

2.2.8

• Added new option to prevent access wp-admin for non-administrators users

2.2.7

• Added Upayments gateway integration
• Fixed small issue with WooCommerce Gift Voucher plugin integration

2.2.6

• Modified woocommerce integration to use a product ID instead of a fee in checkout
• Fixed small issue with reservation form style

2.2.5

• Added WooCommerce integration
• Added new parameters to the webhooks and Google tags events
• Improved functionality to import customers from other platforms
• Modified mobile interface to display number of reservations per status
• Added Kuwaiti Dinar currency
• Fixed issue with WP-Cron job sending duplicated SMS reminders

2.2.4

• Added warning message if tables are not assigned to the booking
• Fixed issue when uploading image files

2.2.3

• Added UTM tracking for campaigns
• Fixed issue when pressing ‘Create and Notify’ reservation without email

2.2.2

• Added automation to send reminders for pending payment reservations
• Added automation to automatically cancel unpaid reservations
• Added automation to auto-finish seated reservations
• Added automation to auto-mark reservations as no-show
• Added automation to request feedback when reservations are finished

2.2.1

• Added new reservation mode -Tables with custom prices-
• Added new reservation mode -Tables with custom schedules-
• Added custom class to calendar dates in the reservation form
• Fixed issue with cron job not running

2.1.9

• Added customer’s email as ‘reply-to’ in all admin email notifications
• Added new SMS templates to notify the administrator when a new booking is made
• Added phone to webhooks and GoogleTag
• Prevent close reservation popup when clicked outside
• Fixed issue with reservation form layout
• Fixed issue with scheduler actions
• Fixed issue when saving/charging card number in Stripe

2.1.8

• Integrated Bulkgate as an SMS gateway
• Added support for Xendit as a payment gateway
• Added support for Xendit as a payment gateway
• Updated monthly view to include a ‘No-Show’ bookings button
• Added new settings to customize PWA name and description

2.1.7

• Fixed calendar date availability calculation to ensure accurate initial date navigation

2.1.6

• Resolved an issue where the calendar in the reservation form was not correctly filtering available days

2.1.5

• Fixed issue with widget calendar when using the option ‘show services selector’

2.1.4

• Improved booking engine performance for a faster reservation form experience
• Added option to control pacing of covers per time slot in table reservation mode
• Added Indonesian language and new currencies
• Fixed styling issue with the service selector on the reservation form

2.1.3

• New function to import bookings from other platforms
• Fixed issue when filtering customers
• ‘Respond to Review’ popup -> display table number
• Added new tables to the floor plan: bar counter, high table, booth table

2.1.1

• When the customer modifies their booking, the form now displays the current booking data
• Adjusted the CSS styling of the reservation form to prevent it from affecting the WordPress theme style
• Fixed an issue with the notifications popup

2.1.0

• Added a limit to the number of times a reservation can be modified
• Added new style to notifications to identify better new, modified, cancelled and confirmed bookings.

2.0.9

• New: added button to respond to the customer’s feedback
• New: list of reviews can be exported to CSV
• New: list of reviews can be printed
• Addon: reservation mode with custom schedule for each table
• Added number of guests to the floor plan when printed
• Some adjustments in the reservation form

2.0.7

• New: added non-blocking tables mode when reserving
• New: combinations of tables are now considered when selecting an area or table
• New: allow long email extensions in the reservation form (.online)
• New: added new tags for emails: {first_name}, {last_name}
• New: added auto-scroll to the message upon successful reservation
• New: added light/dark mode to the user’s profile
• New status rule -> Reservations made X hours before the time slot will be marked as Pending
• New modal to add booking tags from the floorplan view
• Fixed an issue where modifying a booking did not assign a new table based on the updated number of guests
• Fixed issue when the settings ‘from time’ and ‘to time’ (reconfirm) are null in the shift
• Fixed issue with restaurant logo field not displayed (used for booking view)

2.0.6

• New: Opening window settings (from specific time to time) to allow clients to reconfirm bookings.
• New: Shifts and events now allow the selection of specific tables for each weekday
• New: Each user can select a different language for their dashboard, independent of the restaurant’s default language
• New: The customer’s list of bookings now also includes Cancelled, Denied, and No-show bookings
• Fixed issue with shortcode: sanitized all provided attributes to prevent potential Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities

2.0.5

• Enhanced the reservation form to handle parallel server requests more efficiently.
• Resolved an issue in the calendar view where bookings failed to load when transitioning from December to January.

2.0.4

• New widget setting added to allow disabling the display of alternative dates.

2.0.3

• Fixed issue with timezone in the reservation form with alternative dates###2.0.2 ###
• NEW: Detect if customer emails have been opened
• NEW: Added a “Cancel Reason” field to the popup displayed when a user cancels a booking.
• NEW: You can now add custom CSS to the dashboard
• NEW: Setting to display time slots as a dropdown instead of buttons
• NEW: Added new email tag {area_table_assigned} to show the area and table assigned to the customer
• Pending Bookings View: Now supports auto-refresh, updating every few seconds to ensure real-time accuracy.
• Floor View: When switched to another area, the view will automatically adjust
• Fixed issue where table changes made by customers (modify booking) were not being recorded in the booking history.
• Fixed issue with displaying client booking history.
• Fixed issue where tables changes from the ‘edit booking’ view were not being recorded.

2.0.1

• NEW: Users will be redirected to Google Reviews when they rate more than X stars
• NEW: Enhanced customer tag rules – bookings can now be set to ‘Denied’ or ‘Pending’ based on customer tags.
• NEW: Added permission to control access to the pending bookings list
• NEW: Added a new setting to disable the popup when marking a status as ‘Finished’
• NEW: Added a setting to automatically fill in the reservation form with user data when logged in.
• Fixed issue not counting bookings with status ‘Seated’ in the reports
• Fixed issue with ‘Other available dates’ styling
• Fixed issue with rule for pending bookings
• Fixed issue with message ‘This user has no restaurant assigned’

2.0.0

• NEW: Introduced recurring bookings feature
• Added search functionality by booking ID in list view, floor plan view, and calendar view
• Mobile: Added search by booking ID, email, and phone
• Mobile: Bookings can now be edited directly from the customer list view
• Introduced custom webhooks for sending notifications from the reservation form
• Fixed a bug where creating a new customer would fail if the customer existed in a different restaurant
• Booking creation date is now properly formatted according to the restaurant’s timezone
• Corrected total calculations in the monthly view
• Corrected total calculations in the reports

1.9.9

• NEW. When no dates are available, the system will suggest alternative dates to the customer
• NEW. When defining 0 days in Stripe for pre-authorization will use card-on-file only
• NEW. Added ‘noindex’ to the dashboard page prevent indexing by search engines
• Changed pre-authorization to new Stripe API
• Fixed bug when testing Stripe sandbox with card-on-file
• Pre-auth payment: fixed bug button not displayed after warning message

1.9.8

• Stripe updated to the new version API
• Added Stripe pre-authorization method
• Setting to define pre-authorization number of days
• Added new email tag {area_table} to show the area and table selected by the user when reserving
• Added area/table selected to the customer’s booking view

1.9.6

• New list view for all Pending reservations
• New setting for Shifts to define different working hours for every day of the week
• Added desktop scroll with mouse (left click + move) to the customers view & bookings list view
• Added new setting to SMTP to send emails directly using phpMailer instead of WP mail function
• Added warning message when the user has no restaurant assigned
• Fixed issue when hovering mouse on rotated tables

1.9.5

• When a customer cancels a reservation will receive an email
• Floor plan view can display any shift with bookings for printing
• When creating a reservation from the floor plan view will use the date selected in the view
• View number of visits/no-show of the customer selected when creating a reservation

1.9.4

• Reservation popup can be changed to the left side to view the full floor plan
• New settings section ‘Dashboard’
• New setting for expiring time when using the floor plan time slider manually
• New setting to require the user to select the area before finishing reservation
• New filter for new notifications: pending / confirmed
• Create reservation popup: added user icon to edit customer
• Fixed issue when status change not showing popup to send email

1.9.3

• Added blinking + icon to bookings without tables attached
• Fixed issue with initial wizard
• Fixed issue with listing booking emails

1.9.2

• New in timeline views for desktop: allow Drag & Drop to move reservations
• New in timeline views for desktop: mouse left click + drag horizontally to scroll
• New occupancy chart
• New mobile interface with floorplan and timeline views
• New pinch-zoom gestures in floorplan for touch devices
• Floorplan: added mouse-wheel zoom
• Google Tag Manager: added events: reserve_init, reserve_complete
• Reservation widget: added setting for custom CSS
• New SAAS settings
• Fixed issue when importing customers tags
• Fixed issue with Stripe sandbox
• Fixed issue in widget when selecting event for a previous date###1.9.1 ###
• Added SGD currency
• Fixed issue with walkin popup not assigning tables###1.9.0 ###
• Revervation popup: metric added with new covers booked during the interval
• Line time slider will not reset automatically, has to be resetted manually
• Added new tag {service} for admin emails
• Added shareable tables to attach seats manually to the booking
• Fixed issue with reservation popup###1.8.8 ###
• Added new setting ‘Max new covers’ in the ‘Covers per slot’ mode
• Added private booking tags, which are excluded from the emails sent to customers
• Added setting to require phone field for new bookings
• Added settings to enabled/disable tabs in the booking editor
• Added a history log of actions for bookings
• Line time removed from past days in floor view
• Fixed issue with included dates for shifts when adding manual reservations
• Fixed issue in Firefox – reservation form
• Fixed issue widget popup not loading in third party domain

1.8.6

• New: added drag & drop interface for tablets
• Fixed issue when saving tables assigned
• New setting to edit booking interface (multiple tabs or scroll)
• Fixed small issue when activating the plugin
• Fixed issue with timeline scroll

1.8.4

• New: added authentication codes to remember user for 1 year
• New: added drag & drop interface to attach tables to booking in the floorplan view
• New payment description for Mollie gateway
• Added fields name, email to walkin form
• Simplified popup interface to create/modify reservation
• Fixed issue with the option to prevent double bookings in tables
• Fixed issue: user reconfirm button only visible if enabled
• Fixed issue with Stripe when WooCommerce Stripe plugin is active
• Fixed issue when filtering shifts in floor plan view

1.8.3

• New: simple form to create reservation without tabs
• New: toggle buttons to close a full month
• New: added new shift option to prevent double reservations for tables
• New: SAAS redirect login page to custom link
• New: added new column ‘Created’ to the list of bookings
• Changed icon table in the reservation editor
• Fixed customer language assigned from the first booking
• Fixed translation for ‘My Booking’ button in the email

1.8.2

• New: email layout added buttons and logos
• New: email layout can customize link and button colors
• New: send email/SMS notifications when payment is done during reservation
• New: added new field ‘Include Dates’ to shifts

1.8.1

• Fixed issue assigning tables automatically for shifts with specific tables
• Fixed issue with duplicate bookings when using 2 forms and same shifts
• Customers can book multiple shifts on the same date, but cannot book the same shift more than once

1.7.9

• Fixed issue when saving tags from reservation form

1.7.8

• Fixed issue when creating booking manually

1.7.7

• New: Tables can be blocked for a booking
• New: Emails can use a logo url instead of uploading an image
• Added new email tags: {restaurant_link} {restaurant_facebook} {restaurant_instagram}
• Added online help in the dashboard

1.7.6

• Improved functionality for importing customers from CSV file

1.7.5

• New: Shift/Event name and description can be used in multiple languages
• New: new tag for emails {end_time}
• New: show/hide reservation duration can be customized per shift/event
• New: widget messages can be customized per shift/event
• New: not available slots can be shown in the widget
• Adjustments in the reservation form for mobile screens
• Fixed issue with rules ‘pending’ for shifts

1.7.4

• New: Groups of tables can be blocked on specific days
• New: Groups of tables with some tables blocked will be blocked too
• Added permissions for email templates and reminders
• Added permissions for SMS reminders
• New rule for pending status: select specific days as pending
• New rule for pending status: select specific tables as pending
• Fixed issue when auto-selecting first date available in the widget

1.7.3

• New view to block tables for specific dates and times
• Responsive layout for tablet (list view and floor view)
• Floor view with floating sidebar
• Added tables to customer’s bookings list
• Fixed issue with sliders in Mozilla
• Fixed issue with custom email textarea editor
• Fixed issue with Stripe sandbox check field
• Fixed issue with tables for events

1.7.1

• Fixed issue with custom emails format

1.7.0

• New bookings with empty email will generate random email
• Modified interface when associating customer to new booking
• New feature: create custom emails for customers

1.6.9

• Added new objects to the floor plan builder
• Fixed booking language issue when updated
• Added custom links for social channels tracking

1.6.8

• New booking status: User Reconfirmed
• New reconfirm funcionality
• New Confirmed/Pending rules for shifts/events
• Reservation form autofill user details from previous booking
• Added column for Booking/Customer language
• Added booking private notes
• Bookings CSV/print use columns from the list view
• When creating booking duration is updated depending on shift selected
• Removed red statuses from floorplan and timeline views

1.6.7

• Fixed header in timeline views

1.6.6

• Implemented a logging system to capture all database actions
• Added new Dark Mode
• New permissions: Email reminders, Sms templates, Sms reminders
• Floor plan view: added timeline slider

1.6.4

• Added internal messages for staff for daily bookings
• Email and SMS Reminders up to 30 days
• Closed days are displayed in the top bar calendar
• Closed days displayed in the ‘Add new booking’ popup calendar
• Fixed email reminders templates
• Fixed issue with form for Google Reserve

1.6.3

• New engine for reserving single tables and groups
• Shifts and Events are now sortable
• The display of available time slots is organized according to the sorted shifts and events
• Fixed issue when deleting area and not deleting tables
• Fixed issue with view booking page

1.6.2

• Fixed issue with payments

1.6.0

• Timeline view: added filter by areas
• New: Utilize Stripe to securely store card details without initiating a charge
• And bill your customer in case of a no-show

1.5.7

• New payment gateways: Paypal, Redsys, Square, Mollie, Mercadopago
• Floor plan view can hide sidebar

1.5.6

• New timeline view: tables in columns
• Minor UI changes

1.5.5

• New Pin-Code for users
• Quick mode to create Walk-in bookings
• Timeline view -> click table or time to create booking
• Floor view -> click table to create booking

1.5.4

• New mobile interface
• Allow overlapped shifts
• Assign tables when using overlapping shifts
• New permission for managers: show WP back button

1.5.3

• Fixed issue with timezone in notifications time displayed
• Fixed issue with reservation process > 10 min

1.5.2

• Added 3D reservations to the reservation widget
• Added new intervals for first-seating/last-seating

1.5.1

• Fixed issue with 360 panoramas

1.5.0

• Added creator for 360 panoramas tour

1.4.9

• New email template for modified reservations
• For admin email notifications the restaurant email is used by default
• Fixed issue with double notifications for administrators

1.4.8

• Added new settings for area/table reservations
• Areas highlighted in red indicate that no tables/seats are available
• Fixed issue when loading booking view for customer

1.4.7

• Highlight area selected in the reservation form
• Jump to next step automatically after selecting area/table
• New setting to show/hide areas images when reserving
• New setting to show/hide areas free seats when reserving
• New permissions for ‘Close days’ and ‘Close slots’

1.4.6

• Improved floor plan buttons to zoom

1.4.5

• Customer can select Area/Table from the reservation widget

1.4.4

• Compatible with Elementor builder
• Compatible with Beaver builder
• Compatible with Divi builder

1.4.3

• New widget for external domains
• Fixed issue with login – magic code

1.4.2

• Fixed top bar color

1.4.1

• Google Reserve (Beta)
• Added custom class to each field in the widget form to help styling
• Styled checkboxes in the reservation form
• Fixed issue with email logo for Android
• Email logo is now stored in the uploads folder

1.4.0

• Admin can confirm bookings by email
• Added tables to the booking card view
• Added intervals every 15 min for durations
• Duplicate function for Shifts and Events
• Added search bar to the monthly view
• Added search bar to the weekly view
• Fixed issue with PDF not printing booking time

1.3.9

• Added new languages
• Added new currencies
• Added button ‘Update and notify’ to the reservation popup
• Fixed some issues

1.3.8

• Custom fields can be displayed only for specific shifts/events
• Added custom settings for SAAS solution
• Send SMS when creating new reservation from the dashboard
• Old bookings selected or pending_payment are not deleted from DB, instead the status is changed to deleted
• Fixed issue when changing booking not assigning new tables if required
• Updated to PHP 7.4

1.3.7

• Added SMS notifications
• Added SMS reminders
• New field to opt-in for receiving SMS

1.3.6

• Added custom fields to the reservation form
• Custom fields types: text, textarea, select option, multi option, checkbox
• New function for SHifts/Events: set status Confirmed up to X covers, otherwise set as Pending
• New columns added to export CSV bookings: time in 12h format, custom fields
• Fixed small issue with dates closed

1.3.4

• Max days in advance for reservations is now up to 360 days
• Fixed issue with custom slots closed

1.3.2

• New mobile bookings list view
• Added notifications list to the mobile interface
• Mobile interface: when changing status will ask for sending email
• Fixed issue with the copy shortcode button
• Fixed issue with the placeholder field inside the widget settings
• Fixed issue with the ‘close days’ function

1.3.1

• Added Pre-payments with Stripe
• Added buffer time to allow booking cancellations
• Added buffer time to allow booking modifications
• Added new tag {service} to the email to show the shift/event name
• Added default country dial code to the reservation form
• Added placeholder to all widget fields
• Added new field to widget settings for custom message when no slots available
• Added scheduler to remove holded bookings after 10 minutes
• Added scheduler to remove pending payment bookings after 2 hours
• Email templates translated into Greek
• Fixed some translations
• Fixed issue when copying the widget shortcode
• Fixed issue when loading email templates

1.2.5

• Import customers from a CSV file
• Top bar adapted for tables
• Redirect from WP login to the dashboard
• Added Greek language
• Auto-sync custom translation with new strings
• Fixed style front-end widget
• Fixed issue with empty description for shifts
• Fixed issue manager deleting shifts

1.2.4

• New feature to close specific slots for specific dates
• Sidebar menu items can be hidden based on role
• Added translations for login page – PLUS
• Delete users from the dashboard without removing WP-admin user
• Fixed bug in calendar with first day of week

1.2.3

• Added email reminders – PLUS
• Added pending bookings to calendar view
• Fixed issue when filtering available tables
• Fixed issue with dashboard notifications

1.2.1

• Prevent duplicate bookings setting
• Filter available tables when creating booking
• Assign tables from the mobile view
• New icon to show bookings attached on the floor plan
• Fixed bug when creating user with ‘ in the name

1.2.0

• Dashboard is now mobile friendly – PLUS
• Added new general settings – PLUS

1.1.8

• Fixed issue with custom logo upload

1.1.7

• Added customization login – PLUS
• Added edit columns for bookings – PLUS
• Added edit columns for customers – PLUS

1.1.6

• Added translation view – PLUS

1.1.5

• Fixed issue when managers create booking

1.1.4

• Issue with start/end seating labels

1.1.3

• Updated tables
• PRO: add to calendar
• PRO: can modify booking
• PRO: can cancel booking
• PRO: social links

1.1.2

• Modified MyBooking view

1.1.1

• Core for PRO version
• Fixed small bug

1.0.9

• Widget header style

1.0.8

• Issue sending admin emails
• Issue when assigning automatic tables

1.0.7

• New setting for time format

1.0.6

• Fixed some issues

1.0.4

• Adjusted namespaces

1.0.4

• Fixed some bugs
• Added calendar button

1.0.3

• Added closed days

1.0.0

• First release.