We’re all experiencing unprecedented times with the global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Firstly, if you’re an existing customer whose business is currently affected by the situation, we want to reassure you that we’re here to help! For more information, please see our recent blog post: 3 ways we’re supporting customer’s businesses affected by Coronavirus.

Now, here at MIDAS as we are a small and agile online business, and as such our operations haven’t been significantly affected at this time. For all intents and purposes, it’s “business as usual” here at MIDAS. Our sales team is still available online (via email or Live Chat) to answer any pre-sales questions you may have. Our support team is still providing prompt assistance to customer’s support queries (you can view our latest response times on our dedicated Service Status site).

As such, we’ve decided to press ahead with the release of our next update to MIDAS, v4.24, which is available now.

Highlights of MIDAS v4.24 include:

• New: Support for multi-select custom list fields
• New: Post booking email option – send clients an automated email after their bookings have taken place
• New: “Can Bypass Venue Blocks” user permission (disabled by default)
• New: Optional “Reviews” addon – automatically collect feedback, ratings, and reviews from your customers
• Improved: List of organizations in drop-down on Invoicing screen now limited to organizations with invoices
• Improved: BCC to me option when emailing an invoice/receipt now remembers user’s previous setting
• Improved: Individual client statistics now include count and sum of outstanding invoices and client’s current credit
• Improved: When assigning the “Can Process Booking Requests” permission, MIDAS will indicate if the user isn’t currently a manager of any venues
• Fixed: Cumulative roll-up of various fixes for issues discovered since v4.23

How To Get MIDAS v4.24…

Thank you for your continued support of our software during this unprecedented period of global uncertainty. Please remember if you’re an existing customer affected by the current situation, that we’re here to support you!

We hope you’re all ready and getting excited (if not already!) for the holidays just around the corner?

Here at MIDAS HQ we’re excited – not only because Christmas is now just over a week  away (where has this year gone?!), but also because we’re pleased to announce an exciting update to our booking software, which includes a number of new and improved features, including support for setup/breakdown times for bookings.

We’ve also overhauled our optional “RSS Feeds” addon, renaming it to “Data Feeds” to reflect that this improved addon will now also allow you to sync your MIDAS bookings to your external Google/Outlook (or other external) calendar – something which is often requested!

Highlights of MIDAS v4.23 include:

• New: Setup/Breakdown periods
• Improved: Modify/Delete Similar Bookings search can now be limited to certain days of the week
• Improved: Data Feeds addon (formerly RSS Feeds) now includes support for sync MIDAS to your external calendar (Google/Outlook, etc)
• Improved: You can now filter invoices by organization
• Fixed: Cumulative roll-up of various fixes for issues discovered since v4.22

How To Get MIDAS v4.23…

Thank you for your continued support of our software, and we hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!

We’re excited to announce the release today of v4.22 of our MIDAS room booking system, which includes the often requested feature of “custom client fields”.

Similar to the existing “custom booking fields” feature we first introduced back in 2010, which allows administrators to add further bespoke booking fields to their MIDAS booking system in addition of the standard booking fields, the new custom client fields feature provides similar functionality now to your client records.

What’s more, customers running self-hosted MIDAS booking systems can now also attach documents (for instance insurance certificates, signed contracts, etc) directly to client records through the use of custom client fields.

Here’s What’s New & Improved in v4.22:

• New: Custom Client fields
• New: Venue Utilization report based upon venue capacities
• New: “All Days” tick box to allow setting venue rates for all days at once
• New: MIDAS now warns if its database isn’t compatible with current software version
• Improved: Option to split resources into categories when printing bookings as a table
• Improved: Booking Grid View filter setting now persists between session
• Improved: Booking Information Panel can now be scrolled if lengthy notes, etc are present
• Improved: Booking Information Panel now remembers selected tab between sessions
• Improved: Booking Information Panel “Pin” now remembers its state between sessions
• Improved: Default Booking Type field no longer shown on Add/Modify Client dialog if no booking types defined
• Improved: XML settings file migrated to JSON
• Improved: Performance improvements (Pages now load ~200ms faster than before)
• Improved: HiContrast theme
• Improved: Initial page title now indicates friendly database name if only a single database is defined
• Improved: The MIDAS updater now also automatically updates any installed addons
• Improved: Logging for IPv6 and IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses
• Improved: Custom Logo shown when logged in (in bottom left) now auto hides if booking information panel would cover it
• Update: Stripe for SCA regulation (3D Secure support)
• Fixed: Cumulative roll-up of various fixes for issues discovered since v4.21

How To Get MIDAS v4.22…

Thank you for your continued support of our software, and we hope you’ll enjoy the new features and improvements in MIDAS v4.22!

If you have any questions or feedback, we’d love to hear from you!

We enjoy bringing you new and exciting features to our MIDAS room booking and resource scheduling software. Our latest update v4.21 which was released a few days ago is no exception!

For this latest update, we’ve been busy “under the hood”. We’ve optimized some of the back-end database structure and queries to make them even more efficient both in terms of speed and memory usage. We’ve also added a host of new invoicing features. New features include the introduction of “Deposit” invoices. We’ve also re-worked the bulk venue modification feature too to make it more user-friendly.

Here’s What’s New & Improved in v4.21:

• NEW: Deposit Invoices
• NEW: Mark invoices as complete even if not paid in full
• NEW: Ability to “clone” (copy) the contents of an invoice to a new invoice
• Improved: Selective bulk venue modification
• Improved: The “Pay invoice online” feature can now be configured to allow partial invoice payments
• Improved: Manually updating an invoice’s status allows you to “overpay”, applying the surplus as a client credit
• Fixed: Cumulative roll-up of various fixes for issues discovered since v4.20

How To Get MIDAS v4.21…

Thank you for your continued support of our software, and we hope you’ll enjoy the new features and improvements in MIDAS v4.21!

If you have any questions or feedback, we’d love to hear from you!