December 2020

In a major update we have implemented full integration with the Stripe payment gateway, enabling you to quickly validate and pre-authorise cards, take payments, and process credits directly from Aurelian.

Once setup, simply click on the Payment button on an invoice and the payment or pre-authorisation is processed.

You can:

• process credit/debit cards directly from Aurelian
• pre-authorise cards to place a hold on the funds
• capture pre-authorised funds
• process credits

Stripe is very popular because it's quick and easy to sign up (no forms or bank auhorisations), supports a wide range of cards and payment methods and easy-to-use.  Read more at www.stripe.com/nz or www.stripe.com.

Click here to view a video of how this works.

Aurelian now provides new credit/debit card checking, automatic card issuer recognition (VISA, Mastercard etc), and auto-formatting of the card number to make reading this easier.

Click here for a video on how credit cards are now managed.

In response to requests from our users, we've produced a report to list reservations/invoices by agents.  This year has seen concerns about agents and a property's exposure to agents resulting in a need to better track both outstanding invoices and future bookings. 

This report lets you to include outstanding invoices only and/or future bookings and their value.

Find this report in Back Office - Financial Reports.

A number of properties requested the agent be included in the Reservation List to enable filtering and sorting reservations by agent.  This has been added and is between the Group name and the Reservation Type.

A new feature has been added to Companies.  You can now add notes or comments for a company and this appears on the main panel when you open a company.

Requested by One Tree Point NZ and Cults Hotel Scotland.

We've added a new comments area in the Group Details window, allowing you to store notes specific to that group.

Document templates can now include the on-line booking site in documents, such as confirmations etc.

To edit templates select Mailings> Insert Merge Fields>Reservation> Reservation Details and select Booking Site.

When a document is produced, the on-line booking site is placed in this position in the document.

To make checking in more efficient, the prompt requiring confirmation that the reservation is to be checked in has been removed.  This was unncessary because if checking in was done in error, the reservation can easily be reverted from checked in to confirmed.

Transaction Audit, Transaction Details,  and Transaction Summary by Room reports now have an option to use tax inclusive or tax exclusive values.  Simply click the Tax Exclusive check box at the top of the report when previewing and it will immediately switch all values. 

On-line booking websites and vouchers are now displayed on the Today page in Reservation Details on the left.  This makes it easier to view these without having to open the reservation.

Requested by Nebula Motel, NSW.

The dashboard on the Front Desk page would incorrectly include any cancelled reservations in the Staying Over chart.  This has been corrected and now displays this correctly.

Reported by Glenfern Villas, Westland NZ.

A small number of customers have experienced problems logging in to Aurelian after a Windows update.  To address this, Aurelian will fully restart the app and local service after a Windows update.

Released: 17 December 

The following issues were reported from the update of 17th:

• credit cards that had blank spaces in the card numbers would not display the full card number.  This has been fixed and cards will have the spaces removed from the numbers. Please note, if the card type is not displayed on the reservation, click Update to open the card details, and click Save.
• Housekeeping reports were missing housekeeping transactions in the Requests column.  This has now been fixed.

Released 18 December.