01 / 03Changelog

What we shipped this week

Product updates, every Friday.

We ship every week. The change you flagged on Monday is in production by Friday. Below is the full timeline since the very first commit on March 3, 2024.

2026

14 releases

Week 18

1 May 2026

Walkthrough overlays and a permissions catalog land.

Two new surfaces ship together. An in-app walkthrough overlay orients new users on each major screen, and a permissions catalog surfaces every role grant in one searchable list. Plus a full timezone rewrite and an RMS performance pass.

  • PMS

    Walkthrough overlay teaches the calendar, folio, and reports flows on first run.

  • Platform

    Permissions catalog page lists every role grant across the property in one searchable view.

  • PMS

    Timezone handling rewritten end-to-end so multi-property groups across continents see consistent dates.

  • Insights

    RMS dashboard performance pass. Occupancy and pace queries now run well under a second on year-long ranges.

Week 17

24 Apr 2026

Demand forecasting and Booking.com Messaging arrive together.

Demand forecasting joins the RMS dashboard with a 90-day rolling outlook. Booking.com Messaging is now native inside Prostay Nexus, and Autopilot lets the AI reply without human review when confidence is high.

  • Insights

    Demand forecasting page ships in the RMS, with 90-day pickup, pace, and cancellation curves.

  • AI

    Booking.com Messaging channel goes live in Prostay Nexus, with parity to WhatsApp and email.

  • AI

    Autopilot toggle: AI replies send without human review on conversations above a confidence threshold you set per channel.

  • PMS

    Arrival overview redesigned for clearer grouping and faster keyboard navigation.

Week 16

17 Apr 2026

WhatsApp Business is fully native.

After two months in a feature branch, the WhatsApp Business integration merges to main. Send templates, receive media, manage multiple business accounts per property, and route to the right team automatically.

  • AI

    WhatsApp Business accounts attach to properties one-to-many, with template management built in.

  • AI

    Inbound WhatsApp media (photos, voice notes) lands on the conversation thread with auto-transcription.

  • Insights

    Multi-property booking pace widget joins the GM dashboard.

  • Platform

    Settings reorganised so WhatsApp, email, and Booking.com all live under one Channels tray.

Week 15

10 Apr 2026

Revenue management gets its own home in the sidebar.

The new Revenue Management menu pulls Pulse, demand forecasting, rate plans, and pricing rules into one stop for revenue managers and GMs. Plus a CSV-driven rate-plan import and a smarter tax-split editor.

  • Insights

    Revenue Management menu groups Pulse, forecasting, and pricing rules under one entry.

  • PMS

    Calendar quick-actions menu redesigned. Every action is now one keystroke away.

  • Distribution

    New rate-plan import: drop a CSV, preview the diff, apply with one click.

  • Accounting

    Tax-split editor handles VAT, city tax, and resort fees per property without overriding the master schema.

Week 14

3 Apr 2026

Transfer posting redesigned.

The transfer-posting flow is now a single guided panel: pick the source folio, the target charge, confirm, post. No more cross-window juggling.

  • Accounting

    Transfer-posting panel collapses three previous screens into one guided flow.

  • PMS

    Confirmation dialog now previews the resulting folio balance before posting.

  • Distribution

    Channel-mapping conflicts resolve in-place rather than redirecting to a separate page.

  • Insights

    Forecast accuracy widget on the GM dashboard tightens its rolling window from 28 to 14 days.

Week 13

27 Mar 2026

Multi-currency pricing across the rate grid.

Set rates in any currency per property, with automatic per-stay conversion and a missing-currency warning before a quote ever leaves the desk.

  • Payments

    Multi-currency price inputs on every rate plan and weekday grid.

  • Payments

    Missing currency prices modal stops a quote from going out with an unresolved conversion.

  • PMS

    View receipt popup shows the original currency, the booking currency, and the conversion rate that was used.

  • Distribution

    Channel manager pushes the booking currency to OTAs with the matching tax handling per locale.

Week 12

20 Mar 2026

Accounting tags, smarter folios, and invoice options.

Three accounting flows ship together: tag any folio transaction for downstream reports, move a charge between folios with a guided popup, and pick from the new Invoice Options modal at the moment you bill.

  • Accounting

    Accounting tag select on every transaction, with rolled-up reports per tag.

  • PMS

    Move folio transaction popup keeps both folios in sync with a single confirmation.

  • Accounting

    Invoice options modal lets you pick template, language, and tax stance at issue time.

  • AI

    Agent menu in the inbox tags conversations by intent before routing.

Week 11

13 Mar 2026

Pricing rules and a public invoice view.

Build day-by-day pricing rules with a live preview, and send guests a hosted invoice page they can pay or download without an account.

  • Distribution

    Price rules engine. Stack length-of-stay, day-of-week, and segment rules with a live preview.

  • Accounting

    Public invoice view: shareable, printable, payable. No login required for the guest.

  • Accounting

    Customer details form now matches the chart of accounts schema.

  • Platform

    Faster initial calendar render after the worker thread refactor.

Week 10

6 Mar 2026

Demo properties, in one click.

Demo settings let you spin up a sample property with realistic reservations, rate plans, and folio activity for a sales walkthrough or a new-hire training session.

  • Platform

    Demo settings modal seeds a fresh sample property for sales calls and onboarding.

  • Messaging

    Notifications now thread by reservation rather than by channel.

  • Accounting

    Reconciliation flow handles partial captures end-to-end without manual splits.

  • PMS

    Calendar tooltip latency drops below 50ms even on 12-month views.

Week 09

27 Feb 2026

Dive Center vertical lights up.

First cut of the Dive Center workflow. A calendar view tuned to dive boats and instructors, a dedicated sidebar entry, and the demo acknowledgement modal that lets a property opt in to vertical features per role.

  • PMS

    Dive Center calendar tracks boats, instructors, and dive sites in parallel with rooms.

  • PMS

    Dive Center menu and icon ship in the sidebar, scoped per role.

  • Platform

    Demo acknowledgement modal so vertical features can ship gradually with explicit opt-in.

  • Distribution

    OTA mapping picks up the new dive products without conflict.

Week 08

20 Feb 2026

Italian, formally.

The in-app language picker adds Italian (with the right flag), Prostay AI replies in regional Italian, and every settings page picks up the new translation pipeline.

  • Platform

    Language picker now lives in the global menu instead of buried in user settings.

  • AI

    Prostay AI handles regional Italian (formal vs informal) without a separate prompt.

  • PMS

    Settings pages refactored to surface localized labels everywhere.

  • Payments

    Per-property currency and locale defaults flow to checkout without re-prompting.

Week 07

13 Feb 2026

Import accounts and send sales orders without a CSV.

Pulling chart-of-accounts data from another system used to be a CSV roundtrip. The Import Accounts modal does it inline. Send Sales Order Popup does the same for outgoing orders.

  • Accounting

    Import accounts modal pulls vendor and customer accounts from any compatible system.

  • Accounting

    Send sales order popup with templated emails and a downloadable PDF.

  • PMS

    Reservation form now remembers preferred guest fields per property.

  • Platform

    Faster initial render on the chart of accounts page after a tree-table rewrite.

Week 06

6 Feb 2026

Cleanup week: faster folios, quieter notifications.

A maintenance week. The folio screen renders faster on long stays, low-priority notifications no longer fight for attention, and the bulk-rate-update flow handles concurrent edits cleanly.

  • Accounting

    Folio close runs noticeably faster on stays longer than 14 nights.

  • Messaging

    Notification priority levels reflect what actually needs the night manager’s attention.

  • Distribution

    Concurrent rate edits across users now merge cleanly instead of overwriting.

  • PMS

    Calendar drag latency reduced on properties with 50 or more rooms.

January

2026

Chart of Accounts and reconciliation, end to end.

January was an accounting month. The chart of accounts lands as a first-class structure, account history opens as a side panel from any folio line, and the Reconcile flow ships with a column customizer and a printable COA report.

  • Accounting

    Chart of Accounts table, with add/edit/deactivate and a dependency-aware delete.

  • Accounting

    Reconcile flow with column customizer and a printable COA report.

  • PMS

    Account history side panel wires every folio line to its full transaction trail.

  • Platform

    Auth and context refactors prep the codebase for the multi-currency work that lands in March.

2025

12 releases

December

2025

A settings tree that finally makes sense.

Settings get a routing layer. Every product (Booking Engine, Accounting, Sales, Expenses) lives at its own URL inside settings, and the navigation surfaces what is relevant per role.

  • Platform

    Settings tree splits into Account, Advance, Company, Expense, and Sale settings, with deep links.

  • Distribution

    Booking Engine router so each product lives at a stable URL.

  • PMS

    Account settings menu grouped by role: GM, RM, owner, finance, IT.

  • Accounting

    Expense settings shipped, fully independent of Sales.

November

2025

Refunds, estimates, and the start of the accounting people graph.

Refund a charge from a folio side panel without leaving the screen. Send a sales estimate the same way. November also opens the accounting people graph, with employees and suppliers as first-class entities.

  • Payments

    Add Refund sidepanel: pick the line, set the amount, post, all without leaving the folio.

  • Accounting

    Send Estimate popup for outgoing sales estimates with template support.

  • Accounting

    Accounting employees and suppliers as first-class records with full activity history.

  • Insights

    Pulse forecasting accuracy widget for the previous 28 days.

October

2025

Properties get a real building plan.

October ships the property tree: buildings, floors, sections, and rooms as a real hierarchy, with maintenance teams and issue types attached. Housekeeping and engineering now schedule against the actual property structure.

  • PMS

    Property tree (Building, Floor, Section, Room) with side-panel editors at each level.

  • PMS

    Issue types and maintenance teams as first-class records.

  • Insights

    Housekeeping and maintenance reports cut by floor and team.

  • Distribution

    Disable property tree confirmation popup when restructuring affects active rate plans.

September

2025

Direct booking checkout, end to end.

Direct bookings now confirm on a Prostay-hosted success page that captures payment, prints a receipt, and queues the welcome email automatically. No more drop-off after the modal closes.

  • Distribution

    Payment success page on the booking engine with confirmation, receipt, and welcome email queue.

  • Insights

    Booking engine attribution funnel chart on the GM dashboard.

  • Payments

    Refunds posted on the success page route to the same provider that captured the payment.

  • PMS

    Faster guest profile open from the calendar.

August

2025

Task management lands.

August ships the task system. Create tasks tied to reservations, attach files, assign to teammates, and link from any guest record. Maintenance, housekeeping, and front-desk hand-offs now have a shared queue.

  • PMS

    Add Task management side panel with attachments and assignees.

  • PMS

    Link Reservation to Task side panel so tasks live alongside the booking they touch.

  • PMS

    Create-task cancel confirmation prevents accidental drops.

  • Platform

    Expandable HTML editor for task notes.

July

2025

Prostay Pay arrives in the dashboard.

Prostay Pay graduates from beta. New properties see a guided configuration step, the dashboard surfaces a not-configured nudge, and the payment form ships with full SCA support across the EEA.

  • Payments

    Prostay Pay payment form with SCA, 3DS, and multi-currency support.

  • Payments

    Prostay Pay not-configured dashboard widget with a guided setup path.

  • AI

    Replacement-term policies for the AI booking assistant. Clear escalation language for refund and date-change conversations.

  • Distribution

    Alternative availability preferences side panel for OTA mapping conflicts.

June

2025

Booking Engine, fully customisable.

The Booking Engine becomes its own little CMS. Custom pages, custom content per page, room addons, and a redesigned payment-details step. Direct bookings can now look like part of your hotel website, not a third-party widget.

  • Distribution

    Booking Engine custom pages with per-page content editors.

  • Distribution

    Room addons that flow into the cart and the folio in one step.

  • Distribution

    Booking Engine payment details step redesigned for one-tap completion.

  • Insights

    Pulse adds direct vs OTA bookings comparison.

May

2025

Calendar v2 polish and special agent users.

May closes out the Calendar v2 redesign and introduces Special Agent users: scoped, time-limited accounts for travel agents and corporate buyers.

  • PMS

    Calendar v2 icon refresh and date column fixes for daylight-saving boundaries.

  • Platform

    Special Agent user role with scoped permissions and password-reset email flow.

  • Distribution

    Rate Details side panel surfaces the inheritance chain for any rate.

  • Payments

    Number-input control standardised across the entire payments surface.

April

2025

Calendar settings and blocked dates, properly.

The blocked-dates flow gets a side popup that handles overlapping windows, and the calendar-settings sidepanel finally exposes everything that used to live in three different settings pages.

  • PMS

    Blocked dates popup and side popup, both with overlap handling.

  • PMS

    Calendar settings side panel consolidates colour, density, and shortcut preferences.

  • Distribution

    Booking performance pie chart for the booking engine on the GM dashboard.

  • Messaging

    Confirmation letter customization moves to a side panel.

March

2025

User activity log and tighter courtesy holds.

An auditable user activity log opens up under the property settings, courtesy holds learn how to convert to a tentative reservation cleanly, and the move-room popup respects rate inheritance.

  • Platform

    User activity log with filter popups by action, user, and date range.

  • PMS

    Courtesy hold rate-changed popup so revenue staff catch unexpected rate inheritance.

  • PMS

    Move room popup keeps the original rate when the new room is in the same category.

  • Distribution

    Empty layout state on rate plans now uses a friendlier illustration and learn-more link.

February

2025

Confirmation letters and property amenities, redesigned.

Confirmation letters become a templated system with named fields and per-property defaults, and the property amenities popup is the new home for everything from breakfast to spa.

  • Messaging

    Confirmation letter preferences side panel with named fields and per-card overrides.

  • PMS

    Property amenities popup centralises previously scattered toggles.

  • Distribution

    Engine currency popup for booking engines that accept multiple currencies on one site.

  • Platform

    Custom date-range picker without limitation across all reports.

January

2025

Reports get a real shape: groups, charts, and date ranges.

January was a reports month. Add a Report Group, build a chart with the new chart primitives (Average Daily Rates, Channel Production, Today Occupancy), and pick any date range from a unified picker.

  • Insights

    Add Report Group side panel with role-scoped sharing.

  • Insights

    New chart primitives: Average Daily Rates bar, Channel Production pie, Today Occupancy pie.

  • Platform

    Custom Date Range Picker dropdown standardised across every report.

  • Messaging

    Cancellation reasons editor for the confirmation letter system.

2024

10 releases

December

2024

Charts join the dashboard.

December opens the analytics surface with the first set of dashboard charts. Booking Performance pies and Room Nights Sold and Sales line charts. Custom form fields and register-card fields ship alongside.

  • Insights

    Booking Performance pie chart on the GM dashboard.

  • Insights

    Room Nights Sold and Sales line charts.

  • PMS

    Add New Form Field and Add New Register Card Field for guest data capture.

  • Distribution

    Edit Accommodation side panel shipped.

November

2024

Courtesy holds and turnaways become measurable.

November tightens lost-business reporting. Convert a courtesy hold to a tentative reservation in one click, export turnaways with a new filter popup, and trace every help/support call from the new Help Support context.

  • PMS

    Courtesy Hold Convert To Tentative popup with rate validation.

  • Insights

    Turnaway filter and export popups for lost-business analysis.

  • Platform

    Help Support context for every screen with an inline support shortcut.

  • Payments

    Payment error icon added across all payment surfaces.

October

2024

Knowledgebase, billing portal, and proper cancellations.

October ships the in-app knowledgebase, the billing portal menu, and a structured cancellation flow that records reason, fee waiver, and downstream impact.

  • Platform

    Prostay Knowledgebase available in-product.

  • Platform

    Billing portal menu in the user dropdown.

  • PMS

    Cancel Reservation flow with reason, waiver, and channel-aware behaviour.

  • Accounting

    Void Invoice flow with audit trail.

September

2024

In-app chat and contact us.

September opens the help surfaces. In-app chat, Contact Us, email-based contact with success state, and housekeeping room notes that stick to the room across reservations.

  • Messaging

    In-app Chat components with thread persistence.

  • Messaging

    Contact Us page with email path and confirmation.

  • PMS

    Housekeeping room notes that survive a turnover.

  • Distribution

    Housekeeping room notes mapped to channel stays where relevant.

August

2024

Reservations get linked, payments get confirmed.

August introduces reservation linking (group bookings as a graph rather than a list), credit-card confirmation dialogs, and a global loading context that ends the spinner-spam era.

  • PMS

    Link Reservation popup for group bookings.

  • PMS

    Link Ticket popup ties any open ticket to a stay.

  • Payments

    Credit Card confirmation dialog and details sidebar.

  • Platform

    Loading Context replaces ad-hoc spinners with a coherent status surface.

July

2024

Channel manager primitives.

July brings the channel manager into focus. Add Channel popup, Edit Channel, allotments, plus the first cut of guest custom fields and reservation custom fields.

  • Distribution

    Add Channel and Edit Channel popups.

  • Distribution

    Edit Allotments popup.

  • PMS

    Add Guest Custom Field with type validation.

  • PMS

    Add Reservation Custom Field with rule support.

June

2024

Cancellation policies, user roles, and the calendar grid.

June is foundational. The cancellation-policy editor, the user-role popup, and the calendar primitives (Add Menu, Date Column, Blocked Dates) all land in the same month.

  • PMS

    Add Cancellation Policy with stay-segment scoping.

  • Platform

    Add User and Add User Role popups.

  • PMS

    Calendar Add Menu, Date Column, and Blocked Dates Popup.

  • AI

    Initial Prostay AI scaffolding lands behind a feature flag.

May

2024

The payments core lands.

May is the payments month. Add Credit Card, Add Payment, Add Refund, Exclusive Tax Fee, plus Items, FAQ, and the first version of the AI surface.

  • Payments

    Add Credit Card and Add Payment popups.

  • Payments

    Add Refund popup with reason codes.

  • Accounting

    Add Exclusive Tax Fee with audit handling.

  • AI

    Add New FAQ surface, the first knowledge base for the AI assistant.

April

2024

Booking Engine v1 ships.

April is the Booking Engine month. Analytics, Checkout, Customization, Room Selection, Settings, and Success Page all ship together as the first end-to-end direct-booking flow.

  • Distribution

    Booking Engine Analytics: traffic, conversion, drop-off per step.

  • Distribution

    Booking Engine Checkout with addon support.

  • Distribution

    Booking Engine Customization for theming and content.

  • Distribution

    Booking Engine Success Page for confirmation, receipt, and follow-up.

March

2024

First commit.

Prostay starts here. The shell of the app, the first reservations and folio components, the seed of every popup that comes later. March 3, 2024 is day one.

  • Platform

    Initial app scaffold with auth, routing, and the i18n pipeline.

  • PMS

    Add Reservation, Add Guest Reservation, Add Item Category popups.

  • Payments

    Add Credit Card primitive, the start of Prostay Pay.

  • Distribution

    Add Add-On Popup and Add Interval Popup for the first stay-rule editor.

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