Changelog – LatePoint Documentation (2024)

Improvements

New "Calendar of Events" shortcode

Fixes

Lightbox blurriness fix

Some xss fixes

Fixes

Security fix for customers when the setting "Use WordPress users as customers" is OFF

Fixes

Fixes the issue with double booking/missing booking after a payment

Fixes the double skip calendar month issue.

Obfuscates the license key in license info

Improvements

It is now possible to set custom status for a new appointment per service

Fixes

Fix for rare issue when a payment goes missing or a duplicate booking is being created

Fixes

HOTFIX: Prevents issue causing double bookings when payment processor sends a webhook

Translation updates

Improvements

Added "Start Time" as a new conditional property for event trigger

Fixes

Fixed issue when "Booking updated" event was not triggered properly when customer reschedules or cancels the booking

Fixes

Fixed activity log issue when user is not logged in

Fixes

Fix phone field's country code not showing all countries

Fixes

Fix booking intent webhook issue for payments

Added translation for form field validation errors

Fixes

Fix an extra shadow and padding in a booking form lightbox

Fix a bug preventing some customers to reschedule and cancel appointments

Fix a bug when clicking on a timeslot in a weekly calendar was not selecting a service correctly

Fixes

Fix issues with admin dashboard responsiveness

Improvements

Give your customers an ability to reschedule appointments from their cabinet

Direct links for customers and agents to manage an appointment without logging in.

Ability to set custom attributes for the "new appointment" button on customer dashboard

Fixes

Fixes an issue when a process is not being triggered correctly when it has multiple values for a condition

Fixes an issue when customers are not able to update their information from their cabinet

Improvements

Clicking "Add to calendar" button will now allow adding appointment to google calendar and microsoft outlook in addition to Apple calendar file.

Ability to set custom attributes for the "new appointment" button on customer dashboard

Fixes

Inactive agents, services and locations are hidden from dashboard and calendars

Updated translations

Improvements

Improved calendar view

Greatly improved admin experience on mobile devices

Resources shortcode can now accept the same attributes as the booking button

Fixes

Various fixes

Fixes

Fixes issue with Google Meet (and potentially some other addon's) variables not being populated in processes correctly

Fixes

Fixes issue with past reminders being sent out every time a booking was updated

Improvements

Added ability to lock location for bookings when a first agent receives a booking there

If duration name is set - it is being displayed instead of duration in minutes/hours

Fixes

Fixes booking logic for "agent can perform different services at the same time" bookings

Fix process for booking_start and booking_end being triggered incorrectly when no offset is defined

Lots of responsiveness cleanup

Cleaned up notifications settings

Fixes

Fixed stats not calculating proper values on agent dashboard

Fixed notification counter of pending appointments for agents

Fixed search by customer email/phone in bookings table

Improvements

Added filter hooks for agent selection logic when "Any" is selected

Fixes

Fixed issue that was incorrectly displaying timeslots when agent was booking from their dashboard

Improvements

Added agent's additional email and additional phone variables

Fixes

Include price breakdown data in webhooks

Fix agent access to custom days and schedule

Fix redirect on agent settings update

Fix issue on custom work schedule form popup not masking phone field correctly

Fixes

Fix for location key warning message appearing when debugging is ON

Improvements

Option to decide if you want to mask/format phone number on input

Added time to Created On column in bookings

Option to hide country dial code next to the flag

Fixes

Fix for phone number picker not working on mobile

Fix for customers not able to register when "Use WordPress users as customer" was turned on

Styling fixes for phone field

Fix for "any" location value

Fixes

Fixed locations not appearing on booking form when grouped

Fixed Menu filtering based on roles allows custom URLs

Fixed Custom fields now appear in webhook calls

Fixed customers can't see upcoming appointments in their cabinet

Fixed scroll jump bug

Fixes

Fixes for issues related to role access

Improvements

Process automation functionality

Role management support

Internation phone number country picker support

Resources shortcode has more controls

New calendar view

Support for WP Block Elements

Powerful activity log

Fixes

Fixed currency formatting when using dot for thousand separator

Added filters and actions requested by discord users

Added support for large service prices

Fixes

Fixed issue with custom fields re-ordering, custom fields addon needs to be udpated as well.

Improvements

Added new shortcode [latepoint_resources items="services|agents|locations" columns="3|4|5"] which outputs items in a grid, with a book now button.

Added ability for customers to view booking summary from customer cabinet.

Improvements

Support for File upload and Google Address Autosuggest fields in Custom Fields addon

Support for custom booking statuses

Improvements

Cost breakdown on summary and confirmation/verification steps will be displayed only if price is > 0

Improvements

!Important: You have to reset your cache for the changes to take effect.

Price formatting settings

Price breakdown on booking form and in summary

New updated summary look

Support for taxes addon, and invoices addon (coming later this month)

Booking Summary can now be viewed on mobile phones

Fixes

Calendars now show availability across all services

Many other small fixes

Fixes

Location not set issue when creating new booking in admin

Chart not showing (conflict with Wordfence plugin resolved)

Buffers are now being respected correctly

Fixes

Cancelled appointments are now remove from calendar and are not blocking slots anymore

Fixed iss when group booking was not turning off slot when minimum required capacity is reached

Translations files updated

Slots for today that are passed are now correctly being shown as non bookable

Improvements

New dashboard design

Availability popup to show number of available time slots per day

Sync support for full day Google Calendar events

Fixes

Fixed Google Calendar connection issues

Timezone related issues

Fixes

Fixed an issue where locations are not visible even though they were created before.

Improvements

Locations can be organized in groups

Timezone can be displayed in time picker, verification and confirmation steps

Fixes

Fixed issue when end time was displayed as 00:00 on verification step

Improvements

You can now reorder services from service categories page, even when you don't show categories on a front-end

Fixes

Fixed update notification

Fixes

Fixed issue when LatePoint agent was not saving a connection with WordPress user.

Fixes

Fixed appointment date translation issue in notifications

Fixed selected start time and date shortcode attributes

Fixed issue when minimum capacity was not pre-filled If service is preselected

Fixed group bookings overflow issue in a popup

Fixed typos

Improvements

Added translation for "Single Day" and "Date Range" strings

Fixes

Fixed when "today" button on a daily calendar

Fixed when filters not being applied on csv export

Fixed when double .csv.csv extension was appended to an export file

Improvements

You can customize columns that are in the bookings table

Added ability to create date range for holidays and days with custom schedule

You can now set time restrictions on when customers can cancel their bookings

Added ability to customize what appears on the appointment block on the calendar

Stripe Addon now supports Stripe Checkout and iDEAL payments

Plugin and addons now show if update is available from the plugins page in Wordpress dashboard

If addon update is available - a orange notification will appear on the addons menu item

Hides the price from summary if it is 0

Added activity log

Fixes

Fixes to reminders form output when removed

Increased the size of attendees selector for group bookings for better usability on mobile devices

Fixed day format on performance chart label

Fixed placeholder label for textarea

Fixed capacity field not showing max capacity correctly

Version 4.2.3

February 6th, 2021

Improvements

If duration is longer or equal to 60 minutes it will be shown in hours and minutes. So 120 minutes duration will appear as 2 hours, 90 minutes will appear as 1 hour and 30 minutes etc...This can be disabled in settings - steps, via a checkbox option.

Version 4.2.2

February 3rd, 2021

Fixes

Fixed bug on agent edit form that was not showing service linking selection

Improved styling of facebook and google sign in buttons on mobile

Version 4.2.1

February 2nd, 2021

Improvements

You can now use WordPress users as customers, bookings will create WordPress users and WordPress users can place bookings without need to login or create a separate LatePoint account

You can now choose a new style for time picker:

You can now hide time selection from datepicker

You can now pre-select date (YYYY-MM-DD format) and time (in minutes) for a booking form/button, this way the date picker step can be skipped, example shortcode: [latepoint_book_form selected_start_date="2021-02-24" selected_start_time="600"]

Fixes

Stripe issue with free services (stripe addon update required)

Fixed issue with "any agent" double booking

Improvements to customers table

Fixed issue causing white screen on some hostings which use aggressive hosting

Version 4.1.1

December 17th, 2020

Fixes

Fixed issue with google calendar event and zoom meeting not being cancelled automatically when customer cancels booking from customer dashboard.

Version 4.1.0

December 15th, 2020

Improvements

Zoom Meetings Addon: New Addon

Added hook that deletes google calendar event when Latepoint booking was deleted

Reminders Addon: Email Reminders allow HTML input

Messages Addon: Messages gets deleted when booking is deleted

Service Extras: Fixed issue with service extras not being saved to google calendar and zoom

Custom Fields: checkbox field allows to set custom label for on/off values using .pot editing

Google Calendar: You can now set event description template as well as event title using all of the variables that were available for email templates

Added Checkbox to disable ability for customers to cancel their bookings from customer dashboard

Booking That is being edited will not block slots on quick availability panel

Php 8 Compatibility

Improved quick availability UI, highlighting selected timeslot, ability to load previous days and more

Version 4.0.4

December 4th, 2020

Improvements

Added "Total Price" to the list of variables that can be used in a tracking code on confirmation step (useful for facebook pixel and other tracking tools)

Added ability to search customers by email, phone and name on booking form panel in admin

Added pre-loading limit to customers list on a booking form panel in admin

Fixes

Fixed issue with google calendar two way sync (!IMPORTANT - Update Google Calendar Addon)

Fixed issue that was causing skipping payment step when only PayPal addon installed (Update payment addons if needed)

Version 4.0.3

November 28th, 2020

Improvements

Messages Addon - now allows to chat with many customers from one chat box

Messages Addon - added link and notification on top bar to quickly read new messages from customers

Fixes

Fixed issue with weekly calendar not displaying appointments

Fixed “Cancel” button not disappearing from customer dashboard even when appointment is cancelled

Fixed issue with group booking showing time slot as unavailable even when there are still available slots left

Fixed issue when status change was not correctly reflected in email/sms notification

Fixed issue displaying multiple custom work schedules on the popup form, added scroll on overflow

Improved rendering of a quick booking form with availability on tablets and small displays

Fixed error on customer dashboard when trying to update customer data or send messages (messages addon update required as well!)

Version 4.0.2

November 11th, 2020

Fixes

Fixed issue that prevented loading of the calendar for 2 month ahead schedule

Version 4.0.1

November 5th, 2020

Fixes

Fixed multisite installation error

Version 4.0.0

November 5th, 2020

Improvements

Plugin can now update itself when purchase code is activated

Custom Fields: added ability to hide fields from summary page

Social Login: updated branding for Facebook and Google buttons

Added RazorPay payment gateway

Added stripe 3D Secure SCA payments support

Added ability to remove Zip/Postal Code fields on Stripe Payment form

Added Braintree 3D Secure SCA Payments support

Adds ability to delete appointments from database

Adds ability to show “All Locations” on dashboard and bookings index

Improved appearance of the performance widget on dashboard

Pre-selected service can now show durations and quantity selector

Fixes

Fixed session issue in Wordpress health check console

Fixed issue when customer choose one category then one service but then go back to another category and service, the calculator will add the prices instead of clearing it and starting over.

Fixes issue of service extras disapearing when changing booking status from “Pending Appointments” page

Fixes issue of price calculation when service is pre-selected

Fixed issue when too many customer bookings were not properly displayed in admin

Social Login: fixed google and Facebook login issue when phone number and other fields were required

Fixes issue when two customers start booking process at the same time and end up booking the same time slot