BookingPOINT

BookingPOINT ... Does your organization need a powerful booking system to manage bookings for assets such as equipment, books, rooms etc? Then BookingPOINT may be the best solution for you!

BookingPOINT is a powerful booking system, allowing you to take full control of the booking and borrowing process, while making sure everything runs smoothly.

Use the powerful booking system to:

• Eliminate double bookings
• Eliminate hand written bookings
• Stop assets from getting lost and going astray
• Reduce late returns by issuing demerit points and suspending borrowers automatically
• Save entry time with an optional bar code scanner
• Easily create bookings that span over multiple days
• Easily create bulk-bookings for specific days over a period of several weeks
• Always be informed and up to date by running a variety of reports
• Give borrowers the flexibility to book on-line with the optional web module
• Review usage statistics for maintenance requirements
• Assign different borrowing privileges for the different assets they can borrow
• Specify days you're closed for business, i.e. public holidays, semester breaks and weekends

Version 4.2.0:

New Features and Enhancements:

• New: Resources can now be booked outside of regular office hours, i.e. rooms or studios.
• New: Resource Type and Group can now be restricted to limit the amount of bookings for a single time-slot.
• New: Borrower privileges can now be imported from the borrower list screen.
• New: The ability to track kits has been added. A new tab in resources called 'Kit Items' has been added. You can assign multiple kit items to a resource. There is also an option to flag a kit item as missing and run a report.
• New: A new report to print a list of missing kit items has been added.
• New: You can now restrict the number of weeks borrowers can book resources in advance and only allow them to book within a certain number of weeks.
• New: When returning a resource by scanning its barcode, the borrowers name and account status is displayed.
• Change: Resource restrictions screen has been re-designed.
• Change: When making a booking the time value list will now display in 12 hour format.
• Change: When importing resources, if there is no matching resource type in preferences then it will automatically create one.
• Fix: When previewing a report with multiple pages, you can now navigate to the other pages.
• Fix: Web users were able book resources even though they had no privilege set assigned to their borrower record.
• Fix: For new users created after the 4.1.1 update; when searching for resources it would display an error 'The borrower does not have the ability to borrow any resources'.
• Fix: If you clicked cancel when making a booking, it used to jump to the first resource record.
• Fix: When extending a borrowers booking it incorrectly used to say you cannot borrow this resource type more than 'n' times within an 'n' day period.
• Fix: If you used the '|' symbol in a resource name it caused problems when deleting a borrowers resource via the web.
• Fix: For web users only. In some instances a borrowers privileges were not enabled.