Updates - Changelog

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Lestis AI Studio is now available: create a complete website with artificial intelligence through a conversation, then refine its design and content before publishing.

The plugin is now listed on the WordPress plugin directory. Please download it from https://wordpress.org/plugins/lestis-booking-engine/

It's now possible to set a maximum amount and a maximum quantity for a service.

Released the new product: Digital Guidebook.

Checkout services can now be sold by quantity.

Improved WordPress plugin behavior so language now follows the selected language, including when rendered via shortcode.

Inside a property, you can now duplicate units and copy discounts, upsell services, fees, and advanced rules from other units.

Added a rolling availability window to automatically stop availability after a chosen number of future days.

Statistics are now more precise and include the most visited paths in addition to on-site searches.

Added support for last-minute discounts and percentage-based fees, useful for taxes and variable charges.

Enhanced bookings interface with faster reading and new unit filters to manage requests with less friction.

The registration process has been streamlined to reduce friction and get new hosts online faster.

Hosts can now enable direct payments using a PayPal Business account.

Released Ask on platform at ask.lestis.homes to help guests discover accommodations and send reservation requests faster.

Privacy policy pages are now fully editable.

Added an option to enable "Do Not Sell My Data".

Introduced Lestis Score, an SEO score based on Lestis rules to evaluate page quality.

Added the option to reduce the base price based on selected days of the week, for example Saturday and Sunday.

Completed translations for discounts and fees: all related labels are now fully translatable.

Introduced time range management with specific rules for min/max nights, pricing, and check-in/out restrictions.

New extra services management at check-out with flexible cost calculation (fixed, per night, per guest, or combined).

Added more than 30 new languages available for website configuration.

Released the Lestis WordPress plugin to integrate the booking engine into existing websites.

New guided screen to simplify connecting custom domains.

New options to decide how units are displayed when guest count exceeds capacity.

Improved handling of booking requests with a clearer approval flow.

Expanded pricing flexibility for extra guest scenarios.

General optimizations to improve speed and responsiveness in the management area.

Introduced Lestis Intelligence Observatory with ecosystem insights based on real traffic data.

Possibility to integrate an external booking engine instead of the native Lestis one.

Improved interface and user experience in property creation.

Immediate feedback in case of error during calendar synchronization.

Added possibility to inject custom code into generated sites.

Added new management and synchronization policies to the iCal engine.

Improved notification reception experience via Progressive Web App.

General UI and UX review for faster navigation.

New statistics: total visits and visitor search queries with check-in/out.

Fixed issues on Mobile UI and image sorting in galleries.

Migration under Cloudflare to mitigate attacks and improve performance.

Possibility to link external personal sites directly from the Lestis site.

Added useful links and guides to assist hosts in building their site.

Fixed access error to bookings for accounts without rentable units.

Added possibility to select the maximum limit of bookable nights.

Introduced Login with Google and simplified registration with fewer fields.

Improved graphic design of all transactional emails.

Added new ancillary services to associate with properties.

New error management policies for external iCal feeds.

Possibility to associate a second-level domain with your site.

Configurable down payment request as a percentage or fixed amount of the total.

Property websites can now be created with artificial intelligence. Describe the style, upload references and preview a responsive website before choosing it.

In order to better serve our larger customers, we introduced the ability to group units into broader categories and sort listings by various criteria.

Improved performance and fixed multiple cosmetic issues on the new templates.

Property sites now include Editorial, Modern, and Panorama templates, plus the new Custom Home builder to mix and match headers, heroes, content, and footers.

Cookie banner is now more modern, with improved UX.

Added IDs for better CSS usage and improved UI template.

New template customization options to manage fonts, color palettes, and website texts.

Fixed one-page template behavior when a property is suspended.

Improved website discoverability for AI assistants with dedicated resources and updated robots configuration.

Refinements to SEO content setup on accommodation unit pages.

Updates to search defaults and page SEO structure to improve discoverability.

Improved the quality of structured data for property and unit pages.

Updated crawl references for search engines.

Optimized redirect handling for custom domains to preserve search indexing.

Fix of canonicals for social metadata (OpenGraph/Twitter).

Improved HTML hierarchy and page structure.

Bugfix: month and day names in the calendar now follow the site language.

Added possibility to activate the site in showcase mode (without booking engine).

Fixed service icon display issue on some mobile browser versions.

Added WhatsApp quick button to contact the Co-host directly.

General improvements to the indexing of host pages.

Small adjustments to meta tags to improve positioning.

Bugfix on 404 page management in multilingual sites.

Changed JS minification logic to drastically increase loading speed.

Removed automatic zoom on input fields in mobile version.

Improvements to structured data (Schema.org) for commercial offers.

Improved redirect management for old links reported to crawlers.

Structural improvements to overall website speed.

Improvements to schema, canonical, and noindex tags for cleaner SEO.

Fix to meta alternate for sites with only one language selected.

The booking engine now uses an asynchronous loader: sites are even faster.

Added automatic fallbacks for missing titles and images.