NebulaCRS 2023.2

NebulaCRS 2023.2

New Features


Zoho Number
Module
Version
Description
Zoho Desk Number
CRS-I2262
Call Center
2023.2.6341
Default Service Note to populate when booking service

Default service note now populates when service is booked
105463
CRS-I2185
InMotion
2023.2.6341
Run of House Rooms

Reservations made on Run of House Room Types will now display in reservation listing on Cruise Chart
92519
CRS-I2287
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6325
Hardcoded Signature

Certain clients had signature setting that was hardcoded, updated this to look at Mail.Confirmations.Signature setting instead
N/A
CRS-I2248
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6377
HotelHub Interface Changes

Additional field was added to HotelHub reservation message to send 'Child' rate code, reservations made on Child rate will now apply the applicable rate code.
N/A
CRS-I2286
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6343
Country Codes update

Updated Country Codes as per ISO-3166 codes. If the country code does not exist, it will be added during upgrade.
N/A
CRS-I2313
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6361
Reservations will no longer fail if nationality does not exist

Nebula interfaces such as DirectPush, SynXis, Hotelbeds, HotelHub and other ADS interfaces will no longer fail reservation if country code does not exist, country code will be ignored instead.
128355
CRS-I2320
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6379
Agent or Company Name included in API Availability response

Availability response will now echo the <POS> element and contain a <CompanyName> element for Agent or Company depending on Type attribute value. This feature can be controlled with the setting API.AvailRQ.EchoPOS.Enabled 
N/A
CRS-I2318
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6394
Booking.com Nebula - Cancellation error invalid format

The error response is no longer generated with the incorrect format and a success response is returned with the channel confirmation number. In Kibana the reservation logs the FailedReason for in order for it to be tracked in the message logs.
N/A
CRS-I2200
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6372
Added Default setting for Title in NebulaCRS

Default setting added for Title.
N/A
CRS-I2199
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6386
Agent Profiles additional features

Added ability to link Corporate profiles to Agent profile, linking Wholesaler to Tour Operators, and merging like profiles.
N/A
CRS-I2265
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6348
Include Hidden' tick on Allocations screen

Hidden Allocations will now be hidden by default on the Allocations page and can be viewed by ticking the Include Hidden check box.
N/A
CRS-I2279
Call Center
2023.2.6391

Default Title set in NebulaCRS should apply in Call Center

The default title set in NebulaCRS now applies in Call Center reservations.
N/A
CRS-I2262
Call Center
2023.2.6370
Allow for in text searching in property filter on Call Center

Users can now search with any word from property name in the property search filter and will return all properties that contains the word.
N/A
CRS-I2266
Call Center
2023.2.6386
Changed currency formatting to no longer use Locale settings

Hard coded number format - commas added for thousands and decimal point for cents. Eg. 123,456,789.00
N/A
CRS-I2207
Call Center
2023.2.6386
View Rates option on density chart

Added option to VIEW RATES in Call Center Density Chart. Will show public rates with actual stay value based on the number of nights selected.
N/A
CRS-I2209, 
CRS-I2213
Call Center
2023.2.6435
Density chart will now display inventory received from PMS,  inventory closed out and limits

Call Center will now display a message for the inventory closeout, limit and the day's availability received from PMS when hovering over density chart.  On the cruise chart, when you try to make a booking,  a message comes appears "Not enough units available".
N/A
CRS-I2267
Call Center
2023.2.6370
Agent and Corporate Profile Lookup sorting

Lookup has been changed to sort the codes alphabetically for Agent and Corporate Profiles.
N/A
CRS-I2238
Call Center
2023.2.6365Summary screen is missing itinerary notes and memos

Itinerary and service notes now viewable on summary page.
N/A
CRS-I2271
Call Center
2023.2.6392
Services filters values changed to dynamic filters

Service Filter and Filter Value selectable options will now dynamically change depending on selected values.  Multiple options can now be selected for more fine grained filtering.
119777
CRS-I2173
Call Center
2023.2.6365
Allow users to expand memo fields
Itinerary, Service, Reservation Memo and Confidential Memo can now be enlarged.
91523
CRS-I2240
Call Center
2023.2.6371
Reservation status override

Users can override reservation status from provisional to guaranteed and vice versa.
N/A
CRS-I2177
InMotion

2023.2.6351
Cruise chart calendar
Added options to select the year, month and day on the cruise chart date picker.
91510
CRS-I2190
Call Center
2023.2.6360
Deposit Allocation screen to show property/unlinked description on services

Added a Hotel column to display Inventory/Service Property Name. Description column will now only display Inventory/Service name.
N/A
CRS-I2299
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6347
eResAPI - Add ContactPerson Email

If a ContactPerson Email is provided it is set for that particular reservation. Should no Email be provided in the XML then the default Contact Email can be set using the email details set on the agent profile.
N/A
CRS-I2320
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6392
Inclusion of the Company Name  in the API Availability Response

Availability response will now echo the <POS> element and contain a <CompanyName> element for Agent or Company depending on Type attribute value.

This feature can be controlled with the setting API.AvailRQ.EchoPOS.Enabled 
N/A
CRS-I2348
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6617
Room Type Nebula Channel Mapping

Room types already mapped will no longer display on drop down list to be mapped 
N/A
CRS-I2322
Call Center
2023.2.6621
Commission totals to display on summary screen

Commission totals now display on Call Center reservation summary screen
N/A
CRS-I2306
Call Center
2023.2.6617
Cruise chart display itinerary status instead of reservation status

Display itinerary status instead of reservation status on cruise chart
N/A
CRS-I2202
Call Center
2023.2.6617
Wholesaler field will only activate when Tour operator agent profile selected

Field only activates when a tour operator profile linked to it is selected, this is on the start new reservation screen in Call Center and General info tab  when making a reservation
N/A
CRS-I2334
Call Center
2023.2.6577
Service Quantity field editable on Call Center and will display quantity and pax on PDF templates

PDF Confirmation report will show both quantity and Pax for the service
Quantity is editable in Call Center when its room rate or Per person sharing.
N/A
CRS-I2321
Call Center
2023.2.6617
Additional Merge tags email templates

1. Property Notification: Action- New, Modify, Cancel.  This field should only be used by the Property Notification template to not run into incorrect value issues.
2. Cancellation policies Available under the new Cancellation Policies merge tag group. It will repeat for each currency.
3. Reservation Time: Include time zone GMT
4. Reservation User: Added User merge tag with name and e-mail values.
5. Added Service NoOfKids total tag
6. Total Tax breakdown: Added new Totals by Tax Type merge tag group. It will repeat per currency per tax type. The Taxes Total is available under the the existing Totals merger tag group.
7. Commission totals - Added Commission and Total Nett
8. Added Hotel Check-in/Check-out times.
9. Added Guest Loyalty Number.
N/A
CRS-I2226
Call Center
2023.2.6617
Call Center add ability to release allocated units from availability screen

Added ability to release allocations from Nebula Call Centre Density Chart. The option should only be available on Allocation inventory, and during allocation periods. The number of units cannot be zero and no more than the allocated units available.
N/A
CRS-I2204
Call Center
2023.2.6617
Services Property filter

Booked will filter all services linked to the selected itinerary/property - if you have more than one itinerary with different properties which has its own services, this filter will screen per itinerary selected
Unlinked - will show all services not linked to a property
All - will return all services
N/A
CRS-I2222
Call Center
2023.2.6617
Rate Availability Override

Added ability to override rate availability in Call Center. 
This is dependent on user rights given -  Override Rate Availability in reservation.  if this right is not assigned a supervisor needs to sign it when the rate is closed out or has a restriction.
N/A
CRS-I2063
Call Center
2023.2.6369
OCIS Call Center

Implemented OWS loyalty interface. 
N/A
CRS-I2356
BookNow
2023.2.6640
BookNow Amend Reservation Page Changes

Each option is given an ID - allows for option to hide certain options per site.

Add another Lodge updated to Add another Itinerary
Remove Hotel updated to Remove Itinerary
N/A
CRS-I2290
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6329
Limit HotelHub Inventory records to 50 per XML

Limited HotelHub Inventory records to 50 per XML to prevent error being returned from HotelHub
Error Type="902">Room updates cannot be for more than 50 rooms in one request
N/A
CRS-I2302
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6550
Add check for special characters in Text field

Added checks for special character in the below fields
Rate names in rate uploads for SynXis and DirectPush interfaces
Guest and agent  profile names in reservation upload for SynXis interfaces
N/A
CRS-I2374
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6649
Deposits Outstanding OverPayments - by Arrival Date : Dep-OO 

Removed default ticks on Include Unlinked Services and Show_Direct_Bookings to prevent blank report being generated for clients who do not have unlinked services or direct bookings (reservations with no agent or corporate profile attached). Clients who do have such reservations can tick these when generating the report
135536
CRS-I2386
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6650
NebulaCRS Admin screen changes

eRes admin and managed services portal has been rebranded with NebulaCRS.
New login screen, updated favicon and  updated logo's
N/A
CRS-I2295
Call Center
2023.2.6689
Payment Link for Guest Email confirmations

Additional merge tags have been created where guests can click on payment link and be redirected to NebulaPay or direct to Payment Gateway

Deposits Payable: {{payNowUrl_Due}
This will repeat with each deposit trigger, setting the amount to the value of the deposit trigger. Note that this does not take into account any deposits already received.

Deposits Payable:{{payNowUrl_Outstanding}}
This will repeat with each deposit trigger, setting the amount to the value of the deposit trigger. This takes into account deposits received.
Deposit Totals: {{payNowUrl_Outstanding}}
This will add only one link / button for the total amount outstanding (total deposit due - deposits received).

Property must interface to NebulaPAY and have Call Center module enabled with Email Templates
N/A
CRS-I2385
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6658
HotelHub - Change OTA_HotelInvCountNotifRQ to not send negative values

Made a change to send zero instead of a negative value for availability uploads to HotelHub
N/A
CRS-I2375
Call Center
2023.2.6708
Hide rate preview on Call Center

Rate pop up will now no longer show by default
N/A
CRS-I2432
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6719
Rate upload period Booking.com Nebula

Made a change rates will now upload for 730 days instead of 365 days
N/A
CRS-I2404
Call Center
2023.2.6687
Email templates number formatting

Email template format will display in the '###,###.##' format regardless of locale
N/A
CRS-I2396
Call Center
2023.2.6720
Apply agent profile source to reservation

Call Center will now override Source, Origin and Market fields on the reservation, when selecting an Agent if those fields are specified in the Agent/Corporate profile
134131

CRS-I2415
Call Center
2023.2.6707
Reservation search channel confirmation number to ignore suffix

Call Center will now do a partial match on the channel confirmation number when searching using a wildcard suffix. This allows the number to be matched even when the interface suffix is left out.
If the number is 'RUAIUWD-6397-D-PUSH'
RUAIUWD will work
RUAIUWD-6397-D will work.
6397-D-PUSH will NOT work
N/A
CRS-I2413
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6659
Remove meal plan from ConnectPMS reservation messages

Deactivated the sending of the meal plan in ConnectPMS reservation messages by default. There is currently a limit on the MealPlanCodes attribute for 3 characters
N/A

Defects Resolved


Zoho Number
Module
Version
Description
Zoho Desk Number
CRS-I2310
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6350
Max Adult Heading duplicated on Service rate screen

Second Max Adult replaced heading with Max Kids on service rate screen
N/A
CRS-I2298 
CRS-I2297 
CRS-I2311
CRS-I2304
Call Center/
InMotion
2023.2.6341
Rate override and Split out Night Option displaying incorrect rates

Fixed issue where rate code override did not work if there was a rate change in the customer's rates.
Fixed issue where rate split functionality did not work as expected if there was already a rate change present.
119559, 126947, 128510
CRS-I2291
Call Center
2023.2.6323
Call Center screen froze when attempting to add a service

Fixed issue where ReservationPendingID sent in request was not used, and because the booking was linked to ChannelID 6 the pending tables where not loaded resulting in spTemphold being called without a reservationNo causing No Rooms Available error.
126263
CRS-I2283
Reports
2023.2.6353
Occupancy report -monthly PDF and Excel format

Fixed issue where day totals displayed differently between PDf and Excel format
125098
CRS-I2305
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6359
Booking.com Nebula Restrictions

The restrictions are sent with AvailStatusMessage blocks sending the correct with dates for when the ApplyOn day of the week is set. Booking.com is sending back a success response and no longer the previous error response. Additionally as discussed the duplicate LengthOfStay elements will still be sent if the client has applied restrictions which overlap, and not only the most restrictive restriction. 
N/A
CRS-I2325
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6394
Booking.com Nebula - Reservation saving as provisional

Reservation now saves with account if account payment type set and guaranteed if account number is defined
N/A
CRS-I2289
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6378
ChannelAvailabilityUploadQueue table - repeat entries for 0 availability count

No ADS uploads are queued to send when the inventory count received from the PMS is unchanged. When the inventory count is changed from the PMS then the correct entries are still added in AvailabilityUpdates table and then sent to  ChannelAvailabilityUploadQueue table to process to any mapped ADS channels.
125741, 128360, 
127828,
129275
CRS-I2272
Call Center
2023.2.6377
Market could not be removed if added to reservation

1) If an Agent/Rate Code on the booking has a Market, that Market will be added to the booking if there is no Market selected at time of saving. 
2) If the Agent/Rate Code has no Market, the user can add and remove the Market as they see fit. 
3) If Rate Code is overridden to a Rate Code without market, market can be removed.
(Does not apply to eRes reservations)
120831
CRS-I2314
InMotion
2023.2.6395
InMotion Allocation Schedules

Fixed issue where Firestore was not updated correctly if amending allocations on the Allocation Schedules screen.
Allocation Schedule logic changed to not delete booked allocation periods and availability as well. This will allow the correct availability to be put back when itineraries are
cancelled and make the room bookable again in the future. If a user removes a room from an allocation schedule it will not be removed until the itinerary is cancelled.  
129405, 128480,
126292,
124392
CRS-I2261
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6391
Corporate and Wholesaler Profiles created in NebulaCRS were not added to the respective  Tables

Corporates and wholesalers will now also be added to respective tables if creating or amending Agents of aforementioned types. Existing profiles made prior to change will need to be moved manually.
N/A
CRS-I2236
Call Center
2023.2.6372
Reservation History to include New items

Fixed issue that caused new reservations excluded itinerary and service history detail.
N/A
CRS-I2284
Call Center
2023.2.6439
Reservation History amendments fix

Reservation history displayed everything instead of just the amendments done.
N/A
CRS-I2348
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6617
Room types excluded when mapping to Hotelbeds

Fixed issue where some room types were not displaying when mapping to Nebula Channel Interface
N/A
CRS-I2325
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6525
Booking.com Nebula - Reservation saving as provisional

Reservation is now saved as guaranteed with the payment type set to account when the Agent booked has an account number set
N/A
CRS-I2357
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6625
 Itinerary always showing Tax Exclusive amount

Fixed issue where Itinerary displayed tax excl amount regardless of property rates include taxes setting.
N/A
CRS-I2305
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6359
Booking.com Nebula Restriction Duplications

Added a check to ignore restrictions where the ApplyOn is set as 'N' for the current date which will ignore the duplicate minLOS restriction. Additionally the duplicate LengthOfStay elements will still be sent if the client has applied restrictions which overlap, and not only the most restrictive restriction
N/A
CRS-I2353
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6626
Hotelbeds No Name in Namelist

Added a check to use the first customer name (that is not "No Name") instead of "No Name".
N/A
CRS-I2343
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6637
Certain Agent Profile Updates not saving

Region and Company Registration was not saving when inputted
133289 & 135880
CRS-I2309
eRes
2023.2.6570
Agoda eRes - Reservation exception error

Updated the eRes ADSImpl logic to use a UUID as the session id for error logged
Error from Agoda: null Agoda: Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint 'PK_TempHold_1'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object 'dbo.TempHold'. 
128360
CRS-I2326
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6528
Channel connections errors - Deactivate interface and delink property

Fixed error when attempting deactivate a channel from a property or delink a property
N/A
CRS-I2331
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6568
NebulaADS full availability upload inconsistency

The full uploads now  sending when the time set in 'ADSFullAvailUpload.Time' is reached on the server side and when the time set on the properties in the LastFullAvailabilityUpload value is also older than 22 hours
N/A
CRS-I2340
eRes
2023.2.6572
Agent Details not sending in OTAPMS Profile Message

The Agent profile name was not being sent in the profile update message to Apex in code was longer than 8 characters. New Setting added 'PMSAgent.IATA.Restriction.Ignore'. Changing this value to 'Y' will then populate the CompanyName details in the profile, except the Code attribute as this has a limit of 8 chars according to the schema, but the code will still send in the ID tag as before 
113812
CRS-I2342
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6577
Incorrect Date Period for Rate Uploads - Booking.com Nebula

Fixed issue where client was updating specific days in the month for example 10th-11th and then 17th-18th.  When the rate upload is sent, it sent a single RateAmountMessage block with start date 10th and end date 18th. This was incorrectly updating the days in between which was not part of the date range that was changed.
N/A
CRS-I2418
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6687
Hotelbeds Reservation Totals multiplying for multi unit reservations

Rate breakdown is now correct when multiple units are booked on Hotelbeds
141047
CRS-I2412
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6656
Agent Screen not loading

Fixed issue where Contracts screen did not open if a lot of Agents present. 
Fixed issue where editing Agents in NebulaCRS would cause eRes to reload Contracts without the properties linked.
N/A
CRS-I2434
NebulaCRS
2023.2.6720
Accommodation totals incorrect on PDF template

Fixed issue where group bookings were giving incorrect amounts for accommodation
144119
CRS-I2373
Call Center
2023.2.6707
View reservations rates user right does not apply to some fields on the  rate breakdown screen

Reservation rates are hidden if view reservation rates user right is disabled
N/A
CRS-I2403
Call Center
2023.2.6707
Deposit policy override doesn't save

Fixed issue where Deposit amount or Date override did not save when amending existing reservations
N/A








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