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Improved

Your own domain opens without www over https too

The name without www — yourbusiness.com — now leads to your website over https as well as http, at every DNS host. The third record on the domain screen is an A record pointing at Bookodile, the same everywhere, instead of a redirect set up differently at each registrar.

  • Links and QR codes written https://yourbusiness.com now arrive, and browsers that try https first no longer show a warning
  • The rest of the address is kept: yourbusiness.com/book opens www.yourbusiness.com/book
  • Already connected? The domain screen asks you to swap your registrar's old redirect for the A record
  • Send instructions and Ask Bookodile explain the new record too

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Improved

Team members' categories on your website in each of its languages

On a website in several languages, the line under a team member's name that comes from their category in Employees, such as Senior or Junior, now shows in the language of the page, translated like the rest of your website. Until its translation is written, it shows in your main language.

  • A role you wrote for the website yourself still shows instead, in each language you wrote it in
  • Renaming a category, or turning categories on or off for your booking page, now updates your published website too

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Improved

Add several website languages at once, and put them in order

In the website editor's Languages tab you can now add one language after another without waiting: each appears at once and is translated in turn, and the list shows which is translating and which is waiting. Put them in the order you want, and your website's language menu and your booking page list them that way.

  • Every language is named twice, in its own words and in yours, such as Slovenščina (Slovenian), and the list can be searched by either name
  • Translating… lasts until the preview shows the translated words, announcements and promotions included
  • Remove a language while it is translating and the next one starts straight away
  • If a language couldn't be translated, its card says so, with Try again

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Improved

Bookodile starts in your own language when you sign up

A new account now opens in the language you picked on our pages, or else in your browser's language when Bookodile has it: English, Slovak, Czech or Vietnamese. Until now it opened in your business's language, so an owner who reads a different language from their customers had to find the switch first.

  • Your customers still read your business's own language, set in Business profile
  • Change yours any time in Settings → App Settings
Fixed

Bookodile keeps working when your browser translates the page

If you read Bookodile through your browser's translation, as Chrome offers for any page that isn't in your language, a click could replace the screen with "Something went wrong". Translated pages now keep working, from sign-up to your calendar, and your booking page does too for customers who translate it.

  • At worst, a translated word stays on screen a moment longer than it should
  • Bookodile itself speaks English, Slovak, Czech and Vietnamese: Settings → App Settings changes the language you read it in
New

Make one section of your website stand out with a background

Every section of your website except the top of the page can now have a background: Plain, Tinted, on a Card, or Inverted, with your colours swapped. Your template draws each one in its own style, so a special offer can sit on a card right under the top of the page.

  • Choose it in the section's Layout menu on the preview, or in its fields in Edit by hand
  • Card isn't offered where the section's items are already cards, such as reviews or team members
  • Luxe Two draws its card with a fine glowing edge, like its service cards
  • It stays as you set it when you switch template, and Ask Bookodile can change it too

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New

Centre a section's words on your website

Text, Call to action, and a building block with a heading over its words or over a wide photo can now be set on the left or centred, like the two buttons in a word processor. Choose it in the section's Layout menu on the preview, or among its fields in Edit by hand.

  • Centred moves the heading, the line under it, the text, the columns and the button together
  • Beside a photo the words stay on the left, and your choice is kept for when the layout changes back
  • It stays as you set it when you switch template, and Ask Bookodile can change it too

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Improved

Every block in the website editor shows how it looks

In the website editor, Add a section now lists every block one to a row, each with a small drawing of how it looks and a line saying what it is. Change to, the Layout menu and the list of sections on a page show the same drawings, and the closing block with the Book button is now called Call to action.

  • Reviews show stars, Team shows faces, Services a price list and Gallery a mosaic
  • The same list on the preview's Add section and on a phone
  • Layout and Change to stay beside their button while you scroll the preview

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New

Choose how bold your website's headings are

In the website editor, Style → Fonts → Headings now lists the weights your heading font comes in, from Light to Black, each shown in that font. Pick one and every heading on your website follows it: the main title, section headings, service and team names, and the headings in your own blocks.

  • Template default keeps the look your template has today
  • A font that comes in only one weight says so, and is always drawn in it
  • Ask Bookodile to make the headings lighter or bolder and it changes the same setting

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Improved

The website Setup list is the same for your whole team, and steps can be skipped

Everyone who edits your website now sees one Setup list: a question one person answers, or a step they skip, is ticked for the others too, on any computer. Bios, service descriptions and parking can be skipped when they don't apply, and bringing your old website over through AI Chat ticks "Already have a website?".

  • Skip counts a row as done, and Undo brings it back
  • Answers given before today in one browser move to the shared list the next time that browser opens the editor

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Improved

Revenue split uses a new percentage from the day it starts

When you change someone's percentage partway through a month, the bookings before that day keep the old rate and the ones from it get the new one. Before, the whole month was paid at the newer rate.

  • A month that crosses a change shows both rates, for example 70% → 50%.
  • Someone tipped in a month without bookings of their own still gets a line, with their tips.
  • Each person's cut is rounded to the cent once, so their cut and what the business keeps add up exactly to their revenue.
  • Changing the price of a visit shared by two team members when you record the payment now changes only the part you recorded it against, so the other person's revenue stays as it was.
  • A visit with a cancelled service shows as paid once the rest of it is paid, and its tip goes only to the people who did the services still in it.

Read more:Revenue Split,Payments

Improved

The original photo is kept when you enhance it with AI

Enhancing a website photo no longer throws the photo you took away after 30 days. The original and every version you make of it are kept, and you can show any of them again in the place it was.

  • In the photo manager, a photo with versions shows a small stack and its versions, the original first: tap one to show it there instead.
  • Choose from your photos lists the photo once with its versions under it, so any place can go back to the original.
  • A team member's and a service's photo on the website keep their originals too.
  • Team members' and services' own photos keep every photo they have been: Earlier photos, in the same window, the original first.
  • Versions don't count toward your website's photos.

Read more:Website,Photos with AI

New

Choose a photo you already have, anywhere on your website

Every place on your website that takes a photo now offers Choose from your photos, next to uploading one and creating one with AI. It opens all of your website's photos in one window, so you can use a photo again without finding the file.

  • Filter by what a photo is: uploaded, enhanced, made with AI, or from your old website.
  • Filter by where it is used: the gallery and its categories, the team, services, pages, or nowhere yet.
  • Search the photos' descriptions, and see every place a photo shows before you use it.
  • The photos that suit the place come first: a team member's own photos for their portrait, a service's for its cover.
  • Your team members' profile photos and your services' own photos are there too, copied to your website when you use one.

Read more:Website

Improved

Remove duplicate photos from your website by asking Bookodile

Ask Bookodile to remove the duplicates and it finds every photo on your website that is the same file as another — the same picture uploaded or brought over from an old website more than once — and takes out the copies on one change, keeping the one a page shows. It also knows which photos your website shows nowhere, on no page and in no gallery, and removes those when you ask. Removed photos wait 30 days in Recently deleted.

Read more:Website,AI Chat

Fixed

Photos of your place in Enhance now show on every device

The photos of your own place that you upload when you enhance a photo are now kept for your business, so the next time you choose one they are there on your phone and on your computer alike. Until now they stayed in the browser you uploaded them from.

  • A photo uploaded before this change moves over the next time you open Enhance in the browser you uploaded it from
  • They still don't join your website's photos, and the × on one removes it everywhere

Read more:Photos with AI

Improved

More looks in Enhance: studio portrait, black and white, magazine style

New looks to pick from when you enhance a photo. A team member can be lit like a studio portrait or in bold black and white, a room like a magazine's interior photo or in black and white, and finished work on a dark backdrop or in a studio's light.

  • Studio portrait lights a person the way a portrait photographer would, with the room behind them gone soft
  • Dark backdrop sets finished work against black, the opposite of Plain surface
  • Every look's picture now shows, even at its small size, what that look changes
  • A person's face, age and tattoos stay as they are, and so does the work itself

Read more:Photos with AI,Website

New

Your booking page in more than one language

Add the languages your customers speak in Business profile, and your booking page offers them with a language switch at the top. Your services, team bios and other texts are translated for you within minutes, and every email and SMS about a booking goes out in the language it was made in.

  • It opens in the customer's own language when you offer it, and the Book buttons on your website open it in the page's language
  • Under each text you write, one line shows the languages it is translated into, and See translations lets you correct any of them
  • The same list of languages is your website's: add one in either place and both have it
  • Names of people, your business and your address are never translated
  • Seventeen languages to choose from, the same as your website's; in all but English, Slovak, Czech and Vietnamese the booking page's own wording was written with AI
  • SMS in Ukrainian and Chinese go out in English, because those letters don't fit one SMS

Read more:Booking page,Website,Reminders & emails

New

Start your website over by asking Bookodile

Ask the chat to delete everything on your website and start over, and it begins again from the template, as a new website does. Ask it to start over from your old website, and it brings that site's pages and photos over once each, on a clean start.

  • Your pages, texts, photo places and your team's website bios go; your services, team, hours and map still come from your booking setup
  • History keeps your website as it was just before, and Undo brings it all back
  • A long change in the chat now shows how many pages, sections, texts and photos it changed, with every line one press away

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New

Ask Bookodile to fix the spelling and grammar on your website

Ask the chat to fix the grammar or the spelling on your website, on every page or just one, and it corrects only the mistakes. Your wording stays, and so does every price, time, name and link: a correction that would change one of them is left out, and the chat tells you how many.

  • It reads your page names, every section, your team's bios and role lines, and your photos' descriptions, in every language your website has
  • Each correction shows in the preview beside you, with Undo
  • History now also keeps your website as it was just before every change made in the chat

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Improved

The website preview shows the computer version on a laptop too

On a smaller screen, the Computer preview in the website editor used to drop to a narrower layout, so you never saw what a visitor on a computer sees. It now always shows the computer version, made smaller to fit beside the chat.

  • The percent next to Computer and Phone shows how much smaller the page is drawn
  • Click it for Actual size, or Fill this space to watch the layout change as you drag the chat's edge

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New

Enhance your team's and services' photos, with ideas for your kind of business

Enhance now works on every photo, a team member's and a service's too. Say what should change, tap ideas made for your kind of business, or pick a look from real pictures.

  • Put a person or finished work into a photo of your own place
  • Choose a backdrop, the light or what a team member wears from pictures
  • A person's face, age and tattoos stay as they are, and so does the work itself
  • A profile photo keeps its original, one press away

Read more:Photos with AI,Website

Improved

Tell Photos with AI what you want in any language

Write what a photo should show, or what should change, in whatever language comes easiest, with or without accents. There's nothing to set. Asking for better light or a sharper photo in your own words now does what tapping those ideas does.

  • Black and white no longer cancels the rest: ask for it together with better light or anything else and you get both
  • Enhance starts from the largest copy of your photo, so more of its detail reaches the result

Read more:Photos with AI

Fixed

A booking moved to another team member takes their price

When a service has a different price per team member, dragging a booking to someone else now gives it that person's price, and the message after the drop tells you the new amount. A price you typed yourself, a discount or a recorded payment stays as it is.

  • Opening a booking now shows the price saved on it, the same one the calendar shows, and saving keeps that price. If your prices have changed since, Reset to catalog price brings it up to date

Read more:Calendar

Fixed

Photos made in the chat now show on your website

Where a services section was set to hide its photos, new ones made in the chat stayed hidden. It's now turned on with them, the chat says so, and Undo puts it back. If a photo can't show for another reason, the chat says why.

Read more:Website

New

Make website photos by asking the chat

In the website editor's chat, say what photo you want and it lands on your website, in your draft, with Undo. Ask for a photo for each of your services and you see the list first, with what it will use, and press one button.

  • Say what it should show, or leave it to the service's name and description and your photo style
  • Ask for a change, such as a lighter background, and it changes that photo
  • Ten at a time, so you see the look before using more of the month's photos
  • Services that already have a photo are left out, and people stay real: no made photos of your team

Read more:Photos with AI,AI Chat

Improved

One long page is now a switch, and it says what happens first

Showing all your pages on one long page moved under your list of pages, as a switch. On a published website it asks first, turning it on or off, and says what happens. Nothing is deleted either way.

  • A page you keep out of the menu stays off the long page
  • An old page address now leads to its part of the long page, not the top

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Improved

Edit your website on your phone

On a phone the website editor now gives your website the screen: one row at the top to switch between Chat, Edit and Preview, and everything about the website as a whole — Publish first — behind the globe beside it. Tap anything on your website to change it by hand or ask Bookodile about it.

  • A text opens above the keyboard with the words your website shows, and the website changes as you type
  • A section's settings open under it, so you see the change while you make it
  • Reorder gallery photos as a list: drag one by its handle, or use the arrows
  • Tap a gallery photo twice to open it large, as a visitor sees it
  • A dot on the globe says something isn't published yet

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Fixed

The website preview works in Safari and on iPhone

Picking, typing and the photo buttons on the website editor's preview did nothing in Safari or in any browser on an iPhone, and tapping a link on it could leave the preview white. All of it works now.

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Improved

Set up a second business the way you set up your first

Adding a separate business from New workspace now walks you through the same short setup as when you signed up — what kind of business it is, its address, a first service, its opening hours and who works there — instead of opening an empty workspace. Your name is already known, and the hours can start from the business you came from.

  • Every new business starts with at least one service, so its booking page has something to book
  • Then Bookodile helps you finish setting it up, one question at a time
  • Your other businesses stay one click away in the menu at the top left

Read more:AI Chat

Improved

A new branch can start from one you already have

Adding a branch now takes four short steps: where it is, what to bring over from another branch — services with their prices, opening hours, booking rules, your logo and colours, and your website's design and words — its own hours, and which of your team work there. The people you pick get the services they already do.

  • Anything copied can be changed for the new branch afterwards, prices too
  • Combinations and prices set per team member aren't copied, and the last step says which
  • The website's photos stay with the branch they show; add this one's own
  • Everyone you add keeps their role and the notifications they chose

Read more:Multi-branch

New

Photos made and enhanced with AI on your website

Take a photo on your phone and Enhance makes it look professional: better light, golden hour, tidied up, sharper or a clean background, or whatever you ask for in your own words, compared before and after. No photo for a place on your website yet? Create with AI makes one for it — the top of a page, a service's cover, or a new one for your gallery — in the style of your own photos. Nothing changes until you choose Use this.

  • Pick up to three of your photos under Style → Photo style, and new photos match their light and colours
  • Never faces, never your team, and never the outside of your place — customers look for the real door
  • Say what should change — remove a hand, clear the background — and Bookodile changes that photo rather than making a new one
  • An empty place has one Add a photo button: upload your own, or create one
  • 30 photos a month for each business, shown as you go

Read more:Photos with AI,Website

Improved

See what's missing on your website

Ask “What's missing on my website?” in the website editor and Bookodile lists what a visitor would notice first — no services, no address, too few photos, no about text, team members without a photo or a bio — and helps you fix each one. A section with nothing to show now says why, and an empty Services section offers to add them.

  • It reads your own website and booking setup, never sample text
  • Nothing changes until you pick something to fix

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Improved

Your team on the website: roles from Employees, people in your order

The line under each person's name on your website now comes from their category in Employees — the one your booking page shows — and changes when that does. You can still write a different one for the website alone. In the editor each person is one row you open, with their role and bio together, and arrows to put people in the order you want.

  • Each role and bio says whether it comes from Employees or is written for the website only
  • Move people up and down, or hide someone, right from their row
  • Every card's Book button now lines up at the bottom, however long the bios
  • A card's photo shows the one chosen, with Change beside it

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