Latest updates
& enhancements

V1.11

More relaxed booking edits

Good news — making changes to an active booking is now a lot easier:

  • Full editing freedom when the boat is claimed but the trip hasn't started yet

  • You can now switch to a different boat model — as long as the trip hasn’t started

  • Editing ongoing trips is now smoother — even when pickup’s in the past

  • Past pickup times are visible again in the UI (no more disappearing time fields)

  • It’s now visually clearer which boat is linked to a trip. So you instantly see that it's unavailable for others

We also fixed an issue where availability could show up incorrectly when editing a booking.

Custom phone number settings

Admins now get full flexibility: make the phone number field required, optional, or remove it entirely. Shape your booking flow the way you want it.

Other smaller updates

  • Schedules still linked to your rental setup can no longer be accidentally removed.

  • Stripe integration: smoother than ever.

  • Bug fixes

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V1.10

Advanced conditions per customer type

We already supported standard rules—but now you can handle almost every edge case. Set precise conditions per customer group: how far in advance they can book, on which days, with how many people, and more.

Even the most specific scenarios are now possible using AND/OR logic. Everything runs automatically in the background. Got a fun edge case in mind? We’re happy to help.

Other small updates

  • Even more system e-mails are now translated

  • Switching boats? Default settings are now a bit more forgiving

  • Deposits were charging too early — now they wait their turn.

  • Mollie withdrawals and Stripe metering — all up to spec now.

  • Fixed lots of bugs and made small improvements throughout the system

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V1.9

Labels are here! You can now add your own labels to bookings — like "Cleaned", "Engagement trip", or "Birthday Surprise" — to keep things clear and organized. It's a fun and flexible way to filter and find what matters most in your booking overview.

Custom booking labels

Other small updates

  • You can now click back and forth to a booking detail page without losing your filters — we’ll remember them for you!

  • Also: we squashed a bunch of bugs. 🐞

V1.8

Sync your bookings to your personal calendar

You can now connect Let’s Book to your Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook. All your upcoming bookings will automatically appear in your calendar — so you’re always up to date, wherever you are.

Other smaller updates

  • Fixed various bugs
  • Unavailable time slots are now easier to spot in the booking form
  • We updated the dashboard font so everything’s easier to read — and hopefully we look a bit smoother too 😎
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V1.7

Smoother workflow

We tweak, test, and tune—all to make your rental life a little smoother (and stickynote-free).

Notes per customer
Keep useful customer info right where it belongs—no more sticky notes. Add remarks directly to each customer profile.

Duplicate rental schedules
Working with complex schedules? You can now duplicate and tweak them in no time.t.

Rich text in descriptions
Boat and dock category descriptions now support rich text. Add links, lists, or extra details to inform your customers.

SMS after a trip ends
You can now send an automatic text message when a trip ends, to remind customers to return their boat.

Other smaller updates

  • Improved security and performance.
  • Application fees are now calculated over whole amount when using downpayments.
  • Place all boats of a boat model at a dock at once.
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V1.6

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Smart Alternatives

Smarter bookings, fewer drop-offs

We’ve added a powerful new feature to avoid ‘dead ends’ in the booking flow: Smart Alternatives. If a boat is unavailable, we suggests a similar one from the same category — keeping customers on board and your calendar nicely filled.

To get started:

  • Go to your boats, select a boat, and click Edit.

  • You'll now see a Category dropdown. Use it to assign the boat to an existing category—or create a new one that fits your fleet.

  • Want full control? You can turn off automatic suggestions per category or on the alternatives page.

If no boats are available that day, we’ll suggest alternative time slots or dates — so your customers stay in the flow.

Smart, right?

Other smaller updates

  • Improved the alternative dates shown when there's no availability on a specific day.
  • Fixed several bugs and made a few small, yet stylish improvements throughout.
  • You can now change your booking page URL without touching your business name. You're welcome

V1.5

Stripe users can now choose their own payment methods

We've upgraded our Stripe integration, giving you even more flexibility in how you accept payments. You can now choose exactly which payment methods you want to offer your customers:

  • Apple Pay & Google Pay – Fast and secure mobile payments.

  • Swish – Popular in Sweden for instant bank transfers.

  • iDEAL, Blik, Link, Bancontact, Giropay, Przelewy24 & More – Regional favorites across Europe.

  • Revolut Pay & Amazon Pay – Modern alternatives with global reach.

By selecting only the methods that suit your audience, you streamline the checkout process and increase conversion rates.

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Other smaller updates

  • If a chosen day is booked, we’ll suggest the best alternative dates by checking 3 days back and up to 10 days ahead based on your schedule.
  • We’ve added a new hardware integration with Santos Boats, allowing you to directly connect their boats to Let’s Book.

V1.4

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Pass the booking fee to your customers

We're introducing a new feature that gives you more flexibility in handling booking fees. Instead of absorbing the platform fee yourself, you can now pass it on directly to your customers.

Key Benefits:

  • Better Margin Control – Ensure your profits are unaffected by platform fees.

  • Flexible Pricing – Decide whether to absorb the fee or pass it on.

  • Seamless Integration – The fee is automatically added to the final customer price at checkout.

With this update, you have full control over how booking fees are handled, making your rental business even more efficient.

Other smaller updates

  • Added an option to show costs at the payment step.
  • Set a maximum number of bookable boats per boat model.
  • Default selection of the guest customer type when creating a new customer.
  • Enabled showing amounts excluding tax until the payment step.

V1.3

Add custom questions to your booking flow

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You can now personalize the booking process by adding custom questions. Gather all the details you need, such as:

  • Experience level

  • Special requests or preferences

  • The occasion for the trip

  • Where customers would like to be picked up

Answers are saved with each booking for seamless preparation. Start customizing your flow today via your dashboard!

Other smaller updates

  • Automatic Cleanup: Expired bookings older than one week are now automatically removed to keep your system tidy.
  • Custom Slot Names: You can now configure the names of your slots in payment overviews for clearer reporting.
  • New for Boat Clubs: Set monthly and daily limits on future booking hours for specific customer types to better manage availability.

V1.2

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Language packs

Got customers from around the world? Let's Book has you covered! Your platform now speaks multiple languages, so you can easily switch the language of your dashboard and offer a booking form in your guests’ preferred language. Make your customers feel at home, wherever they're from.

How to use

Pick languages of my booking form

Go to text & languages to add your preferred languages.

Next, visit the notifications section to customize and fine-tune the emails you send out.

Change my dashboard language

Go to your profile page and select 'Language dashboard' from the dropdown.

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New text editor

We’ve created a new text editor to make managing your emails simpler and more efficient.

  • Edit emails in the languages you’ve set up for your rental business.

  • Add variables yourself—it's not just text anymore! Make your emails more dynamic by including images, buttons, and even full content blocks.

  • Customize the design to perfectly match your branding.

  • All default notifications have been updated and translated, giving you the perfect starting point to tailor them to your needs.

Other smaller updates

  • Customize the font color of the messages you send to your customers.
  • We added a language switch in the booking form. You can also hide it via your booking form settings. 
  • Various styling improvements. 
  • We caught more bugs than a summer night around the campfire!

V1.1

Our new contract & waiver integration

Excited to announce our new contract integration in Let's Book! Customers can now easily sign waivers or contracts and snap photos before or after their trip. We’re excited to partner with WaiverForever, a modern and affordable platform that makes managing all these documents a breeze.

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How it works

Booking confirmation with link
After booking, your customer receives a booking confirmation with a waiver link. They can easily click the link to access the waiver form.

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Sign the waiver or contract
Customers can sign the waiver electronically. You can configure whether only the primary renter needs to sign, or if all passengers must sign the waiver.

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Check and sign on-site
As a boat rental owner, you can see in Let's Book which waivers are signed. If necessary, customers can sign the waiver at the dock before departure.

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You decide when your customers should sign the contracts and waivers.

The perfect timing

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Whenever they like
Ensure a smooth start to their adventure by allowing them to sign the waiver at their convenience before departure.

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On a tablet at the dock
Let them quickly and easily sign the waiver on a tablet provided by you or a staff member at the dock.

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Scan a QR Code at the Dock
For their convenience, show them a unique QR code at the dock to scan and sign the waiver on their own device.

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We have effectively integrated the waivers into the system. You can easily view the waiver status for each booking directly in your schedule, and you can also filter by waiver status in the bookings overview.

Convenient for daily use

Ready to integrate waivers into Let’s Book? Check out our article on how to get started, with a step-by-step guide to make the process smooth and simple:

Get started

Overview

Other smaller updates:
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V1.0.1 - 1.0.10

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Smart single and multi-day interface

You can now choose the date picker that best fits your type of boat rental.

  • Smart: Let the system automatically decide between the single or multi-day interface.

  • Primarily single day: Select this if most of your rentals are for the same day.

  • Primarily multi day: Choose this if you focus on multi-day rentals.

    This way, customers are always nudged in the right direction while booking.

  • Another small improvement: if you have many slots, we'll automatically ask for your preferred duration first. Then, we'll show the filtered options.

Overview

  • We enhanced the booking validation and significantly boosted performance.

  • Introduced a brand-new design for the booking form settings page.

  • Added single date options when selecting multi-day ranges on the weekly schedule.

  • New pricing variable for calculating rates based on the number of nights, useful for charging extra for overnight stays.

  • Enhanced mobile experience for the date picker.

  • Improved dashboard functionality: going 'back' now reloads the previous page.

  • And a lot of bug fixes and small improvements

Multi-day date picker

V1.0

Long awaited, it's finally here: you can now offer multi-day excursions! Set the duration of the trips and let your customers easily book them in the booking form.

Booking software with alternatives

If the schedule fills up, it automatically suggests suitable alternatives, ensuring optimal scheduling.

Planning overview rental software

In addition, you can now view the schedule on a weekly or monthly basis, providing a better overview of longer trips.

Datepicker with presets

Furthermore, the date pickers have been updated everywhere, allowing for multi-day selections. We've also added new shortcuts for quick jumps to 'today', 'tomorrow', or 'this month'. Convenient, right?"

Learn how to setup multi-day slots in our support center

Overview

Multiple day feature
  • Add multi-day slots
  • See planning overview in day/week/month views
  • Previous slot schedules can now overlap the next one. Read more about the transition period.
  • Made booking form a bit smarter: filters docks and boat types by selected dates
  • We show alternative slots if you are fully booked
  • Improved date picker in bookings overview
And furter
  • We've introduced a new condition that allows add-ons to be dynamically shown or hidden based on the duration of a trip. This simplifies the process of accurately pricing services like hiring a captain.
  • Changed VAT to Tax everywhere
  • Lots of bug fixes
  • Upgraded to version 1.0 ✌️
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V0.18

Partner with resellers and agents

Work with resellers such as hotel concierges or tourist information points to sell trips, by booking directly into your system. Cut out back and forth phone calls to confirm bookings.

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How it works

  • Create a custom URL for your partners/resellers via widgets.

  • Share this unique URL with your partner and provide embedding instructions.

  • Optionally set a custom price for this partner. When setting a price, under "conditions," select "booked via partner" and then proceed with the desired settings..

  • Easily track bookings within your Let's Book dashboard using the unique partner identifier assigned to each URL.

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Filter bookings by specific partners in the booking overview, export them to Excel for analysis, and view partner details for each booking on the booking detail level.

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Collaboration with Qondor

Let's Book now collaborates with Qondor, a French hardware and software provider, offering sleek and affordable integration solutions for boats. With a simple connection, you can now link your bookings directly to your fleet, enabling remote on/off toggling and real-time location tracking. Learn how to connect and how to implement it for your day-to-day use..

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Overview

  • Implemented a condition that allows you to hide/show add-ons based on trip lengths. This simplifies tasks like assigning a captain to a trip and accurately pricing it. When adding an add-on, search for the condition 'trip duration'.
  • When sending payment requests, we autofill client phone numbers and email addresses. A much-requested improvement.
  • We've added a bell to the dashboard to notify you of major updates
  • Added tracking for bookings made through partner websites
  • Added support for Qondor tracker, added center ID validation and set instruction interval to 10 seconds
  • Updated the plan section
  • Fixed a couple of small bugs

V0.17

We've conducted a major update, ensuring that all the technology powering Let's Book is up to date. This has resulted in increased stability and top-notch security.

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Add customer

It's now possible to add a customer while you, as an admin, make a booking.

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Booking timeline

At the booking detail level, there's now a timeline where you can see all the activity related to a booking. This allows you to track who made which changes and when.

Overview

  • Laravel upgrade to 10.x, PHP to 8.3 and to React to 18
  • New feature: Register customer from booking form in dashboard
  • New feature: Changelog timeline per booking 
  • Fixed many small bugs

V0.16

Our latest update includes improvements to the landing page and dashboard, offering a clearer view of upcoming and recent bookings. You'll also find useful data on trip frequency per year and month, along with a handy search function to quickly find what you need.

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Overview

  • Added new super fancy dashboard
  • Added new feature 'payment status' to bookings. You can now filter unpaid or partially paid bookings in your booking overview.
  • Added new 'book again' reminder email that is sent after 50 weeks. Setup via communication flows
  • It's now possible to rearrange your slots
  • Made payment description consistent for Stripe & Mollie
  • Improved back button throughout the app 
  • Filter docks when customer type only has access to one
  • Prevented auto selecting dock / boat models when forceLogin is passed, but the customer is not logged in
  • Remove slots or schedule
  • Fixed bug where new docks were sometimes hidden by default 
  • Fixed bug where customers could not log in sometimes

V0.15

We're thrilled to announce the arrival of our brand-new Sales Dashboard, crafted with your rental business success in mind. Now, gain a comprehensive overview of your rental performance at a glance. Filter effortlessly by revenue, trips, or average duration, and dissect statistics by location or boat type for deeper insights.

But that's not all – prepare for a touch of delight with our fun features! Experience the joy of confetti as the most recent booking lights up your screen. Dive into your best day, month, and year with ease, uncovering valuable insights along the way.

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Overview

New Features

  • Introduced a sales insights page

  • Included a pre-arrival email feature

  • Enhanced the booking confirmation email for admins

  • Enabled exporting all coupons to Excel

Bugfixes

  • Corrected the order of docks in the booking form

  • Resolved styling problems

  • Stopped certain fields from being escaped incorrectly

  • Maintained the order of add-ons when edited

  • Bugfix with fixed down payment amounts

  • Hide docks in booking form when you don't have access

  • Allow canceling completed bookings

  • Updated default email texts

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Trip timelines

At Let's Book, we've made it possible for you to link a boat to a booking and track the booking's progress with color-coded indicators: green for smooth sailing, yellow for setting sail soon, and red for "oops, they're running late!”
By doing this you get a comprehensive overview of which boats are docked or out making waves.

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Allow customers to cancel their own bookings.

Here it is: the option for customers to cancel their trip themselves. But of course, not just anyone can do it: as the rental owner, you determine which customer types are allowed to cancel (for example, only your members), and under what conditions.

Go to customer types, select the role you want to edit, and find the section called 'cancellation settings'. You can also add a specific message before cancellation, for example, to communicate the cancellation conditions.

Overview

  • Allow customers to cancel
  • Added additional payment methods
  • Display trip timelines in planning overview and the number of bookings / trips
  • Added additional custom return URL parameters

We've been bug-busting like it's nobody's business!

V0.12

Overview

  • Added support for down payments 
  • Added new variable to use in pricing which contains the total of the rental pricing 
  • Fixed bugs regarding placing boats in and out of service and UI bugs in the date picker on planning page 
  • Improved compatibility with Squarespace websites
  • Improved deployment speed

V0.13

Overview

  • Split out the timeline view bookings per dock 
  • You can anonymize customers
  • Prevent change of currency
  • Prevent archival of dock with future bookings

    And a huge list of bugs was fixed

V0.14

Accept online payments

Accept payments on your boat rental website from all major credit cards and many local payment methods with our Stripe & Mollie integrations.

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Trip control

Customers can start, pause, and end their trips remotely, all within their booking window.

V0.11

Before Departure: The customer receives an SMS with a link to their booking detail page. On this page, they can browse available boats for their selected time slot and make their choice.

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Starting the Boat: If in line with rental settings, they can effortlessly start the boat with a simple click.

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After the Trip: Upon returning from their trip, the customer can easily switch off the boat, signaling the end of their trip. As the rental owner, you have access to the entire trip timeline on the booking detail page, providing valuable insights into the journey.

We think it’s a nice way to offer convenience and freedom while maintaining control over your rentals. Read more about connected fleet and some tips for implementing it perfectly.

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Overview

  • Add trip control for customers
  • Added QR image to booking update emails
  • Custom dock contact details are now shown on the booking detail page
  • Added WebP and other image formats support when uploading
  • Small bug fixes and jazzed up some visuals!