APPLICATIONS FOR THIS POSITION ARE NOW CLOSED

We are seeking an experienced, junior to intermediate .Net developer to join our Dunedin team. This is an excellent opportunity to work as part of one of New Zealand's most innovative IT companies in an exciting and fast growing Software as a Service (SaaS) application team.
 
This is a challenging role and you will need to be well organised and have a strong sense of initiative. You will be able to demonstrate the following abilities:
 
• ASP.Net, C#, .Net Web Services & SQL Server databases
• A well rounded knowledge of general web technologies such as HTML, CSS & XML
• Object oriented programming and multi-tier application development
• Excellent communication, both verbal and written
• Time management skills and an ability to work to deadlines and work unsupervised
 
Experience in the following areas is also an advantage:
 
• SQL Reporting Services
• Knowledge of the travel and tourism industry
• Production e-commerce and financial systems
• Requirements engineering and experience with the full SDLC
 
This is a perfect role for a first-rate software engineer who is looking for a chance to grow to the top of their field. You will be working in a development capacity and contributing to the development of high profile, high volume e-commerce systems for a range of clients including some of New Zealand's largest organisations.

If you know you've got what it takes, send your CV and covering letter to ryan@bookit.co.nz.
 
You must be eligible to work in NZ to apply for this role.

If you are wanting to view basic statistics on your suppliers there is now an easy way to view this information. Simply go to your resold product and click on the "details" link next to an operator. This will bring up a screen similar to the below:



From here you can select a date range (the default is all time) and BookIt will tell you:

• the total number of booking requests (e.g. confirmed, cancelled, declined)
• the total number of confirmed bookings
• the conversion rate (e.g. how many booking requests actually converted)
• the total value of confirmed bookings

Thanks Garry at New Zealand Tourism Guide for this useful suggestion!

Remember there is still the full suite of reports in BookIt should you require more detailed reporting. Also this function is only available to resellers. Suppliers should use the existing reports menu when logged into BookIt.

We've just rolled out a new version of the inventory manager. Its now even easier to manage your inventory online and allow customers to make real-time bookings with your property.

Here is what the new inventory manager calendar looks like:

The main changes include:

• Ability to set a minimum stay period on individual days for accommodation operators
• Simplified interface
• Easier to make changes to multiple days without tabbing between cells

We are pleased to announce that Beds24.com is now supported on BookIt. Suppliers using Beds24.com can now have their inventory automatically updated in BookIt. Please contact us if you require assistance setting up this feature.

One of the great things about BookIt is the "software as a service" (SaaS) model that our business is built around. What does this mean? It means that we can easily roll out new features to the booking system without requiring our customers to install complex upgrades. It also means that if one of our clients requests a new feature, then all our clients benefit because that feature becomes available to everyone.

To give you some examples, we've recently rolled out a few new features to the BookIt booking system: 

Feature 1: When selecting a date, the availability of a product is dynamically checked "on the fly"
The customer can instantly see what dates are available, not available or "on request"



Feature 2: Improvements have been made to the cross-selling system
Making it even easier for customers to add more bookings with either the same supplier or 3rd party suppliers



Feature 3: A progress indicator when saving changes
Re-assures the customer while the page loads 



We think these features will make the booking process even easier to use for customers. We've got plenty of new features in the pipeline and as always we welcome your feedback. What new features would you like to see? 

Does the BookIt system support tracking code such as Google Analytics? You bet! BookIt can even track conversions and e-commerce data.

If you would like to use Google Analytics on your BookIt booking pages please follow these steps:

1. Log into Google Analytics and activate e-commerce tracking
2. Send us your Google Analytics tracking code by following these steps
3. We will then install the tracking code into your BookIt pages
4. We'll also activate conversion and e-commerce tracking on the BookIt confirmation page so you can see what people are booking, for how much and what their BookIt reference is

Once the tracking code is installed you can see all sorts of useful data and wizzy graphs:

Please note a setup charge applies for the installation of Google Tracking code. Contact us for more details.

Did you know that you can download a bank transaction reconcillation report in Microsoft Excel format? This is useful for clients with very large weekly settlements containing a lot of individual line items. Please follow these steps the day after payment has been made to your account:

1. Log into BookIt at http://business.bookit.co.nz
2. Click the "Reports" tab
3. Click "View" next to "Completed Payments"
4. Enter the date range you would like to query. If you are just trying to reconcile a single bank transaction, set the start and end dates to the date the payment was made to your bank account
5. Click "Update"
6. After a few moments the report will appear
7. Choose Excel from the dropdown menu and click "Export":
   
   
   
   
8. You will be asked to save or open the file. Click "Open" to view the file in Excel. 

Please contact us should you require assistance, or leave us a comment.

Xero is an online accounting system designed for small businesses and their advisors. It’s simple, smart and secure. We use it and love it and we think our suppliers could benefit from it too.

To try and make all lives all a bit easier we are looking to integrate BookIt with Xero. This will allow our weekly settlements to be automatically downloaded into Xero. If you would to participate in trialing this integration we would be happy to work with you - please contact us for more information.

If you are not a Xero customer we would encourage you to check it out. It really does simplify accounting.

Many of our suppliers will be pleased to know that BookIt now links directly with SiteMinder. If you are a supplier using SiteMinder you can now have your inventory and rates automatically updated in the BookIt system via SiteMinder.

SiteMinder is an easy to use, low cost website solution that allows you to perform room availability & price updates on a SINGLE website.

With the addition of SiteMinder, BookIt now supports the following channel management software:

SiteMinder
Seekom
STAAH
Mitchell Corp
Beds24.com

If you use any of these systems please contact us to arrange a link up.

We are pleased to announce that BookIt now links directly with the STAAH channel management system. Suppliers using this service can now have their rates and inventory flow through automatically to BookIt.

If you use STAAH, please contact us and we will help you arrange a link-up.