Changelog

Point of sale is now called Outlets, and an outlet can be a restaurant, a guest shop, a spa or an activities desk. Add one with the plus beside Outlets in the sidebar. Every sale or booking goes to the guest's room folio or is paid there and then, and its revenue is counted once.

Spa and activities

List your treatments and activities with their duration, price, capacity and cancellation terms, then add the therapists, rooms, boats or guides they need, with their working hours. Veridien offers only the times that are free, and a therapist, room or boat is never booked twice for the same time. A booking is charged when it is done, or at booking if you prefer, and late cancellations and no-shows take the fee you set. Each one appears in the new Bookings tab on the reservation and in Treatments and activities on the dashboard, and the guest gets a confirmation email. Vesper can check availability and book for you once you confirm.

Guest shop

Products carry a SKU and a barcode, so a scan finds them at the till. Stock drops with each sale, low stock is flagged every morning, and a return goes back to the room folio or out through a payment method.

Opening the sidebar, a menu, a dialog or a tooltip used to make the browser restyle the whole page, which on a busy dashboard read as a stutter. That work is gone: the sidebar folds within one frame of the click, and every other control inherits the same fix.

The Mac app

The desktop app signs you in through your own browser, where your passkeys and password manager live, then comes back to the front by itself. The window has a proper title row and drags from it, and it updates itself. Download it from the Mac releases page; an older copy needs one reinstall, after which updates arrive on their own.

Veridien has moved from Sevalla to Railway, and now runs in Singapore, closer to the properties it serves. The application, its database and the background workers all live in the same region on a private network, so pages load faster in the Indian Ocean and South East Asia and nothing but the web app is reachable from the public internet.

Every change now passes through a staging environment before it reaches you. What lands in production has already been used for real, on a copy of the same setup.

What the move means for your data, where it lives and who processes it is set out in the Privacy Policy and the Data Processing Agreement, both updated for the move.

Veridien now has a version number, and this is the first post of a changelog that starts from it. Everything before 0.1.0 was built and shipped continuously without release notes. From here, every release gets a version and a short post like this one, so you can see what changed and where to find it.

What 0.1.0 is

The product you can use today: front desk with check-in and check-out, a reservations calendar and list, guest profiles, folios and invoicing in more than one currency, rate plans, packages and promotions, a channel manager connected through Channex, a restaurant point of sale, housekeeping, expenses and finance accounts, reports, a loyalty program, a guest stay portal, and Vesper, the assistant for staff. The app runs on the web, on desktop and on mobile.

What's next

Releases are numbered by what they carry. A release with a new feature bumps the middle number (0.2.0), a release that only fixes things bumps the last one (0.1.1), and 1.0 arrives when the first hotel is live on our new hosting. Each one lands here the day it ships.