Introducing the new Account and Location settings in Waitwhile 3.0!
We’re thrilled to announce the latest improvements in Waitwhile 3.0, bringing you a reimagined experience with brand-new Account and Location settings! While many settings you know and love remain intact, we’ve reorganized and expanded certain areas for greater customization, ease of navigation, and efficiency.
What's new?
- Redesigned interface: More intuitive design, with enhanced functionality for seamless navigation.
- Flexible management: Improved tools for handling locations and accounts, all in one place.
- New customization and automation options: Tailor settings to fit your business workflow.
Let's dive into the details!
Quickly find and manage settings with ease
With a streamlined layout and global search, finding the settings you need has never been easier. Additionally, the new breadcrumb navigation in the header enables quick back-and-forth movement between pages, so you can seamlessly configure your account without extra clicks.
Work faster with an intuitive design
Our upgraded design lets you edit, compare, and adjust settings in a more visually appealing and practical interface. The updated layout, with features like previews and save prompts when existing, makes managing your account settings both faster and more enjoyable.
Centralize all your customer messaging
Now, managing all waitlist and booking messages is simpler, as you find all messages in one unified location. And, we've made sure to update the editor while also adding a number of new featres!
- Message editor: Preview messages with ease, or use the new code editor for advanced customization.
- Custom sender ID: Brand your SMS messages with a unique sender name.
- Message usage report: Track and monitor sent messages to better manage your communication budget.
Boost team communication with improved notifications
Keep your team informed with flexible, customizable notification options, whether it’s via email, SMS, or now push notifications.
- More templates: Choose from a broader range of notification templates to meet specific needs.
- Additional placeholders: Personalize notifications using new placeholder options, just like for customer messages.
- Push notifications: Manage push notifications alongside SMS and email for a more comprehensive communication strategy.
Streamline configuration of your resources and services
Organize and customize your resources and services more effectively with improved layouts and added search functionality.
- Dedicated pages and search options: Access everything quickly with dedicated pages for resources and services, search bars, and additional configurations behind the Options button.
- Service metadata fields: Create up to 20 custom fields for more advanced service configurations and linking.
- New resource permissions:“Allow resources to only view guests they’re eligible to serve” is now a permission.
Added flexibility to resource categories
With the latest resource management settings, businesses can better streamline how they allocate and monitor resources.
- Include in restricted resource mode: Choose to make a resource category visible even when acting as a resource from another category.
- Exclude from wait time estimation: Opt to include or exclude resources from affecting client wait time estimates, allowing for more accurate wait times.
- Pre-select "first/longest available": A convenient option that automatically selects a resource when creating new visits, speeding up the process.
Track and capture revenue at your locations
Introducing a new way to monitor financials with revenue tracking under Location settings. Assign revenue values to services or set fallback amounts in your currency, all viewable within the new Financials tab in Analytics. More guidance is available in our Help center.
Customize display settings across locations
Following the recent addition of separate display settings for Board view and Table view on the Visits and Calendar pages, which allow for customized layouts per view, we’re now introducing new display controls at multiple levels: Account, Location, and User.
- Account-wide settings: Apply globally across locations.
- Location-specific overrides: Adjust for unique needs at each location.
- User-specific views: Allow individual users to further refine their personal displays.
Additionally, there is now a new permission set to manage who has access to Display settings. Access it from Account settings > Roles & Permissions.
Manage your customer-facing settings easily
In the Customer journey section, you can now access and manage all public links, bookings, waitlist configurations, and custom design elements. This area also contains all registration and arrival settings, along with bot protection configurations for enhanced security.
Centralize automation settings for hands-off efficiency
All automation rules—such as syncing bookings to waitlists, setting expiration rules, and managing waitlist prioritization—are now located in one place, reducing manual effort and enabling more focus on direct customer interactions.
And there’s more to come - stay tuned!
Easily translate services, resources, and input fields
A much-requested feature, we are now introducing the ability to super easily localize the names of your services, resources, and custom input fields! This lets you translate the name, display name, descriptions, options, default values, and placeholders for each.
Access account-wide settings in Account overview
Account settings like billing, permissions, and security have been moved from Location settings to the Account overview section. Now, you’ll have a clearer view of these settings and access everything from one place.
- Public page settings: Manage location directory and waitlist overview.
- Display settings defaults: Set account-wide default values.
- Expanded security options: IP safelisting and data anonymization controls have been added under Security.
Add theming to account-wide public pages
We’ve implemented the ability to customize your Location directory (previously Public locations) and Waitlist overview (previously Public waitlists). Update header, colors, background, buttons and much more!
Additionally, it is now possible to apply account level theme settings to individual locations.
We’re committed to continually improving your experience with even more updates on the way!