Available in Waitwhile May 17th, 2023.

 We are thrilled to announce a series of updates that will elevate your customer experience on the Waitwhile platform. Get ready to showcase your brand with style and make a lasting impression on your guests with logo optimization, waitlist improvements, and enhanced theming. Here are the details:

Logo optimization

We have optimized the logo display in the customer registration flow to make it more prominent. The header has been removed, allowing your logo and content to take center stage in a sleek white box. Plus, if you have a logo set, the default "Welcome" text will gracefully step aside to give your brand the attention it deserves (you can of course set the welcome text to be whatever you'd like still!). 

Please note that if you have a white logo with a transparent background, take a quick look at your public page to make sure it's what you expect! If you need to update your logo, you can do so here.

Waitlist improvements

Your waitlist now also enjoys a fresh new look! The waitlist will be elegantly displayed inside a dedicated box, allowing your background image to shine through, if you've chosen one. It's a visually stunning way to keep your guests engaged and excited.

Enhanced theming

We believe in providing you with complete control over your customer-facing pages. That's why we're introducing enhanced theming options to take customization to the next level:

• Layout options: Enjoy more layout options for your welcome pages. With greater flexibility, you can design a unique and personalized experience for your customers.
• Button border radius: Select from a range of border radius options for your buttons, including the option for square buttons with a radius of 0. It's all about presenting your brand in a way that resonates with you.
• Font options: We're expanding our font library to offer you more choices. In addition to the existing Helvetica and Poppins options, you'll have access to a wider selection of fonts. From Google Fonts to custom fonts via upload, you'll have the freedom to create the perfect visual identity for your brand.

We can't wait to see how you bring your brand to life with our enhanced public pages!

Stay tuned for more exciting features coming your way soon. Thank you for choosing our platform for your customer flow management needs!

The ability to add a policy when your customers sign up is very important to many users. As part of our vision to create a continuously more seamless and customized experience for your guests, we are now introducing it as an input field type, rather than having it be a separate section.

With this new feature, you can fully customize your policy to fit the needs of your specific business, link to an external policy, or choose which policies should be displayed for which services. You can also create multiple policies if you’d like!

We understand that policies can play a crucial role in setting the tone for the customer experience, and we're excited to offer this new feature to help you create a seamless and consistent experience for your guests.

Input fields are data-capturing fields that you can choose to display to your guests in order to collect the right kind and amount of information from them to help provide a truly personalized experience. In addition to Policy, other types of input field options include Text Field, Text Area, Number, Selection, Date, Checkbox, and URL. You can read more about Input Fields and other customer-facing settings here.

To add a new policy input field, simply go to: 

→ Settings > Customers: Input fields

We are super excited to introduce our new Android app! Now available to download from the Google Play Store, the Waitwhile Android app offers the same great features and functionality as our web and iOS apps, with a user interface optimized for Android devices. 

With this new release, Android users can enjoy Waitwhile's intuitive interface and powerful features, including adding guests to waitlists or creating bookings, changing and updating visits, communicating with guests or checking them in.

Whether you're behind the counter, on the shop floor, or even out and about, our Android app gives you easy access to our services from your Android device. It's never been easier to provide the perfect customer flow!

Download the Waitwhile Android app by going to the Google Play Store.

To improve the experience for your frontline staff and your customers, we have added automated appointment booking messages!

With these new message types, you can now easily and automatically communicate with your customers when they schedule an appointment. The first message type, Booking Request Confirmation, lets your customers know that their appointment has been requested and will be confirmed (or rejected) soon. The second message type, Booking Request Rejected, informs your customers that their request has been declined and suggests alternative options.

These messages are fully customizable in our easy-to-use editor and can be sent automatically, saving you time and improving your customers' experience. Plus, with the ability to send these messages directly from Waitwhile, you can easily manage all your customer communications in one place.

Try out our appointment booking message notifications today and enhance your customer experience even further! Set this up at: 

→ Settings > Messages > Bookings

Please note: You need to have Booking approvals activated to see this feature.

To further improve the user and employee experience regarding booking approvals, we have added a new set of user notifications, that can be triggered when a customer requests a booking or an appointment. 

With these new notification options, you can stay on top of all your appointment requests in real time. Whenever a customer submits a request, you'll receive a notification directly in your Waitwhile account (or via text or email), letting you know that there's a new appointment to manage. You can then quickly and easily respond to the request and approve or reject the booking, all from within Waitwhile.

You can of course choose how and when you receive these notifications. Plus, with our user-friendly interface, you can easily manage all your appointment requests in one place, giving you greater control over your customer flow management.

Enable booking request user notifications by going to: 

→ User settings > Notifications

Please note: You need to have Booking approvals activated to see this feature.

We take the security and privacy of our users and their customers very seriously. To further enhance our commitment, we've introduced a new automatic logout setting. This setting will log a user out of Waitwhile after a certain period of inactivity, ensuring that customer data is protected more stringently. As an admin, you can very easily choose how long you wish the timeout period to be. 

You can now focus on running your business with peace of mind, knowing that sensitive information is kept safe. Try it out today and experience an added layer of security for your customer data!

Enable this feature here: 

→ Account > Security & Data

We are glad to present a new addition to an old feature for Waitwhile that makes it easier for cafes and coffee shops to manage their waitlists and improve the customer experience. Starting today, companies with the business type "Cafe" in Waitwhile can now enable a new option that allows their guests to join the waitlist directly from Google Maps or Google Search.

This feature was previously only available for companies with the business type "Restaurant", and we're thrilled to now offer it to cafes as well. By enabling this option, cafes can provide an even more convenient and streamlined experience for their guests, and reduce wait times for their customers.

We understand how important it is for cafes to create a positive customer experience, and we believe that this feature will help them do just that. As always, we are committed to providing the best tools and features for our customers, and we will continue to explore new ways to improve the customer experience. 

Enable this by by first making sure your business type is set to “Cafe” or “Restaurant” here: 

→ Settings > Location: General > Business Info 

And then toggling on the feature here: 

→ Settings > Public: Waitlist

We're excited to announce an update in our Developers section - Status tags for webhook requests! Now you can easily track the status of your webhook requests with just a glance. Tags show the current status of each endpoint URL - whether it's Active, Failed, or Disabled - making it easy for you to quickly identify any issues and take action.

With this update, you'll be able to manage your webhook requests more effectively, and have more control over your workflow. 

We're always striving to find new ways to improve our user experience and we believe that this feature will make your experience with Waitwhile more efficient and hassle-free.

This feature is available for users on our Enterprise plans. Check it out by going to: 

→ Settings > Developers: API & Webhooks

We've added some really useful features to our customer messaging function. It's now easier than ever to personalize and edit your outgoing messages - with almost no effort!

• Dropdowns instead of curly brackets: We've redesigned the messaging editor to make it more intuitive and easy to use for all users. Your different placeholders will now be displayed in dropdown lists instead of having to enter them in curly brackets.
• Displaying all placeholders: You'll now also be able to see all placeholders that we support in the product - right there in the editor! Previously, some of them were only accessible through our API.

We hope you enjoy this update and please let us know if you have any questions! You can find it by clicking the "Edit" button next to your different Waitlist or Booking messages.

• Settings > Messages > Waitlist
• Settings > Messages > Bookings 

We want to make it possible for you to communicate seamlessly and accurately with all your guests. Therefore, we are now adding multi-language messaging! Users who have enabled two or more customer-facing languages under Settings > Styling > Localization can now also use these in outgoing customer communications. 

In the updated Waitlist and Bookings messaging editors, you will see language chips, where the chips represent each language variant currently selected for messages. There is also an “Add” button, which opens a menu with all languages to choose from. Displayed languages are based on which languages you have added in your localization settings.

Please note that if you do not edit the template, guests will receive the default message for the given language. Personalize your outgoing messages in different languages by going to:

→ Settings > Messages > Waitlist 

→ Settings > Messages > Bookings