August 2025 Release

We're excited to share the latest improvements to Easy Appointment Booking that have been released throughout August 2025. This month brought significant enhancements to booking management, user experience, and platform integrations.

🚀 New Features

Enhanced Booking Management

- Live Booking Refresh: The bookings tab now automatically refreshes to show real-time updates, ensuring you always see the latest booking status without manual page refreshes

- Advanced Pro Plan Filters: Pro plan users now have access to powerful filtering options on the bookings tab, making it easier to find and manage specific bookings

- Improved Booking Creation Flow: Streamlined the "Book after Create" experience, allowing you to immediately book appointments after creating events

Team Viewer Enhancements

- Upsell Data Integration: Added comprehensive upsell and discount information to both the Team Viewer and Agenda views, giving your team better visibility into revenue opportunities

- Enhanced Debug View: Improved debugging capabilities for better support and troubleshooting

Custom Fields Improvements

- Multiple Choice Options: Added support for multiple choice custom fields with an intuitive input interface for creating and managing options

- Cleaner Field Creation: Removed default help text for new custom fields, providing a cleaner setup experience

📧 Email & Communication

- Custom Sender Clarification: Updated the Custom Sender section to better explain email template availability and usage

- Improved Email Safety: Enhanced user name sanitization in email notifications to prevent issues with special characters

- Localized Calendar Messages: Added proper localization for partial deposit notices in the booking calendar

- Better Phone Validation: Implemented improved phone number validation with localized error messages (temporarily reverted for optimization)

🔧 Technical Improvements

- Enhanced Timezone Handling: Improved timezone management across the booking system for more accurate scheduling

- Better Error Handling: Enhanced error handling and logging throughout the app for improved reliability

- Shopify API Improvements: Updated to newer Shopify API versions with better error handling and logging for product fetching

- Klaviyo Integration: Enhanced Klaviyo event tracking with delayed sending and improved error handling for better data accuracy

- App Bridge v4: Significant improvements to App Bridge integration for better Shopify admin experience

🛠️ Bug Fixes & Stability

- Deposit Calculations: Fixed deposit amount calculations to properly consider line item quantities

- Calendar Availability: Corrected the "next available" message display on the booking calendar

- Checked-in Status: Improved initialization of checked-in state based on booking status

Data Management

- Package Integration: Added proper handling for purchased package IDs in bulk booking imports

- Event Table Loading: Better loading state management for event tables

- Booking Count Improvements: Enhanced booking count retrieval in user analytics

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This release represents our ongoing commitment to improving your booking and appointment management experience. As always, if you have any questions or feedback about these changes, please don't hesitate to reach out to our support team.