09 October 2014 – Version 3.9.3.9 released
12 September 2014 – Orbitz directly connected
We are happy to announce that we just passed certification with Orbitz a world leading global online travel company which owns a portfolio of consumer brands that includes Orbitz (www.orbitz.com), CheapTickets (www.cheaptickets.com), ebookers (www.ebookers.com), HotelClub (www.hotelclub.com), RatesToGo (www.ratestogo.com), MrJet (www.mrjet.se) and Asia-hotels.com. Our powerful 2-way connection will enable the hotel to manage all rates, inventory and availability from its Colibri Property Management System and to receive reservations directly into its Reservation Board.
Direct connect allowed us to reduce your channel management fees by eliminating an intermediate tier between your hotel and Orbitz. As a side benefit it makes the reservation gathering, availability and price update a bit faster, more stable and secure because bites of the information should not go through an extra step in the Hotel <-> Orbitz connection.
11 August 2014 – Version 3.9.3.7 released
We glad to announce a great upgrade to our allotment module. The main feature is an ability to hold your inventory for only commission-free booking channels. Thus until release date, which you could specify in hours until check-in date, all booking channels will receive zero or limited availability. In other words your rooms will be bookable only or mainly on your website, via reservation board or via our commission-free colibribooking.com portal. Then on release date all available rooms will be automatically released to all other connected booking channels.
30 July 2014 – Version 3.9.3.6 released
27 June 2014 – Version 3.9.3.5 released
13 May 2014 – Version 3.9.3.4 released
31 March 2014 – Version 3.9.3.3 released
Last several months we had absolutely no time to update you. After we passed booking.com certification we were very busy with switching our existing customers to direct connection. This already helped them save their money on intermediate channel managers. Also we signed up couple large customers and were working on their custom multi-property booking engines. So now we know how to make it in responsive design. Finally new customers want new directly connected channels and we are currently in the middle of that long process.
However, we are not swamped and still pushing forward. Here’s some good news we proud to share:
17 September 2013 – Direct connection to Booking.com
We are extremely pleased to announce that we have established a powerful direct 2-way connection to Booking.com – a number one online hotel reservation service with a widest customer reach. Presently Booking.com offering almost 300,000 hotels and accommodations worldwide, and generating thousands of hotel bookings each day. The impressive fact is that more than 50% of European online hotel reservations made via Booking.com.
This solution will enable the hotel to manage all rates, inventory and availability from its Colibri Property Management System and to receive reservations directly into its Reservation Board.
Direct connection allows us to lower the channel management fees by removing an intermediate tier between the hotel and the booking portal. As a side benefit it makes the reservation gathering, availability and price update a bit faster, more stable and secure because bites of the information will not go through an extra step in the Hotel <-> Booking Site chain.
Currently we charge just $5 per property per booking site per month for directly connected sites. Thus it’s probably the best offer on the market.
Additionally to the Booking.com, Agoda, Hotel.de, Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire, Venere and Oktogo.ru we will keep adding more direct connections to major booking channels. However, we are not stopping maintenance of current channel management partners such as BBLiveRate, Hotel Spider, AvailPro and Cultuzz and even adding new channel management partners.
26 August 2013 – Version 3.9.3.2 released
13 August 2013 – Colibri certified as a TripAdvisor Premium Partner
27 June 2013 – Version 3.9.3.1
08 May 2013 – Version 3.9.3
13 February 2013 – Direct connection to Hotel.de/Hotel.info
We are delighted to announce that we have established a powerful direct 2-way connection to Hotel.de / Hotel.info – a leading global online hotel reservation service with a wide customer reach. Presently more than 3 million registered customers use their unique system offering over 210,000 hotels worldwide, generating thousands of hotel bookings each day. The impressive fact is that 70% of the bookings on hotel.info are made by corporate customers. This solution will enable the hotel to manage all rates, inventory and availability from its Colibri Property Management System and to receive reservations directly into its Reservation Board.
Direct connection allows us to lower the channel management fees by removing an intermediate tier between the hotel and the booking portal. As a side benefit it makes the reservation gathering, availability and price update a bit faster, more stable and secure because bites of the information should not go through an extra step in the Hotel <-> Channel chain.
04 December 2012 – New channel management partner connected
Recently we’ve connected to BBliverate an Italy based 2-way XML channel management company. Together with BBliverate we’ve built a unique opportunity for individual apartment owners and vacation rental companies. Instead of fixed channel management fee per property we will charge only 1.2% of the reservation price. The great thing with BBliverate is that you could connect such booking channels as AirBnB, FlipKey, HomeAway.com, VRBO.com, VacationRentals.com, AlwaysOnVacation.com, 9flats.com and many others popular but rarely available via other channel managers!
29 November 2012 – Direct connection to Oktogo.ru
We are excited to announce that we have established a powerful direct 2-way connection to Oktogo.ru – the leading Russian online hotel booking and travel company. With over 4,000 hotels in Russia in its database and 250,000 hotels world wide, Oktogo.ru boasts the largest and most relevant hotel offering for both Russian and foreign travelers in the Russia. This solution will enable the hotel to manage all rates, inventory and availability from its Colibri Property Management System and to receive reservations directly into its Reservation Board.
Direct connection allows us to lower the channel management fees by removing an intermediate tier between the hotel and the booking portal. As a side benefit it makes the reservation gathering, availability and price update a bit faster, more stable and secure because bites of the information should not go through an extra step in the Hotel <-> Channel chain.
28 November 2012 – Direct connection to Agoda.com
We are happy to announce that we have up and running a powerful direct 2-way connection to Agoda.com – one of the fastest-growing online hotel platforms worldwide, working with more than 200,000 hotels in 29 countries and providing its services in 37 different languages.This solution will enable the hotel to manage all rates, inventory and availability from its Colibri Property Management System and to receive reservations directly into its Reservation Board.
Direct connection allows us to lower the channel management fees by removing an intermediate tier between the hotel and the booking portal. As a side benefit it makes the reservation gathering, availability and price update a bit faster, more stable and secure because bites of the information should not go through an extra step in the Hotel <-> Channel chain.
31 October 2012 – Direct connection to Expedia, Hotwire and Hotels.com
We are pleased to announce that we have up and running a powerful direct 2-way connection to Expedia QuickConnect – an interface to connect hotel and World’s leading booking portals from Expedia family, such as Expedia.com, Hotwire, Hotels.com and Venere. This solution will enable the hotel to manage all rates, inventory and availability from its Colibri Property Management System and to receive reservations directly into its Reservation Board.
Direct connection allows us to lower the channel management fees by removing an intermediate tier between the hotel and the booking portal. As a side benefit it makes the reservation gathering, availability and price update a bit faster, more stable and secure because bites of the information should not go through an extra step in the Hotel <-> Channel chain.
23 August 2012 – Multi-Property Internet Booking Engine – Version 1.0
We are proud to announce that our most requested feature is finally done. Actually we implemented a tool which could help any property management company easily build their own booking channel such as booking.com or expedia.
Here is some key features:
- Completely customizable look and feel
- All property descriptive content and photos manageable via PMS
- Properties could be located in different cities, states, countries, region or continent thus we could build regional booking portal for example for San-Francisco Bay Area only or for entire California or for entire World.
- Booker could login to the system and update/cancel his booking, print confirmation, view history of bookings, book again
- Multicurrency (updating exchange rate automatically on daily basis)
- Multilanguage – currently MPIBE translated to English, German and Russian. Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, Thai and Simple Chinese coming soon
- Ability to sell packages, extras and transfers along with accommodation
- Manageable text pages, could be in any language. So in theory you could just drop your website and use just MPIBE to manage all their web presence
- Multi-Property Internet Booking Engine could work on any domain
- Every hotel in the chain could have its own domain
- Search Engines Friendly
11 February 2012 – Version 3.9.2
23 December 2011 – Direct connections to booking sites
18 October 2011 – AvailPro Connected
08 November 2010 – PCI DSS Compliant
We were spending a lot of effort to build a highly secure system and today we received an official confirmation from an approved scanning vendor Comodo CA Ltd that our system is compliant to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
04 November 2010 – Version 3.9.1
24 October 2010 – Version 3.9
Now, in case when you need to offer two or more connected rooms as a large suite you could create Virtual Units. Also this feature could be used if you would like to offer entire hotel at once. Virtual units are fully integrated with Online Booking module and Channel Management module.
Based on feedback from our customers we improved look and feel of the Guest Folio section. Now it’s horizontally split and size of the bottom section is adjustable. Also we redesigned filters and added some new fields to give better access to useful data.
Due to number of requests Reports were expanded by totals. Also we have added ability to select separator for decimals. Context menu was added to Reservation Board. It gives a quick access to reservation details, guest folio, check-in, check-out and allows you to combine reservations to the group. Added ability to setup no check-in and no check-out days of the week (per season). Minstay and Maxstay currently could be set per season.
Ability to setup rounding rules was added. Check-in section was expanded. Now the system will warn and suggest to recalculate reservation price in case when you are trying to check-in more guests than it was initially reserved. Also we have added ability to roll-back check-in. New fields in Guest Registration Card were added.
12 April 2010 – Version 3.8
31 Mar 2010 – Version 3.7
12 January 2010 – Version 3.6
An ability to add comments/remarks to reservation was added. Redunicre Payline Payment Processing system is now available for our European customers. A Client Import with field mapping feature is now available for new clients. Customer DB might be loaded from a CSV file. Due to special request we have added an ability to create reservation w/o guest’s contact information. This is an option which might be enabled in the Property Settings. Also we have done several minor improvements and bug fixes.
17 December 09 – Version 3.5
29 November 09 – New hosting platform
Last night the system was moved to the new hosting platform. Migration went without any problems. Actually it was surprisingly and awesomely smoothly, downtime during the switch was less than one minute, thus no clients were affected. The new platform is much faster and we hope it will be much more stable than the previous platform.
12 November 09 – Version 3.4
10 September 09 – Version 3.3
18 August 09 – Version 3.2
A lot of small issues were fixed.
17 May 09 – Version 3.1
15 March 09 – Version 3.0
30 January 09 – Version 2.9.1 (intermediate release)
27 September 08 – Version 2.9
Access control has been expanded. Now you can e.g. create an account for your vendor and give him access to particular workorder category. Russian language is available in the System Settings. Привет! Bulgarian language is available in the System Settings. Здрасти!
17 May 08 – Version 2.8
- minimum and maximum stay period
- price based on room/unit occupancy
- minimum room/unit occupancy
- discounts for early bird bookings
- discounts for last minute bookings
- variable discounts for longstay bookings
- weekend price
- stay X nights, pay for Y nights
- weekly and monthly rates
- several rates per property (you can create different rates for a property i.e. for each distribution channel)
- staying periods and booking periods for any rule (Start and End dates)
03 February 08 – Version 2.7
16 December 07 – Version 2.6
02 December 07 – Version 2.5
You can also transfer charges to Groupleader in the Guest Folios section. You can now generate invoices. You can export the invoice to excel, send it via email or print it.
18 November 07 – Version 2.4
28 October 07 – Version 2.3.7
Now “Directions” is a separate field in Apartments (Condo/Chalet/Villa). So you can automatically include the ‘Directions’ in the booking confirmation email and on the thank you page in the Online Booking. We have added ability to set maximum page width in the Online Booking customization. We have added detailed payment information in the guest card. So now you can easily check a guest’s history. We made 40 other small changes.