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2024 / Week 24

Árni Gunnar Ragnarsson
Árni Gunnar Ragnarsson
Founder of Itsy

A client using Itsy requested a promocode feature for public bookings, allowing customers to apply valid promocodes for discounts. Additionally, to manage information when dealing with external suppliers, the system now supports adding external product and booking references. Lastly, a default VAT category can be set for products to reduce user errors in the UI when creating new products, significantly decreasing mistakes.

Released Updates​

  • Promocodes Added a simple version of promocodes to Itsy
  • External references External product numbers and references to bookings
  • Default VAT category Default VAT category
  • Bug fixes All the usual weekly bug fixes

Thoughts​

The promocodes is a product request from one of the clients testing out Itsy. They wanted a simple solution that can be used in the public booking process so that the customers with the promocode, can apply it to the shopping cart and get a discount if the promocode is valid.

When working with external suppliers, as most travel agents do, it's important to keep track of information when sending out information from Itsy. So I added the ability to add external references to the products being booked (an external product id), and then it's now possible to add an external booking reference to all bookings in Itsy.

The VAT category is a required property on a product in a trip and is used for informational purposes. So users were making errors in the UI when creating a new product. So I added the ability to set one VAT category as default and is selected by default in the UI. Small change, but the amount of errors is greatly reduced by this change.