What shipped at Booking Experts: 21 to 27 October 2026

Booking Experts published twelve changes in its week 43 digest, dated 27 October 2026, all of them filed as improvements rather than new features. Taken together they are a week of friction removal, and three of them matter more than the label suggests.

This covers 21 to 27 October. The previous week is in the roundup linked at the end.

Bookings and the front office

A booking with several reservations now processes in the background. You start it, you carry on working somewhere else in the system, and a task notification tells you when it is done. The notification carries a view button that opens the booking.

If your park takes group bookings of any size, this is the change of the week. Waiting on a spinner while a twelve-unit booking writes itself is the sort of thing that makes reception staff put the phone caller on hold.

Reservations with amenity preferences now carry their own icons, showing at a glance whether the guest asked for particular amenities or for a fixed accommodation. Small, and it saves opening the reservation to find out why someone has pinned a unit.

CAT-Lock cards can be synced manually for confirmed future reservations. This applies to reservations created after the integration was installed, and a background process now creates the missing cards in batches before guests arrive. If you installed CAT-Lock partway through a season and have been issuing cards by hand for bookings made before that, this is the catch-up tool.

Distribution

The Airbnb integration now accepts masked and empty phone numbers. Airbnb has been moving guests onto temporary masked contact details, and integrations that insisted on a real phone number have been failing on those reservations. Booking Experts now takes the masked value, and takes an empty phone record too, so the reservations keep syncing.

Treat this as a repair rather than a feature. The thing to check is what your side now does with a masked number: automated SMS, arrival instructions and anything else keyed to a mobile number will be pointed at a temporary Airbnb relay rather than the guest's own phone, and relays expire. If your arrival process leans on text messages, look at what Airbnb guests actually receive.

Access control

Salto KS locks on updated hardware now unlock remotely without the manual passcode verification step during setup. The integration checks the software version of each connected access point and skips the step where it can. Older hardware behaves as before.

Worth knowing which of your access points are on which version, because the answer determines whether a remote unlock is a click or a phone call to a colleague standing at the door.

Owner settlements and reporting

Utility unit prices keep their full precision. Owner settlements and utility overviews no longer round unit prices to two decimal places. Booking Experts says this improves invoice accuracy and stops false warnings that a price is out of date.

Anyone who bills electricity or water per unit has seen this one: a price of 0.3425 stored as 0.34, multiplied across a season, drifting away from the supplier invoice. The fix is right. The thing to do with it is check whether any of your utility prices were entered as rounded values in the first place, because the extra precision only helps if the number behind it is the real one.

The "not for rent" tab now shows setup details, including whether an inactive object has past or future setup and what its agreement status is. Useful when you are working out why a unit is not sellable.

Guest-facing and admin

Phone fields across the PMS now accept country codes and international formats. Overdue for anyone taking bookings across borders.

Marketing consent at checkout is now a plain checkbox rather than a pop-up, and each organisation decides whether it is pre-selected. If you operate in the EU, that setting is a decision rather than a preference, so make it deliberately and write down who made it.

The voucher field carries a note telling guests to enter their code in the right place during payment. That exists because guests were putting codes in the wrong box, which is a support ticket you no longer get.

Two CMS changes round the week out: subsite country selection is now a standard dropdown with a country column and filter on the overview, and the drag-and-drop reordering has moved to its own Reorder list page.

What it adds up to

No deadlines and nothing deprecated. The two to act on are the Airbnb masked phone change, which may quietly have broken your SMS-based arrival flow, and the utility price precision, which is worth a spot check against a supplier invoice.

The previous week is in our 13 to 20 October roundup.