What's New - March 2026
We've been busy! This update is packed with improvements designed to save you time, keep you informed, and make managing your venue even easier. Watch the video or read this blog to find out what's new.
If you are a venue administrator, there are two actions we recommend you take: to replace the code to embed MyHallWizard's calendar in your website, and to decide which rooms to include in your Booking Enquiry form. See the instructions at the bottom of this article.
See everything at a glance with Sidebar Cards
Booking and customer pages now have collapsible information cards in the sidebar, putting the details you need right where you need them. On a booking page you'll see customer contact details, repeat series information, and the original booking enquiry — all without clicking away.
Even better, colour-coded alerts tell you when something needs your attention: an overdue payment, an unsent invoice, or a booking that still needs invoicing. Each alert includes a link to take action straight away.
Repeat bookings, redesigned
Managing repeat bookings used to mean a lot of guesswork. Not any more.
There's a brand new Repeat Bookings page where you can see all your series at a glance. Click any series to expand it and see every booking — complete with status badges showing whether each one is in the series, has been edited individually, or has been invoiced. Missing dates are highlighted so nothing slips through.
When you create a new repeat booking, a live preview shows you exactly which dates will be created and flags any room clashes before you save. When you edit or delete a series, an impact preview tells you precisely which bookings will be affected and which are protected. You stay in control.
You can also select multiple bookings in a series and delete them in one go.
Know your rooms are available before you book
The booking form now shows live room availability. Available rooms are ready to select. Unavailable rooms are greyed out with a note telling you when they are free (e.g. "available until 10:00 and from 14:00").
An expandable "Also happening" section lists what's clashing, and if you need to, you can quick-edit a clashing booking right from where you are — no need to open it in a new tab.
There's also a new Duplicate button, so you can copy an existing booking and just change the date.
A better experience for your customers
Your public booking enquiry form has had some love too. The ugly and long old booking enquiry page has been replaced with an attractive new wizard, built using your own colours and without the MyHallWizard branding.
Time pickers now respect your venue's opening hours and minimum booking duration, so customers can only request times that work for you.
If a customer requests a repeat booking, they'll see a preview of any dates with room conflicts before submitting. And the final review step has been redesigned with clear, collapsible sections and "Edit" buttons to jump back and make changes.
New advanced settings give you more control over the enquiry form: require address fields, limit how far ahead customers can book, choose which rooms they are able to request, add custom guidance text, and choose whether to show your contact details on the confirmation page.
Track what's happened with the Activity Tab
Both booking and customer pages now have an Activity tab showing a full audit trail — every change, who made it, and when. Handy for keeping track of what's been agreed, or for when a colleague asks "who changed this?"
See if your emails arrived
The Emails tab now shows delivery status for every email: Sent, Delivered, Bounced, or Complaint. Click any email to see per-recipient details, including bounce reasons and diagnostic codes. No more wondering whether that confirmation email actually got through.
Faster navigation with Quick Actions
Every row in your data tables — bookings, customers, invoices, payments — now has a quick actions menu. View, edit, duplicate, delete, and more, all from the table without opening the record first.
Calendar improvements
Speaking of which, the embed code has been completely rewritten and is much more reliable. On smaller screens, the calendar automatically switches to a list view so it's easy to read on a phone.
New venue settings
Two new settings give you finer control over your schedule:
• Time slot interval — choose 15, 30, or 60-minute steps for your time pickers and calendar grid
• Minimum booking duration — set a minimum length for bookings, enforced on both staff and public forms
New website
We have refreshed our website to better align it with the MyHallWizard experience. It also works better on mobile devices now. We hope you like it!
Coming soon
These changes provide a platform for other changes. We're planning bookings past midnight, school term and public holiday calendars you can use when scheduling repeat bookings, custom fields to gather more information on your customers and bookings, and more. We'll also be applying the same magic to Invoices and Payments allowing us to improve these modules and deliver even more new features.
As always, if you have questions or feedback, we'd love to hear from you.
Venue Administrators: Two Actions
We would encourage all venue administrators to perform the following two actions so that your venues get the best out of MyHallWizard.
Action 1: Replace the code to embed MyHallWizard's calendar in your website
We have changed the code snippet to embed MyHallWizard's calendar in your website. Our old code snippet will continue to work, but the new snippet will give your users a far better user experience, and will look far better on your website.
In MyHallWizard, navigate to Settings -> Calendar Settings.
Scroll down to the Public Calendar section, and then click on Instructions for embedding your calendar into your website.
Copy the new code snippet and send to your web developer. This whole code snippet replaces the
<iframe>which was previously used.
What's different? The calendar now adapts to the size of the user's browser. Even on a mobile device, it will look good. Also its height adapts to the height of the calendar, meaning you have no scrollbars within scrollbars - much easier to see and much easier to use.
Action 2: Decide which rooms to include in your Booking Enquiry form
It's now possible to limit the Booking Enquiry form to only include certain rooms. For example, if one of your rooms is not available for the public to hire. You can also remove the All Rooms (Exclusive Option) from this form if it is not required.
In MyHallWizard, navigate to Settings -> Calendar Settings.
Scroll down to the Booking Enquiries section, and then click on Advanced Settings.
Scroll down further to the question Which rooms do you want to show on the Booking Enquiry Form?. Select the rooms you wish to include on the Booking Enquiry form. (Note: if you hide some rooms, the All Rooms option is automatically deselected).
Remember to click Save at the bottom of this section.
There are a host of other settings you can use to control the Booking Enquiry form, including some that you didn't have before. Now that this has been improved, it might be worth reviewing all the settings.