July 2022 Product Update

August 16, 2022
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Melissa Jurkoic
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Product

Below you will find a brief, high-level description of enhancements and new features included in the latest product updates. 

We listen to your feedback and you can see below that many of your requests have been included in this round of updates.  Give us more feedback about your experience with Thynk here!

Preview of Thynk's quote and Mews' logo
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Quotes

Quotes contain details about bookings such as the account information, contact for the booking, guest rooms blocked, function rooms, commissions, packages and more.  Here are some of the latest updates to help you manage your bookings more effectively and efficiently. 

We are excited to announce that you can now add Combo Products to Quotes and Quote Packages!  A combo product  is a collection of elements sold together but represented on the package as a single package line. Learn more about combo products here.

Combo Products can now be: 

There were several product updates to enhance the two clone features for a quote: 

Packages

Packages provide you the ability to bundle services together to deliver unique and personalized value to your customers. 

Group Booking

The  Group Booking feature is used to enter the room block for your quotes by room type, rate type and occupancy type. It is a great visual method of adding and adjusting your room blocks.  

PMS Connectivity

Two-way integrations with PMS  providers ensure that your data is always up-to-date and clean. We include integration with Oracle Opera, Mews and StayNTouch. As you share your feedback, we continue to optimize the experience and take advantage of new features that our partners are releasing on their roadmap.  Here are some of the features we have added to the Thynk platform to create a seamless experience where you can do your work in Thynk and trust that data is flowing with your other systems.

Opera Integration Updates

For the Opera integration, PMS Accounts are created for all accounts that exist in Opera. These PMS Accounts can then be linked to Accounts in Thynk. We’ve updated the relationship between these accounts so that: 

You now have the ability to send reservations and upload a rooming lists! 

MEWS Integration Updates

We have added new features to support Mews’ newly released Availability Blocks functionality, which enables you to set aside a fixed set of your inventory (rooms/beds/space) for a specific date range and rate.  You can read more below about what was added or changed to support group block integration with Mews.

PMS Blocks 

PMS Blocks are used to set aside inventory by creating reservation blocks in your PMS. We’ve enabled additional features to sync blocks to ensure that reservations are accurate and up to date. These include: 

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