Changelog

August 27, 2026

• The home page now explains BookLocally Spaces: draw the booths or bays on a satellite photo of your lot, set the days you open, and let vendors request a spot.
• New links to the lot marketplace from the top and bottom of the page, plus a short answer in the FAQ for owners who rent out space rather than time.
• A light copy pass across the home page.

August 27, 2026

• Vendors can now join a waitlist for a date that's already full. Cancel a booking and the first few waiting get emailed straight away — nothing is held, so it goes to whoever asks first.
• A lot's page opens on the next day it's actually open. Most lots only trade at weekends, so opening on today meant a greyed-out map and not much else.
• Your requests page shows who's waiting on each full date, which is the clearest signal yet of demand you're turning away.
• Keep the mix right: cap how many vendors of the same category can hold one date. Three taco trucks on a Saturday all leave unhappy. You can always approve past the cap — it asks, it doesn't decide.
• Every request card now says who else of that category is already booked that day, even when you're under the cap.
• New public page for each date — "who's here Saturday" — listing the vendors who'll be trading. Made to be posted, and linked from your lot's page.
• Subscribe to a lot's booked dates in Google, Apple or Outlook Calendar. Vendors get the same for every lot they trade at, with pending requests showing as tentative.
• QR check-in: every approved booking gets a code the vendor shows on arrival. Scan it and they're marked in — or tick them off by hand from the queue if their phone's dead.
• The Blue Ribbon Pool Care demo now includes a Spaces lot, so you can try the map, the approval queue and the waitlist without signing up.

August 26, 2026

• A public directory of every listed lot at /spaces — vendors can search by neighbourhood, filter by space type or amenity, and see who has room free on a specific date.
• Vendors can keep their insurance and permits on their profile. Owners see the status right on the request, so nobody emails a certificate around any more.
• Documents with an expiry date get flagged before they lapse, and we'll email the vendor a nudge — once when it's close, once when it's due.
• New "Performance" tab on each property: occupancy, booked value, what you've collected and what's still outstanding, plus your busiest spaces and repeat vendors.
• Occupancy only counts days the lot was actually open, so a Saturday-only lot is measured against its Saturdays.
• Booking every Saturday for a season is now one step — pick the next 4, 8, 12 or all of them, and drop any single date you don't want.
• A repeating run can be cancelled in one go instead of one date at a time. Dates that have already passed are left alone.
• Fixed: a property with spaces drawn away from its street address opened the map on the address and looked empty. It now opens framed on the spaces themselves.

August 26, 2026

• New "Spaces" section: draw the rentable spots on a satellite view of your property, set a price and the days you're open, and publish one link vendors can browse.
• Draw a booth by dragging two corners, trace an odd shape, copy a space to build a row, or lay out a whole grid of booths at once.
• Vendors pick a date and see exactly what's open — green for available, grey for booked — then request a space. Nothing is held until you approve it.
• An approval queue with the vendor's business, contact details and note on every card. Approving a space automatically declines the others waiting on that date.
• Block dates for a private event or repaving, and mark bookings paid as you collect.

July 23, 2026

• New headline typeface across the whole site, on the same frosted-glass design you already know.
• Added a new "Signature Gold" color theme (warm gold and ink), pickable from the palette switcher alongside the existing options.

July 15, 2026

• Visiting the login page while already signed in now takes you straight to your dashboard. Previously, trying Google sign-in on top of an existing session (for example, after exploring the demo dashboard) could fail with a confusing error.
• If that sign-in conflict does happen, the login page now explains it and offers a one-click sign-out so you can try again.

July 15, 2026

• Fixed Google sign-in failing when you visited the site at www.booklocally.net — the www address now redirects to booklocally.net everywhere.
• If a sign-in attempt fails, the login page now tells you what went wrong instead of silently returning you to the form.

July 6, 2026

• Upload your logo and a cover photo in Settings → Branding. Your logo appears beside your business name, and the cover photo banners the top of your booking page — customers land on your brand, not a plain header.Pro
• Brand color stays free for everyone, as always.

July 6, 2026

• Mark a service as remote / off-site (website build, design work) and the booking page stops asking those customers for a street address and gate codes.
• Fixed demo and referral links that could point to the wrong address in production.

July 5, 2026

• Booking pages now show a "Next available" shortcut that jumps straight to the soonest open date — no more paging through empty weeks.
• When a business requires booking notice, the calendar says so instead of just looking empty — and a fully-booked calendar explains itself too.
• Reschedule any appointment right from the dashboard. The customer gets the new time by email, with an updated calendar invite and a link to change or cancel.
• Download your appointments and customer list as CSV, anytime, on every plan. Your data is always yours.
• Free plan: a heads-up email when you've used 80% of your monthly bookings, and a clear dashboard notice (plus email) if your page pauses at the limit — no more finding out from a customer.

July 5, 2026

• Explore a real owner dashboard — the live demo now includes a full pool-care business (routes, day tools, waitlist) you can click around in. It resets itself every night.
• Each live demo booking page now shows off different features — zip-code service areas, gate-code questions, booking notice rules — with tips on what to try.
• Terms of Service and Privacy Policy pages, linked from every page.

July 4, 2026

• Customer addresses now appear in every booking email with a Google Maps link, and in calendar invites.
• Access notes at booking — gate codes, pets, parking — shown on the day's route and in your emails.
• Booking rules: require minimum notice (say, 24 hours) and cap how far ahead customers can book.
• Rain-day tools: cancel or ask a whole day to reschedule in one action, with a note to every customer.
• Quick block: mark yourself unavailable in three taps.
• Out-of-area demand capture: see which zip codes keep asking for you, and let them leave an email for when you expand.
• Fix a typo'd email or phone on any booking and re-send the confirmation.
• Arrival windows: show customers a window ("2:00 – 4:00 PM") instead of an exact time.Pro
• Running-late shift: push the rest of a day back and notify everyone at once.Pro
• Waitlist: fully-booked days offer a signup, and cancellations automatically invite the next in line.Pro

July 3, 2026

• Service zones: group zip codes into areas and serve each on set days and time windows — customers only see times for their area, so your day stays batched instead of criss-crossing town.Pro
• Dynamic zone lock: the first booking of a day can claim it (or a travel-buffered window) for its area.Pro
• Daily route sheet: the day's stops grouped by zone, with call, map, and turn-by-turn directions links.

June 27, 2026

• Partner program: marketers get invite links and a portal that tracks clicks, signups, and earnings.
• A feedback button on every page — tell us what's broken or what you wish existed.

June 22, 2026

• Multiple appointment reminders — send, say, a 24-hour and a 1-hour reminder instead of just one.Pro
• Free and Pro tiers finalized: Free keeps the essentials (bookings, reminders, day tools); Pro adds the leverage (recurring visits, digests, CRM, custom questions, branding removal).

June 17, 2026

• Pro subscription billing — upgrade to Pro for $12/month, cancel anytime.
• Industries page: browse ready-made setups for 28 service industries.
• Service-specific booking questions — ask about coating finish only when someone books ceramic coating.
• Live demo gallery with five working example businesses.

June 12, 2026

• Recurring appointments: weekly, biweekly, or monthly series that book themselves ahead.Pro
• Calendar week view with business-hours shading — click any appointment to confirm, complete, or cancel.
• Daily digest and weekly stats emails.Pro

June 11, 2026

• Customers can cancel or reschedule from a link in their confirmation email — no phone tag.
• Calendar invites (.ics) attached to every confirmation.
• Date overrides and time off: close a day, change one day's hours, or block a window.
• Book appointments manually from the dashboard, with optional confirmation email.
• Guided onboarding: industry presets set up your services and questions in minutes.
• Appointment reminder emails, on the schedule you choose.

June 10, 2026

• Your own booking page at booklocally.net/your-business — services, hours, and instant online booking.
• Owner dashboard: appointments, customers, services, availability, and stats.
• Email confirmations for you and your customers, from a real domain.