RoomBoss team members met with MLIT and representatives from 6 car transportation companies at MLIT's Sapporo office. It was great to receive additional feedback from the transportation companies, to help shape the upcoming system RB is developing to assist them and rental car companies work together more efficiently.

We are looking forward to providing a lift pass webshop for Able Hakuba Goryu & Hakuba47 ski resorts. The multilingual SKIDATA-integrated solution will allow customers to purchase lift pass products online and go directly to the ski lifts.

A big congratulations for new team-member Alix on his successful completion of the Hokkaido Marathon last weekend. After months of dedicated training and one final day of gruelling effort, he now takes his very sore and substantially slower legs on the road to recovery. On an unrelated note, Alix has now moved to a ground-floor desk after reports of congestion in the 2F stairwell.

Added the Barcode merge-tag to Rich Messages, allowing you to send scannable Booking IDs to customers in your automated-emails. Added a range of new fields to the Custom Excel Report Download, including External System ID, Hold status, and Room Allocation.

Improvements to our integration with Stripe including improved support for image and text branding on the payment page. Rates management updates including the ability to directly sync rate plans into Airbnb.

We're excited to have Alix Fachin joining the team this month. Alix brings a wealth of knowledge across IT, travel and finance sectors with experience spanning Japan, North America and Europe. He is a runner of marathons and savors fine pastries. Alix will help us with operations, project management and development. Welcome Alix!

We're still not sure if we're proud or embarrassed, but our managing director Julian was on stage as part of a rock band performing at the Niseko Hirafu Festival on August 20th. One thing we can say for sure is that it was loud!

A variety of visual updates were made to our Accommodation Booking Engine, including: Extended hotel media and product descriptions on the checkout page, helping you to better inform and convert prospective guests. Improvements to the responsive accommodation gallery user experience, making it easier to browse through hotel and room photographs on mobile devices.