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Revolution 1.5 brings a heap of new features and enhancements to your online reservation system, providing that you’re using the best system available on the web… Revolution. Here’s a summary of the heavy hitters:

Seasonal Hours of Operation

Do your locations’ hours of operation fluctuate from winter to summer? In Revolution Manager, you can create multiple hours of operation for each location, and specify date ranges for each. When a renter has submitted their itinerary, Revolution will first try to find a set of hours that matches their pickup date. If there are no special seasonal hours, it will use your “Base Hours”.

Drop-off hours can also be made date specific.

The Locations Module will show your current hours of operation (based on today’s date) and will also look forward to the next set of hours in the future, and display those to the renter.

Find it here in Manager: Revolution > Hours of Operation

Manager Site Map

If you find yourself lost in Manager’s extensive configuration menu, you can now turn to the “Site Map”, found in the top-right of the navigation menu. The Site Map will show you your current page, as well as previous pages that you have visited recently.

Rate Code Date Range Spans

Need to know what rate codes will apply on a particular pickup date? See you seasonal rate codes at a glance in Manager’s Rate Code editor. A colored graph is displayed showing each date range and the rate code it relates to.

Find it here in Manager: Revolution > Rental Center > Rates Admin > Rate Codes

View Modified Reservation History

Now in Manager, while viewing a reservation, you can see if the reservation was modified from a previous reservation, or whether it has since been modified. The reservation view panel now contains a “View Modification” link that will click through to the modification details.

Find it here in Manager: Reports > Reservations

Renter Vehicle Preference

In previous versions of Revolution, when the renter choose a vehicle preference, they were shown a detailed quote for that vehicle only. In Manager, you can now choose to show the renter other vehicle options, but “highlight” their preferred vehicle at the top of the search results.

Find it here in Manager: Revolution > Rental Center > Rental Center Options > Rate Quotes

Location Module Enhancements

Now renters can see all hour locations at a glance on a dynamic Google map, and search for the location nearest to them. Click here to see an example.

When a Week is not a Week

Instead of the default time unit for each rental period (per week = 7 days) you can now override this setting, and set the number of days and hours for each rental period’s time unit. Recommended for advanced users only…!

Find it here in Manager: Revolution > Rental Center > Rates Admin > Rental Periods

Not using Manager yet? It’s time to switch. You can easily set up your Manager account through the CRX Administrative Workstation.