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Product updates

What's new

A considered look at the latest across GuestMaker — crafted to help you create more memorable guest experiences.

Week of October 19, 2026
✦ New

Email Send Calendar — See Your Sending Plan at a Glance

A new calendar shows every campaign by day against your available sending capacity, with drafts appearing as soon as an audience is chosen.

✦ New

Mews Messaging Center — Escalations Where Your Team Works

Hotels on Mews can receive guest escalations directly in their Mews messaging center, with a simple settings panel to manage it.

Improved

Faster, More Dependable Campaign Sending

Large email campaigns now move through delivery more smoothly, with steadier pacing and more reliable tracking of results from start to finish.

New

Multi-Segment Email Campaigns

Email campaigns can now target several segments at once and exclude others, so each guest receives a message only once.

Improved

WhatsApp & Web Chat Inbox — Clearer at a Glance

Conversation lists now show waiting-message badges, accurate counts, and more dependable chat presence, so your team knows what needs attention.

Improved

Segment Builder — Easier to Search and Understand

Finding the right fields and values is quicker, and each booking condition now explains what it counts.

New

Survey Responses — Handle, Search and Filter

Your team can mark survey responses as handled with a note, search comments, and filter by period.

New

Deskforce Check-in Settings — Your Rules, Your Documents

Hotels can now tailor check-in rules, guest forms, documents to sign, and where those documents are sent.

Improved

More improvements & fixes

Plus smaller refinements across Lite emails, the loyalty sign-in, journeys, the AI assistant, and the Knowledge Base.

Week of October 12, 2026
✦ New

Dashboard in Spanish

The dashboard, Help center, and many screens now speak English or Spanish, chosen per person, so every team member works in their own language.

✦ New

Deskforce — Online Check-in Settings

Marketing teams can now edit, preview, and publish their online check-in branding and copy for the group and each hotel.

✦ New

AI Email Inbox — Rules, Reply Style & Connections

Email now has a guided rules workspace, adjustable reply styling with live preview, and simpler connections for Gmail, Microsoft 365 and shared mailboxes.

New

Instagram & Messenger Conversations

Guests can browse every room in one swipeable carousel, receive a clear booking link, and reach your team whenever they ask for a person.

New

Survey Responses — Select, Export & Print

Teams can open responses beneath their row, then select, export, or print them for sharing and reporting.

New

Claude Connector for Your Team

Customer success teams can ask Claude about journeys, calls, website chats, segments, campaigns, and costs, with fuller and more accurate answers.

New

Settings → Onboarding & Go-Live

Customers can follow each module's setup progress, next steps, and go-live status in one clear place within Settings.

Improved

Agencies & Companies — Richer B2B Accounts

The agency list now behaves like Contacts, with a column picker and production figures, and account pages show reservations and revenue.

Improved

Journey Analytics — Version Clarity

Journey screens now show the live version, skipped sends with reasons, and consistent figures for whichever version you are viewing.

Improved

More improvements & fixes

Plus smaller refinements across the email inbox, Lite emails, loyalty, email design, and the AI test page.

New

Replies in the Guest's Own Language

Email and chat replies now follow the language each guest writes in, with sensible fallbacks and more accurate language detection.

New

Loyalty — Website Popup & Member Numbering

Guests can join and sign in to your loyalty programme without leaving your own website, with flexible member numbering and clearer navigation.

New

Web Chat — Booking Verification

Guests can verify their booking in a couple of simple steps, so web chat answers booking questions with confidence and care.

New

Localized Content for Email Templates

Translated email templates now keep the right links and blocks for each language, with a language check before activation.

Improved

Roles, Hotel Access & Lite Navigation

Roles and hotel-level access are clearer and more consistent, so each team member sees just the hotels and tools meant for them.

Improved

Dependable Campaign Sending

Email campaigns, journeys and scheduled sends are more dependable from scheduling through to delivery, with clearer status along the way.

Improved

Guest Profiles & Reservations

Guest records and reservations stay cleaner and more accurate, with fewer duplicates and better matching across booking sources.

Improved

More improvements & fixes

Plus smaller refinements across WhatsApp, voice, AI model settings, the inbox, and the GuestMaker website.

Week of October 5, 2026
✦ New

CDP Workspace — full guest database in one place

A unified workspace brings contacts, bookings, web visitors, analytics, and automation controls together under one roof.

✦ New

Sales Pipeline — a dedicated work tool for escalation tickets

Hotel teams now have a purpose-built pipeline to track, assign, and resolve guest escalations with honest stats and reliable alerts.

New

Loyalty Program — no-points programs, member lifecycle, and mobile experience

Loyalty programs without points or rewards now adapt automatically, and the member portal is significantly more polished on every device.

New

Website & Booking-Engine Events — trigger journeys from your own site

Connect your booking engine or website to GuestMaker and fire journeys the moment a guest takes action, via webhook, browser SDK, or API.

New

WiFi Portal Editor — manage your captive portal from GuestMaker

Hotel teams can now edit their guest-facing WiFi portal — branding, languages, consents, and room verification — without leaving GuestMaker.

New

Journey Versioning — publish, review history, and control who can publish

Every journey now tracks its full version history, shows who made each change, and lets you control which team members can publish.

New

Email Deliverability — DMARC dashboard for tenants and admins

A new deliverability dashboard shows whether your email is authenticated, passing, and reaching inboxes, with a fleet view for admins.

New

Spanish Public Site — full GuestMaker.ai in Spain Spanish

The corporate site, developer portal, changelog, and all published blog articles are now available in Spain Spanish.

Improved

More improvements & fixes

Plus smaller refinements across the inbox, routing and safety alerts, the loyalty portal, surveys, and email warmup.

Week of September 28, 2026
✦ New

Customer Success Onboarding Agent

A dedicated agent now guides platform admins through a full hotel-group onboarding, from discovery and settings through KB curation, media, brand, booking engine, and final certification.

New

Email A/B Testing — Subject and Template Phases

Campaigns can now test both subject lines and template bodies in sequence, with full wizard controls, winner selection, and results visible in the Top Campaigns table.

New

Marketing Safeguards — Content Engine and Settings Screen

A new Settings area shows the content safeguards engine's rules, recent activity, and enforcement mode, covering sends from both the agent and hotel staff.

New

Voice Agent — Reliability and Call Quality

Callers are no longer left in silence when speech is lost, recordings appear immediately after a call ends, and transfers handle edge cases more gracefully.

New

Marketing Agent — Research, Campaigns, and Brand Intelligence

The marketing agent can now search the web for cited facts, send and schedule campaigns through the approval flow, and draft to each hotel's learned house style.

New

Guest Identity and CDP — Smarter Merging and Richer Profiles

The identity engine now resolves guests more accurately, fills empty contact fields from the golden record, and the CDP surfaces the full evidence behind every merge decision.

New

Journeys — Delivered Trigger and WhatsApp Tracking

A new Communication Delivered trigger lets journeys react when a message is confirmed received, and journey WhatsApp sends are now properly attributed to their node.

New

Web Chat — Availability Schedules and Booking Verification

Owners can now set each teammate's weekly availability schedule, and web-chat guests must verify their email before their booking details are shown.

Improved

More improvements & fixes

Plus smaller refinements across the Knowledge Base, email domain setup, segments, reservations, and the GM Builder editor.

Week of September 14, 2026
✦ New

Operator Mobile App — Approvals on Your Phone

A native iOS app brings the agent approval inbox and chat to your pocket, with push notifications via APNs.

✦ New

Marketing Agent Console — Full Chat Interface

The marketing agent is now a real streaming chat console with conversation history, thread search, rename, delete, and rich result cards.

✦ New

Agent Projects — Persistent Instructions for Every Conversation

Create named workspaces with standing instructions the agent reads on every turn, keeping its tone and constraints consistent.

✦ New

Freshdesk Integration — Self-Serve Ticketing

Connect your own Freshdesk help desk directly from Settings, map request types to teams, and receive a trackable return path for every guest enquiry.

✦ New

CDP Live — Real-Time Guest Identity Feed

Watch every guest identity decision resolve across your estate the moment it happens, on a live animated stage.

✦ New

Survey Analytics — Group Heatmaps & Per-Survey Charts

Explore satisfaction scores, hotel heatmaps, and the full guest comments feed in one dedicated analytics workspace.

New

DMARC Monitoring — Real-World Deliverability Visibility

A live 30-day DMARC pass rate now appears alongside DNS health scores so you can see how your emails actually perform at real inboxes.

New

Agent Scheduled Tasks — One-Off and Recurring Automation

Create, edit, pause, and delete scheduled agent tasks — including one-off runs — directly from the console without engineering help.

New

Contact Deduplication — Smarter Merging and Evidence

The duplicate reviewer now weighs name, date of birth, and per-evidence calibration, and can merge contacts fleet-wide with a lower, safer confidence threshold.

Fixed

Email Fatigue Guards — Unsubscribes and Spam Reports Now Respected

Smart Sending now correctly honours unsubscribes, spam reports, and the transactional-ignore setting before deciding whether to send.

Improved

More improvements & fixes

Plus smaller refinements across the WhatsApp inbox, voice calls, the guest database CDP, and the web-chat live handoff.

New

CDP Guest Data — Unified Identity Workspace

One workspace now brings together data quality, sources, matching, and review so your team can act on identity findings without switching screens.

New

Email Campaigns — Local Time Send

Schedule a campaign once and let GuestMaker deliver it at the same clock time in every recipient's own timezone.

New

Journeys — Multiple Entry Triggers per Journey

A single journey can now start from several different triggers, each with its own conditions and deduplication settings.

New

CRM Bookings — One Row per Booking, Expandable to Rooms

Multi-room bookings now collapse into a single booking row that expands to reveal every room, guest, and amount at a glance.

New

Scheduled Reports — Per-Report Delivery Analytics

Each scheduled report now shows its real delivery success rate so you can spot a failing report before it misses another send.

New

Guest Memories — Redesigned Product Page

The Guest Memories page has a new hero and layout that makes it immediately clear how GuestMaker learns and applies guest preferences.

Improved

More improvements & fixes

Plus smaller refinements across the email deliverability gate, WhatsApp DND enforcement, the call-center PBX connection view, onboarding module reporting, contact identity resolution, and the marketing site.

Week of September 7, 2026
✦ New

Customer Data Platform — Unified Identity Console

The identity module is now the CDP, with a redesigned Overview, Health dashboard, Filters page, and Merges console that make your guest data layer legible at a glance.

New

Call Center — WhatsApp & Email During a Call

Voice agents can now send a WhatsApp message or email to a guest mid-call, with full settings controls per phone number and web widget.

New

Branding — Automatic Logo Pipeline

GuestMaker now harvests, normalises, and intelligently selects the right logo variant for every surface, so no tenant logo appears broken, clipped, or invisible.

New

Ad Audiences — Google & Meta Sync Overhaul

Ad audience syncs now resume reliably for large segments, show real upload progress, and surface the answers to the questions hoteliers actually ask about match counts and platform status.

New

Guest Surveys — Rail Design, Demo Mode & Response Scoring

Surveys now display as a clean segmented rail, support a staff demo mode that leaves no guest data behind, and show score, average, and completion columns on every response.

New

Destination Availability — Accurate Estate-Wide Search

When a guest asks about availability across your portfolio, the agent now checks every property, filters on real availability, and correctly handles sold-out versus seasonally closed hotels.

New

Data Quality Agent — Automated Duplicate Review

A nightly agent now works through the duplicate candidate queue automatically, so thousands of unreviewed merge proposals no longer accumulate without action.

Improved

Platform Security — Proactive Hardening

Strengthened access controls and defense-in-depth across several platform services, including encrypted storage of sensitive integration credentials.

Improved

More improvements & fixes

Plus smaller refinements across the Knowledge Base, guest identity and deduplication, email campaign deliverability, segments, journeys, and the marketing site.

Week of August 24, 2026
✦ New

Venues — Places Inside a Hotel That Answer for Themselves

Restaurants, spas, and other on-property spaces can now have their own voice line, knowledge base, analytics, and call-center configuration.

New

Contacts Analytics v2 — Seven-Tab Suite

A full analytics suite gives hoteliers deep, drillable insight into their contact database across reachability, health, lifecycle, demographics, and per-property views.

New

Voice Agent Report — Live, Scoped, and Schedulable

A dedicated Voice Agent report is now available from the scheduler, shareable as a live link where the reader chooses their own date range and scope.

New

Call Center — Rebuilt Analytics, History, and Per-Hotel Config

Call Center analytics are rebuilt on real data, every figure drills through to the calls behind it, and configuration can now be scoped per hotel or venue.

New

Spain Phone Numbers — Self-Service Regulatory Wizard

Hotels can now provision Spanish phone numbers through a guided self-service flow that handles regulatory documents, address verification, and real-time carrier updates.

New

Email Builder — Rebuilt Toolbar, Per-Hotel Content, and Brand Fonts

The email editor gains a unified toolbar, per-hotel images and text blocks, the full Google Fonts catalog, and custom brand font uploads.

New

Identity & Duplicate Resolution — Golden-Record Roadmap

The identity layer now proposes, measures, and reports on duplicate contacts more accurately, including guests who return without creating a new record.

Improved

Platform Security — Proactive Hardening

Access controls across several platform surfaces have been strengthened, with tighter permission scoping and additional defense-in-depth measures.

Improved

More improvements & fixes

Plus smaller refinements across the marketing site, Surveys, Segments, the Knowledge Base, conversation routing, and the Journeys editor.

Week of August 17, 2026
✦ New

Guest Identity Layer — Self-Healing Deduplication

GuestMaker now automatically merges duplicate guest profiles, prevents false fusions, and keeps every identity sharp without manual intervention.

New

GM Builder — In-App Image Editor

Hotel marketers can now apply effects to images and save them directly to their Media Library without leaving the email editor.

New

Voice AI — Reliability & Observability Overhaul

The voice agent now survives dependency changes at deploy time, alerts staff before a dead line reaches a guest, and handles throttled or failed LLM calls gracefully.

New

Voice AI — In-Call Background Audio & Transfer Hold Music

Hotels can now play ambient music during transfers and in-call moments, with per-property toggles and a safe, tested rollout path.

New

Loyalty Programme — Richer Tier & Enrollment Controls

Marketers can now preview landing-page templates full size, set any custom brand colour for a tier, and control exactly which enrollment fields guests see.

New

Knowledge Base — Smarter Price Context & Contact Registry

The AI agent now clearly states when retrieved prices don't match what a guest asked, and maintains a curated, self-refreshing contact directory it can consult on every turn.

New

Ads — Google & Meta Audience Sync

Hotel groups can now connect Google Ads and Meta, sync guest segments as custom audiences, and see clear guidance when a setup step needs attention.

New

Provenance Feed — Who Changed What, and From Which System

Reservation and contact records now show a clear audit trail of every field change and which source system made it.

Improved

More improvements & fixes

Plus smaller refinements across the AI agent, WhatsApp templates, the reporting home screen, journeys, and the call-centre transcript view.

Week of August 10, 2026
✦ New

AI disclosure across every guest channel

Guests are now told they are speaking with an AI assistant on web chat, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, Booking.com and email — in their own language, at the start of a conversation and again whenever one resumes after a long gap. The wording is maintained by us and is identical everywhere, so there is nothing for your team to write or switch on. This is the transparency duty in Article 50 of the EU AI Act, which has applied since 2 August 2026.

New

Booking Channel Intelligence — Smarter Channel Classification

Tens of thousands of reservations previously arriving without a channel type are now correctly classified, giving your analytics a cleaner, more complete picture.

New

Voice Agent — Smarter Availability, Pricing & Language

The voice concierge now ranks dates by price across properties, answers per-night cost questions, and speaks the caller's language throughout every transfer.

New

Guest Consent — Accurate Opt-In and Opt-Out Across Every Channel

Routine PMS syncs can no longer silently overwrite a guest's unsubscribe, and consent is never fabricated from silence.

New

Reservations API — Enrich Bookings Without Overwriting Them

A new PATCH endpoint lets downstream systems add metadata to a reservation without disturbing fields owned by other producers.

New

Maintenance Banner — Amber Alerts During Planned Downtime

Admins can now schedule a maintenance window so guests and staff see a clear amber notice instead of unexplained slowness.

New

Segments — Recount Contacts on Demand

A new Recount button on the segment editor refreshes the matching-contact total whenever the underlying audience has changed.

Improved

Platform Security — Proactive Hardening

Strengthened access controls and defense-in-depth measures have been applied across several platform surfaces.

New

Email Campaigns — Verified-Dead Addresses Blocked and IP Warming Controls

Addresses confirmed as undeliverable are now permanently excluded from sends, and admins can adjust IP-warming limits when a campaign needs it.

Improved

More improvements & fixes

Plus smaller refinements across the inbox, journeys, the marketing site, contact management, and the AI language detection engine.

New

Spoken AI disclosure on voice calls — 16 languages

Callers now hear a short line telling them they are speaking with an AI assistant, in their own language and in that language's own voice, immediately after the recording notice and before the greeting. It is deliberately brief — about two seconds — so the obligation is met without leaving callers waiting to speak.

New

Guest asked for a human — routing on every channel

A dedicated escalation theme now sits at the top of the routing list for web chat, WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, Booking.com and voice. Switch it on and any guest asking to be put through to a person raises a ticket to your team immediately. Spain's Ley 10/2025 will require larger hotel groups to offer a human on request from 28 December 2026, and the setting explains in plain language who is in scope and what leaving it off means.

Week of August 3, 2026
✦ New

Inbox Inline Translation

Reception and reservations staff can now read and reply to guest messages in any language, directly inside the chat inbox.

New

Conversion Attribution — Evidence Grading

Every conversion now shows a clear confidence grade and the evidence behind it, so you always know exactly how a booking was credited.

New

Knowledge Base — Entry Expiry

KB entries can now carry an expiry date so outdated promotions and seasonal offers are retired automatically, keeping your agent's answers accurate.

Improved

Knowledge Base — Authorship & Audit Trail

Every knowledge entry now shows who added it and when, making it easy to track down the right person when information needs updating.

Fixed

Knowledge Base — Accuracy & Retrieval Fixes

Archived entries no longer crowd out live results, and the crawler no longer mixes up facts between sibling room pages.

Fixed

Guest Profiles & Reservations — Data Integrity

Guest profiles now reliably reflect the current reservation, so front-desk staff always see accurate in-house status at a glance.

Fixed

Journeys, Leads & Voice — Reliability Fixes

Check-in journeys now enrol the right guests, fake contact details are blocked across all entry points, and voice calls no longer ask callers to repeat their own phone number.

Improved

Email Editor — New Rendering Engine

Campaign and journey emails are now rendered by our own new engine, so every send looks exactly as designed.

Week of July 27, 2026
✦ New

Proposal Design Studio — full document editor for B2B

Hotel sales teams can now build rich, on-brand group proposals with drag-and-drop blocks, themes, version history, and an expanded block catalogue.

New

Agent Conversion Attribution — bookings traced back to every channel

Every booking linked to a GuestMaker deeplink is now attributed to the conversation that issued it, across web chat, WhatsApp, voice, and Meta.

New

Voice Calling — per-tenant controls and a full audit trail

Teams can now restrict which tools the voice agent offers, audit every caller-audible setting change, and opt out of automatic contact creation for unknown callers.

Improved

Contact Identity — smarter deduplication and a full audit trail

Shared household identifiers, displaced email addresses, and ingest edge cases are now handled correctly so guest profiles stay clean and traceable.

Fixed

Campaign Analytics — accurate attribution, numbers, and period selectors

Conversion counts, revenue totals, attribution methods, and date ranges in campaign analytics now all reflect reality.

Fixed

Voice Agent — Language Switching, Consent Wording and Recordings

Language switches now happen at the right moment, tenant consent notices are respected, and every call recording is stored reliably.

Fixed

Security hardening across the platform

We shipped a set of security improvements that further protect guest and hotel data across the platform.

Improved

Contacts List — faster navigation and clearer booking-status filters

Contact rows now load instantly on click, and booking-status filters and columns use consistent, self-explanatory labels.

Improved

More improvements & fixes

Plus smaller refinements across the email builder, escalation routing, journey activation, the Knowledge Base, and scheduled reports.

Week of July 20, 2026
✦ New

CTI Bridge & SDK — Embedded Telephony Panel

Hotel front-desk teams can now handle Zoon calls directly inside GuestMaker, with screen-pops, transcripts, voicemail badges, and a full call timeline on every contact.

✦ New

Ad Audience Sync — Google & Meta

Connect your own Google Ads and Meta accounts to automatically sync guest segments as ad audiences, keeping targeting fresh without manual exports.

New

Voice Agent — Mandatory Escalation & Human Handoff

When a caller raises a legal threat or chargeback, the voice agent now immediately transfers them to a human and files an urgent ticket — every time.

New

Per-Connection API Keys

Each integration connection now carries its own API key with a request-level audit trail, giving you finer control over access and painless credential rotation.

New

Journeys & Broadcasts — Folders

Organize journeys and broadcasts into folders — keep seasonal campaigns, hotels, and teams tidy as your library grows.

New

Voice Agent — Grounded Answers, Sharper Latency & Language Handling

The voice agent now verifies hotel names, counts, and availability against live data before speaking, responds noticeably faster, follows IVR key presses, and switches language cleanly mid-call.

Improved

Email Analytics — Accurate Revenue, Conversions & Bounce Breakdown

The Email Analytics dashboard now shows correct 60-day and 12-month windows, real revenue and conversion figures, and a proper bounce breakdown — and the Weekly Campaign Report gains a full KPI set with CSV export.

Improved

Booking Accuracy — Age Bands, Infant Pricing & Availability

Configurable guest age ranges now flow correctly through every booking surface, ensuring infants are priced as free, availability results are reliable, and deeplinks quote the right party.

New

Web Chat Widget — Localization, Placement & Office Hours

The widget now greets visitors fully in their language and keeps it consistent across the conversation, can hide outside office hours, renders your agent's avatar, and offers per-device bubble placement with a configurable mobile breakpoint.

Improved

Segments — Faster and More Accurate at Scale

Segment counts and contact previews are now several times faster for large databases, and the "never stayed at hotel X" condition matches correctly.

New

Knowledge Base — Scheduled URL Re-Indexing

Indexed website URLs can now refresh themselves on a daily, weekly, or monthly schedule, keeping the Knowledge Base in sync with your site.

Improved

Platform Security — Proactive Hardening

A dedicated security sprint strengthened the platform end to end — stricter access controls, hardened integrations and dependencies, sandboxed previews, and continuous secret scanning across our repositories.

Improved

More improvements & fixes

Plus smaller refinements across escalation routing, the Knowledge Base, email warmup, inbox hotel scoping, journeys, and agent grounding.

Week of July 13, 2026
✦ New

CRM — Multi-Property Guest History & Segmentation

Guest profiles now show the complete stay history across every property in your group, and segments can target guests by which hotels they have visited.

New

Email Campaigns — Click Maps & Send-Time Insights

A click-map overlay shows exactly where subscribers click on each campaign design, and Send Time Optimization now shows when the next batch goes out and how many recipients it includes.

New

Knowledge Base — Gaps Close Themselves

When the Knowledge Base learns the answer to a previously unanswerable guest question, the recorded gap now closes itself — with manual resolve for everything else.

New

Playgrounds — Test the Real Thing

WhatsApp and site-agent playgrounds now run the real production reply pipeline as a safe dry-run — same governance, same escalation logic, zero side effects.

New

Call Center — Zoon Telephony Integration

Hotels using Zoon Suite telephony can now feed completed calls into GuestMaker, enriching guest profiles and AI memory with call outcomes — our second CTI integration after Ringover.

New

Loyalty SSO — Mirai Booking Engine Adapter

Hotel booking engines that cannot act as standard OIDC clients can now authenticate guests through a signed JWT redirect flow.

New

Outbound Webhooks — Room Number on Check-In & Check-Out

Reservation webhooks now include the guest's room number, making post-stay review and operations integrations more complete.

New

Email Deliverability — Self-Serve Fix Panel

Hoteliers can now expand a plain-language guide directly on the deliverability card to resolve SPF and MAIL FROM warnings without contacting support.

New

Segments — Unique Hotels Visited Filter

You can now segment guests by the number of distinct properties they have actually stayed at, excluding cancelled or no-show reservations.

New

Journeys — Reservation Context Carried Across Chained Journeys

Journeys triggered by another journey completing now automatically inherit the original reservation, so delay-until and personalisation nodes work as expected.

Improved

AI Accuracy — Stronger Grounding & Fabrication Guards

The AI now reliably avoids inventing item inclusions, card-validation statuses, or contact details that contradict the Knowledge Base — and asks instead of guessing when it isn't sure which hotel a guest means.

Improved

Email Campaigns — Warmup Clarity & Reliability

The warmup badge now accurately distinguishes scheduled from actively-sending campaigns, audience counts load much faster for large properties, and dispatch was rebuilt on a durable workflow engine that scales to multi-million-recipient sends.

Fixed

Guest Data — Steadier Onboarding Imports

Large onboarding imports now load guest records more reliably, with duplicate handling that holds up at scale.

Improved

More improvements & fixes

Plus smaller refinements across WhatsApp reliability, templates, journeys, the inbox, landing pages, newsletter localization, and the voice agent.

Week of July 6, 2026
✦ New

Contact Email Engagement Funnel

The contact detail page now shows a clear sent-to-open funnel, including imported history from providers like Cendyn.

New

Newsletter Signup Widget — on-brand, secure, and easier to install

The newsletter signup widget now inherits your brand theme, adapts to the visitor's browser language, ships with built-in bot protection, and has a live preview beside a redesigned install page.

New

User Management — Activation Status & Invite Resend

Owners and admins now see exactly where each teammate stands — invited, pending, or active — and can resend invites themselves, with new-tenant access emails sent automatically.

New

Segments & Journeys — Online Check-In Fields

Online check-in status and completion date are now available in segments and journey conditions, so pre-arrival messaging can react to who has actually completed check-in.

New

Birthday Journey — Monthly Send Mode

Birthday campaigns can now send on a fixed day each month so every guest receives the same coupon expiration date.

New

Email Status Filter for Contacts & Segments

You can now filter contacts and build segments by email deliverability status, from validated to hard bounced.

New

Dynamic WhatsApp URL Buttons & Autocheckin Deeplink

WhatsApp templates can now include personalised URL buttons, with a ready-made Autocheckin deeplink merge tag for instant use.

New

Knowledge Base — Smarter Auto-Resolution

The KB now automatically closes ripple contradictions after a correction, corroborates facts against uploaded Source of Truth documents, resolves website-vs-hotel conflicts in the hotel's favor, and shows clear progress while scanning.

Fixed

Guest Agents — Accurate, Grounded Replies

Agents now relay real booking and payment details instead of deflecting or fabricating answers, in any language.

Fixed

Email Campaigns — Delivery & Clipping Fixes

Campaign delivery is more reliable end to end, and long newsletters no longer get clipped in Gmail.

Fixed

Refundability Classification

Reservation refundability is now determined reliably, correctly handling edge cases across multiple languages and booking sources.

Improved

More improvements & fixes

Plus smaller refinements across WhatsApp delivery visibility, email campaigns, journey testing, reservation guest matching, multi-tenant sign-in, and platform reliability.

Week of June 29, 2026
✦ New

Loyalty Single Sign-On — one guest account across your website and booking engine

GuestMaker can now act as the identity provider for your booking engine: loyalty members sign in once with their loyalty account and are recognized across your website and booking flow, with a complete integration guide for your engine's team.

✦ New

Contact Deduplication — Review Queue & Merge History

A new Duplicates workspace lets your team review, merge, and track duplicate contacts with full history and safeguards against bad merges.

New

Staff Help Center — guided answers at /help

A built-in Help Center now answers your team's how-do-I questions with searchable, step-by-step articles covering every module — no support ticket needed.

New

Landing Pages — Analytics Dashboard

Every published landing page now has a full analytics dashboard — leads over time, a conversion funnel, cadence stats, and CSV export of every captured lead.

New

Email Editor — Image Crop & Fit plus reliable Undo/Redo

The email editor gains an intuitive image fit-and-crop tool with live preview, plus dependable Undo, Redo, and version history — so a design misstep is never permanent.

New

Introducing What's New — the GuestMaker changelog

Product updates now have a permanent public home, updated weekly with everything new in GuestMaker — including this very changelog.

New

Email Deliverability & Sender Authentication

GuestMaker now guides you through every DNS step needed to protect your sending reputation and keep campaigns out of spam folders.

New

CDP Contact Quality — OTA Relay & Phony Identifier Cleanup

Placeholder emails and non-identifying phone numbers are now flagged and blocked from fusing separate guests into a single contact record.

New

Knowledge Base Readiness — Playbook Redesign

The KB Readiness tab is now a polished client-facing report with per-playbook scores, an inbox-style split view, and gap cards that lead with actionable next steps.

New

AI Agent Grounding & Reliability

The AI concierge now verifies every factual claim against your Knowledge Base before replying, eliminating fabricated services and out-of-scope hotel details.

New

Journeys — Smarter Scheduling & Contextual Help

Send at Time nodes now support day-of-week and day-of-month targeting, and every complex node includes inline help text explaining its behavior.

New

WhatsApp Templates — Date Formats & Bulk Translation Improvements

Templates can now format date variables exactly as needed, and bulk-translated drafts stay editable so your team can review them before submitting to Meta.

Fixed

Broadcasts — Media Headers, Edit Route & Open-Rate Counters

Broadcast drafts can now be reopened and edited, media-header previews display correctly, and open-rate counters no longer freeze under high webhook load.

Improved

More improvements & fixes

Plus smaller refinements across hotel settings (address autocomplete with auto-filled phone and timezone), consent and unsubscribe handling, check-in webhooks, guest photo search, conversion tracking, and voice.

Week of June 22, 2026
✦ New

B2B Proposals — world-class hosted proposals for group sales

Create and send beautiful, hotel-branded proposals for group and corporate deals — and let clients review and accept them online.

✦ New

KB Readiness Audit — know if your AI agent is ready before guests arrive

Run a quick check that grades how well your AI agent answers from your Knowledge Base, and shows you exactly what to add.

New

Outbound Webhooks — reliable, signed event delivery to your integrations

Connect GuestMaker to your other tools with reliable, secure event notifications — including guest check-in and check-out.

New

Conditional Merge Tags in Templates

Write one template that adapts to each guest, with different text by language, booking type, or any contact detail.

New

Reservation Segmentation — agency, market segment & business segment filters

Build audiences and filter contacts by exactly how a guest booked — agency, market segment, and business segment.

New

Email Re-engagement Segments — target by open, click & engagement history

Target guests by how they've engaged with your emails — opens, clicks, and overall activity.

New

Onboarding Wizards — guided setup for Call Center, Surveys & B2B CRM

Guided, step-by-step setup now covers Call Center, Surveys, and B2B CRM, so new teams get started faster.

Fixed

Journey & Inbox reliability — Take Over, Send-at-Time, Update Contact, and booking confirmations

A set of reliability fixes across journeys and the inbox, from human takeover to scheduled sends and booking confirmations.

Improved

More improvements & fixes

Plus dozens of smaller refinements across WhatsApp, the email inbox, journeys, the Knowledge Base, and more.