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8 shipped· August 11, 2026

Booking, on your own page.

The booking widget opens in a popup over your own site instead of sending customers to a separate page, the printing panel says whether a printer is actually connected, not just switched on, and shops can call their fittings section whatever their customers already call it.

New

Booking opens on your page, not away from it

The booking widget used to send customers to a separate Velobook page to finish up, which meant losing your site's look, and sometimes losing the customer along the way. It now opens in a popup over your own page, so booking reads as part of your website from start to finish.

Improved

The printing panel says whether it's working

Knowing printing was switched on told you nothing about whether a printer was actually listening. The panel opens with a plain sentence now: whether Velobook has heard from your printer, and when it last made contact. Times sit underneath if you want them. And a print that reaches a printer which has stopped answering falls back to your browser's own dialog, so the job card still comes out.

New

Name your fittings section whatever you like

Fittings doesn't mean the same thing in every shop. You can now rename that section to whatever your customers and staff already call it, and the new name follows everywhere the section appears, not just on the settings page.

Improved

Only the next stop hears you're on the way

A go live run used to tell every stop on the day that a mechanic was coming, which is true but not useful three jobs out. The tracking link now goes to the stop you're actually heading for, and moves down the run with you.

Under the hood

  • A reward code that can't apply no longer stops the hire

    A network reward code that doesn't fit the booking now declines on its own line, and the hire carries on at the normal price.

  • One awkward stop no longer reshapes the day

    A single scheduled job with a tight window used to pull the whole optimised route around it. The rest of the day now plans normally around it.

  • Per-bike delivery charges what it's set to

    Shops pricing delivery per bike within a pricing area now see that fee quoted at checkout.

  • Staff can book the services customers don't see

    Check-in used to offer staff the same menu customers see online. It now includes services you've marked internal only, so staff aren't working around their own booking screen.

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