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Checkfront

E-COMM
Velocity0.0

Online booking and reservation management platform for tour and activity operators

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Checkfront upgrades Adyen checkout ahead of Apple Pay and Google Pay

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◆Current state
Checkfront handles bookings for tours and activities and publishes monthly release notes focused on operational depth. September upgraded Adyen checkout to SDK v5 with a client key field, preparing accounts for Apple Pay and Google Pay, and fixed capacity mismatches, duplicate bookings from unclear Square verification, and GetYourGuide bookings that created extra inventory. Earlier months added Adyen phone payments without 3DS blocks, timeslot closures, shared assets and staff assignment in the Daily Manifest.
◆Where it's heading
Payments and inventory accuracy are the recent focus: Adyen work two months running and several fixes where availability shown to guests did not match real capacity.
◆Prediction
Apple Pay and Google Pay through Adyen are the likely next payment addition, since September's upgrade was described as preparation for them.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1mo ago

    Adyen SDK v5 upgrade and capacity accuracy fixes

    Adyen checkout moves to SDK v5 in preparation for wallet payments, and several capacity and double-booking bugs are fixed, including one from GetYourGuide bookings. Payments and inventory accuracy, continuing August's Adyen work.

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  2. 3mo ago

    Adyen MOTO lets staff take phone payments without 3DS blocks

    Operators on Adyen can take phone or in-person payments from the staff-side flow without customer 3DS authentication blocking them, which matters for deposits and custom amounts agreed over the phone. The booking form also now shows the country dialing code to cut invalid numbers and failed SMS.

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  3. 4mo ago

    Resend notification templates from Booking Details

    Staff can resend an existing notification template from Booking Details, reviewing recipients, subject, and content before it goes out - useful for ID verification and pre-arrival information. Date and status filters also land on the Product Discounts page.

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  4. 5mo ago

    Timeslot-level product closures reach the public API

    Closures gain date, status, and category filters, and timeslot-level closures become available through the public API so integrations can manage them at the same granularity as the UI. The API half is the more consequential: connected systems can finally express what operators could already configure.

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  5. 6mo ago

    Staff assignment lands in Daily Manifest

    Staff assignment moves into the Daily Manifest alongside bookings and sessions, and operators can close a single timeslot without blocking the whole day. The timeslot closure is the start of the granularity thread the API caught up with a month later.

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  6. 7mo ago

    One asset can now back several products

    A single resource - a bus, boat, or venue - can be linked across multiple products so shared capacity is tracked in one place. This is the structural change in the window: overlapping products stop being modelled as independent inventory.

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