All ResEngine accounts now have a Profile. When creating a new account you choose your profile during sign-up. Existing accounts can always change their profile by visiting the “My Settings” section.

Your account profile sets a number of display settings and defaults for your ResEngine account. For instance, if you use the “Vacation Rental” profile, your calendars default to 30 day views and various screens use labels for working with “guests” and reserving “nights”. If you switch to the “Salon” profile, your calendars default to the 1 day view where you work with “customers” and make “appointments”.

But what if you rent rooms and jet skis? Have no fear, you can also set up Calendar Profiles that do the same thing, but for a specific calendar. By default, all of your calendars will use your Account Profile to decide how they look and work. But you can choose a Calendar Profile on the Calendar Edit screen that will override the account settings.

We’ve launched this feature with a dozen or so profiles and will be adding more over time. Here’s the current list, if you have an idea for a new one, send it to us at support@resengine.com

Current ResEngine Profiles:

• Boat Rentals
• Campground
• Court Reservations
• Equipment Rentals
• Field Reservations
• Hostel
• Hotel
• Marina
• Meeting Rooms
• Plane Rentals
• Salon
• Spa
• Vacation Rentals

A new slider appears above calendars that can be dragged back and forth to adjust the range of dates shown. The traditional ResEngine 7 day view is perfect for managing lots of nightly reservations. The new 30 day view is great for weekly reservations, or to just look further ahead when managing nightly reservations. You can switch quickly back and forth between these two views — they work great together!

The new 1 day view is great for those of you booking hourly or partial day reservations. For instance, say you book rooms nightly but you also rent bicycles on an hourly basis. If you set up a ResEngine calendar for each, you can set the rooms calendar to display either the 7 day or 30 day view, then set the bicycle calendar to display using the 1 day view.