This update improves access token handling for Salesforce especially when using a shared account credentials for a group–as you would for online booking. Coinciding with this release we have also deployed API-Connect 0.2.1. This updates our public booking relay so we can easily add our customers to a standardized system which is more secure and handles token management better. Our own public booking is already using this and we are moving all customers to it one by one over the next few weeks.

Just a small update to improve the performance of the backend used for online booking.

Today’s update adds local caching for group settings, greatly speeding up how DayBack loads. (This is the change that was most recently in Beta.) Speed increases will be especially noticeable on mobile or slow internet connections. (Part 1 sped up online booking. Details are here.)

Pulled due slow refreshes when users were logged into different DayBack instances in the same browser. This is a big update with lots of under-the-hood improvements. This change allows DayBack to asynchronously fetch all group settings at once and cache those settings locally in the browser using indexDB. This will make the speed at which DayBack loads more consistent, and testing shows up to a 200% speedup in loading group settings. DayBack now caches access tokens on the server to speed up reloads and navigation back to DayBack. This release fixes an issue that could cause the DayBack logo to cover up modals on initial load on mobile. It also fixes an issue where leaving draft mode could leave a space at the top of the screen until navigating back to the calendar.

We have released a new version of DayBack’s online booking engine that is much faster. This applies to online booking deployments where folks manually manipulate their availability — it doesn’t really affect service-booking deployments where availability is more rule-based. Speed-ups for that are in QA! But for deployments like our own booking engine, this is a big boost. Huge thanks to Michael for the insightful refactor!!