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New features, improvements, and fixes shipped to your Vacation Labs account.

Apr 17, 2026 A Cleaner, More Readable Departure List

A Cleaner, More Readable Departure List

A cleaner way for customers to pick their departure date If your booking form is set to show departures as a list, your customers will notice a cleaner, more readable experience. On desktop, each departure is now a single compact row — showing the date, tour variant, availability status, price, and Book button all at […]

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Apr 16, 2026 Promote coupons and discounts while customers are actively booking

Promote coupons and discounts while customers are actively booking

The coupon section on your tour pages has been visually redesigned, and coupons can now be individually configured to also appear inside the booking form itself. Previously, coupon banners were only shown on your tour page and collection pages — once a customer clicked “Book Now,” there was no reminder of available discounts until they […]

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Apr 14, 2026

Fixed: Tour PDFs Not Rendering with Correct Styles Fix

Fixed an issue where auto-generated tour PDFs were rendering without any styles — no fonts, colors, or layout. This affected PDFs auto-generated between mid-February and April 14, 2026; PDFs generated outside that window were not affected. The cause was the PDF generator referencing a stylesheet on a storage location that had stopped being updated when the CSS pipeline was upgraded in February. Tour PDFs now correctly pick up your website’s theme fonts, colors, and layout.

Apr 2, 2026

Added SMTP monitoring with auto Zoho tickets New

Added SMTP monitoring: Vacation Labs automatically detects and classifies delivery failures from your custom SMTP server. Persistent issues create support tickets for the Vacation Labs support team to investigate.

In case you receive an email from support@vacationlabs.com about email delivery failures, please reply urgently.

Mar 30, 2026

Fixed schema.org JSON-LD description sanitization Fix

Fixed a bug where description fields in schema.org JSON-LD types were not properly sanitized, potentially leading to malformed structured data or unexpected display issues in search engine results. All structured data output is now valid and correctly formatted.

This is one of several refinements to our [SEO Center](/help/seo-center-overview/) structured data features — we’re actively monitoring Google Search Console performance and will continue improving it.

Mar 30, 2026

Fixed distorted country flags in phone picker Fix

Fixed a visual bug where country flags in the phone number picker appeared distorted or incorrect. Country flags now display correctly in the booking form phone picker for a cleaner, more professional user interface.

Mar 24, 2026

Login Page: New Look & UX Improvements Improvement

Your login page has a fresh new look. You’ll now see a clean split layout — your login form on the left, and the latest Vacation Labs updates alongside travel photos on the right.

A few small touches that make a difference: the email field is auto-focused when the page loads, there’s a show/hide toggle on the password field, and if you mistype your password, your email stays filled in so you can try again instantly.

Mar 24, 2026

Payment Request: Default Action Now Matches Trip Configuration Fix

When you send a payment request to a customer, the “If paid before deadline” dropdown now automatically matches your tour’s confirmation mode. For example, if your tour is set to auto-confirm bookings on payment, this dropdown will default to “mark booking as confirmed.” If your tour uses manual confirmation, it will default to “move to pending confirmation” instead.

Previously, this dropdown always defaulted to the first option regardless of how the tour was configured — which meant you had to remember to change it manually every time.

Payment request dialog showing the 'If paid before deadline' dropdown defaulting to 'mark booking as confirmed' based on the tour's confirmation mode.

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Mar 24, 2026

Pax Count Field: Validation Fix Fix

Fixed an issue where a “Pax Count” field on inquiry or booking forms could be saved without selecting any passenger types (e.g. Adults, Children), resulting in a broken field on the storefront. The form builder now validates that at least one passenger type is selected before saving, and shows which specific field has the problem.