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Release Notes

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

May 28, 2026

Link-preview images now show on social shares Fix

Links shared from your website to Facebook, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, X (Twitter), and other platforms now show the correct preview thumbnail. The preview image was previously referenced through a relative path that these platforms rejected as invalid, so no thumbnail appeared; it now uses a full web address.

Already-shared links may still show the old preview until the platform re-scrapes the page. Most platforms offer a sharing debugger that forces a refresh.

Learn how to set the preview image for social media shares →

May 21, 2026 Choose any Google Font for your website

Choose any Google Font for your website

Choose any Google Font for your website Instead of choosing from a short fixed list, you can now set your website’s Heading Font and Body Font to any family from the full Google Fonts catalogue, and pick the exact weight and style (ExtraBold, Light, italic, and everything in between) for each.

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May 19, 2026 Cleaner, SEO-friendly URLs for your collection & promotion pages

Cleaner, SEO-friendly URLs for your collection & promotion pages

Cleaner, SEO-friendly URLs for collection & promotion pages This one is for everyone doing serious SEO work on their website — it was easily the most-requested URL change we heard from operators optimizing their search rankings. Your collection pages and coupon/promotion pages can now live at any web address you like, so a “Winter Deals” […]

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May 19, 2026

Payment Re-sync and Auto-recovery for PayU India Improvement

PayU India payments now confirm automatically even when a customer doesn’t make it back to your website after paying. If they close the tab, lose connectivity, or their browser drops the redirect, PayU now notifies Vacation Labs directly, so a payment that actually succeeded is no longer left looking “pending” or “failed”. This brings PayU India in line with the auto-confirmation already in place for Razorpay.

No more missed confirmations: a successful payment confirms the booking on its own, even if the customer never returns to your website.
Re-sync on demand: a new “Re-sync with PG” button on the backoffice payment screen lets your staff pull the latest status straight from PayU whenever a payment looks out of sync.

Backoffice payment details screen with the Re-sync with PG button highlighted

Learn how to fix payment status mismatches →

May 12, 2026

Localization fixes: collection buttons and passenger warnings Fix

“View Collection” button: on collection cards (the collections index, the related-collections sidebar, and collection-grid website sections) the button ignored the configured translated or custom label and always showed English. It now uses the configured label everywhere collection cards appear.
Min/max passenger warning: the booking-form warning shown when a departure is below its minimum or near its maximum was overridden by an easily-missed per-trip field that the editor auto-filled, so customised or translated wording was silently ignored. It now always uses the configured text, on the booking form and in the related confirmation emails.

Why the change: most sites were overriding their own localization without realising this per-trip field existed. Rather than keep a setting that quietly shadows Localization, it has been removed; warning text is still customisable per language under Website > Localization.

Learn how to translate your website →

May 11, 2026

Banner overlay color now covers the full banner width Fix

On banner slides with an overlay color set, a recent change had unintentionally narrowed the overlay to a column behind the banner text instead of tinting the full banner. The overlay color now covers the full banner width again, while the slide’s text and buttons still clear the left and right carousel arrows.

Apr 22, 2026 Manage all your photos and videos in the new Media Library

Manage all your photos and videos in the new Media Library

The new Media Library gives you one place to browse, search, and manage every photo and video on your website. Instead of hunting for an image across dozens of tours and pages, you see all your media in a single grid, find any item by name, and check exactly where it is used before you […]

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Apr 21, 2026

Fixed: ‘Custom domain can’t be blank’ error when saving website settings Fix

Websites on a Vacation Labs subdomain (no custom domain) with HTTPS not enabled got a “Custom domain can’t be blank” error when saving website settings, which blocked the save. This has been fixed — enabling HTTPS is no longer required to save when there is no custom domain.

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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