July, 2026 Product Updates

July was one of our biggest release months of the year. Our Think Live Update headlined Quotes, the new Credit Card Portal, our public API, and full multilingual support on ThinkWeb!

Introducing Quotes

Give prospective guests a professional quote they can book themselves:

• Create and send quotes for any stay directly from ThinkReservations by email, text, or both, using the new ${quote.view_url} personalized variable and quote templates.
• Guests accept or decline online. Accepting a quote instantly creates the reservation.
• Quotes can hold inventory, appear on the reservation calendar, and expire automatically, so rooms are never held longer than you intend.
• Easily convert email inquiries into reservations.
• Enable Quotes under Settings → Feature Flags.
• See the Quotes help article to get started.

Credit Card Portal

• For reservations with no card on file, you can now send guests a secure link where they add their card themselves; this means no more taking card numbers over the phone.
• Improves the experience for both you and your guests during credit card processor transitions.
• Use the new ${reservation.credit_card_portal_url} personalized variable in any email or text template.
• Only available for bills with no card on file.
• Details in the Credit Card Portal help article.

ThinkReservations API & API Keys

• The ThinkReservations API documentation is now publicly available at developers.thinkreservations.com.
• Businesses can create restricted API keys with scoped access to connect their own tools and private integrations, managed with a new "Can manage API keys" permission and protected by extra identity verification at key creation.

Translations & Multilingual ThinkWeb

• The new Translations module lets ThinkWeb customers add languages to their website. All content is translated automatically, with the option to fine-tune any string by hand.
• Added regional language variants, including French (Canada), Spanish (Mexico), Portuguese (Portugal), and Traditional Chinese.
• Dates and prices are localized to the guest's language and your currency throughout the site.
• Support for the Standard Booking Engine is coming in a future update.

ThinkWeb Updates

• Platform-wide structured-data (schema.org) upgrade: every site and page now gives search engines and AI assistants rich detail about your property, rooms, amenities, photos, and pricing. This helps you qualify for enhanced search results.
• Accommodation categories: every unit is now classified with one of 25 lodging types (cabins, cottages, yurts, treehouses, RV sites, and more).
• New guest-facing search filters: guests can filter your rooms by Category, Sleeps, and Price with zero setup required. This also includes live result counts and shareable filtered links perfect for campaigns, such as "see all our cabins."
• New UnitList page component for dedicated listing pages, like a camping-only accommodations page.
• Single-room booking rules respected: properties limited to one room per reservation get a cleaner flow — picking a new room simply swaps the previous one.
• International phone numbers, done right: all guest-facing phone fields are now a proper international input with country selection and real validation across booking checkout, gift certificates, waitlist, and email sign-up, localized into all 15 supported languages.
• Navigation dropdown menus now close properly after clicking a link, with improved screen-reader accessibility.

Sister-Property Availability

• Smarter sister-property suggestions with live availability when a property is fully booked!
• Currently supported for the Classic Booking Engine. Support for ThinkWeb will come in a future update.

Additional Platform Improvements

• The unread text message badge now appears in the mobile navigation menu, so you never miss a guest message on the go.
• New "Promotion" condition for dynamic content blocks in email and message templates.
• The ${reservation.upsell_url} and ${reservation.digital_registration_url} personalized variables now produce shortened URLs, which are much friendlier in emails when not using href links.
• Lightspeed L-Series: spa charges and restaurant charges can now route separately using Lightspeed "Floors."
• The same user account can now connect integrations (like PriceLabs) across multiple hotels.

Reliability & Quality

Stability work this month included fixing batch-printed documents reflowing onto extra pages, correcting email logo sizing, syncing Airbnb's rolling calendar boundary daily, and continued security hardening of guest payment data.