What's new

Everything we've shipped

Lili Pod is built and run from Hampshire, and it changes most weeks. Everything below is live — nothing here is planned or coming soon.

  1. Better

    One month free, on every plan

    Your first subscription starts with a free month, whichever plan you pick, and no card is needed to begin. It applies once per business, on the first subscription only.

    New

    Add Lili Pod to your home screen

    The app can now be installed on a phone or tablet like any other app — its own icon, its own window, no browser bar. Useful if you check the day’s bookings on the way in.

  2. Better

    Your customers can see their booking reference

    The reference was always in the confirmation email; now it is on the confirmation screen too, so nobody has to go hunting through their inbox to quote it to you.

  3. New

    An extra page on your website, named by you

    Pro sites can add a fifth page and call it whatever you like — Prices, Gallery, The Team — and your word becomes the tab in your navigation. Build it by dragging in text, photographs and links. Optional, and off unless you turn it on.

  4. Better

    Lily works properly on a phone

    Lily, the assistant inside your account, moved from a floating window to a side panel — bigger tap targets, readable text, and she no longer fights the on-screen keyboard.

  5. Better

    Client quotes on your Pro website

    Add what your customers have said about you to your own site, with or without a name attached, and see it change as you type it.

    Fixed

    Tightened what a signed-out visitor can read

    Some details about businesses using Lili Pod — the plan they were on, for instance — could be read by someone who was not signed in. That is closed. Nothing about your customers was ever exposed, and your public booking page is unaffected.

  6. Fixed

    A refund in Stripe now cancels the booking too

    Refunding from your Stripe dashboard used to leave the booking sitting in your diary as though it were still happening. It is now cancelled at the same time, and your customer is told.

    Better

    HR stopped calling bookings access “Training”

    A holdover word from an earlier version of the product. What a plan controls is who can take bookings, and it now says so everywhere — particularly in People and HR, where it read as though it meant something else.

  7. New

    A welcome discount that pops up for new visitors

    Offer a first-time visitor a discount as they arrive on your page, in exchange for their email if you want it. It sits alongside your other offers rather than being a separate thing to manage.

  8. New

    See exactly what you are paying for

    A plain breakdown of your bill: how many staff calendars you are using out of your allowance, what HR is costing per person, and how much of Fern’s conversation allowance is left this week.

  9. New

    Tours and activities got their own way of working

    A board of dates rather than a list of sessions, and bookings taken by party size — guests say how many are coming instead of typing everybody’s name, which is how people actually book a tour.

    New

    Classes and workshops got the same dates board

    One class, as many dates as you run it. Add next month’s timetable by adding dates rather than re-creating the class each time.

    New

    Lily and Fern learned your trade

    Both assistants now use your industry’s own words and know how booking works for your kind of business — so a restaurant is asked about reservations and covers, not attendees and sessions.

    New

    Arrange your dashboard however you like

    Drag the panels on your dashboard into the order that suits your day; they pack themselves neatly around whatever you move.

    Better

    The app opens considerably faster

    Roughly half the download on first load, pages that no longer re-fetch what they already have, and long booking lists that stay smooth however many rows they hold.

  10. New

    Real table reservations for restaurants and cafés

    Guests give a party size and pick a sitting — “Dinner, 6–9pm” — and the reservation counts against that service’s covers. Your menu stays a menu, with no booking controls tangled through it.

Something you'd like to see?

A good deal of the list above started as somebody telling us their trade didn't work the way the software assumed. Book a demo and say what's missing, or email us.