MIDAS - Room & Resource Scheduling Software

MIDAS is a web-based room and resource booking and scheduling system, available as a cloud-hosted service at https://mid.as and as self-hosted software for installation on your own server.

• Website: Home page for MIDAS, a web-based room and resource booking and scheduling system developed in the UK and in continuous development since 2006. Available as a cloud-hosted subscription or a self-hosted one-time licence.
• Features: Comprehensive overview of MIDAS features, including booking management, double-booking prevention, multi-user access with granular permissions, invoicing, reporting, resource scheduling, custom fields, and public booking request support.
• Screenshots: Visual walkthrough of the MIDAS interface, including the booking grid, calendar views, and administrative screens.
• Online Demo: A free, no-registration interactive demo of MIDAS running live in the browser, allowing prospective customers to explore the software before committing to a trial.
• Free Trial: Details of the free trial options available for MIDAS, allowing organisations to evaluate the software against their requirements before purchase.
• Pricing: Full published pricing for both cloud-hosted (monthly and annual subscription) and self-hosted (one-time licence) editions of MIDAS. Pricing is based on the number of venues (bookable spaces) and user accounts required.
• Reviews: Customer reviews, testimonials, and ratings from organisations using MIDAS, including universities, recording studios, and businesses across the UK, US, Canada, and beyond.
• Documentation: The MIDAS user documentation and help system, covering all features and administrative functions of the software.
• Knowledge Base: Searchable knowledge base with over 130 articles covering installation, configuration, troubleshooting, integrations, and frequently asked questions for both cloud-hosted and self-hosted editions.
• Video Tutorials: Library of over 75 on-demand video tutorials covering MIDAS features and common tasks.
• Integrations: Overview of third-party integrations supported by MIDAS, including Slack, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Stripe, PayPal, QuickBooks, Xero, Sage, and others.
• Blog: The MIDAS blog, featuring product updates, release notes, industry commentary, and technical guides dating back to 2006.
• Contact: Contact details for the MIDAS sales and support team.

Blog

• Showing availability and taking bookings from your own website: MIDAS gives you a few different ways to let people see your availability, or book with you, directly from your own website.
• Capture exactly what you need: getting creative with custom fields: MIDAS captures the essentials of every booking out of the box, but every organization is different.
• Security Enhancements in MIDAS v4.42: MIDAS v4.42 upgrades password hashing to Argon2id, adds session termination controls, and fixes several security bugs. See what's changed.
• Microsoft SMTP AUTH Deprecation in 2026: What You Need to Know: Microsoft is retiring SMTP AUTH Basic Authentication in late 2026. Find out which SMTP servers are affected and what MIDAS customers should do now.
• MIDAS at 20: Celebrating Two Decades of Room Booking Innovation: March 2026 marks 20 years since the very first public release of MIDAS. We first unveiled Version 1.00 of our room booking and resource scheduling software to the world on 11th March 2006.
• Why We've Switched from OpenAI to Claude: Over the past week, a significant and fast-moving controversy has unfolded in the AI industry - one that has caused us, along with many others, to take a hard look at which AI companies we choose to support and partner with.
• User Interface Improvements in MIDAS v4.42: MIDAS v4.42 introduces a range of user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) improvements designed to make our booking software even faster, clearer, and easier to use.
• Intelligent Data Imports: If you're considering a new room booking system, one of your first concerns will likely be importing data from your current scheduling software.
• Bulk Modify User Account Permissions: If you're familiar with MIDAS booking software you'll know that it offers an extensive range of access controls and permissions. Permissions can be assigned on a per-user basis.
• Expanded Administrative Permissions in MIDAS v4.42: Administrators appreciate the extensive range of permissions that can be assigned on an account-by-account basis in their MIDAS booking software.
• Zero Configuration Email Delivery for Cloud-Hosted Customers: Learn how MIDAS v4.42 introduces zero configuration cloud email sending with improved deliverability and no SMTP setup required.
• Limit Printing Bookings Over a Date Range to Specific Days of the Week: MIDAS v4.42 introduces a new advanced print option that allows bookings to be printed for specific days of the week within a selected date range.
• MIDAS 2025 Year in Review: Product Updates, Features, and Improvements: A complete overview of MIDAS updates in 2025, including new features, performance improvements, accessibility enhancements, and product milestones.
• User Interface improvements in v4.41: Whilst we love adding new and improved features in every software update, we also know that user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) are important too!
• Improved Booking Import Support: The ability to import data from other software is crucial to those looking to change booking systems. This is especially true if they wish to retain existing data from their current scheduling solution.
• Improvements to graphs in reports: We've completely re-written the code which generates graphical reports and statistics in MIDAS for v4.41.
• Control when unsent invoices are sent: The Scheduled Tasks functions of MIDAS allow your booking system to automatically perform certain actions in the background - even when you're not signed in.
• More control over "Public" venues: MIDAS allows organisations to control how members of the public can view room availability, submit booking requests, or make direct bookings for specific venue.
• Allow users to change their name or email: MIDAS now allows administrators to control whether users can change their display name, email address, or password - providing greater security and flexibility for shared and individual accounts.
• Invoices are now searchable: The "Search" toolbar icon in MIDAS can be used to quickly locate clients and bookings, or search the included help documentation.
• SAML 2.0 integration comes to MIDAS: SAML 2.0, or Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0, is an open standard that enables cross-domain single sign-on (SSO).
• Send Watch Notifications to your Discord server: We have a couple of new and exciting addons available for MIDAS v4.40+.
• Schedule Zoom Meetings from bookings: We have a couple of exciting brand new addons available for MIDAS v4.40+.
• Change the order items appear on invoices: MIDAS booking software includes powerful invoicing features. These extensive capabilities mean that you won't need a separate accounting package to handle the finances in relation to the hire and use of your facilities.
• When the term "Venue" doesn't quite fit: Ever since the first version of MIDAS, we've used to the term "venues" to refer to the rooms or bookable spaces you can manage using our scheduling software.
• New "Stay Signed In" feature: Have you ever hit the reload/refresh button in your browser whilst logged into MIDAS? Were you surprised to be bounced back to a login screen when you did? Well no more!
• Will US-imposed tariffs affect MIDAS software prices?: On 2nd April 2025, US President Donald Trump announced that he would be imposing new 'Tariffs' on the majority of countries in the world.
• Our Green Credentials: The impact that businesses have on the environment is a issue that's close to many people's hearts.
• Are Fax numbers still relevant in 2026?: In a previous article, we talked about the various default input fields included in MIDAS as standard. One of the standard input fields available is for a client's "Facsimile" number (more commonly know as their Fax number).
• MIDAS v4.38 Out Now!: We have a new update available to our MIDAS booking software. This update includes improvements to custom fields, booking requests, printing, privacy, and more.
• Consistently Delivering Exceptional Customer Support: There's nothing more frustrating than emailing a business for help and then having to wait ages for a real person to reply, right? Sometimes it can take days for any sort of human response from a business.
• Expiration warnings in older self-hosted MIDAS systems: Our self-hosted edition of MIDAS allows you to install and run the booking system on your own server and infrastructure.
• Cloud Infrastructure Upgrades - December 2024: Last week we undertook some upgrades in the three client data centers where our cloud-hosted customer's MIDAS systems reside.
• Authenticator App Support: Two-Factor Authentication (sometimes referred to as 2FA) is a more secure method of logging into websites or online services.
• MIDAS v4.37 Out Now!: We have a new update available to our MIDAS booking software. This update includes improvements to custom fields, booking requests, printing, privacy, and more.
• Include Date Notes on booking print outs: The "Date Notes" feature allows you to attach notes to a single date, or a range of dates within your booking system.
• Updates to our "Reviews" addon: This week we've released an update to the optional "Reviews" addon for MIDAS.
• Better support for "shared" email addresses: One of the features of our software is that it can allow visitors to your website to check room availability. They can then make an online booking (or booking request) for use of your facilities.
• A couple of invoicing improvements for v4.37: We often make improvements to the already extensive invoicing capabilities of our room booking software. This is to accommodate a diverse range of invoicing scenarios and usage cases that our customers tell us about.
• Selectively process multiple booking requests: One of the helpful features of MIDAS is the ability to allow visitors to your website to check availability of your facilities and submit booking "requests" online. They can do this without logging in or requiring an account.
• Custom Field Improvements in v4.37: MIDAS includes a number of useful booking and client fields out-of-the-box. You can use these to capture information about your clients and their bookings.
• Deprecating some outdated settings: In MIDAS v4.37, we're deprecating some outdated privacy and security settings.
• MIDAS v4.36 Out Now!: Last month we released a new update to our MIDAS room booking and resource scheduling software.
• Improved Device Detection: Whenever your user account is logged into from a new or unfamiliar device, MIDAS can automatically alert you by email. This additional security feature helps keep your account secure by alerting you to suspicious logins.
• One-Stop Database Cleanup Tool: MIDAS includes a number of handy "Database Tools".
• Get Notified On Invoice Payments: The powerful "Watch Notification" features of MIDAS allow users to configure automatic notifications whenever certain activity occurs within their MIDAS.
• From Blue To Cool: We've given the MIDAS UI a makeover: For v4.36 of our booking software, we've made a whole host of updates and improvements to the user interface (UI) and the included visual themes.
• What's in a (Meeting Room) name?: What do you call your meeting rooms? Do they have names? ...or are they simply numbered "Meeting Room 1", "Meeting Room 2", and so forth?
• Proposal to drop TLS 1.2 support in 2025: Transport Layer Security - or "TLS"- is a cryptographic mechanism to facilitate secure connections and communications across the internet.
• How we're Optimizing Source Code with AI: Often in the release notes for our MIDAS room scheduling software, you may see the entry "Code Optimization".
• How To Generate Quotations For Prospective Bookings: MIDAS v4.35 introduces support for generating "Quotations" for prospective bookings.
• Custom Validation For Required Fields: MIDAS ships with a set of standard booking and client input fields. These input fields allow you to capture specific details about a client and their bookings.
• What AI thinks about MIDAS?: It's an exciting time in the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially when it comes to AI powered interactive chat "bots".
• How to Schedule regular Security Audits: You may not know, but MIDAS includes a useful built-in "Security Audit" tool.
• Geolocation and Geofencing: We're excited to announce Geolocation and Geofencing support for our MIDAS room and resource scheduling software.
• Making it easier to support our self-hosted customers: Our MIDAS room and resource scheduling software is available in two editions, a "cloud-hosted" edition and a "self-hosted" edition.
• World Backup Day - MIDAS has you covered!: The 31st of March each year is World Backup Day. This day is designed to help raise awareness of the importance of keeping your critical data backed-up.
• Almost a third of software vendors don't publish pricing: We recently looked into how long a software’s free trial should last. In doing so, we analyzed numerous competitors who also offer room booking, scheduling, and appointment software.
• Why Does Data Center Location Matter?: Data Centers exist all over the world. They're used to stored all sorts of computer data, including websites and web apps, like MIDAS.
• Network Expansion - Feb/Mar 2023: We're upgrading and expanding our MIDAS network!
• Control heating automatically with MIDAS: We're excited to announce that you can now integrate your room and building heating controls with MIDAS.
• How long should a software's free trial last?: Like many of our competitors, we offer a no obligation "free trial" of our room and resource scheduling software.
• Know your SPF from your SQL, and your SaaS from your SSO!: There are plenty of acronyms and terminology in the world of computer software and technology. You may have come across some of them on our website.
• Nearly a quarter of our customers choose this addon!: "Addons" further extend the capabilities of a MIDAS booking system beyond the extensive features that are already included as standard with our software.
• Review of the year: 2022: As we wave goodbye to 2022, we thought we'd take a few moments out to reflect on our year here at MIDAS HQ.
• Other invoicing improvements in MIDAS v4.32: In our previous post we announced that you can now generate and send PDF versions of invoices to clients from MIDAS.
• How to send invoices as PDF attachments: We first introduced invoicing capabilities to our MIDAS room booking software way back in 2009.
• Setting Venue Rates just got more flexible!: As you may know, our MIDAS room booking software includes integrated invoicing, allowing you to generate invoices for your client's use of your venue.
• How to Visually Book From A Floor Plan or Map: Ever since the first version of our MIDAS room booking software, users choose spaces they wish to book from a "list" of available rooms.
• Our "Reviews" addon now supports 5 review sites: Back in 2020 we released a brand new optional addon for MIDAS room booking systems.
• MIDAS v4.30 Out Now!: We're excited to announce that the latest update to our MIDAS room booking and resource scheduling software is now available.
• Limit number of bookings per user per month or year: For MIDAS v4.30 we've improved the range of options available for the "Maximum bookings allowed" setting.
• Two New Invoice Tools: For MIDAS v4.30 we've added a couple of new "Database Tools" to our software.
• Auto-Approve Booking Requests Based Upon Their Type: The "Booking Request" features of MIDAS, allow people to check venue availability and submit booking "request" for your rooms.
• Ensuring Email Compatibility With Older Mail Clients: In MIDAS v4.30 we've introduced a new "Send invoices in compatibility" setting.
• Export Invoices to Zoho Invoice: Our MIDAS scheduling software allows administrators to export invoices from their booking system for use in a range of 3rd party financial applications.
• Collect Extended Client Information With Bookings: For MIDAS v4.30 we've addressed a potential issue when it comes to adding new clients to your MIDAS booking system.
• Review Previously Sent Internal Messages: One of the feature of the built-in "Notification Center" in MIDAS booking software is the ability to send internal messages to other users.
• We Stand With Ukraine: As governments around the world sanction Russia and its allies, like many software vendors, we here at MIDAS HQ are appalled and horrified by recent world events. We want to play our part to show our support and solidarity with Ukraine.
• No, we're not based in American Samoa!: Occasionally, folks reach out to us and ask us if we're based in American Samoa, as our domain name ends in ".as".
• MIDAS v4.29 Out Now!: Merry Christmas! Even though 2021 has been another challenging year for many, we hope you've all been able to enjoy a better Christmas this year compared to the previous one.
• Specify an alternate "reply to" email address: As you can probably guess, a room booking system needs to be able to send email notifications. These may include, for instance, booking confirmation emails sent to customers.
• Mark notifications as "Read": In MIDAS v4.28 we introduced a new "Notification Center". The Notification Center allows users to view messages from other users, booking and custom reminders, and Watch notifications.
• Restrict users to "self-booking" only: For MIDAS v4.29, we're expanding the range of options available to administrators when it comes to assigning user permissions.
• Revisiting ActivePerl... Part Two!: In our previous article, we took an in-depth look at ActivePerl.
• Revisiting ActivePerl: Perl is the underlaying coding language that our MIDAS booking software is written in.
• A "Fair Usage" API policy for Cloud Hosted customers: The MIDAS API allows developers to interface with a MIDAS booking system from their own code, applications, or websites.
• Introducing our new Refer-a-Friend program: We're pleased to announce the launch of our brand new "Refer-a-Friend" program.
• MIDAS v4.28 Out Now!: During the global pandemic we've remained focused on both supporting our customer's businesses through unprecedented challenges, and working to continually improve our MIDAS software.
• Recent Activity Log Performance Improvements: Every MIDAS booking system includes a "Recent Activity" log feature. This allows administrators to audit all activity taking place in their scheduling system.
• MariaDB vs MySQL: Any software application that "stores" data in some way shape or form, needs a reliable and efficient way to do so. That's where a database comes in!
• Domain Alias Addon: In our previous blog post, we introduced our new optional "Custom Branding" addon.
• Custom brand (white label) your booking system: We're excited to announce our new "Custom Branding" addon for MIDAS room booking systems (v4.28+).
• Web Calendar Improvements: A range of optional addons are available for our MIDAS room booking software.
• SPF record checking in cloud hosted MIDAS systems: Our support team often receive emails from customers who are having trouble receiving email from their hosted MIDAS booking system.
• How To Reset Invoice Counters: We're giving administrators the ability to reset invoice counters in MIDAS v4.28.
• Watch for Venue Availability: In MIDAS v4.28, we've introduced a new "Notification Center". In earlier versions of MIDAS, this functionality could be found within the "My Messages" screen.
• New Notification Center: For MIDAS v4.28 we've overhauled the "My Messages" screen, and renamed it to the "Notification Center".
• Migrating to MariaDB from MySQL: As of 4th July 2021, all our cloud-hosted customer's MIDAS databases have been migrated across from MySQL to MariaDB.
• We're greener than most!: The environment, and our combined impact upon it, is an important global issue. Every day there are new headlines highlighting the environment challenges facing our world, and ways that we can all help combat climate change and reduce our..
• MIDAS v4.27 Out Now!: Today marks the 15th Anniversary of MIDAS!
• Our 15 Year Anniversary: March 2021 marks 15 years since the first public release of MIDAS.
• Other new features in v4.27: In previous blog posts we've covered a number of new features coming in MIDAS v4.27. These include quickly selecting common date ranges, printing individual bookings, and auto-approve improvements for booking requests.
• Conditional Auto-Approval For Booking Requests: The Public Booking Request feature of MIDAS allows non-users to check the availability of your rooms, and submit booking "requests" online. No user account or login is required in order to make a public booking requests.
• Print Individual Bookings: Many of our users require the ability to be able to print out bookings from their MIDAS system. Perhaps they have staff or volunteers who don't have access the a computer, and therefore need a "paper copy" of bookings.
• Quickly Select Common Date Ranges: In number of places in our scheduling software you can select a date range. For example, when printing bookings, searching for bookings, of viewing reports and statistics over a custom date range.
• Happy Christmas from MIDAS HQ: We'd like to wish all our customers a very Happy Christmas from MIDAS HQ here in the UK!
• MIDAS v4.26 Out Now!: Since our previous significant update to MIDAS back in July, we've been continuing to work hard during the global pandemic on our next update - v4.26.
• The Importance Of Keeping Software Up-To-Date: In October 2020, it came to light that Public Health England (PHE) had "lost" nearly 16,000 COVID-19 Test Results.
• A New Calendar Widget: If you've previously used MIDAS, you'll be familiar with the small calendar "widget" that appears throughout the software allowing you to select dates.
• New Export Features: In our previous update (v4.25) we added a host of new data export features. This included the ability to export invoice data to QuickBooks, Sage, Xero and several other popular accountancy packages.
• Improved Password Hardening: For MIDAS v4.26 we're improving the password change process for users, with the introduction of a new "Disallow Known Breached Passwords" admin setting:
• 6 Ways MIDAS Can Help Your Business Adjust To COVID-19: In these unprecedented times, many organizations were forced to suspend their operations for the past several months. However, some are now beginning to take the first tentative steps towards reopening.
• Introducing our new Security Center: We take a transparent and pro-active approach to the security of our infrastructure and software.
• MIDAS v4.25 Out Now!: If you've been following our blog in recent weeks, then you'll know that we've been busy during the UK lockdown. We've been hard at work at our next update to MIDAS v4.25, which is out now!
• The Evolution of Password Storage in MIDAS: Earlier this week one of our competitors revealed that they had suffered a significant data breach. As part of this breach, "hashes" of their user's stored passwords were stolen.
• Security Enhancements in v4.25: Security is our number one priority here at MIDAS. We constantly strive to ensure our software remains secure, and provide users with a range of tools to help keep their MIDAS accounts and data secure.
• Invoicing Improvements in MIDAS v4.25: If you've been following our recent posts, you'll know that we're introducing a whole host of new features for MIDAS v4.25. Many of the new and improved features in v4.25 relate to invoicing.
• Improvements To Cancellation Invoicing: We're introducing a whole host of new features for MIDAS v4.25. One area that's had a big overhaul for this update is invoicing.
• Combine and Merge Unsent Invoices: One area of our software that's had a big overhaul for MIDAS v4.25 is invoicing.
• Export Invoices to QuickBooks, Sage, Xero, and more!: There's a whole host of new features in MIDAS v4.25. One area that's had a big overhaul for this update is invoicing. Combined with this, we've also overhauled the exporting capabilities of our software.
• Introducing Credit Notes: There's a whole host of new features in MIDAS v4.25. One area that's had a big overhaul for this update is invoicing.
• Apply Refunds To Invoices: There's a whole host of new features in MIDAS v4.25. One area that's had a big overhaul for this update is invoicing.
• Flexible Invoice Terms: There's a whole host of new features in MIDAS v4.25. One area that's had a big overhaul for this update is invoicing.
• Invoice Tax Improvements: There's a whole host of new features in MIDAS v4.25. One area that's had a big overhaul for this update is invoicing.
• Statistics and Reporting Improvements: We're making some improvements to Statistics and Reporting for v4.25. These include...
• Client Notification Improvements: We believe in giving your clients control over the automated email notifications and reminders they may receive from your MIDAS system. To that end, we're making some improvements in this area for v4.25.
• Colorize Venues: If you have dozens of venues in your MIDAS system, wouldn't it be useful to color-code each in the booking grid for easy identification?
• User Management Improvements: For v4.25, we've made a some improvements to user management. These include..
• Re-show The Quick Tour: The very first time each user logs into their MIDAS system, they're offered a "Quick Tour" of the user interface.
• Custom Field Improvements: For v4.25, we've made a few improvements to custom booking and client fields. These include..
• User Interface Improvements: For v4.25, we've made a number of small but significant improvements to the user interface. These include..
• What's new in MIDAS v4.25: The world has been seemingly grinding to a halt over the past couple of months due to COVID-19.
• Strawberry Perl vs ActivePerl: "Perl" is the coding language we develop our web based room booking and resource scheduling software, MIDAS, in.
• MIDAS v4.24 Out Now!: We're all experiencing unprecedented times with the global Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Firstly, if you're an existing customer whose business is currently affected by the situation, we want to reassure you that we're here to help!
• 3-ways we're supporting businesses affected by COVID: The Coronavirus (COVID-19) is arguably the largest global health threat in modern times. Now classified as a "Pandemic" by the World Health Organization (WHO), and predicted to last for many months.
• New Reviews Addon: With the latest update (v4.24) to our MIDAS web based room booking and resource scheduling software fast approaching, we've been introducing some of the highlights of the new update over the past few blog posts.
• New Booking Feedback Email & Template: Over the past few articles, we've unvailed some of the new features in the next update (v4.24) to our MIDAS room and resource scheduling software.
• New Bypass Venue Blocks Permission: As the wet and windy wintry weather shows no sign of letting up here in the UK, we continue to put the finishing touches to the next update to our MIDAS web based room booking and resource scheduling software, v4.24.
• New Multi-Select Custom List Fields: The new decade has gotten off to an unusually windy and wet start here in the UK. We've taken a bit of a battering from Storm Ciara and Storm Dennis in quick succession. It's not been very nice weather to go out in at all!
• Brexit Day is here!: As we are a UK-based business we wanted to take this opportunity to again reassure our customers about our position and the impact on MIDAS during this transition.
• Updating our cloud hosted pricing model for 2020: It's a brand-new year - in fact, it's a brand-new decade - and we're starting 2020 with an update to the pricing model for new cloud hosted editions of our MIDAS room booking and resource scheduling software.
• MIDAS v4.23 Out Now!: We hope you're all ready and getting excited (if not already!) for the holidays just around the corner?
• Improved "Feeds" addon (formerly RSS Feeds): Work is nearing completion on the next update to our MIDAS web based room booking and resource scheduling software. We anticipate this to be released next month.
• Modify/Delete Similar Bookings on specific days: Work is nearing completion on the next update to our MIDAS web based room booking and resource scheduling software, anticipated to be released next month.
• New Setup & Breakdown Times: Work is nearly complete on the next update to our MIDAS web based room booking and resource scheduling software.
• MIDAS v4.22 Out Now!: We’re excited to announce the release today of v4.22 of our MIDAS room booking system, which includes the often requested feature of “custom client fields”.
• Improve email delivery: The importance of SPF: In this blog post, we'll take a look at SPF and why its important in ensuring email from your MIDAS room booking system is reliably delivered.
• Custom Client Fields: Things are hotting up here in Europe - and we don't mean Brexit! A heatwave is currently engulfing parts of the continent with temperatures hitting a whopping 40°C in Paris.
• We feel the need... the need for speed!: We're committed to regularly bringing exciting new and improved features to our easy-to-use room booking system, MIDAS.
• MIDAS v4.21 Out Now!: We enjoy bringing you new and exciting features to our MIDAS room booking and resource scheduling software. Our latest update v4.21 which was released a few days ago is no exception!
• Improved Bulk Venue Modification: In the very early days of MIDAS, each "venue" (room/bookable space) you added to the system could have a name and a maximum occupancy level (capacity) setting.
• New Invoicing Features: We're introducing a number of invoicing features in out next update. These are in addition to the new deposit invoice features we outlined previously. Here's a brief outline of new invoicing features in MIDAS v4.21...
• Deposit Invoices: It may be a new year, but we've been hard at work on the next update (v4.21) to our room booking and resource scheduling system. We're giving you a "first look" here on the blog at some of the upcoming features you can expect.
• MIDAS is now on Reddit: Are you a Reddit user?
• MIDAS v4.20 Out Now!: Earlier this month we released the latest update (v4.20) to our MIDAS room booking and resource scheduling software!
• Theme Improvements: Following on from our previous post, you'll know about some of the difficulties and challenges we've faced over the years in ensuring a consistent user experience can be delivered for our users, regardless of which web browser they're...
• MIDAS and Internet Explorer 11: Here are MIDAS HQ we love getting feedback from our customers! Whether positive or critical, all feedback is important to us.
• MIDAS v4.19 Out Now!: Whilst the UK have been basking in a prolonged heatwave, and preoccupied by the excitement of major sporting events such as the World Cup, Wimbledon, and the Formula One British Grand Prix, we've been beavering away on the next update to...
• NHS Staff Discount celebrating 70 years of the National Health Service: Often viewed as the envy of the rest of the world, the UK's National Health Service celebrates its 70th birthday today!
• Invoicing Improvements: The forthcoming update to MIDAS - our popular room booking and resource scheduling system - includes a handful of small, but nonetheless useful, updates and improvements to the extensive Invoicing capabilities of the software.
• Simplified Password Reset Process: We're improving and simplifying the password reset process for MIDAS v4.19.
• Additional Recipients for Booking Confirmations: When adding new bookings to MIDAS (or modifying existing ones) if there's an email address on record for the client that you're making/modifying bookings for, then MIDAS will offer a "Send Booking Confirmation?
• New "Per Person" Venue Rate: We love giving customers flexibility over how they charge clients for use of their rooms and spaces.
• Implementing a Content Delivery Network (CDN): May 2018 has been a busy month here at MIDAS HQ!
• Certificate Authority Migration - May 2018: In essence, a security certificate is what allows you to connect to a website over a secure https connection (instead of traditional, insecure, http).
• MIDAS v4.18 Out Now!: Over the past few months we've been busy working on the next update to our Web Based Room Booking and Resource Scheduling software MIDAS, and we're very excited to announce that this latest update (v4.18) is now available!
• Include field names on booking blocks: MIDAS v4.18 is almost ready for general release, and boasts a variety of user-requested features and improvements.
• Export data and statistics in Excel (.xlsx) format: We think we've really "Excelled" with our forthcoming update to MIDAS... literally!
• Greater Control Over BCC'd Email: The first big update of 2018 for our MIDAS web based room booking and resource scheduling system is nearly ready, and includes a number of user-requested features and improvements.
• Bulk Modify Venues: One of these concerns the setting up and modification of venues within the system. Whilst setting up your venues is typically a one-time task, if you're setting up a large number of venues it can become a little mundane having to set hours.
• New Custom "Checkbox" (tick box) Booking Field: MIDAS booking systems incorporate a set of basic booking fields enabled by default. These allow you to capture the type of booking, the number of attendees, resources, and booking notes.
• Re-Launching our Affiliate Program: You could earn over $2,000 for every new customer you refer to MIDAS!
• MIDAS v4.17 Out Now!: A very Happy Christmas from MIDAS HQ!
• New Custom Links Addon: MIDAS has a growing range of optional "addons" available. These extend the capabilities of your booking and scheduling system with additional features and functionality.
• Improvements to Booking Types: The next update (v4.17) to our room booking and resource scheduling system, MIDAS, is just around the corner. So we're giving you a first look at some of the new features and improvements in v4.17.
• Custom Resource Categories: So it's been a little while since we last blogged. But that's because we've been busy working away on the next update to our room booking and resource scheduling software, MIDAS.
• Changes affecting electronic payments from international customers: Here at MIDAS, we accept a wide variety of payment methods. This includes payment by credit/debit card, PayPal account, and via Electronic Bank/Wire Transfer.
• MIDAS v4.16 Out Now!: We love bringing new and improved features to MIDAS throughout the course of the year, and our latest update v4.16 is no exception!
• Upgrading our servers to support HTTP/2: As part of our ongoing commitment to the services we provide to our "cloud hosted" customers, we'll shortly be upgrading our client servers to support HTTP/2.
• Privacy Improvements: We care about privacy, which is why we're introducing "Do-Not-Track" support in our forthcoming update, MIDAS v4.16.
• Reducing International Price Fluctuations: As you may be aware, we are a UK based business. Consequently, our "base" pricing is in Pound Sterling (GBP).
• Upcoming New Features in the MIDAS API: To coincide with our next release of MIDAS, v4.16, we'll also be releasing an update to the optional MIDAS API.
• Over 75 new Video Tutorials available on-demand!: Over the past weekend, we've published nearly 80 brand new, concise, and easy to follow video tutorials... and best of all, they're all FREE!
• New Quick Tour of the User Interface: One of the things we're really proud of is the extensive sources of help we make available to our customers.
• Improvements in Importing Data: We've made a number of improvements for the upcoming v4.16 release of our MIDAS software when it comes to importing data from 3rd party calendars/booking systems, namely:
• New Advanced Invoice Generation Filter: If you follow our blog, you'll already be aware of some of the exciting new features on the horizon with MIDAS v4.16. Our previous post looked at new filter options when it comes to generating printouts of your bookings.
• Printing Improvements: We're adding a couple of cool new features to the print functionality in MIDAS for the next release of our web based room booking and resource scheduling software, v4.16.
• New Custom "Range" (Slider) Booking Field: MIDAS Room Booking & Resource Scheduling systems come with a set of basic booking fields enabled by default. These allow you to record the type of booking, the number of attendees, any resources, and booking notes.
• MIDAS v4.15 Out Now!: With Easter over for another year (and with what seems like enough chocolate to keep us going until the next!), we're excited to announce the availability of MIDAS v4.15, our powerful web based room booking and resource scheduling software.
• World Backup Day 2017 - Time to check your important data: We strongly believe in the importance of regularly backing-up data you can't afford to loose. With that in mind, we built in a number of backup features to our world class web-based room booking and resource scheduling software, MIDAS.
• New Public "Book Online" feature: With MIDAS v4.15 just around the corner, we're offering a "first look" at some of the highlights coming in the next update to our web based room booking and resource scheduling software.
• Maintain fixed spacing between bookings: Work on the next update to our popular web based room booking and resource scheduling, MIDAS, is nearing completion. We're excited to reveal some of the exciting improvements you can look forward to first here on our blog...
• New Un-invoiced Bookings Report: Work on the latest feature-rich update to our web based room booking and resource scheduling, MIDAS, is nearing completion, and so we're excited to reveal some of these exciting new and improved features first here on our blog...
• Public Booking Request Improvements: The popular "Public Booking Request" features of MIDAS allow non-users (i.e. visitors to your website) to check the availability of your venues and submit booking "requests" online.
• Longer trial periods and 2016 prices held or reduced!: It's the start of a brand-new year, 2017, and so usually it's around this time that many businesses quietly put up their prices...
• MIDAS v4.14 Out Now!: As we head into the festive season, we're excited to be able to squeeze in one more update to MIDAS, our Web Based Room Booking and Resource Scheduling Software, before this year draws to a close!
• Disabling TLS 1.0 in early 2017: TLS stands for "Transport Layer Security" and is a cryptographic mechanism used to facilitate secure connections and communications over the internet. Several incarnations of the TLS protocol have been developed over the years (1.0, 1.
• Bulk approve or reject booking requests: Inundated by lots of booking requests? Following customer feedback, MIDAS v4.14 includes new "Reject All" and "Approve All" buttons on the Pending Booking Request screen.
• Per-Client Default Booking Types: "Booking Types" are a way for you to color-code your bookings in MIDAS based on their "type". For example, you may have both internal and external users of your facilities, and so by assigning a different color to each of booking allows...
• Set multiple closed date ranges for each venue: The latest exciting update to our web based room booking and resource scheduling software MIDAS is just around the corner, are we're really excited to be introducing you to some of the notable new features and improvements you can except...
• Improved Invoice Auditing: Over the past few months we've been busy working on the next update to MIDAS, v4.14, and this upcoming release contains a wealth of new and improved features, which we're really excited to introduce you to here on our blog...
• New features for hotels and overnight accommodation businesses: MIDAS isn't just for booking meeting rooms you know! Our software has successfully been used to manage activities for all kinds of venues and facilities.
• "Tentative" bookings which auto-expire if not confirmed: During the Summer we've been busy working away on the next update to MIDAS, v4.14. This upcoming release contains a whole host of new and improved features.
• Dedicated sub domains for cloud-hosted customers: We are delighted to announce the completion of our roll out of dedicated sub-domains for all our cloud hosted customers!
• Firefox: The last browser to drop Windows XP/Vista support: As you should be aware, Windows XP and Vista are now considered obsolete operating systems. They are no longer supported or maintained by Microsoft.
• MIDAS v4.13 Out Now!: This year we're celebrating our 10th year developing MIDAS, our Web Based Room Booking and Resource Scheduling Software!
• Security Enhancements in MIDAS v4.13: If you follow our blog, then you'll know we've been busy putting the finishing touches to the next update to MIDAS.
• Invoicing Improvements in MIDAS v4.13: With development on the next update to our room booking and resource scheduling software, MIDAS nearing completion, we're shedding a little light here on some of the new and improved features coming in v4.13.
• Brexit: It's business as usual!: The first thing to note is that all our administrative operations are based here in the UK. (For reference, our primary server infrastructure residing in the United States, with backup systems in the UK).
• Reduce Email Notifications Whilst Logged-In: Development is nearing completion on the next update to our room booking and resource scheduling software, MIDAS. So we're shedding a little light here on our blog on some of the new and improved features coming to v4.13...
• New Desktop Notifications: One of the new features in MIDAS v4.13 is "Desktop Notifications" on web browsers which support such notifications (At time of writing, this includes current versions of Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, with Edge support coming soon!).
• Help Make MIDAS Even Better!: What makes our MIDAS room & resource booking system the fully-featured and comprehensive complete scheduling solution of choice for organizations across the globe?
• Recent "Security Enhancements" in MIDAS: As part of our ongoing commitment to security, you may notice that "Security Enhancements" often appears in the changelog when we release new builds.
• MIDAS v4.12 Out Now!: We've been actively developing our Web Based Room Booking and Resource Scheduling Software for over 10 years now!
• World Backup Day 2016 - Take a moment to backup your data: We strongly believe in the importance of regularly backing-up data you can't afford to lose. To that end, we built a number of backup features into our MIDAS room booking software to do just that!
• Missing booking requests? - Your mail filters may be to blame!: One of our customers recently contacted us to report a strange issue whereby booking requests made through their MIDAS scheduling system were seemingly vanishing from their system.
• More Flexible Email Templates: The next update to our Web Based Room Booking and Resource Scheduling software MIDAS is fast approaching, and throughout March we're giving you a first look at some of the new features and improvements you can look forward to in MIDAS v4.
• Accept Card Payments with Stripe: The next update to our Web Based Room Booking and Resource Scheduling software MIDAS is fast approaching. Throughout March we're giving you a first look at some of the new features and improvements you can look forward to in MIDAS v4.12.
• Maintain a line of credit for your clients: The next update to our Web Based Room Booking and Resource Scheduling software MIDAS is on the horizon, and throughout March we're giving you a first look at some of the new features and improvements you can look forward to in this next...
• New Current Availability Report: This week marks 10 years since the very first public and commercial release of our Web Based Room Booking and Resource Scheduling software, MIDAS, back in 2006.
• Latest Addon: PRTG Sensors: Our latest addon, available for MIDAS v4.11 (or later) allows system/network administrators to monitor - in "real time" - key parameters and metrics of a self-hosted or cloud-hosted MIDAS system in PRTG Network Monitor.
• Microsoft kills off Internet Explorer 9 & 10... well, not quite!: This isn't strictly true!
• MIDAS v4.11 Now Available!: Happy New Year, folks!
• Improved Client Selector: As the next update to our web based room booking and resource scheduling software fast approaches, we're giving you a "first look" on our blog at some of the new and improved features you can look forward to in this next update to MIDAS v4.
• Activity Logging Improvements: The next update to our web based room booking and resource scheduling software is fast approaching, and throughout this month we're giving you a "first look" at some of the new features and improvements coming in MIDAS v4.11...
• Improved Session Control: The next update to our web based room booking and resource scheduling software is fast approaching. Throughout this month we're giving you a "first look" at some new features and improvements coming in MIDAS v4.11.
• Estimate Booking Charges: The next update to our web based room booking and resource scheduling software is fast approaching. Throughout this month we're offering a "first look" at some of the new features and improvements coming in MIDAS v4.11.
• Easily add additional Resources to Invoices: The next update to our web based room booking and resource scheduling software is fast approaching, and we've been giving you a "first look" at some of the new features and improvements you can look forward to in MIDAS v4.11.
• Celebrating Our 10th Anniversary!: *Today, marks the 10th Anniversary of MIDAS!
• Invoice Receipts: The next update to our web based room booking and resource scheduling software is just around the corner. So this week we're providing a "first look" at some of the new features and improvements to expect in MIDAS v4.11.
• New User Permissions: The next update to our web based room booking and resource scheduling software is just around the corner.
• Booking Cancellation Notifications: The next update to our web based room booking and resource scheduling software is just around the corner, and so over the coming days on our blog we're going to give you a first look at some of the new features and improvements you can...
• It's Small Business Saturday time again!: Held on one of the busiest shopping days of the year - the first Saturday in December - Small Business Saturday is all about encouraging everyone in the UK to support, promote, and inspire the country's 5 Million small businesses.
• Improving our dedicated Service Status site: We know that keeping our customers informed and updated with timely information which may affect their service is paramount.
• MIDAS v4.10 Now Available!: We're excited to tell you about our latest update to MIDAS - version v4.10 - which is now available and which boasts a number of new and improved features...
• Quickly Search Resources: Our web based room booking and resource scheduling software, MIDAS, allows you to assign and book resources along with your rooms.
• MIDAS v4.10 Invoicing Improvements: So based on this feedback we're introducing a host of exciting new features and improvements to the invoicing capabilities of MIDAS for v4.10!
• New Two-Factor Authentication: → Read our Tips for keeping your MIDAS secure
• Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge Now Available: Today, Microsoft have launched their latest operating system, Windows 10, and with it a brand new web browser called "Edge". Edge is designed to be the successor to their long running Internet Explorer web browser.
• New Addon: Slack Integration: https://slack.comSlack is a versatile and increasingly popular team messaging platform, offering real-time communication and collaboration with your colleagues via the web as well as mobile platforms.
• Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge Coming Soon!: Along with Windows 10, Microsoft have been developing a brand new web browser that will be the successor to their long running Internet Explorer web browser (although both browsers will be included in Windows 10).
• MIDAS v4.09 Now Available!: If you follow us on social media, then you'll probably already be aware of MIDAS v4.09 and the buzz its been generating amongst users, especially surrounding the new "Booking Alternatives" feature!
• Booking Alternatives: Over the past couple of blog posts, we've been looking at some of the new features coming in our next update to MIDAS, v4.09, including high resolution SVG graphics, and the ability to assign multiple email addresses to each client.
• Add Multiple Email Addresses For Clients: Today we're excited to tell you about an improvement coming to client records within MIDAS. Until now, it's only been possible to associate a single email address with each client record.
• New High Resolution SVG Graphics: Something interesting is happening in the world of video displays. At one of end of the spectrum, mobile device screens are becoming ever smaller. However, at the other end, TV and computer screens are becoming increasingly larger.
• World Backup Day - How we backup your data: Today is World Backup Day. This annual event raises the awareness of the importance of keeping your critical digital files and data regularly backed-up.
• Improved Emergency Access addon for Hosted customers: *Unlike the vast majority of our competitors, we offer two editions of our MIDAS web based room booking and resource scheduling software.
• Earth Hour 2015 - We're doing it again!: For the past couple of years, we've been proud to be part of "Earth Hour". Each year, millions of people across the world switch off lights for a whole 60 minutes to raise awareness of climate change.
• We're 9 years old today!: We'd like to take this opportunity to thank all our customers - whether you've been with us just a short time, or been with us since the beginning!
• Do you #loveMIDAS?: It's nearly that time of year again, folks - Valentine's Day! !#loveMIDAS ...and just like last year we're feeling all loved up, and want to share the love with you again!
• MIDAS v4.08 Now Available!: It's the start of a brand new year, and we're excited to bring you the latest update to our web based room booking and resource scheduling software, MIDAS - Version 4.08.
• We're supporting Small Business Saturday again this year!: Held on one of the busiest shopping days of the year - the first Saturday in December - Small Business Saturday is about encouraging everyone in the UK to support, promote, and inspire the country's small businesses.
• Reporting Improvements in v4.08: MIDAS v4.08 is approaching, and we're giving your a sneak preview of some of the new and improved features you'll be able to find in this forthcoming update to our Room Booking and Resource Scheduling Software.
• Invoicing Improvements in v4.08: MIDAS v4.08 is on the horizon, and as is becoming tradition we're giving readers of our blog a sneak preview of some of the new and improved features you'll be able to find in this forthcoming update to our popular Web Based Room Booking...
• Digital Signage Addon Improved!: Today we've released an update to the Digital Signage addon.
• MIDAS v4.07 Now Available!: We're excited to announce the availability of the latest version of our web based room booking and resource scheduling software, MIDAS - Version 4.07.
• Whatever happened to Google Checkout?: This feature was first introduced back in 2010 with MIDAS v3.10. Since then, we've natively supported payment of invoices using either PayPal or Google Checkout.
• Version 2 of the MIDAS API is here: First introduced just over a year ago, version 1 of the API allowed developers to access and retrieve data from MIDAS.
• Improved Support For Smaller Screens (including iPhones): The next significant update to our leader web based room booking and resource scheduling software is just around the corner, and throughout this month, we're outlining some of the new features and improvements you'll find in the upcoming...
• Public Booking Request Improvements in v4.07: The next substantial update to our popular web based room booking and resource scheduling software is just around the corner, and so we're taking the opportunity to outline some of the new features and improvements you can expect to see in.
• Invoicing Improvements in v4.07: The next feature-rich update to our web based room booking and resource scheduling software is coming soon. Here on our blog we're outlining some of the new features and improvements you can expect to see in the upcoming v4.07 release.
• Template Improvements for v4.07: The next substantial update to our popular web based room booking and resource scheduling software is just around the corner, and so throughout this month, we're outlining some of the new features and improvements you can expect to see in..
• Tax Exempt Clients: The next substantial update to our popular web based room booking and resource scheduling software is just around the corner, and throughout this month, we're outlining some of the new features and improvements you can expect to see in the.
• New Scheduled Tasks: In MIDAS v4.07, we've introduced a new "Scheduled Tasks" feature. This may be accessed MIDAS Admin Options → Manage MIDAS & Scheduled Tasks.
• New File Uploads and Attachments: The next substantial update to our popular web based room booking and resource scheduling software is just around the corner.
• Making card payments simpler: Following feedback from our customers, we are pleased to announce we are trialing a new card payment processor on our website.
• Our unrivalled customer support improves yet again!: We constantly strive to provide unrivalled support to customers of our Web Based Room Booking & Resource Scheduling system. One of the things we're most proud of is our professional, friendly, knowledgeable, and responsive customer support.
• Could Internet Explorer become open source?: Today the Internet Explorer Developer Relations Team at Microsoft have hinted at the possibility that the browser may one day become "Open Source".
• MIDAS v4.06 Now Available!: We're excited to announce the availability of MIDAS v4.06!
• Our Response to "Heartbleed": This vulnerability affected a common software library called "OpenSSL" which is a cryptography system built to encrypt passwords and other sensitive information on around two-thirds of all websites on the Internet.
• Mozilla: Equality & Free Speech?: You've probably heard of Mozilla - they're the folks behind the well known and popular Firefox web browser. As you may also know, we develop a leading Room and Resource Scheduling System, MIDAS, which we support in all major browsers.
• World Backup Day: Today is World Backup Day, the purpose of which is to raise awareness of the importance of keeping your critical digital files and data backed-up.
• Earth Hour 2014 - We're doing our bit... are you doing yours?!: Tomorrow, Saturday March 29th at 8:30pm local time, millions of people across the world will be switching off lights for 60 minutes as part of "Earth Hour".
• Improved Statistics and Reports: We're improving the statistics/reports that MIDAS can generate for you in v4.06 with three exciting new additions:
• New Flexible Venue Rates: We're introducing even more flexibility when it comes to setting your venue rates in MIDAS v4.06!
• Active Directory Integration: We have been working to bring such integration to MIDAS for some time, and we are now pleased to announce that integration with an Active Directory will be possible starting with our forthcoming update to MIDAS, v4.06.
• Love MIDAS? - Spread the love this Valentines Day!: Love is in the air! Yes, it's nearly that time of year again - Valentines Day! !*
• Happy New Year! – MIDAS v4.05 Now Available!: We'd like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy New Year from all of us here at MIDAS HQ, and also announce the availability of MIDAS v4.05!
• We're taking part in Small Business Saturday!: This Saturday will see the first Small Business Saturday held right across the UK, and supported by American Express.
• Invoicing Improvements in v4.05: Well, it's Black Friday once again (more about that later!), and if you're a regular reader of our blog then you'll already know about some of the upcoming features in MIDAS v4.
• Improved support for iPads and other touch screen devices: With this month's launch of Apple's new flagship iPad Air tablet, as well as the continuing growth in popularity of Android and Windows 8 touch-screen tablets, one of our main focuses for our next update to our online room scheduling...
• What is Venue "Blocking"?: In the next update to our room scheduling software MIDAS, we're introducing a powerful new feature called "Venue Blocking".
• Best Browser: IE11, Chrome 31, Firefox 25, Opera 17, or Safari 5?: In developing a powerful and feature-rich browser based room booking and resource scheduling system that's supported in all five major browsers, we often get asked "So, which is the best web browser?".
• Our latest support response times are better than ever!: We're constantly striving to improve our web based room scheduling software and the service we provide to our customers, and one of the things we're most proud of here at MIDAS, is our professional, knowledgeable, friendly, and responsive..
• MIDAS v4.04 - Now Available!: We are pleased to announce the availability of MIDAS v4.04!
• We're Improving Our "Cloud Hosted" Service: As part of our ongoing commitment to the "cloud hosted" MIDAS service we provide to nearly 60% of our customers, we're shortly going to be performing some exciting upgrades.
• What's new in MIDAS v4.04: Whilst many people have been away on holiday relaxing over the past couple of months, we've been busy working on the next update to our web based room scheduling software.
• Digital Signage Case Study: The Livingston Centre: Last week, we released two brand new addons for MIDAS. Today we take a closer look at some of the benefits that MIDAS, and our Digital Signage solution, are having on one organization in Canada...
• 2 New Addons: Web Calendars and Digital Signage: We are pleased to announce the availability of two brand new addons for MIDAS - Web Calendars and Digital Signage.
• Web Browser Roundup – June 2013: It's been a busy end to the month in the world of web browsers in June... So here's our take on what's been happening..
• MIDAS v4.03 - Now Available!: We are pleased to announce the availability of MIDAS v4.03!
• What's new in MIDAS v4.03: Here are some of the new and improved features included the forthcoming v4.03 update to our web based booking software.
• New API and RSS addons: MIDAS v4.03 is just around the corner, and this update to our popular web based scheduling software will include a number of new features and improvements over previous versions.
• Web Browser Roundup – April 2013: It's been a busy few weeks in the world of web browsers! There's been some major changes in the browser landscape too! So here's our take on what's been happening..
• Saying farewell to Internet Explorer 8...: To allow us to continue to develop new and exciting features for MIDAS, occasionally it becomes necessary for us to "phase out" support for older browsers.
• MIDAS turns 7! Celebrate with v4.02 - Out Now!: Exactly 7 years ago today - on 11th March 2006 - MIDAS was publicly revealed to the world for the first time! We've come a long way since then. So to celebrate our 7th Birthday, we're pleased to announce the release of MIDAS v4.02.
• We're Hiring!: Since its first commercial release in early 2006, MIDAS has grown to become a world class web-based scheduling solution.
• Internet Explorer 10 now available for Windows 7: Today, Microsoft have announced that Internet Explorer 10 is now out of "Preview" and fully available for Windows 7.
• What's new in MIDAS v4.02: Well, seeing as it's Valentine's Day today, and we know you love MIDAS - we thought it would be a good opportunity to share with you some of the exciting new features and improvements we're busy working on for our next release of MIDAS,...
• Web Browser Roundup - February 2013: Here's our take on all the latest web browser news for February...
• Our customer support just keeps getting better!: One of the things we're most proud of at MIDAS, is our professional, knowledgeable, friendly, and responsive customer support.
• The release date for Internet Explorer 10 on Windows 7 is...: Why was Internet Explorer 10 not made available to Windows 7 at the same time as Windows 8? Could it be that Microsoft intentionally delayed the release in order to encourage/boost sales of Windows 8?
• Web Browser Roundup - January 2013: Well, it's a new year, so here's what's been happening in the world of the web browser since our last update...
• Happy New Year! - MIDAS v4.01 Now Available!: We'd like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy New Year from all of us here. We hope 2013 will be a great year for you!
• Which Is The Best Web Browser? - We put the top 6 "head-to-head": In developing a leading browser-based Room Booking & Resource Scheduling System that's supported in all major browsers, we often get asked "Which is the best web browser?".
• Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7... is sort of here!: So there's no question that Microsoft's development of their flagship browser has been lackluster in recent years to say the least.
• What's new in MIDAS v4.01: Back in August we released MIDAS v4.00. This was a major release of our room booking system, culminating in over 8 months of development.
• Web Browser Roundup - November 2012: Following on from October's Web Browser Roundup, here's what's been happening in the world of the web browser since then...
• Our new mobile site is here!: Now when you visit https://mid.as on your smartphone or similar mobile device, the content will be "tailored" to give you a better viewing experience on a smaller screen.
• Windows 8 is here and fully compatible with MIDAS: Windows 8 sees a radical departure from the traditional Windows "desktop" environment. It's geared very much towards touch-enabled devices, such as tablets.
• Why our customers love us: Our unrivalled support!: > "I just love how response MIDAS support is!"
• Web Browser Roundup - October 2012: There's plenty going on in the world of web browsers at the moment. Our web based scheduling software, MIDAS relies on a web browser. So we take a keen interest in the ever-changing browser landscape.
• MIDAS version 4: Your Questions Answered: Since releasing MIDAS v4 last month, many of our customers have already updated their installation to this major new release of our web based room scheduling system.
• Convincing your boss on new scheduling software isn't always easy!: We know customers love our room scheduling software, but some are a little apprehensive at first about approaching their boss with the recommendation that their organization switches to MIDAS.... we hear you!
• 8 New Video Tutorials Now Available: We know you love our easy to follow, step-by-step video tutorials for MIDAS... so we've just uploaded a whole bunch of new ones, updating for the very latest release of MIDAS, version 4!
• Introducing Our New Pricing Structure: When MIDAS was first release back in 2005, we sold copies of our software for a "fixed price". This same principle has remained in effect ever since.
• MIDAS v4 Now Available!: Today, we are pleased to announce the release of the much anticipated MIDAS v4!
• Opera 12 Released!: The Opera browser has been around for quite some time now. In fact, Opera version 1 was released way back in 1994! Back then, the browser was available for Microsoft Windows only.
• Firefox 13 out now, IE10 updated, Chrome beats IE, Facebook to purchase Opera?: Well, it's been a busy few days in the web browser world! We'll try and summarize what's been happening for you!
• Queen's Diamond Jubilee Discount - SAVE £60!: Here in the UK (where MIDAS is based) we get a special 4 day weekend this weekend, with the addition of Tuesday's National Holiday! ...but don't worry, we have both sales and support staff on hand throughout the Jubilee period!
• Try MIDAS v4 Now!: Keen readers of this blog will know by now, that we have a major update coming to MIDAS this Summer!
• Invoicing Improvements in MIDAS v4: As we've previously mentioned, in MIDAS v4 you'll be able to do more directly from the booking grid. One such new improvement will allow you to...
• MIDAS v4 - Why the database change?: Last week, we posted about ensuring your server is ready for MIDAS v4. In doing so, we unveiled that this major update would utilize a new database system... but why this change?
• Is your server ready for MIDAS v4?: If you wish to run MIDAS v4 on your own web server, MySQL 5.1 (or later) is required.
• Google Chrome 19 Released!: As part of our ongoing commitment to MIDAS, the latest version of our scheduling software is also fully compatible with this new release of Google Chrome!
• MIDAS v4: A Fresh New Look: If you've been following our recent blog posts, you'll know we have an exciting update coming to MIDAS!
• New "History" panel shows full history for each booking: Prior to v4, only two pieces of history information were saved for each booking. These were the original booking creation date/time and the user who created the booking, and the date, time and user who last modified the booking.
• Do more direct from the Booking Grid!: In MIDAS v4 we're making the process of moving/rescheduling bookings incredibly simple!!
• Improvements To Booking Requests: We've been busy developing a major new update to our scheduling software, MIDAS.
• New Weekly & Multi-Day Views: We've been busy at MIDAS HQ for the past 6 months working on a major update to MIDAS. This update is packed full of new features and improvements. May of these are as a result of customer feedback and suggestions.
• Firefox 12 released and Mozilla drops support for Firefox 3: Today sees the release of another significant browser update from Mozilla - Firefox 12. You can find out what's new in the Release Notes for Firefox 12!
• Easter Discount on our Room Scheduling Software: If you can find the egg, crack it open by clicking it, and the egg will reveal a code you can use over the Easter weekend to get a very special discount off your purchase of our popular web based room scheduling software, MIDAS.
• New Tool to Check Your Server Can Run MIDAS: We offer our web based room scheduling software for download and use on your own web server, or alternatively if you don't have access to a web server that meets our Minimum System Requirements, we can instead "host your MIDAS in the...
• Firefox 11 Released!: In what's been an almost monthly event now since August last year, Mozilla team have released another major increment to the version number of their Firefox web browser! Firefox 11 is now available for download.
• New Tool to Import Clients into MIDAS: One of the things we frequently get asked by our customers is; "Is there a way to import my existing data into MIDAS?". Well, we've listened to you, and have now released an easy-to-use import tool to allow you to do just that!
• What's new in MIDAS v3.15: MIDAS v3.15 is nearing completion, so we thought we'd take a moment to tell you about this upcoming update!
• Firefox hits double figures - v10.0 now available!: Following Mozilla's recent trend of releasing a major browser update just about every month, Firefox 10.0 has just been released!
• 2012: The year IE7 is banished to the history books?: We also dropped IE6 support for our own web based room booking system, MIDAS in 2010.
• Firefox 9 Released ...and Chrome now the number one browser?: It's looks like the browser war between Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome is really hotting up now too! Less than a week ago, Google also released a major update Google Chrome 16.
• Internet Explorer to update automatically in 2012!: Ryan Gavin, General Manager for Internet Explorer Business and Marketing, writing in a blog post today said that from January onward, Microsoft will automatically update older Internet Explorer versions on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.
• Google Chrome 16 Released!: *Hot on the heals of the news that Chrome overtakes Firefox to become the number two web browser just a week or so ago, there's no sign of development of Google's "Chrome" web browser is slowing down any time soon!
• Chrome overtakes Firefox to become the number two web browser: Google Chrome now has a 25.69% worldwide market share. This compares to Mozilla Firefox with a 25.23% share. Microsoft's Internet Explorer is still in the lead however with a 40.63 percent share of the browser market.
• Firefox 8.0 Released!: The latest version bumps the release number to 8 taking it one step closer to matching IE 9 and Chrome in "who can have the higher version number". See our previous blog entry on Browser Wars: “Version Number Supremacy”
• MIDAS v3.14 is here!: We are pleased to announce the release of MIDAS v3.14! This update contains a number of exciting new features and enhancements to our popular web-based scheduling software, including:
• Google Chrome 15 Released... Firefox kicked into 2nd place?: If you’re a Chrome user, you’ll be interested to know the next version of Google's browser, Chrome 15, has just been released!
• What's new in MIDAS v3.14: Work on our next update to MIDAS, v3.14 is nearing completion, so we thought we'd take this opportunity to tell you about a couple of the new features in this forthcoming update...
• Firefox 7.0 Released!: If you're a Firefox user, you'll be interested to know the next version of Mozilla's popular browser, Firefox 7.0, has just been released! ...in fact so fresh is this news, Firefox haven't even updated their Release Notes for Firefox 7 yet!
• Browser Wars: "Version Number Supremacy": So we decided to look a little closer at just what's going on with Mozilla's rapidly increasing "versioning" of Firefox of late...
• Firefox 6.0 Released!: If you're an avid Firefox user, you'll be pleased to know the next version of Mozilla's popular browser was released yesterday!
• Introducing Our New Affiliate Program!: You could earn over $200 for every new customer you refer to MIDAS!
• The Great IE6 Debate... Are Microsoft Holding Back The Web?: In developing a web based app like MIDAS, we had to make some decisions as to which web browsers we were going to support. When we started work on MIDAS back in 2005, there were only really two main players in the browser market.
• Celebrate the 4th July... with 10% off!: Whilst we may be based in the UK, this won't stop us joining in with the 4th July celebrations on Monday with all our American friends! (well, any excuse to have a few fireworks here at MIDAS HQ and we're happy!)
• MIDAS v3.13 - now with SSL support: v3.13 is primarily a maintenance release, improving performance, and fixing a number of bugs that were discovered since the release on v3.12 (See bugs.mid.as for a full list of bugs fixed)
• MIDAS v3.12 is here!: We are pleased to announce the release of MIDAS v3.12!
• Accept Public Booking Requests: We've been working for some time on the ability to allow non-MIDAS users to check your venue availability and make booking "requests" online.
• Templates, Booking Confirmations, Selective Restore.. and more!: Work is now nearing completion on our next release of MIDAS, v3.12. So we thought we'd take this opportunity to announce a few of the new features you can expect in v3.12
• MIDAS v3.11 is here!: We are pleased to announce that MIDAS version 3.11 is now available!
• What's new in MIDAS v3.11: A new update to MIDAS is coming very soon! So we thought we'd take a few moments to give you a sneak peak at some of the new features you'll find in v3.11
• Happy New Year From MIDAS HQ!: A very Happy New Year from MIDAS HQ!
• Merry Christmas From MIDAS HQ!: Whether you're an existing MIDAS user, or are completely new to MIDAS, from all of us at MIDAS HQ here in the UK, we sincerely wish you all a safe and happy holiday!
• Happy 5th Birthday, MIDAS: This week, MIDAS will celebrate its 5th Birthday!
• 10% OFF DURING DECEMBER!: As the end of the year fast approaches, what better way to start 2011 than by taking back control over your room bookings!?
• A new way to report and track bugs!: Today we are very pleased to announce the launch of the MIDAS Bug Tracker!
• Become a BETA Tester!: You can help us improve MIDAS by becoming a BETA Tester!
• MIDAS v3.10 is here!: Version 3.10 is available now, and contains a wealth of new features, highlights of which include:

Knowledge Base

• How to fix 404 Not Found errors when installing MIDAS: 404 Not Found errors are caused when the URL you've entered doesn't resolve to the server location of the content you're trying to access. Here's how to fix it
• Browser prompts to open or save install.pl during MIDAS installation: How to execute Perl/CGI code and files in a web browser, without being prompted to open or save the .pl or .cgi source file
• How to fix a 500 Internal Server Error when installing MIDAS: 500 Internal Server Errors when accessing Perl/CGI files in your browser may be due to missing execute permissions or a wrong path to perl. Here's how to fix
• Fix "500 Internal Server Error" when authenticating a MIDAS install: 500 Internal Server Errors can be produced by applications attempting to write files to the server when the destination lacks permissions. Here's how to fix
• Perl modules reported missing during MIDAS install: A small number of 'core' modules are included when installing Perl but your application may require additional modules to function correctly
• My browser tries to open / save "index.pl" instead of showing a login: How to fix being prompted to open/save an index.pl file instead of seeing a webpage when accessing a website powered by Perl/CGI
• Why does the login screen look wrong after installing the software?: Placing images and other static content in a 'cgi-bin' directory can result in the content not being correctly served. Here's how to resolve this
• Why is the screen layout wrong after updating the software?: How to fix your browser screen layout looking wrong after updating MIDAS when using a custom theme
• How to translate MIDAS or improve an existing language translation: Guide to translating MIDAS booking software into other languages, and contributing updates to existing translations
• How to customize the appearance of your MIDAS system: MIDAS system customization guide: Learn how to personalize the appearance, theme and layout of your booking system
• Kaspersky blocks access to MIDAS: What are false-positive 'HEUR:Trojan-Downloader.Script.Generic' alerts in Kaspersky anti-virus and internet security products?
• I've limited IP addresses that can access MIDAS, now I can't get in!: MIDAS booking systems allow administrators to restrict the IP address/range of devices that can access the software. If you're blocked, here's how to resolve
• Do you have any promotional material I can use to convince my boss?: FREE sales and marketing promotional material in PowerPoint, Keynote, and PDF formats for MIDAS Room Booking and Resource Scheduling software
• What add-ons are available for MIDAS?: Addons extend the capabilities of a MIDAS resource booking system further with additional functionality and integrations
• How do I report a potential issue or bug in the software?: If you've found a bug or glitch in our software - we want to know about it so that we can promptly fix it. Here's how to report an issue to us
• MIDAS Addon: High Grade 256-bit encrypted SSL access: What is 'High Grade 256-bit encrypted SSL access'? Do I need it, and shouldn't it be included as standard? Here's the answer
• MIDAS Addon: Emergency Access: How our 'Emergency Access' addon helps you retain 24/7/365 access to your cloud hosted MIDAS booking system
• How to install MIDAS on your server: Step-by-step guide to installing a MIDAS booking system on your own server. Don't have a web server? We can cloud-host your MIDAS system for you instead!
• What's the difference between MIDAS and MIDAS Lite?: What was the 'Lite' version of MIDAS booking software, and what ever happened to it? Here's all you need to know
• I've forced MIDAS into SSL mode, and now I can't get in!: MIDAS can be configured to redirect unsecure http requests to secure https requests. If you've set this and there's a problem with SSL, here's how to fix
• What payment methods are available to purchase MIDAS?: MIDAS Room Booking Software may be paid for using a Credit/Debit Card, PayPal account, Electronic Bank/Wire Transfer, and more. Here's a complete list
• What's included in a MIDAS subscription?: A MIDAS subscription includes software updates and access to priority support 365 days of the year. Here's what else a MIDAS subscription includes
• Terms & Conditions: "Cloud Hosted" MIDAS: These are the Terms & Conditions which apply when you choose to subscribe to a cloud hosted edition of MIDAS booking software
• Server Requirements for a Self-Hosted MIDAS booking system: MIDAS booking software can be downloaded and installed on your own web server. Here are the requirements for running a self-hosted MIDAS system
• Can I modify the program code to suit my particular needs?: Does the license agr

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