Product updates

What's live today, and what lands next.

Notes from the Grand Butler team. The November 2026 release puts bookings, stays and rentals, self-serve billing and a booking concierge in front of businesses and the customers who book them, after two code reviews. Travel & Tourism and Property Management land in mid-November, then a new category tool every fortnight.

November 2026 release
Now in beta · Africa & North America
Next: Mid-November
In this release
01

Bookings shaped for 30 kinds of business

Appointment Booking and Reservations, each starting from a template written for your category.

02

Billing you run yourself

Free trials, card payments, automatic renewal and cancellation, all in Plan & Modules.

03

AI that books your customers in

A booking concierge holds a slot with you and hands your customer a link to pay. It never touches a card.

Release notes

Six changes that take work off your plate, and make booking you easier for your customers.

November 2026 release · in beta
Booking modules
November 2026

Appointment Booking and Reservations are here

Solves

Bookings taken by phone, email and DMs.

Turn either module on in Plan & Modules and start from one of 30 templates written for your category. Your customers pick a live time and pay a deposit or the full price; you run the day from the agenda.

See your category's templates
Stays & rentals
November 2026

Nightly stays, daily rentals and waitlists

Solves

Room nights on a spreadsheet, and empty slots after every cancellation.

Guests book your rooms by the night with your check-in and check-out times, renters book your cars and boats by the day, and a freed slot goes straight to the next customer on your waitlist.

See what hospitality gets
Billing
November 2026

Self-serve billing in Plan & Modules

Solves

Software bills you can't see, change or stop yourself.

Start a 14-day free trial, pay the module fee by card and keep automatic renewal on with a saved card. Cancel when you like: renewal status and payment history sit in one place.

Create your free account
AI on the Marketplace
November 2026

Meet the booking concierge

Solves

Customers who want to book at midnight, when nobody is there to answer.

An AI agent on the Marketplace books your customers in with you: it finds your offerings, shows your open times and holds a slot. It hands them a link to pay you, never touches a card, and confirms in a second step before it changes a booking.

How your customers book
Sign-in
November 2026

Verified registration and Google sign-in

Solves

Accounts opened with an email nobody checked, and shared staff logins.

Businesses confirm their email with a 6-digit code or a link, owners can add a Google account as a second sign-in, and staff join with signed invites that expire after 24 hours. Cancel on the Auth0 screen and you land back on sign-in with a clear message.

Register your business
Security
November 2026

Reviewed before release

Solves

Software that ships fast and checks security later.

A security review on 31 October and an identity review on 1 November checked sign-in, invites, routes and agents, each with written findings and fixes. 1,900+ automated tests now run before every build.

How we protect you

Coming next

Travel & Tourism and Property Management land in mid-November, then a new category tool every fortnight, on the account you already have.

Planned, not live yet

Travel & Tourism

Flight, hotel and package search, itineraries, quotes

Mid-November

Quoting one trip takes five browser tabs, a spreadsheet and a chain of emails.

  • Real-time flight, hotel and package search from open-data sources, with AI help

  • Itineraries and quotes that turn into bookings

  • Payments and refunds through IPS Gateway

Live today: Trip-planning appointments, tour spots and cabin stays.

Property Management

Units, viewings, leases, rent collection, maintenance

Mid-November

Rent chased by text, viewings set up by phone, and repair requests lost in a group chat.

  • Properties and units, listings and viewings

  • Tenant applications and leases

  • Recurring rent and service charges collected through IPS Gateway

  • Maintenance requests, with updates to owners and tenants

Live today: Property viewings, nightly stays and daily rentals.

Then, every fortnight

November to December

Ticketing hub

Routes, schedules, seats, QR tickets, check-in, manifests and rebooking for transport, events, tours and cruises.

Fortnightly from December

Professional services

Client intake, quotes, client records, document workflows and invoicing for legal, insurance, recruitment, salons, photography and more.

Early 2027

Finance & accounting

Bookkeeping and expense management, client ledgers, statements, collections and disbursements on IPS Gateway.

Later in 2027

Manufacturing & wholesale

B2B catalogs, requests for quotation, purchase orders, and production and delivery scheduling.

Also switching on

Production launch

Go-live hardening first. Beta payments run in Stripe test mode until IPS Gateway runs in production.

SMS reminders

Built and switched off. They turn on once our SMS provider account is in place.

Staff calendar sync

Google Calendar and Microsoft 365 sync is built. It turns on after both apps are verified.

Clients, Engagement & Reports

These workspaces already sit in the sidebar. Their features come next.

Healthcare bookings

Closed until our HIPAA and BAA work is done. Health providers can run a store and take payments now.

Open for business today, first in line when your tools land.

Registering is free. Each new tool switches on from Plan & Modules in the account you already have.

Talk to us

Merchants, partners and investors

Ask about your business, pitch a partnership or integration, or tell us the tool you want next. Run a travel, tour or property business? Tell us how you work today, and we will shape the new tools around it. We reply by email.

Send a message

Use your business email and a daytime phone number so we can reply.

Launch guide

Register, onboard, then publish.

01

Use your region's site

Businesses in Africa sign up on afributler.com, businesses in the United States and Canada on grandbutler.com. Your region sets your currency and which customers see you.

02

Register and onboard

Verify your email, confirm your category and operating country, connect payments and invite your team.

03

Publish

Preview your store and booking pages, then publish them to the Marketplace, where your customers find you, book and pay.

AFRICA · afributler.com
NORTH AMERICA · grandbutler.com