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BOOKING

Latest version
v1.5.2

Fixed: when a customer uses their link to pay for a booking awaiting payment, it works just like in the widget.

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MASTER

Latest version
v0.24.0

New installer with the GM-CTRL design: installing takes one click, and you can choose the folder and whether you want a desktop shortcut.

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BLOCKS

Latest version
v0.1.0

First prototype of the MIXED BLOCK mixed board: 8 inputs, 16 outputs, audio, power and Ethernet.

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BOOKING

v1.5.2

Fixed: when a customer uses their link to pay for a booking awaiting payment, it works just like in the widget. If the time slot is no longer free, nothing is charged and they are told so. If they chose to pay only the deposit, they are asked only for the deposit.

BOOKING

v1.5.1

  • Fixed: an abandoned booking that was already paid is no longer deleted on its own after 90 days. It stays until you confirm it or refund the money, says clearly that the customer paid, and looks right on a phone.
  • The panel tells you when there is a new version and updates with one click, without having to close the browser.
  • The panel’s data brings itself up to date when you come back to the tab, and the Today screen refreshes every minute.
  • Fixed: while a booking whose payment has just come in is being confirmed, the panel shows it as paid and doesn’t offer to refund that money.
  • The customer page speaks more clearly: it says “Awaiting payment” while payment is missing, explains why a date can’t be changed, and only says “already been played” once the time has passed.
  • Fixed: the button to close a payment link also shows in the expanded booking in Bookings and Today.
MASTER

v0.24.0

  • New installer with the GM-CTRL design: installing takes one click, and you can choose the folder and whether you want a desktop shortcut.
  • “Install Now” updates with the same window and ends with a button to open GM-CTRL-MASTER.
  • Uninstalling also uses the new window and reminds you that your games, your Blocks and your licence stay on the PC.
  • The installer and the uninstaller are signed with the same name as the app, so Windows knows who publishes them.
MASTER

v0.23.0

  • New 7-segment displays: they show a number or text set by you or by an automation, or the value of a variable. In Hardware you set the block’s brightness.
  • 7-segment displays can blink from an automation: slow, normal or fast.
  • Game backups can have a name and can also be saved to a folder of your choice.
  • The installer is signed: Windows no longer warns about an “unknown publisher” when you install the app.
  • Fixed: the game backup now also saves the screens, and works for rooms with lots of video and audio.
  • Fixed: the alert sound plays again, also when you upload it as WAV or OGG.
  • Fixed: Logic rule names are no longer wiped when the app restarts.
  • Fixed: renaming a variable no longer blanks out the clues that use it.
BOOKING

v1.5.0

  • You can now upload images from Settings: the venue logo, a photo of each room and a header for the emails. The logo shows on the booking page and in the emails; the room photo, on its card in the widget.
  • The gift voucher can carry a photo: it shows as a band across the top of the PDF.
  • Setup suggests uploading the logo without forcing you: you can leave it for later or mark that you don’t need one.
  • Fixed: a booking whose payment has just come in holds its slot from the first second, in the calendar and in the panel, and confirms itself even if something fails along the way. It no longer ends up abandoned, and its slot is no longer sold twice.
  • Fixed: a payment link no longer charges what the booking doesn’t owe. Cancelling it, marking “No show” or a cash payment close the link, and the customer pays at most what is left.
  • If extra money comes in (a customer who pays twice), you get the “Overpayment” notice right away, with the amount to refund.
  • Fixed: the “Show logo” and “Voucher colour” boxes now do what they say, and colours are picked with a picker instead of typing a code.
  • The panel asks with its own dialogs, clear and with a button that says what will happen, instead of the browser’s grey alert.
BOOKING

v1.4.1

  • Fixed: you can no longer delete an abandoned booking’s attempt while it still holds money. The button tells you what to do first, now on mobile too. It used to vanish in one click, leaving the payment adrift with no way to get it back.
  • Fixed: when you confirm an expired booking that was already paid, the history says exactly that. That line used to claim the customer had made the booking.
BOOKING

v1.4.0

  • Fixed: if a customer leaves the payment page without paying and later pays from their booking link, the booking is confirmed straight away. It used to sit waiting for payment with the money already taken.
  • Fixed: when that booking had a gift voucher on it, the voucher is applied again along with the payment. It used to end up confirmed still owing the voucher’s share.
  • You can now confirm an expired booking that is already paid yourself, from its card: it ends up confirmed, with its money and its trail in the history.
BOOKING

v1.3.0

  • Seasonal timetables: your room can have a different weekly timetable between two dates, in winter for example. One-day exceptions still take priority.
  • Every date in the dashboard and in the emails now shows the year.
  • In Import bookings you can delete imported bookings that were left outside any import.
  • Fixed: you can now change the answers to a booking’s extra questions, and the price is recalculated automatically.
BOOKING

v1.2.0

  • New price: €24.95 + VAT a month, up to 3 rooms, and a 3-month free trial with no card.
  • Launch offer by seat: the first 50 companies pay €14.95 + VAT a month in the first year and €19.95 + VAT in the second; seats 51 to 100 pay €19.95 + VAT in the first year. In Subscription you see your seat and how many months you have left at each price.
  • Write to the customer from the booking: WhatsApp with your templates, or resend one of the booking’s emails with a preview.
  • Easier WhatsApp templates: drag them into order, choose when each one is offered and see the message as it will look in WhatsApp before you save it.
  • Faster sign-in: from gmctrl.com you go straight to your dashboard.
  • Your booking page can open directly on a given day.
  • Terms of service and data processing agreement reviewed by a lawyer, and readable without signing in.
  • Fixed: on mobile, a booking’s buttons are finger-sized again and no longer spill out of the card.
MASTER

v0.22.0

  • The app is out of beta: you’ll no longer see “BETA” in the status bar, the side menu or the window title.
  • Simon Says has a new editor: each button and its light show as a cable, and you record the sequence by tapping the pairs.
  • Simon Says has a simulator: “Show” plays a round and “Play as a player” lets you try the game on screen, without switching on any block.
  • In Simon Says, the success, error and completed sounds become actions, and the game waits for them to finish before going on. Your automations convert on their own.
  • Typing “{” in a clue opens the list of the game’s variables, so you can pick one instead of typing it.
  • The buttons to add and remove time on the timer look like buttons and come in order: −10 −1 | +1 +10.
  • Fixed: an RFID card is recognised even when its code is only digits or hexadecimal.
  • Fixed: if a block disconnects halfway through an MP3 track, the automation no longer hangs waiting: it carries on and warns the GM.
BOOKING

v1.1.0

  • A new setup with two paths. “Try”: start without tax details or legal texts, with test payments. “Sell”: connect online payments step by step with RedSys, Stripe or PayPal.
  • Payment options that fit you: offer online payment, a deposit or payment at the venue at the same time, and say whether you take cash, card or both at the venue.
  • A €1 test booking to check your booking page from start to finish.
  • Easier settings: pick a company, venue or room with a search box and move from one room to another without leaving the section. The side menu folds away.
  • A faster weekly timetable: copy a day and paste it onto the others with one tap.
  • Old bookings are no longer deleted: after the retention period they lose the customer’s details, and your statistics keep the whole history.
  • Import bookings from any year. If an import stops half-way, it carries on where it left off.
  • Fixed: importing from Turitop no longer brings in abandoned bookings or declined cards.
MASTER

v0.21.2

Improvements to the connection with your gmctrl.com account.

MASTER

v0.21.1

Improvements to the connection protocol between MASTER and BOOKING.

MASTER

v0.21.0

  • Connect the app to GM-CTRL BOOKING: the new Bookings page shows bookings for today and the next 7 days, and the next group is always in view.
  • Ready from the booking: one button prepares the room with the clue language and the group’s details.
  • Booking details (language, players, names and extra questions) arrive as Variables ready to use in your automations.
  • Personalised clues: type {jugador_1} in a clue and the player’s name appears on the room display.
  • Conditions can compare one Variable with another, for example the RFID wristband with player 1’s.
  • BOOKING receives the result of every game (won, lost or abandoned) and the time played, even if there is no connection at that moment.
  • The program is now called GM-CTRL-MASTER. Your game, your blocks and your licence are kept. If Windows asks for firewall permission after updating, allow it.
  • Fixed: an RFID Object whose code is only numbers is now recognised.
BOOKING

v1.0.0

  • First release. A booking widget you add to any website with a single line, in five languages and in your room’s colours.
  • Online card payments, as a deposit or in full, and refunds from the panel.
  • A panel for the daily work: Today, calendar, bookings, vouchers and statistics, on computer and phone.
  • Gift vouchers with a ready-to-send PDF, for a game or for an amount.
  • Emails and WhatsApp messages to the customer, with a link to manage their own booking.
  • Import your bookings from Turitop, EscapeUp and Escape Room Director.
  • The players of each booking reach the room’s GM-CTRL app on their own.
  • A setup guide that walks you step by step to your first booking sold.
MASTER

v0.20.0

  • Automation rules are edited as stacked blocks: each rule reads top to bottom, like a sentence.
  • More powerful automations: they count, compare and react to mistakes. For example, “after three wrong attempts, give a clue”.
  • New building blocks: pick at random, wait until something happens, repeat on a schedule and notify the Game Master on screen.
  • An automation can end the game as a win or a loss, and add or take time from the clock.
  • Connect the app to your gmctrl.com account and manage each block’s licence from its own page.
  • Outputs switch on softly, so motors no longer trip the current limit.
  • Signed firmware updates: the block checks an update is genuine before installing it.
  • Fixed: the clock shows the configured game length as soon as the app opens.
BLOCKS

v0.1.0

MIXED BLOCK prototype Rev A
  • First prototype of the MIXED BLOCK mixed board: 8 inputs, 16 outputs, audio, power and Ethernet.
  • Connects to MASTER over your local network, no cloud.
  • Coming at the end of 2026. Join the waiting list and we'll let you know as soon as they're ready.

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