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title: "New Features: Major Release 229 - Sept 24, 2026"
description: Version 2.229 delivers a major upgrade to payment fee management—introducing flexible Convenience Fee modes and comprehensive Surcharge Capping across the platform to align with evolving Australian and global surcharging regulations. In addition, this release brings key improvements to Flight Search & Book (FSB/Sky), enhanced Rooming List & Itinerary controls, and a suite of quality-of-life enhancements and bug fixes across checkout, reservations, and payments.
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# New Features: Major Release 229 - Sept 24, 2026
## Australian Surcharge Ban, Convenience Fee, Surcharges and Surcharge Capping.
### See All Updates
[New Features Index of Releases](https://support.youli.io/new-features?hsLang=en) - history of our recent updates
### 🌤️ This is a MAJOR Release
Version **2.229** delivers a major upgrade to payment fee management—introducing flexible **Convenience Fee** modes and comprehensive **Surcharge Capping** across the platform to align with evolving Australian and global surcharging regulations. In addition, this release brings key improvements to **Flight Search & Book (FSB/Sky)**, enhanced **Rooming List & Itinerary** controls, and a suite of quality-of-life enhancements and bug fixes across checkout, reservations, and payments.
Release Date: **Sep 24th, 2026**
**That means we focused on *new features + bug fixes and enhancements***
If you're unsure how to read the notes or how to make the most of YouLi, you can schedule a [1:1 Consulting session](https://support.youli.io/4410822548623-how-to-get-help-from-youli-support?hsLang=en#pay) with one of our experts, and we will walk you through the features and best practices.
### Latest Taming your Tech Stack Video:
Many travel businesses, retreat organisers and tour operators rely on passing on the fees to cover the cost of accepting online payments. But when is a fee considered a surcharge, and when is it a convenience fee?
In this conversation, Jen and Nick explore how recent regulatory changes, like Australia's surcharge ban and existing complex US rules, are affecting travel businesses and their pricing strategies. They discuss the practical options available to businesses today:
✅ Absorbing payment costs into trip pricing
✅ Using convenience, service or platform fees
✅ Variable surcharging with state-based caps and restrictions
✅ How fee disclosures improve transparency and customer trust
✅ The differences between Australian, US, Canadian and UK approaches
✅ Why merchant-of-record models give you more leverage
The features discussed in this video are new with this release, enjoy!
[**Learn more about passing on your cost (with or without surcharging).**](https://support.youli.io/360001218676-payments-credit-card-surcharge?hsLang=en)
### Focus Features in this Update:
Australia is banning surcharges as of October 1, 2026, [see our guidance from the webinar we ran about how to navigate this change.](https://blog.youli.io/australia-card-surcharge-changes-should-your-travel-business-absorb-reprice-or-mix?hsLang=en)
In response to changing regulatory rules, we have released 2 new features
- **Convenience Fee Configuration:** We have added support for configuring fee modes:
- Absorb Fees
- Pass-through Convenience Fee
- Customizable fee labels (e.g., *Service Fee*, *Booking Fee*), and upfront fee disclosure text for travelers make this feature available to AU companies to re-price your trips quickly.
- Those of you who can still Surcharge, no change is required, your Convenience Fee will be configured to support the surcharge experience you are used to.
- [To Surcharge or Not to Surcharge](https://support.youli.io/360001218676-payments-credit-card-surcharge?hsLang=en) - review our guidance on what counts as a surcharge and ways to calculate the right fees and labels for the approach you choose to take.
- **Surcharge Capping (state by state rules for US only):** Surcharge Capping can now be configured across Trip Page Invoices, Checkout Flows, and Planner "Make a Charge" interfaces, covering both [No-fee Payments methods](https://support.youli.io/360001333075-no-fee-direct-payment-methods-up-to-4-options?hsLang=en) and [Stripe methods](https://support.youli.io/stripe-payment-methods-ach-afterpay-direct-debit-wallets?hsLang=en).
- [Learn more: Surcharge Capping (for US clients on request)](https://support.youli.io/surcharge-capping?hsLang=en)
- If you see the option disabled, [submit your request](https://support.youli.io/kb-tickets/new?hsLang=en) so we can onboard you.
### 💪🐞 Bugs & Enhancements
Thanks to everyone who submitted issues, we love making things work!
**🐞💪 HOTFIXES:**
- **FIXED:** HTML editor popup was not always closing
**🐞 FIXES & 💪 ENHANCEMENTS**
###### **Flight Search & Book (Sabre Integration)**
- **Surcharge & Fee Integration:** Configured convenience fee handling into flight booking pricing and added price disclosure tooltips across flight search results.
- **Booking Reliability & Webhook Processing:** Upgraded the booking processor to listen for Stripe charge updates and handle delayed balance transactions seamlessly to fix missing data in webhooks for payments.
- **Flight Details Modal UX:** Added a direct "Select" button inside the flight details popup so travelers can book flights without navigating back to the search list.
###### **Rooming List, Packages & Itinerary Management**
- **Room Level Inventory Filters & Inventory Modes:**
- Introduced a filter toggle on [Room Level Inventory](https://support.youli.io/manage-room-inventory-per-named-room?hsLang=en) view to switch between "Booked Only" and "Show All Assigned" (allowing planners to view pre-allocated unbooked guests),
- Ability to revert back to Package Level Inventory if the Room Level Inventory mode is not working, without data loss.
- **Per-Unit Counts & Labels:** Updated per-unit add-on counts to display "ROOMS" or "TRANSFERS" instead of "PEOPLE," and display "ON REQUEST" instead of "FULL" when inventory is set to 0.
- **Pricing & Package Visibility:** Advanced pricing package settings are now shown by default, and single-rate variable occupancy packages now display their price in the package selector dropdown prior to selection.
- **Itinerary Shortcodes:** Added support for dynamic shortcodes (such as `[ItemStartDate]`, `[ItemName]`, and `[ItemDateTimeRange]`) within Itinerary Item descriptions.
###### **Reservations, Admin & General Fixes**
- **Reservation Contact Sync:** Updating an person's contact details (name, email, phone) now automatically syncs across all [Pre/Post trips](https://support.youli.io/how-to-link-pre-and-post-tours-to-a-main-tour-using-tour-series?hsLang=en) within the same [reservation](https://support.youli.io/reservations-managing-complex-bookings?hsLang=en).
- **FIXED: Single Case for Variable Occupancy Package** -now shows price in package drop down for Traveler
- **Pre/Post Tour Navigation:** Consolidated Trip Page (traveler view) Itinerary, Invoice, and Task links on Pre/Post tours to seamlessly route travelers back to the main tour views.
- **Payment Credits & Webhook Fixes:** Resolved an issue where group credit applications failed to split across invitation groups, and resolved webhook execution issues for pre/post tours during checkout.
- **Change Log Improvements:** Corrected [traveler transfer](https://support.youli.io/how-to-transfer-travelers-from-a-brochure-mode-trip-to-a-booking-mode-trip?hsLang=en)change logs to attribute the initiating planner.
### 🔜 COMING SOON
Not scheduled for this release, but [we are working on more things coming soon.](https://support.youli.io/coming-soon-youli-upcoming-roadmap?hsLang=en)
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