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UseLodger
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14
releases
138
changes
13
feature drops
Extracted Commerce (products, cart, orders, storefront) and Landlord/Estate management (units, leases, rent, maintenance, community features) into two standalone projects — useLodger is now scoped purely to hotel operations; landing page, nav, and marketing copy rewritten to be unambiguously hotel-focused
A full claims audit across ~46 public pages corrected overstated or inaccurate copy, removed Flutterwave as a payment option everywhere it was still claimed (Paystack only, in practice), fixed dead links, and removed a fake 'demo video' placeholder a real visitor could have landed on
Added real NIN-verification enforcement before a property can go live, matching what the Features page already claimed; allowed weekend demo bookings (was silently blocking Saturday/Sunday for no backend reason)
Fixed the root cause of a real SMS billing-cost bug — emoji and certain plain punctuation (em-dashes, the Naira sign) force SMS into UCS-2 encoding, quietly multiplying per-message cost 4-5x; every SMS/push/email template platform-wide rewritten to stay within a single GSM-7 segment
Fixed a production login bug where a stale cookie from an earlier session could incorrectly trigger a CSRF rejection on login itself, and added www.uselodger.com to the CORS allow-list — it was serving real traffic with no CORS header at all
Lead-outreach SMS rewritten for cold outreach — it previously opened with 'thanks for your interest,' which wasn't true for Google-Places-sourced leads who'd never engaged. Every message now carries a real phone number and register link, and outreach emails get a reply-to that actually reaches an inbox
Failed lead-outreach sends now retry instead of silently burning a touchpoint — a Google-Places lead only ever has a phone on file, so the two SMS steps are its only realistic chances to convert
/register now defaults to the host role instead of guest; the leads dashboard gained search plus status/source/assigned-to filters and numbered pagination
Standardized timestamp display to a consistent human-readable format across every admin/dashboard page, replacing a mix of raw ISO strings and locale-dependent browser defaults; demo bookings gained a visible message field, ellipsis truncation for long submissions, and a full detail page
Corrected two inaccuracies on the Integrations page — a nonexistent 'Amazon S3' storage mention, and an email-provider description naming providers that aren't actually used — and marked the real, working Google Calendar subscription feed as live instead of describing a different, never-built two-way sync as 'coming soon'
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