monthly-2026-07
July 2026: Native Booking Engine and AI-Powered Workflows
July 202638 releases
This month Praxium replaced third-party scheduling with a fully native booking engine, added a voice-powered AI assistant, and rolled out Romanian language support with stronger security across every portal.
- Booking: Appointments are now booked entirely within Praxium, with day and multi-day calendars, flexible date-range search, and visit-reason booking.
- Client portal: Clients can hold slots, manage bookings, and view appointment history, now available in Romanian.
- Administration: New task management, calendar events, and a voice-powered AI assistant help staff work faster.
- Security: Sessions now lock instead of logging out, and staff photos and documents are now encrypted and scanned.
Features
Here are the key product updates from this month.
- Native booking engine: Scheduling is now fully owned by Praxium across the admin portal, client portal, and public booking widget, checking staff availability, location assignments, skills, and services before confirming a slot.
- Appointment calendars: New day and multi-day calendar views, staff and location columns, quick-create slots, and location-aware availability shading make scheduling easier to read.
- Flexible booking: Clients and staff can search across date ranges, book by visit reason or exact service, and see next-available slots automatically when no times are open.
- Client portal enhancements: Slot holds prevent double-booking, clients can manage appointment history and booking notes, and the portal now reflects their home-location branding.
- Multilingual support: Romanian is now available across the admin portal, client portal, booking widget, and emails, with a new language management workflow and per-language content readiness reports.
- Task and calendar management: A new Tasks area supports delegation, due dates, and attachments, and calendar events now replace time blocks with attendees and organizers.
- Voice-powered AI assistant: Staff can dictate notes or hold a live AI conversation to auto-fill client and appointment forms, with encrypted transcripts.
- Location-aware customization: Practices can set location-specific custom fields, staff photos, service pricing, and logos, plus rename core business terms like Organization.
- Email delivery and branding: Practices can connect their own email sender, preview and test templates, and track full delivery activity, including contact-form messages.
- Reporting: A new booking capacity report and booked-capacity percentages for staff and locations help track appointment slot utilization.
- Access management: A dedicated Client Access section, webhook notifications with location scoping, and clearer API profile controls give practices more control over integrations and invitations.
Fixes
These are the notable fixes shipped this month.
- Booking accuracy: Services offered at all locations no longer disappear from public rates pages, double-booking is now prevented when two people book the same slot, and public booking page timeouts were resolved.
- Session and sign-in reliability: Remember-me sessions no longer expire early, MFA sign-in no longer requires an extra step, and a sign-in loop after screen lock was fixed.
- Staff photos: Repeated upload failures affecting staff photos were resolved, and photos now display reliably during platform updates.
- Custom fields and forms: Date fields now pre-fill correctly on edit, validation errors show as soon as a field is left, and empty custom field entries are cleared automatically on save.
- Localization: Romanian translations, pluralization, and special characters now display correctly across the admin portal and release notes.
- Email settings: Clipped mobile previews, inherited settings appearing blank, and placeholder text leaking into MFA reset emails were all fixed.
- Appointment pricing: A rare timing issue that could save voice-dictated prices as zero was fixed, and a small number of completed appointments missing prices were automatically corrected.
Security and reliability
Here are the security and reliability highlights from this month.
- Session protection: Idle sessions now lock instead of logging out, remember-me duration was tightened and later restored to 30 days, and session token handling was hardened across all portals.
- Sign-in defenses: Login responses no longer reveal account existence or lockout status, lockout recovery requires proper permissions and is audit-logged, and sign-in is more resistant to automated abuse.
- File and data protection: Staff photos, documents, attachments, and voice transcripts are now encrypted and scanned for safety before becoming visible, and photo links can no longer be guessed or reused.
- Access controls: Activity history now consistently respects each person's current permissions and location access, and invitation and lockout management require appropriate authorization.
- Platform maintenance: Core platform components were updated to their latest secure versions, resolving known moderate-or-higher security issues, and background data processing is more resilient under heavy load.