Send a Trigger on a Specific Date

I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to send a trigger email on a specific date. For instance: Would like to send a Merry Christmas, or maybe a Happy New Year message to all previous guests.

Hi Lydia,

This solution is not as smooth & seamless as a trigger, but it would work:

You could create your email template first. Then (even though you'd have to do this manually on each booking) you can use the "Scheduled Emails" option at the bottom of the "Email" queue/tab. That option allows you to select your specific template and then choose "Send on the specific date of" and pick the date from the date-picker calendar.

That would work, but I'm lazy! :) Not sure I want to be repeating that process 50 times or more. Would be nice to be able to send to everyone without going through something like that.

If I were doing this occasionally I would just export the list of bookings that I want to email, then take the spreadsheet and grab only the email addresses. Then I’d combine them all with commas in between, And just paste them into my own email client. Or of course I could send the email from Ownerrez it self.

All you really need is a list of comma separated email addresses. Once youhave that you could paste it into any place where you were sending an email from

I think as long as you’re dealing with 50 or less you shouldn’t have to worry.

The Excel formula would be something like this, assuming that you have all of the email addresses in a single column, one address per row.

= A1 & “, “

If your email addresses are in a column starting at cell A1, type the formula above into the cell B2 and Then copy the formula down word. What you’ll find in the last cell in the B column will be all of the addresses separated by commas

Yep, the system in OwnerRez isn't built for sending out newsletters. Our email provider only allows sending transactional email related to a specific booking, not a seasonal blast. When you're doing a newsletter, different rules apply -- CAN-SPAM act, unsubscribe links.

Instead, look in the Reports section for the Mailing List report -- that'll give you a dump of email addresses, just export to Excel. Then if there's just a few do the BCC method Rich mentioned. For more, use a tool like MailChimp or Constant Contact. That'll let you import the mailing list and create a really nice looking newsletter template. MailChimp is free for up to 2000 email addresses, so it's a great way to do a professional newsletter out to your guests.

Thanks, Rich, this is handy information! :-)