Chris Hynes

OwnerRez Team Member
Joined October 2012
1401 posts
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General Help and Questions » Pushing Rates to OTA's

You can push rates from OwnerRez using channel bridge. To do that, go to Settings > Channel Connections and click on an Airbnb or HomeAway synced channel in the list. If you don't have one yet, add t…

(Posted Feb 8, 2019 7:27 PM)

General Help and Questions » Alternative to WorldPay?

Yep, we're working on smoothing out that form with them.

(Posted Feb 8, 2019 6:59 PM)

General Help and Questions » Quickbooks Integration

Those will all work with OwnerRez, but we can only push data supported by the version of QuickBooks. The big difference is class and department/location tracking which allow you to tag invoices with …

(Posted Feb 4, 2019 10:14 PM)

Feature Requests » Hosted Websites - add-ons?

You can do optional surcharges or discounts that are available on checkout: https://www.ownerrez.com/blog/enhanced-surcharges-discounts-and-add-ons For things like the minimum stay, requirement, tho…

(Posted Feb 4, 2019 10:10 PM)

Blog » Introducing OwnerRez Channels

You'll be able to distribute to Expedia through our HomeAway integration. We're planning on direct Expedia integration eventually, but that's a good deal farther out.

(Posted Feb 1, 2019 2:35 PM)

General Help and Questions » Was Channel Bridge importing improved?

Yep! We just pushed out an update this morning that added some of that status tracking in addition to a bunch of other improvements in error handling, pulling in Air future payments, automatically re…

(Posted Jan 31, 2019 2:30 PM)

General Help and Questions » Possible to use OR channel bridge chrome extension on an iPad?

Right, yeah. We may add Firefox support for channel bridge at some point (FF does allow extensions on mobile) -- that wouldn't help iOS but it would help having a maybe more trusted browser on Androi…

(Posted Jan 31, 2019 2:14 PM)

General Help and Questions » Possible to use OR channel bridge chrome extension on an iPad?

No, Channel Bridge is currently developed as a Chrome extension, so there's no way to run it without Chrome. Since Apple blocks all non Safari browsers from running on iOS, and since Safari doesn't s…

(Posted Jan 30, 2019 7:26 PM)

General Help and Questions » Property Management - How much can be automated?

Right now you can generate all of the statements at once, but there's no way to automatically do that. We have plans to go full auto eventually. Are you writing your own payment service, or do you ha…

(Posted Jan 26, 2019 5:32 PM)

General Help and Questions » OwnerRez - Resort Cleaning App Interface Details

OK, great. Yep, I believe it's $1/booking.

(Posted Jan 26, 2019 5:30 PM)

General Help and Questions » Payment request form issue / questions

Yep, right now picking "pay by check" on a payment request displays the instructions but doesn't actually set anything on the booking. That's something you do when you record the check. Good idea to …

(Posted Jan 26, 2019 9:35 AM)

Blog » Introducing OwnerRez Channels

The rate push only goes to their nightly rate model (not the old seasonal rates). Which are you on? Also make sure you're on the latest version: https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/updating-ch…

(Posted Jan 18, 2019 10:53 AM)

General Help and Questions » VRBO payments made vs received

I took a second look at this and it may depend on your payout schedule with VRBO. What report inside VRBO is showing the actual disbursement dates to you? I'll have a look and see if we can pick up …

(Posted Jan 17, 2019 11:01 AM)

General Help and Questions » Enabling Canada Stays API Channel

To enable the channel, go to Settings > Channel Connections, click on the CanadaStays channel in the list, then use the Change button at the top to edit it. Check the "Active" box and save it to enab…

(Posted Jan 17, 2019 10:35 AM)

Feature Requests » Integration with Mailchimp

Typically, best practice is to segment your list so you can target marketing. Somebody who signs up for your newsletter should be tagged differently than someone that has inquired or booked through O…

(Posted Jan 17, 2019 10:30 AM)

General Help and Questions » VRBO payments made vs received

How are you populating the data into OwnerRez? If you use our channel bridge tool it will record the dates of payments made to you vs. by the guest, and it will also track the payment fees and othe…

(Posted Jan 16, 2019 8:39 PM)

General Help and Questions » Is there any way to schedule tax related reminders per property?

Yep, this is a good idea. We have a concept we're working on for tasks in general that could encompass things from responding to an inquiry to a guest card payment failed to making sure a listing sit…

(Posted Jan 16, 2019 8:36 PM)

General Help and Questions » How do you capture emails on your ownerres website if visitor does not request a quote?

If you're using MailChimp, they have a form tool you can add to your website: https://mailchimp.com/features/custom-forms/ If not, there are many tools that have similar email capture forms. Howeve…

(Posted Jan 16, 2019 8:34 PM)

Feature Requests » Integration with Mailchimp

If you're using MailChimp, you can use their form tool to make a capture form and embed that on the site: https://mailchimp.com/features/custom-forms/ There are many other similar tools if you use o…

(Posted Jan 16, 2019 8:32 PM)

Feature Requests » Ability to CC or BCC when sending emails

The "send a copy to me" is the closest to a BCC. You can put multiple email addresses in the TO which gets you basically the same as a CC. And yep, we're working on additional improvements!

(Posted Jan 12, 2019 7:11 PM)