Chris Hynes

OwnerRez Team Member
Joined October 2012
1401 posts
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General Help and Questions » ical - can party size (adults/children) be included?

To do this on the iCal, enable add a custom link with the "Show a full description of the booking on each event" option enabled. That'll show the guest count but not the contact info. Another option…

(Posted Jan 4, 2019 8:43 AM)

General Help and Questions » Reviews Widget - Property names aren't showing

Ahh, yep, you have to map first. Everything else looking good now?

(Posted Jan 4, 2019 8:40 AM)

Feature Requests » Simpler Way to Enter Rates

Good point, added!

(Posted Jan 4, 2019 8:39 AM)

Feature Requests » couple of enhancement ideas

Yep, the multiple payments is in the dev queue. Don't have an ETA yet though.

(Posted Jan 4, 2019 8:38 AM)

General Help and Questions » Getting Started Questions/Concepts

Yep, that's how we started with OR back in the day, actually -- a couple of us got vacation rentals back in 2009 and being developers figured we'd put together some software. Back then there wasn't m…

(Posted Dec 28, 2018 6:53 PM)

General Help and Questions » Privacy Notice - Hosted Website

The way to do this is to create a custom page, and then set "Hide Tab" under the options at the bottom. That way you can put some content on there, but it won't show on the tabs at the top. Then go …

(Posted Dec 21, 2018 10:41 PM)

General Help and Questions » ADA, WCAG 2.0

We make the sites as standards compliant as we can, and we're always improving -- accessibility is never a once and done sort of process. If you see something that doesn't work in a screenreader, let…

(Posted Dec 20, 2018 5:48 PM)

General Help and Questions » Govt Picture IDs -for EACH adult?

Personally, I don't ask for ID on every booking, just if it seem scammish or otherwise high risk. Anybody else on the forums want to pile on with some advice? I think it's overkill to ask for ID's f…

(Posted Dec 20, 2018 9:06 AM)

General Help and Questions » Property Address field definitions - complex situation

Yep, individual properties is the best way to do it. You can set up calendar imports for mutual blockoff so that when the main properties is booked the individual unit properties are blocked off and …

(Posted Dec 20, 2018 9:04 AM)

General Help and Questions » hourly? add-on booking?

Our property calendar only goes down to the night, and there's a lot of stuff built round that. If you're doing multiple intraday bookings, you'd need to use a different method. If you are only doing…

(Posted Dec 20, 2018 9:01 AM)

General Help and Questions » Exporting Ownerrez calendar to Booking.com

Booking.com recently introduced a bug on their iCal where they don't support secure (https) iCal links. Change the beginning of the iCal URL to http:// instead of https:// and it'll get round that i…

(Posted Dec 20, 2018 8:58 AM)

Feature Requests » Add Long Term Rental Feature

If you want to show a secondary point of contact on both leases, leave the primary one as the contact on the booking. Then add a secondary POC name using a custom field: https://www.ownerrez.com/supp…

(Posted Dec 19, 2018 12:42 PM)

Blog » Import bookings, payments and refunds from Excel

Found your message buried in the spam folder for some reason. Rescued it and we'll get back to you soon!

(Posted Dec 15, 2018 11:43 PM)

Blog » Import bookings, payments and refunds from Excel

@BlueMtn, were you able to get that running?

(Posted Dec 15, 2018 9:46 PM)

Feature Requests » Refundable damage deposit - how it is displayed in quotes

Yep, breaking out the refundable deposit is high on the dev list. We just released a TI feature where the guest can edit the amount, so they can fix it for that. That's so they can also add flights …

(Posted Dec 15, 2018 9:45 PM)

General Help and Questions » "Group" availability widgets?

Good ideas on the open in new window and hide legend option. Will add those to the dev list. @BlueMtn, cool if I add those additional properties to your widget? Any additional to add?

(Posted Dec 15, 2018 9:44 PM)

Feature Requests » Add a description to widgets

Yep, that's a great idea. Easy to get crosseyed when staring down a huge list of widgets. Will add it to the dev list.

(Posted Dec 15, 2018 9:42 PM)

General Help and Questions » "Group" availability widgets?

Yep, Santa is here early :-D Just created ribbon calendar and availability search widgets that are linked to all of the property id's you sent. If you go to Settings > Widgets in your account you'll …

(Posted Dec 14, 2018 9:51 AM)

Developer Community » Kaba locks support

Yep! We've talked with them and have dev on that scheduled for Jan. Should be very similar to what we've got with Pricelabs already, just feeding spot rates from a different source.

(Posted Dec 14, 2018 9:44 AM)

Developer Community » Kaba locks support

Yep, we're in talks with Kaba about integrating with their API. It's behind a couple of other integrations like the direct HomeAway channel and the BeyondPricing/Wheelhouse integrations, but we are w…

(Posted Dec 13, 2018 9:54 AM)