Chris Hynes

OwnerRez Team Member
Joined October 2012
1401 posts
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General Help and Questions » Is there a work around to have all a guest's info import into OR from a VRBO booking?

You can either manually enter via copy paste or download the reservation export from VRBO and import it into OwnerRez using the import in the Tools menu. Either way, you're correct -- you don't get …

(Posted Feb 10, 2018 10:44 PM)

General Help and Questions » Travel insurance - at least 30 days prior

Yes, that should work as long as it was actually booked that day. You can preview the link yourself to make sure.

(Posted Feb 10, 2018 10:43 PM)

General Help and Questions » Calendar Import/Export Conflicts

We have a todo list item to allow you to exclude bookings from a listing site from a calendar export. Once that's in place you'll be able to create a custom calendar export, exclude the VRBO bookings…

(Posted Feb 10, 2018 10:40 PM)

General Help and Questions » Sms automated messages

We don't currently have an SMS system in OwnerRez, although that's something we have plans to do. One thing you could do would be to use Zapier and Twilio to transform OR triggered emails into SMS's…

(Posted Feb 10, 2018 10:39 PM)

Feature Requests » Ability to have fill-in fields when sending rental documents

Yep, we actually do support that now on signing links. Any field on the contact page of the quote checkout is also required when e-signing a document, including booking custom fields flagged for chec…

(Posted Feb 8, 2018 9:51 PM)

Introduce Yourself! » NEW - SWFL Realty, LLC

Welcome, and glad to have you on board! Hope you're finding your way around the system well so far. Any questions I can help with?

(Posted Feb 2, 2018 11:04 PM)

General Help and Questions » HomeEscape - again/dates

Looks like they changed that date format again and removed more info :-/ Can you run through two test inquiries so we can suss out the exact criteria? One where the arrival and departure are in diff…

(Posted Feb 1, 2018 9:22 PM)

General Help and Questions » Travel insurance - at least 30 days prior

It can be 30 days prior to booking _or_ on the day of booking. For example, if it's 25 days before arrival, the guest can purchase travel insurance with their booking, or as long as they use the link…

(Posted Feb 1, 2018 8:18 PM)

General Help and Questions » Booking detail report - booking source

Best place to get the source is go to List view on the bookings tab and do and Export. That export gives way more info than the booking detail report, which is more of a numeric overview. Good point…

(Posted Jan 29, 2018 1:00 PM)

General Help and Questions » affiliate program

Look in your account section in the top right dropdown area and go to Affiliate Program there. The details are at the bottom. (...we just added that there, as I realized they were only shown on sign…

(Posted Jan 25, 2018 3:10 PM)

General Help and Questions » SMBYO Smoky Mountains by owner going live

We pushed out support for SMBYO over the weekend (of course it's ever so slightly different than ECBYO so it needed a new parser). Should be working, or at least you would get an unrecognized inquiry…

(Posted Jan 23, 2018 10:24 AM)

General Help and Questions » SMBYO Smoky Mountains by owner going live

Yep, those are great! We'll look into that next week.

(Posted Jan 20, 2018 10:43 PM)

Feature Requests » Attach "Listing site" to quotes entered manually into OR

Yep, that's a good idea and we're in the middle of reworking some of those areas. Right now only bookings and inquiries have listing site, not quotes. If you want a listing site on a quote, you could…

(Posted Jan 20, 2018 10:43 PM)

Blog » Send trigger emails based on the listing site (eg. sending "Airbnb clean-up" emails)

Yep! Use the preview link you get from the request e-Signature button on the Legal tab of the booking and you can see what it looks like. Everything that would be required on a quote checkout on the…

(Posted Jan 20, 2018 10:02 PM)

General Help and Questions » Auto responders /inquiries

Occasionally emails can get hung up and then will shake loose. I've seen test inquiries on VRBO take 12 hours to arrive. Rare, but it can happen. We've been monitoring since you mentioned this and h…

(Posted Jan 15, 2018 6:22 PM)

General Help and Questions » SMBYO Smoky Mountains by owner going live

Excellent! If you're signing up, get a couple of test inquiries into your account and let me know and we'll get the inquiry parser to add support. Hopefully very similar to the ecbyo.com format.

(Posted Jan 15, 2018 6:21 PM)

General Help and Questions » Auto responders /inquiries

Do you know which names they are under?

(Posted Jan 15, 2018 8:06 AM)

General Chat » I'm lost and I am not sure figuring this all out is worth it? (please don't flame me)

I just put up a setup checklist article here to help out: https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/setup-checklist Hopefully that'll give you some ideas of where to go. The best way it to get to t…

(Posted Jan 9, 2018 5:55 PM)

General Chat » I'm lost and I am not sure figuring this all out is worth it? (please don't flame me)

It does take some time and effort to get set up, but once you get set up it will save a bunch of time in managing a central calendar, having everything sync together, and setting up scheduled/trigger…

(Posted Jan 9, 2018 4:34 PM)

General Help and Questions » Additional fields on lease agreement or check out form to prevent over occupancy

Yep, you can add additional custom fields and mark them as required during checkout. Here's an article on that: https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/capture-additional-fields-on-checkout-quote-a…

(Posted Jan 9, 2018 4:16 PM)