BlueMtnCabins

Joined June 2016
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Blog » Californians like it hot, Maui gets sued, Newport Beach restricts, Vrbo boosts

[quote=Paul H] If you went above and beyond our policy expectations and provided full refunds, credits or flexible rebooking options: corresponding listings will receive ranking increases equivalent…

(Posted Jul 18, 2020 7:53 AM)

General Help and Questions » Selling our North Carolina mountain cottage and I have a question about selling my guest list...

[quote=Monica R]My husband and I are selling our western North Carolina mountain cottage this summer. For twelve years I have run the vacation rental myself and I have amassed an email database of ou…

(Posted Jul 18, 2020 7:47 AM)

Feature Requests » Photos as links to Google or Yelp business listings

You already can do that. Create and email template to thank them for their stay and solicit review . Insert image, and image link to your Google or yelp listing.

(Posted Jul 14, 2020 11:54 PM)

General Help and Questions » OTA and Book Direct Prices

[quote=Chris L]I add a 9% "Booking Service Fee." It's usually less than the ~12ish% that the OTAs charge. I would have made it 10%, but then it would have looked too obvious to the guest. ;) You add …

(Posted Jul 14, 2020 11:52 PM)

Blog » Cancellation Policies, Channel Blackouts, Condensed Charges, Non-Refundable Airbnb Policy, RTB on Properties

[quote=Chris Hynes]Aha! I see it. So here, since it's a quote email, you need to use {QCANPOL} instead of {BCANPOL}. I tweaked that for you, how's it look now?[/quote] Ok I tried it. few observatio…

(Posted Jul 14, 2020 12:22 PM)

Blog » Cancellation Policies, Channel Blackouts, Condensed Charges, Non-Refundable Airbnb Policy, RTB on Properties

[quote=Chris Hynes]Aha! I see it. So here, since it's a quote email, you need to use {QCANPOL} instead of {BCANPOL}. I tweaked that for you, how's it look now?[/quote] Thank you, will look. On the…

(Posted Jul 13, 2020 1:38 PM)

Blog » Cancellation Policies, Channel Blackouts, Condensed Charges, Non-Refundable Airbnb Policy, RTB on Properties

yes it is on the Rules tab but does not show on Quote email . Sample quote ORQ2485121

(Posted Jul 12, 2020 8:06 PM)

Blog » Cancellation Policies, Channel Blackouts, Condensed Charges, Non-Refundable Airbnb Policy, RTB on Properties

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(Posted Jul 12, 2020 4:11 PM)

Blog » Airbnb restores Super Strict, FL Wants OTAs to Pay All Taxes, Miami Targets Party Houses

Great, if only airbnb butted out of being a Big Brother trying to mandate everything from what kind of soap we provide to when we clean to who we let into our properties, they could have been a somew…

(Posted Jul 10, 2020 7:31 PM)

Blog » Cancellation Policies, Channel Blackouts, Condensed Charges, Non-Refundable Airbnb Policy, RTB on Properties

[quote=Paul W]Yes, the preview thing always runs against live records if they exist. There is a Batch Operation button on Cancellation Policies where you can bulk update existing quotes and bookings…

(Posted Jul 10, 2020 7:00 PM)

Blog » Cancellation Policies, Channel Blackouts, Condensed Charges, Non-Refundable Airbnb Policy, RTB on Properties

as a test, I defined CXL Policy "Up to 60 days before arrival, guest receives 100%; Up to 30 days before arrival, guest receives 50%; No refunds within 30 days". But when i insert field {BCANPOL} in…

(Posted Jul 10, 2020 5:02 PM)

General Help and Questions » Beach house for 10

[quote=alison c]I am desperately searching for a beach house the week of July 18 through the 25th for 10 people. We had reservations in the owners canceled on us. Help please![/quote] wrong forum?

(Posted Jul 10, 2020 4:26 PM)

Blog » Cancellation Policies, Channel Blackouts, Condensed Charges, Non-Refundable Airbnb Policy, RTB on Properties

More awesomeness! question: I cannot use {BCANPOL} on my pre booking emails ( such as reply-available-with quote to inquiry where I usually have a bullet point saying "XX days cancellation policy. "

(Posted Jul 10, 2020 2:09 PM)

General Help and Questions » Rental agreement - is there a way to make guest initial every page or important paragraph?

[quote=Paul W]Some discussion going on on this side in recent weeks about renter agreements... All design at this point - not scheduled for dev - but we'd like to do the following: - make the guest…

(Posted Jul 9, 2020 11:29 AM)

Feature Requests » Cancellation Policy tracking

[quote=Rich S]Chuck, I think it will be a very rare situation where an OTA will allow anything in our RA to override/affect cancellation policy as established in their platform. I agree it would be…

(Posted Jul 9, 2020 11:26 AM)

Blog » Website Custom Headers & Menus, Houfy channel integration, Google Fonts, Rate Tweaks

UPDATE: Received email from houfy, they advised to "pull" rates again. After I did, they now show correct. They must have fixed something on their side.

(Posted Jul 2, 2020 5:05 PM)

Blog » Website Custom Headers & Menus, Houfy channel integration, Google Fonts, Rate Tweaks

[quote=Paul W]I updated pricing manually on a listing that was just mapped to Houfy (ie. updated pricing on the Houfy side) and it published through okay. The live listing looks correct and provides…

(Posted Jul 2, 2020 12:57 PM)

Blog » Website Custom Headers & Menus, Houfy channel integration, Google Fonts, Rate Tweaks

[quote=Paul W]We're still working through pricing integration and a couple other things with them. We are pushing rates, but they've asked for some changes to fit how they do things. Let us know wh…

(Posted Jul 2, 2020 12:35 PM)

Blog » Website Custom Headers & Menus, Houfy channel integration, Google Fonts, Rate Tweaks

so enabled Houfy integration. Seems like it is not pushing rates (or houfy isn't pulling them). While it shows rates table on the listings, when you enter date as a guest into quoter on Houfy site, i…

(Posted Jul 2, 2020 9:21 AM)

General Help and Questions » OwnerRez App

Interesting. I do not miss not having an app in the least. Have too many apps on my phone already. I think what OR has works just fine. JMO.

(Posted Jun 30, 2020 9:46 PM)