BlueMtnCabins

Joined June 2016
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General Help and Questions » Igloo Home locks

what is advantage of igloo vs several types that OR already integrates with?

(Posted Aug 22, 2019 2:30 PM)

Feature Requests » Coupon Code?

[quote=Chris Hynes]A little birdy told me that we're looking into an initial version of discount codes, hopefully will be very soon![/quote] yay!

(Posted Aug 19, 2019 11:16 AM)

Feature Requests » Widget of amenities

here are some. I do not like them being color, but maybe there is B&W version https://creativemarket.com/creativebythesea/236073-Vacation-Rental-Hotel-Vector-Icons

(Posted Aug 19, 2019 10:55 AM)

Feature Requests » Widget of amenities

[quote=Chris Hynes]Yep, that looks really good! Do you have any idea about a good icon pack for VR? That's the thing we've run up against in the past trying to do this -- there are a couple hundred …

(Posted Aug 19, 2019 10:54 AM)

Feature Requests » Widget of amenities

So i am back to this., I found some in my website builder tool, but I am not really happy with them as they are not scaled right (and I can only adjust them so much) and they are not VR relevant. Wo…

(Posted Aug 16, 2019 2:14 PM)

General Help and Questions » Requesting Guest Information - where? Rental Agreement?

You create custom fields that are applicable to "Booking" and they are shown on check out form. Like I have custom fields with instructions to enter guest's initials to agree to something, or to ente…

(Posted Aug 13, 2019 5:32 PM)

General Help and Questions » Remote lock subscription

I personally use erentallock. no need for hubs, subscription etc. One time purchase cost.

(Posted Aug 13, 2019 11:33 AM)

General Help and Questions » Why you should use PriceLabs (Wheelhouse, etc) and not ABB Smart Pricing

I use my own seasons and prices and i generally ignore anything airbnb suggests because they are ridiculous

(Posted Aug 13, 2019 11:27 AM)

General Help and Questions » Website options - comments please !!

[quote=jfulciniti]@Regina H - If I can add one suggestion it would be to harvest all of your guests emails. I send out periodic newsletters to all former guests with info on our rentals and of cou…

(Posted Aug 9, 2019 10:53 AM)

General Help and Questions » Why you should use PriceLabs (Wheelhouse, etc) and not ABB Smart Pricing

Every time i looked at Smart (dumb) prices on Airbnb, it is ridiculous. Like they suggest that I rent a 3 bd 2000 sq ft cabin for $100 a night. yes, sure, I will just drop everything and do it (NOT).…

(Posted Aug 9, 2019 10:50 AM)

General Help and Questions » Min nights questions

Can u elaborate about gaps? I thought gap rules were just for quotes to tell inquirer not to leave gaps between bookings when inquiring. I did not think it actually reduced min stay to number of gap …

(Posted Jul 31, 2019 2:30 PM)

General Help and Questions » Pricing strategy

[quote=JTVRs]Ok, well the theory is that when you are new, you need to charge someone less to get reviews. And I have lost 40 percent of the season, and thought using several listing sites at differe…

(Posted Jul 29, 2019 11:16 AM)

General Help and Questions » Pricing strategy

[quote=JTVRs]. Airbnb seems to attract bargain hunters.[/quote] I found to be just the opposite. Airbnb rarely books, but when they do, they rarely bargain. My rates there are 8-10% higher than dire…

(Posted Jul 25, 2019 10:27 AM)

General Help and Questions » OwnerRez Text Messaging Capabilities

Who says they will open that?

(Posted Jul 21, 2019 2:21 PM)

General Help and Questions » Pricelabs, OwnerReservations, listing sites

It is price mark up /mark down percentage on given channel settings./

(Posted Jul 20, 2019 7:34 PM)

General Help and Questions » OwnerRez Text Messaging Capabilities

Text message capability cannot come fast enough. This year about 1/3 of renters do not open emails with directions and door codes and then I get 11th hour calls . I think humankind's IQ is falling ra…

(Posted Jul 20, 2019 7:32 PM)

General Help and Questions » Creating Trigger Email to Collect Taxes

[quote=Lydia B]Chris - hope you guys can find a way to help us with this. A big topic of discussion for a lot of our Tennessee owners (as Victoria says - some ABB guests will go along with anything …

(Posted Jul 18, 2019 7:46 PM)

Blog » Integration with PriceLabs

Not pricelabs but other tools I used for 1.5 years./ namely Wheelhouse (AirBNB and TA) and beyondPricing (vrbo). I can say this - both have missed some "events" locally when the rate should have bee…

(Posted Jul 18, 2019 7:40 PM)

General Help and Questions » Rental Agreement - two questions

2) you do not need to attach agreement to Airbnb. OR handles it. You can set up trigger email once ABB booking is imported that sends the link to ABB guest to esign rental agreement AND collects all …

(Posted Jul 18, 2019 7:34 PM)

General Help and Questions » Export listing to VRBO?

why would they care? if calendars are accurate, why would they care if it makes them money

(Posted Jul 18, 2019 7:22 PM)