Ken T

Joined August 2019
1707 posts
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Feature Requests » Sync on demand

The different APIs work differently, so some of them can have sync timing controlled more directly than others. Airbnb will usually sync right away, but VRBO has to wait until their server polls us,…

(Posted Oct 30, 2020 12:54 PM)

General Help and Questions » Cancelled Second Payment in VRBO - Showing as Discount in Charges Section of Reservation now?

I think the best way to look into this would be for you to email the Helpdesk with the ORB number of the booking. We'll try and figure out what happened.

(Posted Oct 22, 2020 1:36 PM)

General Help and Questions » Self Check In

You'd probably want to mention that in one of the fields under Guest Instructions, and potentially also use that in a Field Code in an automatic pre-arrival email sent to your guests.

(Posted Oct 20, 2020 1:07 PM)

Feature Requests » Report to show unsigned Rental Agreement +way to mark or Identify ID received

For the rental agreements, go to the main Bookings display, List view, and Filter for Signed Agreement = No. That'll get your your list. For photo IDs, unfortunately at present we don't have a perf…

(Posted Oct 19, 2020 4:50 PM)

Blog » Vrbo Celebrates the Big 25, Airbnb’s Cleaning Protocol Now Required, Host-Only Fee Structure, Halloween Ban

Yes, you can create a surcharge that applies only to Airbnb - but, Airbnb rolls it into the rate anyway, so it won't help to do it that way.

(Posted Oct 17, 2020 2:54 PM)

Blog » Vrbo Celebrates the Big 25, Airbnb’s Cleaning Protocol Now Required, Host-Only Fee Structure, Halloween Ban

If you're using our API connections, or pushing rates using Channel Bridge, you can use those to increase your Airbnb rates by 15% compared to your standard OwnerRez rates. This is generally easier …

(Posted Oct 17, 2020 2:36 PM)

Feature Requests » Option to disable automatic messaging triggers on specific bookings

That's an excellent idea, which I'll pass along. In the meantime, we just released a new "Tags" feature for bookings that can be tied in to Triggers. So, you could create a "problem" tag, and then …

(Posted Oct 16, 2020 5:12 PM)

General Help and Questions » Setting minimum stays

That would make sense, wouldn't it? Unfortunately, no, that's not how it works. :-( The min nights for a given stay is set by whatever the min nights setting is on the *first* night - that is, the…

(Posted Oct 16, 2020 5:01 PM)

General Help and Questions » Tags and message triggers

Yes, integrating tags with triggers is a planned feature.

(Posted Oct 15, 2020 7:01 PM)

General Help and Questions » Schedule more than 2 payments for checks

You can manually schedule reminder emails on specific dates under the Email tab. Or, if you have no payments scheduled and payment reminders turned on, they'll be sent on OwnerRez' schedule, which c…

(Posted Oct 15, 2020 12:00 PM)

General Help and Questions » Rates date ranges

There really is no good way to do it that way, as neither OwnerRez nor any of the channels is designed to work like that. I do recall one client who "made it work" by creating a special discount tha…

(Posted Oct 12, 2020 6:40 PM)

General Help and Questions » Rates date ranges

No, you do not need to use seasons for this purpose. Instead, what you need are length-of-stay discounts: https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/length-of-stay-discounts

(Posted Oct 12, 2020 5:24 PM)

General Help and Questions » Smart Pricing Options

I'm afraid those are the only three we integrate with at the moment. Perhaps you know your own market best, and should just set your own pricing?

(Posted Oct 7, 2020 8:46 PM)

General Help and Questions » How to schedule reoccurring maid service?

Would using a custom field help? https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/custom-fields Or a tag maybe?

(Posted Oct 7, 2020 4:53 PM)

General Help and Questions » How to schedule reoccurring maid service?

This is not a core functionality of OwnerRez at this time. You should look at one of our integrations with companies that specialize in housekeeping and maintenance scheduling: https://www.ownerrez…

(Posted Oct 6, 2020 9:39 PM)

Feature Requests » Add-On Surcharges

Not at present. It is planned to be added in the future.

(Posted Oct 5, 2020 9:17 PM)

Feature Requests » Check-In & Out Allowed Days

Unfortunately, the only way to do that is to create a special season for just that one day, and control the checkin/checkout dates in that season.

(Posted Oct 5, 2020 8:44 AM)

General Help and Questions » Add Custom Items to a calendar

Are you sure you have a custom calendar export? I took a look in your account and didn't see any. If you're just exporting the default calendar, it does not contain any personal data like the guest…

(Posted Oct 2, 2020 11:48 AM)

General Help and Questions » Tennessee /Sevier county - Airbnb taxes - now Airbnb collects State + county sales even on API integrated?

Ah, right. What you're going to want to do is to modify your Sales taxes to, as of October 1, be "Everything But Airbnb." This is a major reason why we recommend having each separate tax entered in…

(Posted Oct 1, 2020 12:20 PM)

General Help and Questions » Tennessee /Sevier county - Airbnb taxes - now Airbnb collects State + county sales even on API integrated?

In your particular case, since you are using our HA/VRBO API connection, there will be no changes - taxes will continue to be collected via your credit card payment processor, and remitted by you. I…

(Posted Oct 1, 2020 12:08 PM)