Leaving Hostaway because of their booking fee?

Any way to use Owner Rez for one-off charges?

TPR Reservations T
Jan 25, 2024 3:19 PM
Joined Jan, 2023 1 post

Hi there! My family is planning to host around 60-75 friends & family members at our property for the solar eclipse weekend in April and are trying to think of how to utilize Owner Rez to handle payment processing as plenty of folks will want to use credit cards. They'll be camping out with us on our land so it's not a single property booking, but we'd like to be able to communicate with folks in one place so Owner Rez seems like a no-brainer. Anyone have any thoughts on this?  Appreciate any you might be able to share!

Ventura County V
Jan 25, 2024 9:36 PM
Joined Mar, 2022 122 posts

It is possible, at least for the payments.  For the communication, you might be better off with a Groups.IO for this as I think there is a very low limit of the number of emails you can have per booking.

As far as the charges, it will be a LOT of busy work.  You need to create a booking and then you can do a "Request Payment" on the transactions tab.  Then request a specific amount, then compose email and send it to people's email manually.  That's a LOT of work.  You would be better off, especially since they're family, making a spreadsheet and telling everyone to bring cash or Zelle/Venmo you the money.

OR really isn't setup for this, as far as I can tell.  Another option would be to get a terminal (which will cost you more money) from your card processor and use that.

Michelle S
Feb 7, 2024 9:52 AM
Joined Feb, 2023 1 post

Thanks so much for the help with this!