Create a trigger to send a message after a cancellation

Bill D
Feb 26, 2025 12:49 PM
Joined Jun, 2024 7 posts

If a future guest of ours cancels their reservation, we want to message them a few days after the cancellation. We want to tell them we are sorry they couldn't stay with us, but if they'd like to rebook in the future, here is a link to our direct booking site.

I can't find any triggers/conditions that will help me match this criterion.

Is this system capable of doing this?

 

 

 

Alece
Feb 26, 2025 3:39 PM
Joined Jan, 2020 220 posts

As far as I'm aware, there's only the option to have a template message send immediately upon cancellation... not X number of days after. That would be hugely helpful!

Suzee S
Feb 26, 2025 3:43 PM
OR Team Member Joined Apr, 2023 35 posts

Hello Bill - that's a great idea!

We do not have any conditions you can use in a trigger to identify cancelled bookings. Our triggered communications are for active bookings.

A few options:

  • There is a system message that sends out for a cancellation and you could modify that system message to include your desired message.
  • You could also go to the Messages tab of the cancelled booking and manually send an email to the guest from there
  • You can export their email out to your marketing list and send an email or text from outside of OwnerRez

I'm sure you already know, and I wanted to mention it here. You'll want to make sure you're not asking a channel guest to go off platform in a channel message. The channels would not be very happy to see that.

If you need additional assistance, feel free to reach out to us at help@ownerrez.com