Is there any way to trace the direct bookings to the property sharing widget?

Is there any way to trace the direct bookings to the property sharing widget/site? We have a common website smokymountaincabinsbyowner.com where the widget is housed. Also, each member has it on a page on their respective website. Obviously, there is a lot of cross-referring going on. Is there any way (GA? other) to know that booking X for property Y  originated via the search on a shared widget on website Z?

Thanks

We have the same question...  can we attribute a Property Share originated Booking to a specific Listing Site? 

Hi,

There's no automatic means to attribute bookings to individual property shares at this time. However if you create a custom source then you should be able to manually assign bookings to the individual custom sources as a rough workaround.

https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/custom-sources

Beyond that we have had discussions revolving making source tracking more granular as they relate to hosted sites, though the details and confirmation of this I can't confirm at this time.

~Caleb

Thx Caleb.  Some sort of property share referrer url parameter would be a start.  We do use the custom sources, but need to know which source referred them.  Can a url parameter be used to pre-populate a custom attribute on a booking?  Thx!

Checking in on this. We have an owner creating a landing page website for their property and going to be directing traffic to that page for bookings. Trying to figure out if it would be possible to attribute a booking to their marketing efforts or if they are organic through our site. Similar to how when bookings come through VRBO, Airbnb, or Google Vacation Rentals. Just trying to keep track of how bookings are coming in. Thanks! 

Hi Alex,

The following won't apply to a custom page that has been created, but it is now possible to create individual Custom Sources for each booking source, then create a URL with the root of it being your book now page, and add the Custom Source to the end of the URL for tracking purposes. For example, I've created a new Custom Source as an example in my testing account:

https://secure.ownerrez.com/settings/customsources



Then, I'd need to click the Book Now button on my website and grab the URL, which would look something like this:

https://www.mytestsite.com/book

I can then take that URL and add the following - ?or_listingsite=(custom source) so it looks like this:

https://www.mytestsite.com/book?or_listingsite=example

I could then use that URL to create an inquiry or booking, and I'll see that inquiry or booking come in as having been attributed to the Custom Source "Example". It'd show up on the booking or inquiry's Overview tab, under the Channel section, like this:

You'll also be able to see it if you use the List View on your Bookings page. There's a column for Listing Site on the List View.

If this isn't quite what you were looking for, feel free to give us a shout at help@ownerrez.com so that we can take another look!