I'd like to send an email on day before departure to my cleaner, with a clear statement about whether the property is booked again on the same day, hence a "back to back" booking.
This would be very useful to my cleaner since they create their cleaning schedule based on prioritizing back to back cleanings.
I think you can do it by specifying conditions on trigger.
Yep @BlueMtnCabins! You can do this by making a trigger that occurs at a scheduled time, 1 day before booking has departed. And then use the criteria of adjacent available nights: no gap.
Have you considered giving the cleaners portal access accounts so they can see the calendar directly? https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/portal-access -- that may also help cleaners plan things out better as they will be able to visually see the calendar instead of having to rely on catching an email in time.
I don't agree - I'm looking to send an email that is *always* sent the day before departure and contains a clear statement about whether or not the cleaning is back to back.
Just using a trigger for no gap in adjacent nights would trigger either for gap=yes or gap=no, but I want the email sent in all cases.
The reason I'm asking for a better custom field is for clear communication to the cleaner, for instance, this is what I'm trying right now:
==> "This booking currently may have these adjacent nights: {BADJOPEN} "
The problem is that BADJOPEN returns awkward language like this: night before (arriving 9/25) and night after (departing 10/1)
I'm wanting a field like BNXTOCC that would return the following:
- back to back cleaning: "A BACK to BACK cleaning is required on departure day 10/11/2019. Next guest will arrive by Xpm on same day"
- not back to back cleaning: "Next scheduled guest for this property arrives in XX days (10/17/2019)
Right. We don't currently have fields that reference other bookings, although that's an interesting idea, some sort of BNEXT or BPREV.
In the meantime you could accomplish this with two templates/triggers -- one for no departure gap with that BACK to BACK language, and one for having a departure gap with that language.