Marina's Edge Re

Joined October 2012
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Blog » Is the Expedia takeover of HomeAway going to be good or bad for vacation rental owners/managers?

I actually think this move will be a good thing for the industry

(Posted Nov 8, 2015 3:26 PM)

Blog » How Marina's Edge uses Analytics to Improve Customer Experience

I just built a survey from Excel Online and send the link to the survey in the automatic email. Let me know how I can help! Damon

(Posted Sep 16, 2015 1:59 AM)

General Help and Questions » Email Failed to Send

Thanks. I haven't seen the issue since I posted.

(Posted Aug 24, 2015 12:55 AM)

General Help and Questions » Email Failed to Send

I'm getting a lot of email failed to send messages today. Resending seems to resolve the issue. Damon

(Posted Aug 21, 2015 6:35 PM)

General Help and Questions » Refunds because of national disaster

Thanks. I think this is what we'll do. Damon

(Posted Aug 21, 2015 5:03 PM)

General Help and Questions » Refunds because of national disaster

Thanks, this helps a lot. We have decided to offer our guests the ability to re-book within 12 months. From a financial accounting perspective, our accountant recommends we record a "refund" for th…

(Posted Aug 21, 2015 2:12 PM)

General Help and Questions » Refunds because of national disaster

If there is a national disaster, flood, wildfire, storm, etc, according to the OwnerReservations template renters agreement are we obligated to refund rents that were prepaid 90 days in advance.

(Posted Aug 19, 2015 1:50 AM)

General Help and Questions » Defaults for manually created bookings

My preference would be that the same defaults that are used at booking creation are the same ones used for manually created bookings. Thanks for asking!

(Posted Jul 29, 2015 8:21 PM)

General Help and Questions » Defaults for manually created bookings

Is there a way to set defaults on manually created booking identical to the defaults when a guest creates the booking (e.g. third party alerts, legal, etc.)? I don't like having to remember to do th…

(Posted Jul 23, 2015 6:18 PM)

General Help and Questions » iCal Synch Time Zone

Thanks. It's not super critical.

(Posted Jul 19, 2015 10:03 AM)

General Help and Questions » iCal Synch Time Zone

Is there a way to adjust the iCal calendar synch timezone to the timezone where the property is located? I'd use this for my maid to know from her calendar when people are checking in and checking o…

(Posted Jul 17, 2015 1:11 PM)

Feature Requests » Texting (SMS) from OwnerRez

Cool. I suppose I could do this right now with the custom booking fields and the email template.

(Posted May 30, 2015 11:08 AM)

Feature Requests » Texting (SMS) from OwnerRez

Crazy idea...if we made cell phone number required and asked for carrier (optional if they opt in for receiving texts) then we could enable texting to guests from owner reservations. Things like get…

(Posted May 29, 2015 11:58 PM)

General Help and Questions » Rules for different rate periods

The only thing I can think of is that I have to modify my rates every year because the day of the year when my peak rates start and stop changes. I'm not sure if there is a solution, but it is cumbe…

(Posted May 15, 2015 3:03 PM)

General Help and Questions » Rules for different rate periods

Is it possible to set rules for different rate periods? For example, I'd like to force a full week in my peak season but only 2 days in my offseason? I'd also like to have it be 7 days for next pea…

(Posted May 14, 2015 5:19 PM)

Feature Requests » VRBO's New "Security" Feature

Yes, the email addresses are blocked. I'd love to be in the Beta Group to experiment!

(Posted Mar 13, 2015 2:18 PM)

Feature Requests » VRBO's New "Security" Feature

VRBO just disabled the ability to automatically pass the real email address into OwnerReservations. Getting the real email address is pure gold from a marketing perspective. Would it be possible to…

(Posted Mar 12, 2015 5:25 PM)

Blog » How Marina's Edge uses Analytics to Improve Customer Experience

Thanks, Angela....I'm a bit of a geek on this stuff...I'd be happy to help you set it up if you are interested...it has been an incredibly valuable tool for us and we are constantly learning and impr…

(Posted Feb 24, 2015 9:05 PM)

General Help and Questions » Analytics on Price

Awesome. I'll run the analytics and share with you. Basically I want to understand my booking rate as a function of price to see if I have my price optimized. I'll work on the blog post this week. …

(Posted Feb 21, 2015 6:24 PM)

General Help and Questions » Analytics on Price

We are trying to optimize our price and I want to do some analytics to determine booking rate based on the price we offer. Would it be possible to add the "Total $" field to the Quote data export?…

(Posted Feb 20, 2015 12:46 AM)