Paul W

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Joined June 2009
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Blog » Some Tweaks and Fixes to Tag Groups, Rate Tables, Guest Conversation and Season Validation

It's Hump Day, so time to talk OwnerRez updates! 🐫 This week, we only have a few enhancements and bug fixes (about 9) to talk about, so it should only take a couple minutes to plow through it! *…

(Posted Oct 28, 2020 12:56 PM)

General Help and Questions » Zelle

Unfortunately, Zelle does not offer a developer API or integrated way for apps to use it as a third party payment method. You'd have to follow what Chris mentioned previously in this thread to add i…

(Posted Oct 27, 2020 12:19 PM)

Blog » Tag Groups, Advanced Tag Filtering & Automation, Editing Credit Cards on File, Door Lock Grace Periods

Happy Thursday! We've got a great little group of updates to talk about (about 20) so let's get right to it! * New Features * Enhancements & Tweaks * Bug Fixes * New Videos New Features We …

(Posted Oct 21, 2020 5:42 PM)

General Help and Questions » Tags and message triggers

The "only" option does not exclude bookings with other. By "only", it means that only bookings that contain that tag (regardless of any other tags they might have) will be included. So I think you s…

(Posted Oct 20, 2020 12:41 PM)

General Help and Questions » Question about Property Field Differences when integrated with Airbnb

Ok right, that's why we put 10k characters on the OwnerRez side of the support doc. It looks like Airbnb may not have a limit at all on that field, but our OwnerRez limit is currently 10k.

(Posted Oct 20, 2020 8:19 AM)

Blog » New Incoming SMS Alert, Templates and Message Clarity, Vrbo API Payment Schedule, Travel Insurance for RTB and non-US

Q4 of this year or Q1 of 2021. We just had a meeting with their team earlier today about a bunch of stuff and this came up. Messaging and reviews are the big things coming and both are very near-te…

(Posted Oct 16, 2020 3:40 PM)

General Help and Questions » Question about Property Field Differences when integrated with Airbnb

Ah, okay. That makes sense. Yes after finding out that this was already resolved, we updated the support doc as well. We haven't confirmed the API limit on characters, so we put ??? for now. It i…

(Posted Oct 16, 2020 10:33 AM)

Blog » New Incoming SMS Alert, Templates and Message Clarity, Vrbo API Payment Schedule, Travel Insurance for RTB and non-US

Yep. Most likely Vrbo first. Lot more API usage there, and we have a really good rapport with the Vrbo IPM team.

(Posted Oct 16, 2020 10:29 AM)

General Help and Questions » Question about Property Field Differences when integrated with Airbnb

Looks like you're in luck! After this topic originated, we found out a few months later that Airbnb added a previously undocumented field. Set it on the Guest Instructions tab, see pic below. [img…

(Posted Oct 15, 2020 2:06 PM)

Blog » New Incoming SMS Alert, Templates and Message Clarity, Vrbo API Payment Schedule, Travel Insurance for RTB and non-US

Happy Thursday everyone! We've been quiet for a few weeks, but our hands haven't been idle! There was a low-level infrastructure change we had to make that took coordinated effort to make sure ther…

(Posted Oct 14, 2020 6:10 PM)

Blog » Vrbo Over the Years - 25 Years of Homepage Changes

Welcome! It was fun to put together. We will be adding to this over time as we see other changes to add.

(Posted Oct 14, 2020 1:19 PM)

General Help and Questions » Question about Property Field Differences when integrated with Airbnb

I'm asking about this internally, but as far as I know there is still no documented way to set those fields via API. Sorry to hear that your manual work go wiped out.

(Posted Oct 14, 2020 11:19 AM)

Blog » Vrbo Over the Years - 25 Years of Homepage Changes

As Vrbo celebrates their 25th anniversary, we wanted to take a look back at their long history. Vrbo started the first online vacation rental service back in 1995 and were really the first ones to…

(Posted Oct 12, 2020 12:02 PM)

Blog » Airbnb Rolling out Host-Only Fees, L.A. Cracking Down, San Diego House Parties Shut Down

"maybe I should turn this on" Do you have listings in Australia, New Zealand, South Korea or Thailand? It's currently only available in those markets and will be forced on everyone there. However,…

(Posted Oct 9, 2020 2:58 PM)

Blog » Airbnb Getting Less Extenuating, Converge Refresh, Tenn. Tax Changes, Aspen Back Taxes, Sonoma Purging Licenses

Keep us posted. I'm curious how this goes as some neighboring states (eg. VA) are rumored to be preparing the same.

(Posted Oct 6, 2020 9:03 AM)

Blog » Out with the old, in with the new - last quarter cleanup

At the moment, no on rounding up, but that's something we're looking into. Thanks for your feedback, Ella!

(Posted Oct 6, 2020 8:58 AM)

Blog » Out with the old, in with the new - last quarter cleanup

Hi Ella, Yes, the fee/discount setting on the payment method will be removed but you can establish a discount that can be applied on certain quotes from the surcharges area. For the LOS pricing, re…

(Posted Oct 2, 2020 2:30 PM)

Blog » Out with the old, in with the new - last quarter cleanup

As we begin the final quarter of 2020, we're gearing up for some great new features and updates in the new year. As part of that, we're retiring several old features that have grown long in the too…

(Posted Oct 1, 2020 11:53 AM)

Feature Requests » Display the cancellation policy in force on quote/book widget

+1 This is a great idea.

(Posted Sep 30, 2020 7:52 PM)

Feature Requests » Minimum and maximum night rates

Those min and max rates are for display purposes only - we auto fill them based on when your rates change or you can override them to say what you want. We thought about doing what you asked in the …

(Posted Sep 26, 2020 9:58 AM)