Paul W

OwnerRez Team Member
Joined June 2009
848 posts
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General Help and Questions » Triggered Emails

Thanks, BlueMtnCabins, for providing answers! Stacy, as BlueMtnCabins pointed out, make sure that the trigger is only sent for import bookings. On the trigger, set the booking criteria to only go ou…

(Posted Apr 11, 2019 9:14 AM)

General Help and Questions » Correct way to handle vacation rental payments in Quickbooks (not integrated with OR) ?

Hi Rich, You could copy the model we use in integrating with QB, only do it yourself manually with the Desktop version. Basically, each booking is turned into an invoice in QB and then each payment…

(Posted Apr 11, 2019 9:07 AM)

Feature Requests » Notes section

Thanks for the suggestion, Tufan. Notes is an area we want to improve, and there are many things we'd like to do.

(Posted Apr 1, 2019 8:18 AM)

General Help and Questions » Advice blog on using booking. Com

That's a great read, JTVRs! Thanks! Lot of great advice there.

(Posted Apr 1, 2019 8:17 AM)

General Help and Questions » What's on the OwnerRez roadmap?

We do share our roadmap but only with the context and understanding that the roadmap is not fixed and changes frequently. The current (closest) items are: - HomeAway API (nearly done, watching last…

(Posted Apr 1, 2019 8:14 AM)

Feature Requests » Social Media links on Ownerrez hosted website

It's mostly by adding links. If you scroll to the footer area, you'll see that there are FB and Instagram links there which show on every page. You can add FB badges/like buttons as well. But it's …

(Posted Apr 1, 2019 8:11 AM)

General Help and Questions » Rumour has it - google launched Gogle vacation rentals

Could be something else but I can't find it by googling. If anyone knows, drop a link. We'd be happy to look into it. That'd be great to get another major player in the mix.

(Posted Mar 27, 2019 11:40 AM)

General Help and Questions » Triggers?

You have to create a custom template for the trigger to send. Just create a new custom template and copy/paste the same content from the "Send Review Request to Guest" system template. You can see …

(Posted Mar 27, 2019 11:39 AM)

General Help and Questions » Channel Bridges--testing them out

Sorta kinda yes maybe but not yet. 😉 The last of our pilot users was onboarded this week and we're past all the paperwork steps. We expect to make the public announcement next week or the week aft…

(Posted Mar 27, 2019 11:11 AM)

General Help and Questions » Rumour has it - google launched Gogle vacation rentals

Google Hotel Search is maybe what you're talking about? That's been out for awhile. They now have a new landing page for it here: https://www.google.com/travel/hotels They show vacation rentals t…

(Posted Mar 27, 2019 11:01 AM)

Blog » Deep Thoughts on Security Deposits and Insurance

....but that's not to say that it isn't a good deal. I should add that that price ($29 for 10k coverage and other background checks) is quite good. I wonder if that's a spread risk model where they…

(Posted Mar 25, 2019 8:06 PM)

General Help and Questions » What is the criteria OR uses to label a guest as Repeat?

Yes, for sure. That's a big hole right now and one we plan to fix soon. Whether the booking is imported, direct or API, the guest list needs to identify probably-matches for repeats. Email and pho…

(Posted Mar 25, 2019 8:04 PM)

Feature Requests » Interesting feature of competitor

We've been told point blank by TripAdvisor and VRBO dev teams that this is no longer the case. VRBO used to have a metric for when the calendar was updated (and even a button for "calendar is update…

(Posted Mar 25, 2019 8:02 PM)

Blog » Deep Thoughts on Security Deposits and Insurance

It is extremely rare (if ever) when you need to make a claim beyond a few hundred dollars. Chris and my rentals have been running for 12+ years and we've had over 6,000 bookings. In that time the m…

(Posted Mar 25, 2019 8:00 PM)

General Help and Questions » A way to search forums

Rich, you're on fire tonight - answering everything for us. Thanks! 🙏 Yes, the forums need a search of their own, no question. But for now the support page does search them as well.

(Posted Mar 18, 2019 8:58 PM)

General Help and Questions » How do we test everything --> emails & triggers / erental locks / agreement / hosted website / payment(s) / deposit / etc?

It's a good idea to test - we highly recommend that. TEST, TEST, TEST everything. And there is no better way of doing that then to pretend to be a guest and start sending your inquiries, responding…

(Posted Mar 18, 2019 8:57 PM)

General Help and Questions » Questions about Email Templates & Triggers

@JTVRs Some additional answers: 2) Some of that (like the BBINFO field code) is an artifact to preserve an old system template and make it say what it said before. The information that BBINFO chur…

(Posted Mar 18, 2019 8:54 PM)

General Help and Questions » Questions about Email Templates & Triggers

Rich, it annoys me too! 😉 We're working on it though. We plan to move our entire ticket system to the forum and make some large upgrades (including attaching files, dropping in screenshots and ans…

(Posted Mar 18, 2019 8:50 PM)

General Help and Questions » Company with several users and an administrator

I mentioned this in the other topic, but the answer is - sort of. You can now assign full access to another user but it's not limited in any way. The other user (ie. if they have full access) can d…

(Posted Mar 18, 2019 8:48 PM)

General Help and Questions » Multi Users

Hi Dianne, Yes, you can use PM > Portal Access to add other users and then assign either limited or full access. Full access gives them exactly what you have. Limited access gives them calendar vi…

(Posted Mar 18, 2019 8:47 PM)