Rich S

Joined December 2018
301 posts
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General Help and Questions » OpenEdge - I DO NOT recommend!

JTVR - every insurance company is different. They all have different underwriting guidelines, but I know the pain you're going through. My wife has an Allstate agency and I've seen lots of weird sit…

(Posted Mar 11, 2019 5:36 PM)

General Help and Questions » OpenEdge - I DO NOT recommend!

I checked with Lynnbrook about 3 months ago and got a call from a very knowledgeable person. He was surprisingly open about how their system works, costs, etc, spent about 15 mins on the phone with …

(Posted Mar 11, 2019 2:08 PM)

General Help and Questions » Website designed by OwnerRez

Julie, Have you looked at the examples that Chris posted on Feb 12th in this thread? I imagine you could achieve similar look/feel. If none of those work, what feature(s) are you looking for? I'm …

(Posted Mar 10, 2019 8:31 PM)

General Help and Questions » Setting up a new unit - what sequence to follow

If I want to add another unit, what should I do first a) set up on VRBO/AirBnB and then in OR where I can import lots of info? b) set up in OR and then after I get VRBO setup, import/overwrite in…

(Posted Mar 10, 2019 4:22 PM)

General Help and Questions » How to import (simple) legacy data

Getting close to completing the first round of imports (260 rentals across 5 years) I've had a variety of (mostly self-inflicted) issues, here's a list for others to watch out for: - Must have all …

(Posted Mar 10, 2019 1:58 PM)

General Help and Questions » How to import (simple) legacy data

I emailed y'all the test file I'm trying. I used the template, kept all of the column headers as is and just added my own info, using just 2 rows as a test. The import failed with status 'Invalid' …

(Posted Mar 9, 2019 3:10 PM)

General Help and Questions » How to import (simple) legacy data

Chris - Just getting around to this, I pasted my column headings below, are these sufficient? I kept them in the same relative column order I think, and I have all of the required (colored) columns.…

(Posted Mar 8, 2019 7:15 PM)

Feature Requests » Add historical booking data someplace (maybe ribbon?)

Just have a cron job that runs nightly and assembles a simple report for each property for the current month. Would be fine to ignore changes from the current day. Then the hover bubble should just …

(Posted Mar 7, 2019 9:27 PM)

Feature Requests » Add historical booking data someplace (maybe ribbon?)

I find myself looking at the ribbon and wondering for a given month how many nights were booked in past years. Not sure how this might be implemented: A) A report could obviously show it, but take…

(Posted Mar 7, 2019 8:07 PM)

General Help and Questions » How to import (simple) legacy data

Thanks for the quick reply Chris !! All makes sense

(Posted Mar 7, 2019 7:11 PM)

General Help and Questions » How to import (simple) legacy data

I have years of data with the cols below. I can massage an excel spreadsheet into whatever format is needed. (listing columns as rows for clarity) A Unit = 1234 B Arriva…

(Posted Mar 7, 2019 1:01 PM)

Feature Requests » Widget of amenities

Very nice website Tim K! Thanks for sharing it, and the icons too...

(Posted Mar 4, 2019 12:45 PM)

Feature Requests » Widget of amenities

ShenRent - I looked at https://fontawesome.com/v4.7.0/icons/ and searched for groups of icons related to real estate or rentals, and then individual icons like pool, hottub, laundry, washing machine,…

(Posted Feb 28, 2019 2:28 PM)

General Help and Questions » Thought

JTVRs - my thoughts 1) Agree, it's a minor annoyance. My practice is to keep OR open in two tabs in Chrome. One for the My Booking Area and the other for the Forum. And I've learned to get to the F…

(Posted Feb 28, 2019 2:22 PM)

Feature Requests » Widget of amenities

I agree - I'm working on a website and started looking around for nice icons to use and didn't find anything obvious. I'm sure they are available somewhere, but there's a fee to be paid. Unless y'…

(Posted Feb 28, 2019 1:59 PM)

General Help and Questions » Website options - comments please !!

@BlueMtnCabins - curious what the StaySaver link is that appears at the bottom right corner of your website. I overlooked it on my desktop, but it was more noticeable from my cell phone. Is it some…

(Posted Feb 15, 2019 2:05 PM)

General Help and Questions » Website options - comments please !!

Nice site Jim! We're neighbors in Austin as well... There's a typo in your link, mountain is misspelled A couple things jumped out at me ... All offered by the guy who has no website at the momen…

(Posted Feb 15, 2019 1:45 PM)

General Help and Questions » Website options - comments please !!

Love your personal VR site @jfulciniti! Lot's of exciting photos!!

(Posted Feb 15, 2019 9:42 AM)

General Help and Questions » Website options - comments please !!

Hi Y'all, Just a quick update: When I asked this question I hadn't looked very closely (in 5+ years) at website building. I've since watched a lot of videos and read up on many reviews, here is a…

(Posted Feb 14, 2019 4:45 PM)

General Help and Questions » Some emails wrap, others don't

SOLVED Paul (or Chris, can't remember which ;-)) emailed me about this, and those tips along with some experimenting gave me the answer ... Recap - I noticed that some of my automated emails, when …

(Posted Feb 14, 2019 11:35 AM)