Ken T

Joined August 2019
1706 posts
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General Help and Questions » Sending emails on check out day?

I believe you can do 0 days before booking has arrived, which would be on the day of arrival. Platform messaging for Airbnb has been working for awhile now - templates and triggers will be available…

(Posted Sep 9, 2020 4:58 PM)

Feature Requests » Custom Field to link to trigger

Yes, this type of functionality is planned for the future, particularly involving the new tags.

(Posted Sep 9, 2020 4:56 PM)

General Help and Questions » Direct multiple websites

Yes, you can: https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/hosted-transitioning#redirecting-domains

(Posted Sep 4, 2020 11:45 AM)

General Help and Questions » CFAR insurance refund

Normally, it is not possible to get the travel insurance price refunded, though it never hurts to ask. The guest will need to reach out to the insurance company to ask for the refund. While it is p…

(Posted Aug 27, 2020 6:12 PM)

Feature Requests » Saving report settings

Yes, this feature has been commonly requested, but is quite complex. We do intend to add it at some point in the future, but it is uncertain as to exactly when.

(Posted Aug 27, 2020 6:10 PM)

General Help and Questions » Inbox not feeding

That depends. - If you reply using the Airbnb message system, then those messages will show up both in OwnerRez and in Airbnb. - Emails sent from OwnerRez do not show up in the channel inboxes, a…

(Posted Aug 24, 2020 8:51 AM)

General Help and Questions » Inbox not feeding

Hi Boyd, This is normal - OwnerRez does not currently have a connection to the VRBO messaging system, just Airbnb. You need to continue to use VRBO tools to deal with their internal messages.

(Posted Aug 24, 2020 8:13 AM)

General Help and Questions » Setting up new properties when Integrated

Here's how to do that: https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/channel-management-api-integrations-airbnb-common-issues-questions#newproperty https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/channel-man…

(Posted Aug 22, 2020 12:35 PM)

Introduce Yourself! » Hello! Here from Colorado

You can use the Search button in the main Support Docs area - it searches the forums too. If you look on your Houfy control panel in your list of properties, the listing number is shown prominently …

(Posted Aug 6, 2020 7:34 PM)

General Help and Questions » Why is OR importing an Airbnb booking that has not been 'accepted' yet?

Can you write in to the Helpdesk with the ORB number of the booking, so we can take a look?

(Posted Aug 6, 2020 7:31 PM)

General Help and Questions » Homeway API

Nope - we use a different system, so this won't affect OwnerRez users at all.

(Posted Aug 6, 2020 7:30 PM)

General Help and Questions » Received an email from AirBNB about not contacting guests outside the platform

Unfortunately, Airbnb has turned off the automatic email addresses that they used to provide for reaching guests. Fortunately, you can turn that feature back on again in your Airbnb control panel. Y…

(Posted Aug 6, 2020 1:29 PM)

General Help and Questions » My logo is so small on my OR hosted website

Usually, this is because the graphic file you used has a blank white border surrounding the visible graphic part. Try and crop the image as close as possible to the graphic part, and then use that -…

(Posted Aug 5, 2020 11:28 AM)

Blog » Reviews!

Guests *can* write reviews on OwnerRez. Go to their Booking and look for the Reviews tab - there's a button to send them a request to fill out a review. Those will be stored in the OwnerRez databas…

(Posted Aug 5, 2020 11:24 AM)

Blog » Airbnb Messages Inbox, seeing owners, merging cancelled bookings, channel amenities for cleaning

Well, don't worry about Airbnb getting rid of the proxy email - you can turn that back on again in your Airbnb control panel. You can opt back in to getting the proxy email if you use a hidden settin…

(Posted Jul 27, 2020 12:01 PM)

General Help and Questions » what web address do I give prospects who would like to go to my OR web site for a quote?

Hi Scott, That's not a web location, that's a property number. You'd want to use the domain name that you have set up for your Hosted Website, which is: https://www.pinevillasofhayward.com/

(Posted Jul 27, 2020 9:25 AM)

General Help and Questions » VRBO - collecting extra charges during guest stay.

That's right - with a VRBO API booking, the charges work just like a direct booking. You can go in and change them however you please, and then collect the money under the Transactions tab. If you …

(Posted Jul 25, 2020 10:03 AM)

General Help and Questions » Airbnb Channel Management - possible for multiple Airbnb accounts?

Sure - you can set up multiple connections to different Airbnb accounts from one OwnerRez account.

(Posted Jul 21, 2020 8:07 PM)

General Help and Questions » Selling our North Carolina mountain cottage and I have a question about selling my guest list...

We are not lawyers!!! But, generally speaking, a business is usually considered to be within its rights to contact its existing and previous clients. A vacation rental property is obviously a busin…

(Posted Jul 21, 2020 11:53 AM)

Feature Requests » Saving Reports - "Favorite Reports"

Yes, this is a known feature request. It's somewhat complicated to do though, so we don't have an ETA for it at this time.

(Posted Jul 21, 2020 11:50 AM)