I have Stripe for payment processing. So should I connect Paypal thru Stripe or thru OR or both?
Connect PayPal directly to OR, not through Stripe. Then, OR will use both payment methods side by side but prefer the Stripe one for CC stuff.
...e I'm on the product team, I get to share upcoming product news every now and again. One of those things I'm really excited about is that we're working on overhauling the OwnerRez "Guest Forms." Good stuff!
In the meantime, because it's a large overhaul, we know we needed to handle cell phones differently on the current forms. The cell phone field is first and that way if people have one number, it's...
...channels and more channel related feature throughout the rest of the year and into 2019.
As vacation rental owners ourselves we're salivating over the possiblities and can't wait to get all of this stuff done! The current roadmap starts with booking.com content push, then into VRBO/HomeAway and Airbnb content push (both via channel bridge for everyone and direct integrations for 5+ property users). A...
...everybody, time to talk updates! This week, we've got a tidy little set of updates (about 16) to go through, all of which are enhancements or bug fixes. No new features to talk about, but the little stuff is important too! 💪
* Enhancements & Tweaks
* Bug Fixes Enhancements & Tweaks
This was a small housekeeping week, so let's hop from lily pad to lily pad here in no particular order...
A long...
...- it's the same as every other lock integration.
Here's a quick pic of us testing it:
(Ignore the purple buttons. That's extra stuff that only OR staff can see.)
We created two different locks and associated them with the same property and set "random" as the code generation setting. We created a booking, and, as you can see,...
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We are changing it to use the name. The feedback on that has been overwhelming and the use case is pretty obvious. The OwnerRez engineer working on lock stuff is already actively working on putting that in place.
I think the minimum price setting takes care of them going too low, but I've never used it.
Marinas Edge, have you gotten higher prices with the smart stuff turned on? Or does it always tend to hit your minimum?
...their real email address, populate it in OwnerRez, and then your scheduled emails will work for those bookings as well.
We've got some enhancements for walled gardens planned for later this year -- stuff like parsing the booking and payment notifications so we can populate charges and payments, a guest "checkout" that would accept their email address and have them sign your renter agreement, etc. As...
...pensing. In the future, we will sync these fees and deposits with QuickBooks as well. If you use Converge or some of the others, you probably won't get that for a while if ever.
Just some other stuff to keep in mind. The processing fee % isn't everything.
...reaks a window and cancel their credit card.
Question - have you asked Lynnbrook about interchange plus pricing? I'm wondering if they already have that. They seemed pretty amenable to most of the stuff we've talked to them about. It's possible that they already do that, if specifically asked.
...out a difference of $50 per month which more than covers whatever the gateway is monthly.
When you say invoicing and pre-scheduled, are you talking about outside of VR bookings? For vacation rental stuff, we provide an invoice (quote) for guests and do payment schedules - does that not work for your needs? I guess that's the thing that it comes down to ultimately since it dictates what all processor...
I do not know where you get 3.5% for square. it is 2.9% for non swiped non keyed (invoiced).
yes I mean for one off stuff. for example, my AirBnB or VRBO renter who already paid via VRBO or AIRBNB wants to add an extra night to their stay. I do not do that via AirBNB or VRBO, I just invoice them for extra night cost via Square. or sometimes I have VRBO renter who booked via VRBO and paid deposit via...
Small stuff, and it's going to be fast. Mostly small tweaks, grammar fixes, enhancements. Your request to have a fixed amount for the first payment was included.
-Michelle
@Valerie - I think it's best to post requests for feature changes in the other forum, makes it easier for the OR team to not overlook it.
I agree with your comments, there is a lot of value in keeping short term rental stuff all in one place.
We include a bunch of extra stuff like UnitNumber in the Channel Bridge export, but that's not currently used anywhere in OwnerRez.
Right now, the mapping is based off of ListingNumber and you can set that mapping in the property settings of the synced channel.
Interesting coincidence -- I was just looking at the FB pixel tracking stuff the other day. We should be able to implement that similar to how the Google Analytics integration is done -- you put your FB id in user settings, and then we render the code for different events.
GA renders the following right now:
- pageview on widget view, quote accept (checkout) pages, one-off payment pages, hosted websit...
