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I have a hosted website, also. Interested.

Thanks

If we switch to an OwnerRez hosted website will we still be eligible?

Hi Paul, I have a hosted website and want to be included in your beta. Dawna

I’d like to try the beta as well. I have a hosted website with you. 

Repeated below as it stalled on submitting. 

Hi Paul - I am still interested in participating in the beta using my OR hosted site. 

If we switch to an OwnerRez hosted website will we still be eligible?

Yes, any hosted website will do.  You could even keep your current website for everything else but create a hosted website in OwnerRez that is only used for the Google VR traffic.  The hosted website just needs to:

• Look like your property does on Google VR (photos, content, name are the same on Google VR as they are on your hosted website)
• When guests click to book on Google VR and it goes over to the OR hosted website, the same availability and pricing needs to show on both sides
• The landing page (what guests see immediately after coming over from Google VR) needs to show the availability and pricing, not some other page.  Google's verification does not extend to the rest of your website.  They won't click around and find your pricing.  It needs to be correct on the landing page immediately.

It is difficult to understand how this was not laid out / understood at the outset of this nearly 10 months ago! Yes it stings somewhat. 

We have a hosted website, with OR, willing to do anything needed to help get this past the post.

We are all falling way behind the other sites that are already integrated with Google vr. With bookings down seemingly across the board it would be good to see this avenue taken advange of ASAP.

It may make no difference, but we really do need the opportunity to find out. 

It's been fun, but not that fun Team OR. We are exploring better solutions that are vetted and enabled. 

Hello Paul,

I have a hosted website and would like to be included in the beta please. Thank you.
Adam 

Hi Paul,

Thank you for the update. To clarify, do those with an OR hosted website experience delays with the Google VR platform? 

If beta is now accepting new members with hosted websites we are definitely interested. 

Thanks!

It's been fun, but not that fun Team OR. We are exploring better solutions that are vetted and enabled. 

Us too! 

Hi Paul, We have a hosted website.  How do we get set up with Google Vacations?

Every person that is following this topic receives an email notification for every response here. Please email OR directly if you want to be included in beta or whatever or possibly create a different forum but can we please keep this for official updates? I’ve received 19 emails from this in 3 minutes. 

I’d like to be included in the beta group as well with our hosted website. Be happy to help with pricing accuracy!

Joe

It is difficult to understand how this was not laid out / understood at the outset of this nearly 10 months ago! Yes it stings somewhat. 

We have a hosted website, with OR, willing to do anything needed to help get this past the post.

We are all falling way behind the other sites that are already integrated with Google vr. With bookings down seemingly across the board it would be good to see this avenue taken advange of ASAP.

It may make no difference, but we really do need the opportunity to find out. 

Before hanging too many hopes on GVR, I'd suggest going to GVR as a traveler, and try to find anything. You may see how unfriendly the interface is (it is definitely geared toward hotels) and how difficult it is to use. Plus, the "paid" channel listings(such as booking . com or vrbo/aka blue pillow) are prioritized in results. To me it seems like Booking. com, only more outdated. And it is widely known that Booking .com interface is not a very good fit for most VRs. 

It's been fun, but not that fun Team OR. We are exploring better solutions that are vetted and enabled. 

 

Us too! 

Curious if you think that harassing/badgering the OR team to go faster will endear you enough to them and make them add you to the beta group?

I’m sure they are trying to do this as efficiently as they can. 

Personally, I don’t feel that Google VR is the answer to decreasing bookings. If people are counting on a significant increase in bookings, that would be a disappointment. 

Personally, I don’t feel that Google VR is the answer to decreasing bookings. If people are counting on a significant increase in bookings, that would be a disappointment. 

Bingo! As I stated in my comment above, peoples' hopes of GVR being bookings panacea may be largely misplaced, whether it is via OR or not.

Seriously, so annoying. This is blowing up our inbox while we are trying to run a business that is not even reliant on GVR. Is there a way to unsubscribe from this forum? Do I have to remove my upvote to do so?

What's with all the people talking about being in the beta? I thought that was the first rule of beta, you don't talk about the beta. 🤔

Edit: I see the box to keep following, you have to comment and uncheck it I guess.

Is there a way to unsubscribe from this forum? Do I have to remove my upvote to do so?

At the top of every forum topic, there's a "Watch/Stop Watching this Topic" button. Looks like this:

It might be a little buried on this one because we have a large pinned reply showing above that.

There is also a "My Profile" button on the forum home page that will take you to a page showing your posts, votes, and the topics you are watching: