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Surcharges and OTAs 1 reply

Gretchen R
May 11, 2022 3:11 PM
Member for 4 years 3 posts

Hi everyone! I'm getting through the setup process (as I say to my kids when faced with something big, "how do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time!") and have put in surcharges for 

1. Cleaning: $205

2. Maintenance fee (insurance): $37

VRBO is still iCal and Airbnb is API, and VRBO is showing nothing even after a sync and hard refresh in incognito window, and Airbnb is showing a random $211 cleaning fee (not the $205 I have in OR).

 

Help? Thank you!

New Airbnb App and search categories 9 replies

Ken T
May 11, 2022 12:52 PM
OR Alum Member for 6 years 1704 posts

Airbnb just announced it to us as well.  Their official guidance says that the new categories will be "evaluated using machine learning", which suggests that, no, there won't be any additional boxes for you - their systems will presumably automatically search your photos and descriptions for mentions of Frank Lloyd Wright and grand pianos, to grab a few examples.

We are continuing to request additional information, and will quickly support any new options Airbnb makes available.

New Airbnb App and search categories 9 replies

James L
May 11, 2022 12:46 PM
Member for 4 years 106 posts

I know it's brand new (today) but I logged in to see what i need to do to update my properties for the new Airbnb category searches. I can find the announcement from Airbnb but can't find any more than that. I'm assuming they will arrive soon and that OwnerRez will have some new boxes for us to fill in.

Anyone know anything about it?

Thanks

Quickbooks 16 replies

Cole W
May 9, 2022 8:43 PM
Member for 4 years 11 posts

Well, since I'm a programmer, probably about $3/month in AWS Lambda fees. I understand you're trying to get business here. I'm trying to convey that it's not something I'd be interested in. 

run reports to see historical payment info from disabled properties 21 replies

Matt K
May 9, 2022 11:20 AM
Member for 5 years 35 posts

We would love to see this too. Why couldn't the properties be listed in the property drop down list as a an option? The value of good reports is immense.

How many OR users are integrated with QuickBooks? 12 replies

Miles T
May 8, 2022 6:13 PM
Member for 4 years 19 posts

Hey Dori123! Is this problem still an issue or has it been resolved?

Quickbooks 16 replies

Miles T
May 8, 2022 6:01 PM
Member for 4 years 19 posts

I don't think a feature like this would be hundreds of dollars monthly. What seems like a fair price point to you to have this automated?

Quickbooks 16 replies

Cole W
May 8, 2022 5:55 PM
Member for 4 years 11 posts

Well, honestly we turned off the Quickbooks integration on OwnerRez because we found it was creating more work than it solved for. Additionally, it seemed like kind of an abandoned feature without much support from OwnerRez at the moment.

I've briefly looked at a couple of other companies offering products to automatically sync them but have dismissed them do to cost. I'm a programmer myself, so it's hard to justify spending hundreds of dollars monthly on something I could knock out in a day. 

Quickbooks 16 replies

Miles T
May 8, 2022 5:52 PM
Member for 4 years 19 posts

I don't work for ownerrez, but I am a developer so I could help. If you want to talk more about the problem, you can email me: milestuck95@gmail.com

Quickbooks 16 replies

Miles T
May 8, 2022 5:47 PM
Member for 4 years 19 posts

Makes sense. Do these line items need to be pulled in through ownerrez or can these transactions be accessed outside of ownerrez? I ask because if ownerrez isn't the only platform with access to your charges/transactions, then maybe we can work around ownerrez and solve the issue. 

Quickbooks 16 replies

Cole W
May 8, 2022 5:41 PM
Member for 4 years 11 posts

We have to do it once a month at month close, but it can require hours of work depending on the bookings we have. 

Quickbooks 16 replies

Miles T
May 8, 2022 5:10 PM
Member for 4 years 19 posts

How often do you have to manually update these line items in quickbooks?

Cleaners 19 replies

Ventura County V
May 7, 2022 1:00 PM
Member for 4 years 122 posts

Thanks for the warning Micaela!  Was looking at them recently, mainly because of the cleaner marketplace.  Would love to get a cleaner that uses a system like Turnover's or their competitor so I could stop dealing with the scheduling.

Cleaners 19 replies

Lance and Micaela W
May 6, 2022 7:47 PM
Member for 4 years 5 posts

VRScheduler handles scheduling very well, great pricing and product.

by Sarah H – Jan 10, 2022 12:48 PM (UTC)

 

Can you share your experience a little more? Does the cleaner get text messages or calendar app? pricing?

We jsut found TurnOverbnb charges you extra if you found a cleaner through them.....kind of sneaky I thought.

Micaela

HomeToGo - how to pay them?? 6 replies

Mike Mc
May 4, 2022 4:01 PM
Member for 7 years 11 posts

I just received a link to pay via credit card after I asked them how to pay.  It took about a week.

Ribbon Calendar on Mobile 17 replies

Shelley S
May 4, 2022 12:07 PM
Member for 4 years 31 posts

Single month calendar is same thing - the calendar shows fine, but there's no option to select which property you want to view. ???

Ribbon Calendar on Mobile 17 replies

Shelley S
May 4, 2022 12:04 PM
Member for 4 years 31 posts

I've tried to do this too - but using the multi-month calendar, in mobile the dropdown button to select which property to view doesn't show? stardustretreat.com, see screenshot below. I have a Wix website.

Cleaners 19 replies

Lance and Micaela W
May 3, 2022 5:03 AM
Member for 4 years 5 posts

HeadYes TurnoverBnB. They must have changed something with pricing then because that isn’t what is being charged. They charge $10 extra from me plus take $10 from my cleaner ever turn.

 

 

HEADS UP GUYS! 

Cleaners 19 replies

Chris L
May 2, 2022 10:52 PM
Member for 9 years 214 posts

How can we do this? We have a cleaner who uses Turnbnb but they charge both the cleaner and myself $10 for every turn. Its costly. I would rather have something that she can see my bookings, and schedule cleans outside of turnBnb. 

by Micaela W – Apr 30, 2022 3:14 PM (UTC)

You mean TurnoverBnb? Shouldn't be $10 per clean--pricing is $8/mo/property: https://turnoverbnb.com/pricing

Any way to include cleaning fee in the per-night rate? 3 replies

Chris Hynes
May 2, 2022 4:04 PM
OR Team Member Member for 13 years 1406 posts

If you configure the surcharge to be categorized as rent in the surcharge settings:

And then go to Settings > Pricing Preferences and set the guest view to show all rent lines collapsed to a single charge:

Then on your side of the quote/booking you'll see the separate cleaning fee, but from a guest perspective they'll see a single charge for that "Rent" description with the total of all rent lines including that cleaning surcharge that's categorized as rent.

This will work for direct bookings and Vrbo, but not for other channels like Airbnb or Booking.com etc. as they don't have a "display in rent" option. Those channels that don't support display in rent will still show the cleaning fee separately.

Any way to include cleaning fee in the per-night rate? 3 replies

BlueMtnCabins
May 2, 2022 3:58 PM
Member for 10 years 1200 posts

I cannot bc my stays vary from 2 to 7 nights but cleaning fee is per-stay and is the same whether they stay  2 nights or 7. 

 

Any way to include cleaning fee in the per-night rate? 3 replies

Ken T
May 2, 2022 1:03 PM
OR Alum Member for 6 years 1704 posts

Well, sure - don't have a cleaning fee.  Just build the cost of cleaning into your regular rate pricing.

Any way to include cleaning fee in the per-night rate? 3 replies

BlueMtnCabins
May 1, 2022 6:26 PM
Member for 10 years 1200 posts

I am just curious as I see a lot of traveler feedback. They see one nightly rate, but then it "jumps" when cleaning fee (and tax) are added when they see the actual quote. 

So is there a way to "spread" the cleaning fee across the stay? 

 

Example (without tax for simplicity): 

I have fixed $200 cleaning fee. 

 

My (example) nightly rate is $150. 

So for 2 nights when cleaning fee is included, it will show $250/pn

For 3 nights it will show $217 / pn

For 4 nights it will show $200 /pn

And so on. 

Nightly rate shown flat for example simplicity. 

 Thanks

Cleaners 19 replies

Cleaners 19 replies

Lance and Micaela W
Apr 30, 2022 11:14 AM
Member for 4 years 5 posts

How can we do this? We have a cleaner who uses Turnbnb but they charge both the cleaner and myself $10 for every turn. Its costly. I would rather have something that she can see my bookings, and schedule cleans outside of turnBnb. 

Property showing as having shared rooms on ABB, how do I fix this? 7 replies

Doug D
Apr 27, 2022 5:58 PM
Member for 6 years 16 posts

What was the resolution on this?  All of my common rooms (dining, living, etc.) show in ABB as "Shared".

Klarna and Stripe 0 replies

UstlcRentals
Apr 27, 2022 2:38 AM
Member for 4 years 54 posts

I was looking over my Stripe settings and come across which forms of payment I accept with it. I turned on Klarna as a payment method, but I'm not seeing it when I practice a booking on my website. Am I missing something or is it just not something the system supports?

 

Thanks in advance!

Lacey

Klarna pay through Stripe 0 replies

UstlcRentals
Apr 27, 2022 2:37 AM
Member for 4 years 54 posts

I was looking over my Stripe settings and come across which forms of payment I accept with it. I turned on Klarna as a payment method, but I'm not seeing it when I practice a booking on my website. Am I missing something or is it just not something the system supports?

 

Thanks in advance!

Lacey

How do I trigger a message when the security deposit is set up? 17 replies

BlueMtnCabins
Apr 26, 2022 7:23 PM
Member for 10 years 1200 posts

You can set up door code email trigger with condition "security deposit on file" 

HomeToGo - how to pay them?? 6 replies

Mike Mc
Apr 26, 2022 7:22 PM
Member for 7 years 11 posts

Sounds like a plan.  The bill was 3 months late in arriving which I thought was unusual.

 

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