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Hello i Accidentally disbaled the api for airbnb and now i cant get the sync activated. For the last kong hours it says sync not active and activate button is not active also. Any suggestions to fix this.
Thanks
Ozan
It sounds like they were going down the route of handling the payments for us?
If that's true that was never made clear and would make them the same as any other OTA.
Personally I don't have any trust in the company. The 2.5% deal was never made available to European hosts and now we get an announcement like this! The delays at the start also didn't inspire confidence.
At 14% the maths are never going to work to make any money for me.
Just got this. Sound like they are changing their conditions on the fly? "Unfortunately, we’ve faced some unforeseeable delays with the new payment solution and won’t be able to switch you to 2.5% as you’ll still run on a partial integration with your own payment solution. " So THEY faced problems and therefore THEY want to charge us 14% instead of 2.5%??? That is quite a jump. Does anyone know what do they mean??? Thanks
"Dear valued partner,
As you already know, HomeToGo’s 0% promotion is coming to an end on March 31st.
We hope that we’ve been able to contribute to the success of your business in these last months by bringing you commission-free bookings.
What changes
Originally, we were planning on offering you a reduced commission as part of a full integration on our new payment solution. Unfortunately, we’ve faced some unforeseeable delays with the new payment solution and won’t be able to switch you to 2.5% as you’ll still run on a partial integration with your own payment solution.
In the meantime, all new generated bookings will be charged at our regular 14% commission for all OwnerRez clients running under partial integration as of April 1st, 2021.
What’s in it for you
We understand that this can be confusing to you and we want to assure you that our intention was to have everything ready by now. The trust of our partners is key to us and the success of our business. We will do everything in our power to retain your confidence in HomeToGo. As a measure of good faith, we will offer the following for your properties:
Immediate visibility boost for your properties on our 40+ websites
Possibility to choose your invoicing trigger - on booking or on check-in date, just answer this email to let us know
Full support if you wish to markup our commission - just reply to this email as well if you need help or information
Top priority when our payment platform is ready and possibility to choose between a host-only fee only and a combined host + guest fee
We are confident that the new visibility boost for your properties will result in many more bookings and show you that we value your business. We also strongly believe that continuing our partnership will be mutually beneficial in the long run and we hope that you’ll decide to keep on working with us.
Thank you for your time and understanding. We hope you’re staying healthy and we are available for any questions you may have.
Best,
Your HomeToGo Team
Yep, somewhere around there. You can follow our releases in the changelog: https://www.ownerrez.com/support/latestupdates -- and we also write blog posts the week subsequent that drill into the details.
Great thanks Joel.
Just out of interest, how often do you apply patches? 2 or 3 times a month?
Resurrecting the topic. I do have a set up where it sends and email/test top us to remind us to change thermostat setting before/after arrival/departure. but that is rather involved. Anyone had figured out IFTTT or any other way with Honeywells?
Thanks for the report, Rob!
Looks like we got too strict on the TLD validation. We'll loosen that up in the next patch.
Hi Tiffany,
So just to be clear, this is on the 'profile' page, then click on 'verify your domain'. Which takes you to 'Verified Email Domains' then clicking '+ Verify Domain' button.
Then is the box supplied i've entered the domain and tried all formats i.e.
kehwindsor.co.uk
www.kehwindsor.co.uk
https://www.kehwindsor.co.uk/
http://www.kehwindsor.co.uk/
Clicked on the 'Save & View Instructions' button. And each time is gives the error...
Please correct the errors below.
- The domain name you've entered doesn't look quite right. Please review and correct.
Many thanks in advance for your help on this one.
Do you have your own website, either live or you're working on setting it up? If so, you can connect the details button to your website.
To do that, go to the General Info tab of each property. Click change and then set the property URL to point to the page on your website that has information about the property.
If you don't have your own website, we have a hosted website tool that will build you a site based on the information you enter in OwnerRez: https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/hosted-websites -- and then you can link that to your domain.
Hi Joelle, thanks for the feedback We have discussed our RA signing process several times internally and have some major changes planned. Just no ETA yet or scheduled time when it will be done yet.
How do you populate the details button?
is there a widget to display all the property info?
Any domain name should be okay to enter no matter what the TLD (top level domain) is. It doesn't have to be .com. Any other TLD should work. That being the case, if you can share what the domain name is, we'll take a look and run some checks on our end.
With regards to email masking i.e. being able to send emails with your own domain instead of via inquiryspot.com. It seems there is an issue whereby it doesn't allow some TLD's
Namely .co.uk domains when I tried.
When you try to start the process it comes up with an error in ownerrez "The domain doesn't look quite right. Please review and correct.
But if I enter a .com domain, it goes to the next stage and gives you the TXT and CNAME changes that need to be made... But our website is a co.uk, not a .com
Anyway round this guys?
We had a momentary outage, but everything is back now. Please try again.
Sorry for the troubles! ☕
-OwnerRez Dev Team
Hey Owen! They've been back up for a bit now.
Is there an eta on when backend, integrations and hosted sites will be back online?
Thanks!
Is there an eta on when backend, integrations and hosted sites will be back online?
Thanks!
I am following up on this.
i now have a PHO covid affidavit that my guests have to agree to and sign prior to checking-in. (a county requirement).
I would like to request ownerrez to consider developing options so that contracts can not only be signed by the guest but also information provided by the guest within the contract.
I know we can use fields at booking and collect all this information and then use the information to populate contracts and documents, but this is very cumbersome, since information is only needed in this affidavit.
I currently am using another software to generate such contracts but hate to pay such a hefty yearly subscription for something that is not complete. Thank you for considering.
Has anyone used PriceLabs or Beyond Pricing and which one do you prefer and why?
Sounds like it got sorted out anyway!
Thanks, Ken, but this isn't an import from AirBNB, VRBO, or TripAdvisor. I've exported data from a competitor to OwnerRez and was using the Import function to import payments. I just looked again and the ImportPayments feature has the ability to Delete Existing Payments for a reservation when importing. Since I haven't taken any reservations in OwnerRez yet, I used that option. It removed both duplicate entries and replaced it with the correct entry from the file.
There *may* be. Are you able to get information about the affected bookings using Channel Bridge?
https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/channel-bridge-what-is-is-how-it-works
If so, then when you import the Channel Bridge file, you can select the option to overwrite all financial information. That'll wipe out all the duplicate data and replace it with fresh new updated entries.
Otherwise, please write in to the Helpdesk with an example and we'll see what can be done.
I made a mistake importing payments from another PMS system as I'm migrating to OwnerRez. It looks like I imported some of the same data twice. Is there an easy way to see what was imported and remove the duplicates? If I go into individual reservations, I can see both imported entries but I can't delete either one.
For everyone's benefit (if anyone stumbles onto this thread, like I did), this is what I settled on for now. It seems to work well as best as I can tell:
"4. A payment of {BFPPOA} is taken by Owner at the time of the booking. If the payment fails for any reason, it is the responsibility of the Guest to make sure that the remaining balance is promptly paid in full, or the reservation will be canceled with no refund of payments made. All policies contained in this Agreement shall apply equally to payments made by credit card, check or cash and whether made via website, by phone or in person. Any refunds due to Guests from a credit card payment will be refunded by credit card transaction; all other refunds will be made within 30 days by check."
Jared said:
Is there a recommended replacement of that text (from section 4 of the template) if you require 100% payment upfront? I recently noticed that I was getting some typos in my rental agreement, because I left this clause in there, but I require 100% upfront. So there was no value for BSPDAY and it confused a guest.You can take out that clause (or that sentence with the {BSPDAY} field code) and write anything you want.
In fact, if you always take 100%, you could just rewrite that first sentence to say:
"A full payment of the entire booking total is taken by Owner at the time of the booking."
And not even use field codes. Field codes should be used when there's variability in how you do things between different properties, owners or bookings.
However, they also help keep your agreements and templates correct when your settings change. For instance, if you do what I just suggested and then change your first payment to 50%, the agreement would still say "a full payment of the entire booking total" instead of switching to 50%.
I looked at how you have it now and it looks good. 👍
Is there a recommended replacement of that text (from section 4 of the template) if you require 100% payment upfront? I recently noticed that I was getting some typos in my rental agreement, because I left this clause in there, but I require 100% upfront. So there was no value for BSPDAY and it confused a guest.
Hi, has anyone tried to list bedrooms on VRBO instead of entire homes? I see some people do it but wondering if anyone has tried it through OR and what are the results.
Thank you!
Thank Paul ;)
Got to say publicly that we have been looking at various channel management software for 18 months to find a good match for us. Every business is different and has different (sometimes complex) needs, so there are always going to be compromises/work arounds when deciding to go with which software. But very high on our list of priorities was great support (and not just support from people reading from a cue card, but quickly understood the nuances of issues).
So as well as the great software, it didn't go unnoticed to us the level of support you guys offer before we made our decision. We are only 3 weeks in and the support levels have been even better than expected. Please don't ever lose that ;)
So now I've stoked you ego's, get making those date changes!!! lol - But seriously, thanks guys ;)
Thanks for the feedback, Rob. We need to update all parts of the control panel to follow culture settings without question!
Thanks Ken, much appreciated.
The main areas are on the booking tab when in 'list' view (arrive/depart/booked columns), the quotes tab (again arrive/depart/created columns) and again on the inquires tab (BTW our rental property is just a mile away from Windsor Castle, so I had a quick chat with the Queen and she's insistent that it should be Enquiries, but I told her i'm happy to let that one to slide for now).
I appreciate you guys over the pond are used to seeing dates in that way, but quite confusing for us Brits. Especially in the low dates, i.e. we automatically read 03/04/21 as 3rd April where as you would see it as 4th March.
