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Thank you, I do not need one more site - already have 2. No, it is so I can have a link that can open from a mailchimp email, for example, when a person clicks on a "click to book" button. right now all I can do is to link that to my website, but the person still has to locate inquiry/quote widget on the webpage, and then plug in their dates. If link opened into inquiry form, they would not have to click around the page and could do inquiry right there and then.
What are you looking to do with the new widget style? Is this purely to avoid having a separate site, or is there a different flow you're looking for?
We do have a "hosted sites" feature that we're rolling out that includes the information you enter in listing data in your OwnerRez account, and then provides that hosted inquiry/quote as well.
Hi, I have a renter who would like a receipt as he stayed at my place for business travel and needs an official receipt to claim his expenses. I cannot seem to find a suitable 'report' or screen that would provide that. Does one exist?
Right now book/inquiry widget is embeddable - has to be embedded as piece of code/as html widget in a website. is there an option to provide inquiry/quote link to run the widget without need to embed in a website? Such as, where can be added as email hyperlink and similar, and open in a new https window when clicked? thanks
Thanks Michelle!
Thank you! It should do
Hi,
We have a "Guest Had Problem" flag which you can find under the Notes tab (of a booking). That makes it so the Repeat Guest badge shows a yellow color in other places where the same guest shows up. We do plan on expanding this workflow to talk about types of problems and have guests blacklists which would not allow a quote or booking to be created without clicking override.
-Michelle
Hi Ozzie,
You can tell them that all transactions take place in your software product called OwnerRez which uses the domain name of app.ownerrez.com for all processing. You can also create a dummy quote and send them the guest payment link for that so that they have an example of the final place someone would put in their card info.
Hello. BrainTree is asking for the URL that is being used for accepting credit card payments. Can someone please supply me with the URL?
Or am I imagining? I thought there used to be a "guest rating" or some such. I do not seem to see it. reason I am asking that I had 3 guests in a row that I would rather NOT have again (even though they expressed desire to rent again in the future). Wonder if "guest rating" could prevent future auto-quotes to such guests with "low" ratings. I put info in notes, but that will not help if they inquire again...
Thanks again. I think my easy way out is to send the alert upon booking to myself then manually forward it to my cleaning people.
Looking forward to the updates!
All the best,
Jim
And FYI - to get around this problem there are several things you can do...
1) Send another follow-up trigger the day of arrival to your 3rd parties. Something like "Arrival day summary"
2) Use our Calendar Export feature to share custom iCal links with them
3) Use our Availability calendar widgets on your web site to show them the real-time calendar
But again, we are working to fix the trigger problem so that triggers recognize when the day has passed and send it anyway. We are also overhauling 3rd Party Alerts to run as triggers so that you can set criteria such as "if booking is [x] days from now".
That's a great question. The answer is no. At the moment, the trigger won't run if the "send date is past" when it calculates. That's something we know about and are planning to fix. The trigger will have an option to run now if send date is past.
Thanks Michelle.
Assuming I set up 7 days in advance of arrival, if a booking occurs inside of 7 days, will it still send automatically?
Hi Jim,
Yes, you can turn them off. To do that, go the property > Third Party Alerts tab and remove or "stop" the contact that you don't won't to get alerted.
Then, you can set up a trigger email to go out [x] days before arrival and create an email template to send that has the To name/email address as your 3rd party alert.
This will automatically send it on the day you want instead of at the time of booking.
I know this may be counter productive but is there a way to turn off "automatic" third party alerts so I can send these manually?
I try to give my cleaning staff 1 - 2 weeks notice of incoming guests vs at the time of booking so they are "current" with my guest list.
Thx for any input,
Jim
Yes. Go into Settings > Listing Sites and look for the Custom Listing Sites grid. Add items there and they'll show up everywhere.
Is there a way to modify the drop down tracking list of sources?
Hi Michelle,
Sorry I couldn't reply sooner, I had to step out. I just sent you a message via contact form.
Thank you,
Ella
Ella, if you don't mind, message me through our help desk (send a ticket through Contact Us page or use help@ownerreservations.com) about the person you signed up. I took a quick glance at some reports, and I don't see what you're referring to.
Thanks for signing up others! We don't have a report you can look at per se, but we do a monthly report internally and send out payments via PayPal. It tends to be faster as an internal process than spending the extra time (for now) to expose it all in the app. But that's our goal eventually.
Hello :)
Curious as to how we can track affiliate program? I have joined and sent someone a link but do not see a way of seeing any results, besides hearing from that they have signed up.
Thank you,
Ella
Sam Westcott said:
Don't delete the property - you'll lose all that data! Just set the property to Disabled which make it stop appearing in most places throughout the app. If you don't care about the data and really truly want the property completely purged, you'd have to reach out to support for that. But the per-property pricing will be based on enabled/active properties, so disabling is the way you want to go.
Just realized we might be talking past each other here. I was assuming you saw the public pricing page here and were wondering about this:
https://www.ownerrez.com/pricing
But in re-reading what you said, you may have seen the updated Billing page under the My Account area and click the "what rate do I pay" link which takes you to a Usage Pricing support article.
That Usage Pricing support article is actually not correct for legacy users (such as you). Legacy pricing is staying as it is until the announcement which means blocked-off time and imported bookings are still free. But that's just for the time being.
Hi Sam,
Thank you for replying. Makes me feel a little bit better to know I have some time to figure things out.
Also, I will be deleting 1 or 2 properties soon as I will no longer take bookings for it(nothing to do with ownerrez). On one of the forum posts it states that to delete a property you have to delete all Associated bookings, but this cannot be done if payments have been processed, so not sure how? Will I have to reach out to you / the support as to which property I want to delete?
This will happen in the next few days.
Ella
Hi Ella,
Good morning. We've talked about a coming pricing overhaul for a long long time - probably about 18 months - both with specific users directly and with warnings around the app that talk about premium prices and coming changes. We started and stopped the pricing change several times over the past year as we considered what was fair and how the market is changing (many users booking primarily through listing sites now, etc).
At any rate, we are DEFINITELY NOT changing pricing on everyone without an announcement or warning. That's not how we do things!
What you are seeing on the public pricing page is for new users (those who are signing up right now). If you look on your account billing page, inside the app, you'll notice that your plan still refers to legacy usage pricing.
We do plan on making an announcement shortly. Look for that in the coming month from Paul or Chris. We are asking all users to switch to per-property pricing (what you see on the pricing page) as it is a much more fair pricing structure for how our product is used, given how bookings now originate on other sites and a variety of other factors. I won't go into that in detail here - Paul or Chris will talk about that in their update. We will continue to offer Usage pricing for grandfathered users who still want to use that, but that is changing as well. I don't want to step on the toes of what Paul and Chris have laid out on this so I'll leave it at that for now.
~Sam
By coincidence, I noticed today that pricing structure has changed on OwnerRez and that users who pay per-use will now be also charged for block of time? I do not remember receiving an email notifying us of this?
That's terrible news for me if true.
Ella
I'm interested in tracking traffic to conversion and conversion value. The details you outline above would be perfect.
