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I am getting sync errors on the description, but I cannot find the description that exceeds 10000

add schema markup to the page (or overall site)  itself, not to the widget. 

According to Airbnb: https://www.airbnb.com/help/article/2704 parties and events continue to be disallowed.
 
The only exception is "traditional hospitality venues".  We'll make inquiries as to exactly what that means, but as far as we can tell, it wouldn't be generally applicable.

Air B&B's site still allows you to say that events are allowed, despite their ban.  Events are more than just parties.  We should not be forced to send a "no events" signal to Air B&B since they still allow you to say yes to events.

Two years later, I'm wondering if you've identified a workaround. 

I don't mind a Saturday check-in if they're staying for more than one night. 

Using pricelabs, we allow 1-day bookings when booking within 5 days. It'd be great if I could exclude a Saturday to Sunday only. Although, the other side of me feels one day is better than no days, given the choice... 

Currently the review widget doesn't have the JSON schema markup as we're not sure it would work in an iframe or when added via javascript.

We're open to adding the JSON-LD for reviews on the widget if we can confirm it would show on the correct page when embedded that way, but are wary of adding without confirmation as Google's crawling can be a bit finicky for the reviews.

First- what is a SF?
Yes... that would be their desire. Though it does appear that they still allow for the listing out of fees. The problem with not absorbing them in the total cost is you sink below the fold in search value. 

Service fee

It sounds like OR is working on this.  From their latest product roadmap the "portal" feature, once fully developed, looks like it will have the ability for cleaners to login and see what is needed.  I'm eagerly awaiting this for both the cleaner and my business partners.

From what I've been able to gather from various discussions on r/airbnb and chesky's twitter posts is that they are going to have a toggle switch that is on by default which will show the combined total of room & cleaning in the map search and on the detail page.  From what I can tell, it will not include their fees or taxes, but I could be wrong on the their fees part.  When they tested this (without warning) earlier in the year, their fees were a separate line item.

This will thankfully impact everyone equally, so everyone's prices will rise drastically together.  It may make it a little more difficult to investigate your competition's pricing, but it's just a toggle switch away to see where their fees are.

The cleaning checklist stuff, I'm guessing will be a separate section of either checkboxes or a generic "low, medium, high" with vague definitions for people to fill in.

Does anyone know if the review widget has the JSON schema markup for reviews/products so that google will pickup the star rating for the homes and our websites in general?

First- what is a SF?
Yes... that would be their desire. Though it does appear that they still allow for the listing out of fees. The problem with not absorbing them in the total cost is you sink below the fold in search value. 

That brings me to another question. I suspect this may be requested by users who are heavily into Airbnb in the future. "Spreading" cleaning fee across the quoted rates. Something akin to what TA does to their SF - they do not show it as a line item but rather spread across the quoted nights. 

For example, if I have a rate of $110/night and $90 cleaning fee. The traveler looks at 3 nights quote, and he would see a rate of $140/night vs seeing 3 nights X $110 plus a line item for the cleaning fee of $90. The total is the same, just the presentation. 

This may not be an issue for vrbo and direct users, but Airbnb seems to be pushing in that direction. 

Note that "the OR API" is kind of a misnomer - in connecting with Airbnb, we are using their API.  So, we can only control or update what they allow us to do by supporting it in their API - that's why certain amenities don't sync, they haven't added support for them to their API.

If they make changes to their API reflective of this post, that will be documented and announced, and we'll make the necessary changes to handle them.  If they don't make any change to their API, then there's nothing we can do, and most likely any changes at their end would be minor, optional, or can be handled using the current API - for instance, perhaps they'd be limiting / refusing to enforce certain sorts of House Rules.

We'll have to wait and see together - please feel free to post additional comments in this thread!

Thank you!

Hi Chelsea! Under each property you can set them custom. Go to a property, select Channel Rules, then you can change House Rules there by using "Override Channel API Rules"

I have 5 properties that are API - connected and I cannot figure out how to create different house rules for each property. Am I missing something?

The first 3 items look to be Airbnb programming - OR have nothing to do with it.

#4 is arbitrary and vague at the same time - typical Airbnb fashion. They may be creating (just guessing ) a new section specifically for checkout rules. Maybe something for OR to do. 

Chesky announced last night on Twitter🤦‍♀️

• Starting next month, you’ll be able to see the total price you're paying up front.
• prioritizing total price (instead of nightly price) in our search ranking algorithm. The highest quality homes with the best total prices will rank higher in search results
• to set more competitive prices, we’ll be launching new pricing and discount tools
• You shouldn’t have to do unreasonable checkout tasks-  But we think it’s reasonable to turn off the lights, throw food in the trash, and lock the doors

See full thread here:  https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1589541705921212416.html

That is too bad, It would of been nice to have everything in one place. Very disappointed.

John Lowe

Unfortunately, this is not possible.  The cancellation rules are set by Booking.com and can't be overriden by OR.

ok. so my partner central account is no longer compatible with OR, API. and i should start over with VRBO.

understood.

I would recommend configuring OwnerRez first, and then, setting up a new Vrbo account through our API system.  Vrbo accounts and Expedia accounts are not at all the same thing unfortunately, even though they are the same company.

Charging the initial $50 as a cancellation fee would be the most common version of this that we see. 

Keep in mind though, that wouldn't work for Airbnb bookings, as you have to use one of their cancellation policies. 

"Super Strict 60" would give them a 50% refund if canceled at least 60 days prior to arrival.

so i have a old expedia account. do i have to make a new account with VRBO and conect the API for VRBO. or is there a way to use the expedia central partner? maybe conect the iCal. whats your advise?

So i had a CC decline due to insufficient funds and another because of the bank declining the transaction. In both cases the reservation remained and they where given 24 hours to submit a new card. 

Q#1 is there a way to instantly cancel the booking and not have the wait time?

the second issue for the insufficient funds. The 24 hour period was trigured.. then OR sent another notice to bookings.com that the card was invalid and this trigured a aditional 24 hour waite period. how do i keep this from hapening? the booking is 2 months out and i am not overly concerned.. but if this was a week out or just days out this would tie up my unit and make it unbookable.. is there somtheing i am not doing?

I am needing to expedite the cancellation of invalid cards.

So I would like to collect $50 at time of booking and the remaining balance 1 day before check in. But make the $50 nonrefundable. 

I can either: charge them a cancelation fee of $50 or use a no cancelation policy as work arounds to make it happen. I have not found a way to do it in settings as an option. 

With all that said.. what would be the best way to make that happen actually? I see issues with both of the ways I mentioned, so I'm unsure and seeking advice!

Thanks in advance

- Lacey Jones 

thanks for letting me know.

Whelp... we just entered "later in 2022."

Justin Ford the industry's safety guy just posted this in FB Group: Rent Responsibly:
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So I did and was dismayed to discover OR is still not listed! 

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Meanwhile...and updates?

Originally our photographer had uploaded it to VRBO - using one of the supported platforms. When I switched to API, the VRBO integration team figured out how to keep it for me. I'm not any help - sorry!

Just started using the iCal feed to a Google calendar to help manage reservations from multiple devices and locations.  However, it appears that each month the reservations from the previous month(s) are removed from Google.  Consequently we cannot use it to review past guests and stays.  Is this intentional?  Any workaround available?

TIA