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Sounds like a plan. The bill was 3 months late in arriving which I thought was unusual.
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No, just not paying till they give me a normal way to pay.
Channel Bridge is an entirely manual tool, and only runs when you manually run it. So there's nothing you need to "disable".
If you disabled the template, it won't be visible in the regular list, but there's a Show All link that will let you see it again.
If you are connected to Airbnb via API, you can configure OwnerRez to automatically send Airbnb message templates via the Airbnb internal messaging system. Check the green box on this page:
Hi All,
I found an earlier post on this topic, but am hoping there is a solution.
I have a growing number of guests that are immediately suspicious that the welcome email sent through ownerreservations is not legitimate or a scam.
I have a welcome template in Airbnb messages, but being software conntected, it seems that feature is disabled.
Is there a way to have Airbnb automated messages still work (or automate one through ownerres) so that the guest can confirm in messaging that the emails they are receiving about deposits, signing the agreement, and providing ID are legitimate?
If not, can this be added to features?
Thanks, Heather Brann
You mean, accept direct bookings? That's entirely separate from Airbnb and Vrbo, so, yes.
Yes. Do I just disable the channel bridge?
Also, on another note, I typed a template and saved it over the weekend. Now I can't find it. I saved it as Rental Agreement 2022.
Gotcha. So from "Full Sync" to "pricing and availability only"...... made the changes in ABB...... and change the settings back in OR to ""Full Sync"?
If yes to the above steps, do you still remember what change need to be made in ABB?
Thanks.
Yes, I've gone back and forth on a couple properties now and my reservations and data stayed intact.
How could this be an ABB issue? I'm having the same issue as well. I don't recall having this issue prior to integrating with OR.
I'm also interested to know, after you change your API integration settings, did you change it back to "Full Sync" and everything stays intact?
Thanks.
You mean, accept direct bookings? That's entirely separate from Airbnb and Vrbo, so, yes.
I received an invoice as well. Any luck finding out how to make payment?
Can I disconnect from VRBO and AirB&B and still receive booking through the website?
Yes, you can set a gap restriction to disallow bookings that leave a gap of less than 6 nights:
https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/property-availability-rules#changeover
Hello, I just got a property to manage where the condominium has 6 day rental minimum.
This causes a bit of an issue, since I would not want rents that leave a 5 night gap between bookings. Is there any feature that I can play around as to maximize occupancy?
Thank you!
If you are using Portal Access, you can give certain cleaners only visibility to certain properties.
And, you can set up templates that are only sent to the particular cleaner assigned to each property.
You are correct that the tags themselves aren't limited as to who can see them. But the properties can be.
In what way is this not working? The recurring seasons don't sort that way, of course, because they don't have a proper beginning or end. But if you disregard those, the rest do appear to be in descending order, as they should be.
We have a few thoughts here:
https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/channel-management-api-integrations-airbnb-common-issues-questions#move-the-pin
It used to work., By clicking on dates, it used to sort seasons by ascending or descending date. Now the sort seem to work alphabetically resulting in season being sorted out of order date-wise.
Unfortunately no, because we have to integrate with Vrbo and they don't support that at present. We've asked, and likely they will eventually.
My property is highly seasonal. In the winter, a guest will book a year in advance for a 3 month minimum booking. I want a no refund policy associated with those 3 months of the year; i.e., January, February, and March.
For the remaining months, I'm more flexible and can have guests cancel 14 days prior to arrival with no penalty except a $60 cancellation fee.
I'm also integrated with Airbnb and VRBO, but VRBO always handles my seasonal rentals that are booked a year in advance.
Is there a way to set up OwnerRez to handle two different legal agreements and cancellation policies based on the timeframe?
Hi all... About how long do you give your guest to sign the rental agreement? The booking happened on 3/13/2022 and I've just sent my 3rd request for her to sign the rental agreement - it's 4/11/2022. What's my next course of action? TIA
Sure, you can Create a Custom page in your Hosted Website, and put anything you like on it.
Hi I was wondering if there is an easy way to add an FAQ page to a hosted website? Thanks!
I got the same and just came here to see what I could fine! Thanks for posting yesterday!
Got it! Thanks for such a quick (and thorough) response! I didn’t realize the API didn’t rely on iCal to sync, though it makes sense now that you’ve said it. I was worried about the possibility of double bookings, but there’s definitely no pre-API bookings so I’ll just rest easy :) Appreciate it!
Looks like Vrbo disabled iCal for any API connected account. If you go to any of those iCal links that have been disabled, it shows a Vrbo error:
Once you're API connected, you don't need iCal's anyway -- they only ever worked for pre-API bookings. If you have any pre-API bookings, just be aware that if the booking is changed on Vrbo, make sure to update the dates or cancel them in OwnerRez (based on whatever is changed in Vrbo, since the iCal will no longer be able to update automatically).
But API bookings don't use the iCal so nothing will change there.
iCal links for non-API connected listings are still working fine.
No need to update anything -- the alert you got means that OwnerRez detected that the feed was erroring across hours of checks, so the calendar sync was eventually disabled because it kept erroring.
Hello! This afternoon I received three emails notifying me that the calendar sync on three of my VRBO listings has been deactivated.
This calendar sync has failed 5 times in a row on a connection or parsing error, meaning either we couldn't reach the listing site or the iCal they returned was badly formatted. Since the error has occurred repeatedly, we've deactivated the sync for the time being.
I went to VRBO to pull the iCal link to resync, in case it got corrupted somehow, but since I have API integration with VRBO, VRBO just tells me:
Your rates and availability are uploaded from your integrated property management software. Any edits will need to be made in your software. These will automatically be updated in Vrbo.
So what can I do?
In the trigger, select the option "Try to send a missed trigger up until the booking has arrived." That should resolve the problem for all except extreme last-minute bookings.
Today, I had a booking come in at about 530pm for the same day check-in and I don't know how to manage sending them the check-in instructions on a trigger in this example...is there a way?
Thanks,Jaime
If you make the trigger as Ken indicated, then it will try to send it every hour at the top of the hour. So there will be a short delay if the guest signs the RA at 2:09pm, they won't get the follow-up from you until 3:00pm, but it will eventually go out.
Unfortunately, there is no way to be absolutely sure the emails sent to your guests won't end up in their spam folders instead. The nature of the Internet email system originated half a century ago, and was never designed for how it's used today. The best we can do is to work within existing systems, and lower the likelihood that your emails will be viewed as spam.
1. If you're not using the OwnerRez Verified Email system, and an email address from a domain you own, you should do so - it's a straightforward way to significantly reduce the risk of spam identification. Free Gmail accounts are notorious for spam, so you don't want to use those if at all possible.
2. Does the content of your emails look like spam? There are a number of testing tools and resources on the Internet you can use to see how spammy your standard emails are:
https://www.mail-tester.com/
https://blogs.constantcontact.com/how-to-avoid-spam/
3. Many email client programs include the ability to add addresses or domains to a whitelist, that the inbox knows not to flag as spam. You can ask your guests to look into this and add yours. However, every client is different, so they'd have to research how to do that themselves.
4. Sometimes, if your guests simply add your email address to their address book, your messages are automatically accepted.
5. Even with all of the above, anyone receiving any email can flag it as spam manually. If you are getting regular spam complaints, perhaps the problem isn't computer systems in between, it's what your messages look like in the inbox? For example, if you are using many emojis in your subject line, that's a hallmark of spam.
