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Adding my voice to the chorus here. When emails automatically go out, guests like to respond with great information. That should be persisted to support recurring bookings and future communications with the guest.
This feature is needed! Thanks!
Thanks Jake
Tbh tho, $18 to set the codes a month is extortionate and unjustifiable. I did wonder why they were not being transparent with their pricing.
The upselling can be done via other means.
I’m probably going to wait for an open source type solution that I can install into my existing smart hubs.
Think Seam offer this but sounds complicated to setup.
All the best!
Nevermind!
I only have 3 locks and paying $18/lock/month, annually in advance. This is much more than RemoteLock and several other options.
The Lynx support has been excellent. They also offer messaging and other services (charging to early/late check-in/out, etc.) for an additional fee. I do not use those.
You can set up master codes for the cleaning and maintenance teams, and one time codes for folks coming in to do one time repairs.
Have been using Lynx since January, 2022 and at the time this seemed to be the best solution. The initial integration with OwnerRez has been one way from OR to Lynx through iCal calendar.
This new integration promises to pass the door codes from Lynx to OR. Typically (about 90%) those codes are the last 4 digits of the guest phone number, but not always.
Great news
Excellent! Thanks for the update!
Add an API method to pull a booking using the OTA's reservation ID.
Thanks for letting us know about this. Do you know approx how much it is per lock?
Thanks!
Lynx has a new integration with OwnerRez which passes the door code back to OwnerRez. See set up instructions here:
https://support.getlynx.co/hc/en-us/articles/14211270001805-How-To-Add-OwnerRez-Integration-in-Lynx?source=search&auth_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJhY2NvdW50X2lkIjo5NzY5NTUwLCJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNDEwMzI1OTQ3NzkwMSwidGlja2V0X2lkIjo5ODgxMSwiY2hhbm5lbF9pZCI6NjMsInR5cGUiOiJTRUFSQ0giLCJleHAiOjE2ODIxOTkwODB9.4mnwvAJOGGOcZm7AJvv27heTJieX0lR2VD4qybUSlMs
I just set it up, and presumably will be disabling the iCal integration, once I confirm this is working.
If anyone has set this up and tested it, please comment.
We have a major accounting update in development which would be a necessary precursor to adding this capability, and then, we do plan to add this option after that. Most likely later this year.
So excited to see this come to fruition! Appreciate the update!
Fingers crossed minimal bugs on release :)
Quick question - will OR integration of a property override the integration of the same property if it’s also being pushed by BDC to Google? Or will it show twice?
That’s great! Thanks for the ongoing updates!
Hello all - we have some exciting news to share on a Friday. Vrbo is handing us the keys to begin development on native Vrbo Messaging! It will take us some time but we have prioritized this to the top and have kicked off development! Please know we'll get it ready and released as soon as we can. Thanks for everyone's patience and understanding.
After recent follow-up, I found that when using an OR website one does not have the ability to add tags and neither does one have the ability to add the ability for readers to "engage" with the blog via a comments section, please see this.
SAMPLE TAGS IN BLOGS
SAMPLE BOX THAT SHOWS ABILITY FOR COMMENTS ON A BLOG: Cane we add this ability?
On lease agreements, typically adult occupants are jointly and severally liable. I mention this in my lease agreements, but requesting a way for hosts to be able to capture this on what is a legal document. If renting long-term and the primary guest bails, hosts should be able to go after all on the lease agreement for damages. It also helps in general to be able to capture this information legally, especially when a request of government issued IDs are requested for all adult occupants.
same here. Is there a temp work around for the gap removal?
@Chuck, I think your suggestion has great value. Pricelabs has a related feature that let's you define how many days you consider a stranded/stub period and automatically offers a discount on those days. Your suggestion (if I understand it) it to offer an extra day when there is a free day or two in between bookings. If this could be automated in OR based on rules I do agree it would be an Revenue booster. I'm going to try this manually
@OR, even if you created a way to generate quotes for changes to reservations that the customer could accept and charge to card on filer (or push to AirBnB) if accepted it would be great.
I'm surprised nobody else is upvoting this one. When guests use their middle names or nicknames instead of their first names, like me, I want all my messaging to address them by that name. Especially with no middle name field, I am left to having to write in notes what their real names are and then put their nicknames in the first name field.
I would expand this to also allow only guests or inquiries with certain tags or conditions, such as a prior guest, if not already available.
I second this!
I can't tell if I requested to be added to the Beta group long before or not, but I would like to be if not.
Meantime, I found my property on Google Vacation Rentals, and see that they are being linked to Booking.com instead of my website. Is this Google partnering with Booking.com?
Regardless, when OR gets this set up so that all of its users that want to be are in GVR, will the connection to Booking.com go away so that travelers have only the choice to go to my website and not Booking.com?
Hi Sloanish,
Thanks for bringing this to our attention!
We integrate with SUPERHOG that provides guest screening which you can read about here:
https://knowyourguest.superhog.com/guest-screening/
They do not include address verification, but they could potentially add this feature.
We would like to filter the ability to filter travelers from Booking, Browsing, Photos or even just accessing Direct Booking Website based on geography.
Example: Enable the ability to not taking bookings from North Korea or Syria.
You could also block countries like Russia if you disagree with their occupation of Ukraine, or any other potential conflict.
Beautiful site, Alece!! Thanks for the ideas.
Hi Chuck - we went ahead and added it to the Actions dropdown on the Vrbo API page (and some other channels) too. Enjoy!
I cannot stress enough what a difference this has made to the number of reviews I get in return!!!
Please write in to the Helpdesk with more details so we can investigate - the 2FA code should be sent to your email automatically. You may need to check your spam folder though. And, once you have successfully logged in, you should not need to verify a code on the same device for 30 days.
I believe we recently got the spec from Vrbo for beta dev and testing.
Hmmm @sloanish, I am not sure I understand your reply.
Specifically "...IF you separate this from the bookings". The whole point of this feature is to be part of the bookings. For example, I need renters to take the trash out Thursday nights. If there is a current booking that spans Thursday night, I would like a reminder message to go out to them to take the trash to the road. This needs to go to the email on the current booking. If no bookings are present on a Thursday night, then I would not want to send a message (since there are no renters to send a message to). Therefore I don't see how you could separate this from the bookings.
I think that is the whole point of this thread - to send a reminder to a booking email IF a day of the week is met during their stay. If I just simply want a weekly email to go out to ...say ... my cleaners, then I can easily set that up in my regular email program or another sort of messaging program as it does not care about bookings or who is currently booking my property.
Glenn
Thanks for the response Ken. Do you have any idea on timing? I know OwnerRez probably gets hundreds of suggestions. There is already a place to check boxes for check-in and check-out days and an area to adjust day gaps for changeovers, but just need to have those two together!! I'm probably over simplifying the code side of it!
Thanks
