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Social Media links on Ownerrez hosted website 6 replies
They already allow for this.
https://app.ownerrez.com/settings/theming/0/themeoverrideedit
Send new renter agreement and letters when a property changes 1 reply
Wouldn't this already be possible. Create a trigger of when the booking changes. Because after it changes, it send the welcome for that property.
Filter booking message list to only show relevant ones 3 replies
Yes! This would be great.
Block bad guest 30 replies
Ken,
Before integration I am pretty sure Airbnb had a "block" feature that would prevent a guest from interacting with the host, by messages or otherwise (direct booking). Are you sure there is no potential integration at this level? They may say you cannot prevent a direct booking but there may be a way to simply cut the guest off from any interactions.
Filter for Repeat guests 2 replies
Actually I want to do it in the Bookings List
add a filter for # of bookings
Arrival from and to
That way I can filter for all those arriving in the next 2 weeks
who have 2 or more bookings
Then I can give them a special gift or arrange to setup an outdoor movie night for them
Can we add this to the Bookings List filters?
Filter for Repeat guests 2 replies
Hey Jennifer,
Great question, and what a cool idea!
You can actually filter your Contacts list for guests who have X number of bookings in the system.
https://app.ownerrez.com/guests
If this isn't quite what you're looking for, feel free to write to us at help@ownerrez.com and we can see about exploring some creative workarounds.
List view: Checking off multiple search filters for accurate results 3 replies
Hi Michelle,
Those filters should not need to be applied one at a time. The results should be accurate when multiple filters are applied. Please send screenshot examples of your applied filters and what you're seeing, and send those in to help@ownerrez.com so that we can have a look. If there's something amiss, we want to get that addresses as soon as possible!
Include a dropdown to include deactivated properties when running historical reports 21 replies
Disabled my first property and was amazed to find I could not longer include it in reports. Seems a basic functionality of reporting.
Ken's suggested workaround would be fine if this were a temporary solution knowing a permanent update were in the works.
I appreciate Matt's suggestion on how to keep a property active essentially for free, and might just look into that for myself!
Using Review as Trigger for templates 31 replies
I am getting requests from owners who want to know when a review is left on their home. I agree the number of stars filter for the trigger would be great.
List view: Checking off multiple search filters for accurate results 3 replies
When under the “List” view - it would be amazing for OwnerRez to be able to accurately populate results if multiple search filters are checked off. Our team learned the hard way that we can only check off/search one filter at a time. If we have more than one filter checked off it will not populate accurate results, and therefore has given us wrong results that we found out later by manually checking under each individual reservation.
Not sure if this has happened to anyone else, but specifically when it comes to finances (which is problematic). For example, if searching for failed security deposits and overdue balances at the same time, the results will not populate both correctly - making us think that guests are paid up when they really are not. We have to check off one category at a time plus manually check for accuracy. This gets confusing and counterintuitive because the majority of websites have this function working for multiple filters. Thank you for your time and effort to fix this!
Larger Month/Year Header Display 0 replies
Ever since we got OR, I have struggled with seeing at-a-glance which month/year I'm on when paging through the calendar. Mobile is not as bad because everything is smaller and it blends in with the small month/year header. But on my computer, it blends in with the font size of all the other menu items. It seems like it would be easy to have the month/year display larger and bolder so you know (without searching) which month you're in.
Delaying triggers by minutes or hours 1 reply
Currently triggers are either immediate or scheduled, with the latter being able to fire before or after an event by X days.
It would be really nice to been able to specify minutes or hours as well, instead of just days.
A practical use case is, we send a thank you message after customers book but we would like to send it X minutes after booking, to make it look less robotic and more personal.
Thank you for your consideration :)
Same Day Bookings with Time Cut Off 44 replies
Agreed! We have been getting more and more last minute requests. We are professional VRMs and Guests can book on airbnb same day but not our direct ORez site? It's a bad look for us all :(
Same Day Bookings with Time Cut Off 44 replies
Any chance this feature is coming? it's a pretty important one that I REALLY wish we had.
Repeat Guests - Custom message triggers 12 replies
Alece,
I am with you!
I don't understand why this doesn't exist as I noticed that OwnerRez already identifies that they are a repeat in the booking screen.
Reached out on another thread but this seems easy to automate to me since their is existing functionality.
Would certainly make for better dynamic messaging!
Filter booking message list to only show relevant ones 3 replies
Yaaass this would be awesome to fix. Gets so confusing trying to figure out
Multi property availability widgets - Min and Max bedrooms and Pet friendly filters 5 replies
Ah, I did not realize you were wanting to do this on a property share widget specifically, before your recent edit. You are correct, that won't work there. But it will work for all other search multi-property widgets.
Is this entire feature request intended for property shares in particular? If so, I can edit the title to make that clear.
Multi property availability widgets - Min and Max bedrooms and Pet friendly filters 5 replies
Thanks. Tag groups do not work on property share widgets.
Multi property availability widgets - Min and Max bedrooms and Pet friendly filters 5 replies
You should be able to do this using tag groups:
Flexibility in automated messaging through use of short codes 6 replies
This would be super duper cool eh?
And Alece I would love your ideas on making messaging more personal!
Multi property availability widgets - Min and Max bedrooms and Pet friendly filters 5 replies
Bumping this. The most complained about items on our property share are 1) the inability to limit search results by bedrooms and 2) the inability to filter by pet-friendly
'Remove all other discounts" check box for optional discount 1 reply
Currently, I have optional traveler-selected discounts for paying by check and paying by Zelle. On far-out bookings, guests can select either. But, they also can select both and that is not desirable. Would be nice to have a "remove all other discounts" checkmark on optional discounts (similar to codes) or some similar functionality. better yet, would be great if we can specify WHICH discounts to remove when this one is applied. Thanks
Flexibility in automated messaging through use of short codes 6 replies
This is the primary reason I still pay for Hospitable -- their robust use of short codes and conditional triggers is unmatched! I'm able to drill down so far as to have my wording say "you" in messages to guests who booked for only themselves and "y'all" for when there's more than 1 guest on the booking! It is one of the small details that helps my messages sound so personable even when they're automated. I just wish all my messages could run through their system, but I'm limited to using it for select pre-booking, just-booked, and review-prompt type messages. I have to utilize OwnerRez's messaging system for the bulk of my communication with guests and their gaping hole in this department is sorely felt. The difference in the personability that can be expressed via messages (without adding the clunkiness of dozens of template options that I need to manage manually) is enormous. I hope-hope-hope this is a feature on the horizon for them!!
Flexibility in automated messaging through use of short codes 6 replies
YES YES YES TO THIS!
Having worked with and for email software tools throughout my career, I'm surprised a tool like OR that's on the robust side of things amongst its competitors doesn't have this.
I just finished doing exactly what Erik described here setting up multiple templates and triggers just to accommodate the inclusion/exclusion of pets. Not only is it time consuming to set up, it multiplies future work and future potential points of failure when I inevitably want to change info, because I have to remember to change it in *every* iteration of these templates.
Also, I'd love to differentiate between kids/no kids too since we have several kid-friendly amenities & recommendations that are of no interest to adults-only groups, but to do so I'd have to go down the permutation rabbit hole and have templates for [pets and kids] [pets no kids] [kids no pets] [no pets no kids] and that's just not worth it.
One email tool that does this well is ConvertKit (see 'conditional content')
The basic logic (shown here using liquid) is to be able to do the following:
{% if some.condition.is.true %}
Show this content.
{% else %}
Show this content, or leave blank and show nothing.
{% endif %}
I don't like the UX of the above liquid code and prefer a more intuitive 'pill' or token style that Hubspot uses both visually and because typed text is very error-prone for the layperson property manager, but this illustrates the functionality better.
The above would let you show/hide content like the pet or child friendly content mentioned, and even possibly other things like give information on summer amenities, recommendations, procedures in the warmer months, and others in the shoulder/off season. Lots of possibilities that right now would require templates on templates on templates on templates :)
VRBO assign photos to rooms 11 replies
I received this reply from OwnerRez support and it makes sense:
You are correct that assigning photos to rooms is better supported by Airbnb than Vrbo. We send Vrbo the photos along with the Room details. We have no other input on how they 'map' those photos to their categories. For example, they combine all bedroom photos into one category and bathroom photos into another. They have recently started to use AI to organize photos, so you may see your photos in a completely different order than they appear in OwnerRez.
I apologize if the following is a little too 'techy' but I'm including it in case you speak with Vrbo again. This shows the API feed for a specific Room. There is no line to include photos in the definition of a Room.
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I called Vrbo back today after re-examining my Owner Dashboard. On the Dashboard it correctly shows the photos by room for the bedrooms and bathrooms as I set them up in OwnerRez; they do not however have any other rooms (living room, dining, etc.) and from what I can see there is no way to add any room but one in which there is a bed.
When I go to my live listing, the rooms on the Owner Dashboard do not appear. There are a bunch of random rooms and these rooms do not correlate to my photos and are randomly divided. I asked if it was due to AI and the rep didn’t know what I was talking about.
They are escalating my case, so hopefully I will get to at least Level 2 Support. Vrbo's photo mixing is causing confusions with some recent guests asking how the rooms are divided.
Ability to create children rules by age 0 replies
It sure would be nice to have the ability to set ages of children, that would be great. A huge improvement. For example, in the Property Rules section and in Surcharges - would be nice to be able to say you allow children of a certain age. For example, I have a unit in which I really only want to allow children over 10 years old, but you have no ability to set ages of children.
I can't be the only person who wants to allow children just of a certain age.
Set Cleaning Date - Default to departure month 1 reply
Isn't there any other OwnerRez user who sighs every time they have to start from today's date on the Cleaning Date calendar and click forward to the departure month to set the cleaning date? If so, please vote for this suggestion. Thanks!
VRBO assign photos to rooms 11 replies
I just spent 45 minutes on the phone with Vrbo support and they insisted the room assignment photo mapping is coming from OwnerRez and that I would have to change my photo room setting on the Property Management tool. It's a new feature, has something changed since April in the API?
Filter booking message list to only show relevant ones 3 replies
I'll save you some time - there is not such an option. I'll move this into the feature suggestions area to gather votes.