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Hmm... can you explain a bit more about what you mean by these items?
1) We only collect information required to process the booking
2) Contact name and billing name are collected separately as they may be different
3, 4) If you don't want to go collect a signed agreement during booking, edit the property rules and set the Agreement rule to "no agreement will be signed"
Stuff like this is why I haven't activated OR's SMS feature yet, despite being an early proponent of it and asking to be put in the beta.
I think with as much as the OR system is maturing (including offering channel messaging integrations and SMS functionality), it's past time the OR team develops (or contracts to develop) mobile apps with push notifications and quick access to a messaging inbox. Real-time notifications are absolutely necessary in this industry in 2021, especially with the (also unnecessary) ~2-minute delay OR engages in when sending emails via their Postmark ESP (they appear to use a batch process that runs every ~1-2 minutes instead of sending messages in real-time, which Postmark should support AFAIK).
This isn't as simple as it sounds though, because the character counts that actually matter are *not* the characters you can see and count by hand. Depending on the field, if you're setting any formatting or special characters, there are hidden characters you can't see behind the scenes that add to the count.
This feature is now live!
I was just searching because that is exactly what we want to do!
This is to "officially" push for what was already mentioned to the OR technical staff.
The checkout process of OR is really something to be reviewed. It's main issues can be summed-up as follows:
1. Not GDPR compliant
2. Requesting twice to enter names and email address.
3. Something around 5 or more steps to check-out while all booking systems are at 3-steps.
4. The obligation to view & sign a rental agreement at the moment where process should be eased instead of blocked.
I hope the contact with European clients will accelerate this development.
Bernard
OMG, yes yes yes yes yes!!!
Would you please add dynamic character counts in all listing fields? I get errors for having too many characters in description fields after saving, but it would be great to see the character count dynamically so I know who far over I am. This way, I can more easily decide what text to cut to meet the requirement.
I would like OR to add the ability to track and manage claims on damage insurance. The vendor has a portal (called PAM), but it's not currently accessible by OR users.
I recently switched to OR from using Evolve. Evolve had a way to track claims that was helpful. I'd love to have that ability with OR too. Thanks!
Me too... I'm looking for other PMS just because OR Statement, Expenses, Recurring Expenses... are all too "weak" solution :(
I love OR but as I'm growing I can't keep using excel to generate a readable statements (OR statements are not readable)
This really should be revisited. Having to reactivate a listing to see the revenue is a very fraught proposition. Owner portals should still show historical data. My revenue year to date is messed up by not showing homes that were managed. It makes sense that it would cut off when it was closed, but it should show for that revenue.
ah - dang - I see that checkbox now. Awesome to know going forward!
I'm confused - Duplicate does already duplicate "pictures, picture captions, all amenities, descriptions" etc. when you tell it to duplicate the listing content.
Unfortunately, since our custom cancellation policy system integrates with Vrbo, we're limited to what they're able to support - and, at the moment, they don't support the ability to set cancellation policies by season. It's on their to-do list though, but no ETA.
It would be great if we can forward the SMS in OwnerRez CRM to my cell phone. I have automated messages sent out to my guests with my cell phone number inside, however, I notice a lot of people don't read or remember my direct cell phone number and still use the OwnerRez phone number to respond, this led many incidents that I failed to timely address their inquiries or concerns due to the fact there is no immediate notification from OwnerRez unless I am using OwnerRez.
Thanks,
I would love to see an expansion of the Copy To Booking feature so that it works more like a CLONE Booking.
Copy To only carries over the property and the guest to a new bookings but there are often so many other customized details that are lost.
I would like the Clone Booking feature to maintain all the custom settings in a booking like:
custom rate
commission
listing site source
payment schedule
custom checkin/checkout times
security deposit
cancellation policy
With this feature we can easily rebook return guests for the following year by simply changing the dates.
Since COVID we have had a huge increase in the number of long term rentals. OR is not intended for Long Term stays so as a work around we are creating 12 - one month bookings for 1 year long term leases. Having a CLONE Booking feature would make doing this so easy and would bring OR one big step closer to being able to manage long term rentals as well.
I agree the ability to Clone or Copy a Quote with all its unique settings would be great. I would also like to see the same option for Bookings.
The current "Copy To" feature in Bookings only copies over the guest and the property. It would be so much more useful and powerful if it could also "Copy Over" things like a custom rate, commission, listing site, and payment schedule.
It would also be helpful for guests who want to book their return the following year after their yearly seasonal stay. Once they check out from their stay the first week of July, have you rebook them for the same time the following year. Nice to keep all their special settings (as a return guest) the same without having to redo everything.
Since COVID we have had a huge increase in the number of long term rentals, and since OR is not really intended for Long Term stays we are creating 12 - one month bookings for 1 year long term leases. Creating them manually is a ton of work, this kind of CLONE or COPY feature for bookings would save us a ton of time.
Yes I agree, we have different cancellation and payment policies for Spring Break and Christmas and are having difficulties figuring out a way to handle this in OR.
It would be so helpful if we could set these based on Criteria like season or arrival dates.
I actually just looked this up and agree there still needs to be additional data duplicated (I am writing this on 10/12/2021). I mean pictures, picture captions, all amenities, descriptions... absolutely everything. As the other poster suggested, an upgrade from that would be a checklist of things to clone or not.
We're not familiar with that platform, but, we do offer an open API that any platform can use to connect to OwnerRez. If you have contacts there, you should suggest for them to reach out to our Helpdesk for more information on how to do that, or, you could introduce us both via email.
Could we work on linking with the fairly new platform of peer space; it would be nice during slower times to be able to integrate this feature.
At present this is not planned, because it would potentially cause a great deal of confusion. What are you trying to accomplish here? You may be able to do something else to achieve the same effect, like raising your Airbnb rates.
Would allow triggers to send templates based on whether the guest ha stayed before.
Even better… condition logic for triggers with true/else ability so I can send one template if criteria is met or another if it’s not. Presently, I have to create two triggers that filter against each other (but maybe I’m ignorant of a better way to do this)
Hi Jim, this might already be possible. Can you elaborate a bit more on the email template you would send? Would you be sending the email template to yourself or the guest?
Thanks for the detailed explanation, and yes we will do this. In our (slow going) redesign and mission to make everything consistent, we are also addressing pages where information is gone on small screens and adding it back with action or advanced areas or by making it expand vertically. This is a prime example of where that needs to happen. The goal is that mobile/tablet be 100% as functional as desktop view ports.
I would like to have 3 nights minimum for direct bookings through my website, but 7 nights minimum for Airbnb bookings. Is it possible to make an API rule override for the specific channel? Thanks!
If Airbnb's remitting the tax themselves, channel bridge should be able to access the total amount for that tax and populate it on the Guest Channel Fees section of the Charges tab on the booking in OwnerRez.
If you're not seeing that, send in an email to the helpdesk with the booking number and the channel bridge file you imported and we'll look into the issue.
My country has a per night fixed amount tax, AirBnB collects this and remits correctly but ChannelBridge cannot account for it automatically (that I can find anyway-there is no way to calculate it from the rate!)
This would allow me to provide a countdown in a email template leading up to a guest arrival for getting in their photo id and their legal agreement signed.
As part of my month-end financials, I comb through each booking's Charges and Transactions screen to verify that everything is correct (especially when the "Owed" figure is not a zero balance).
On the bookings "List" view, I'd absolutely love it if you could hyperlink the price showing in the "Total" column to the booking's "Charges" screen and hyperlink the price showing in the "Owed" column to that booking's "Transactions" screen, making it far faster and easier to access those respective screens.
Small enhancement but would make for a much more efficient workflow when I'm trying to reconcile a hundred bookings at a time. :)
