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I also need year end statements for owners to match the 1099.

It would be awesome to have this feature available in OwnerRez.  I don't want to force my guests to sign a rental agreement when they have booked through an OTA.

Just wanted to drop a small update here that the first release of our Messaging API went live last week, and several AI/messaging partners have officially begun working on their integrations.

Hi Paul/OR Team,

Does this mean OwnerRez won't be working on integrating AI into it's messaging/PMS but instead relying on third parties to use the messaging API? I've been using a third party for a couple months with mixed results. It's definitely worth the money but there's a lot missing.

Does PMv2 allow you to save "defaults" for PM statements each month?

I have to remember each month to go select "Include bookings that depart by the statement date" each time I run a monthly PM statement.

Still kind of shocked we can't do that on PMv1.  It is a mess when I forget to go back and re-do it.

Airbnb is holding the money in trust, not us and we have no custody or control over that money, so it doesn't make any sense to present on the balance sheet as undeposited funds for the time period between when the payment is collected by Airbnb and when it is actually received by us. As we know from COVID, there is always the risk that Airbnb changes their policy and those funds are never received. I note that there has been some inconsistency on this in the past and it seems like the treatment has not always been consistent. I would like the ability to have the payment date set to the date that Airbnb releases funds to us. 

Hello, all -

We do not have a definitive ETA to provide at this time on Tiered Permissions for Team Access users. It is in planning, but not yet in active development. 

We fully understand the desire here, and it is a top priority for us. However, we have no desire to present you with something that does not live up to your expectations. Providing quality feature updates is our goal.

We'll continue to keep you posted on updates here in this forum thread!

It would be really helpful to property managers to be able to construct our own statement views. Right now there are only two options Owner View and Full Detail View neither of witch provides the clickable OwnerRez booking number. It just seems silly to provide custom owner statement views but not customizable PM statement views. Please vote and put a stop to this madness. :)

We have found Guest Mode as implemented on Roku's to be a completely useless feature.

The challenge with guest mode on a Roku is that when one takes the Roku OUT of guest mode, all of the previous settings (how the Roku was setup before it was put into guest mode – logins, passwords, etc.) are completely lost. They ALL have to be re-entered from scratch, like one is setting up the Roku for the first time. This can take an hour of time on our Roku's including all of the streaming service logins we have. Multiply that by five TVs per property and this just becomes a huge headache. As a result, we never use guest mode, and don't make it available to guests at our properties.

We have found it far easier to just leave them setup in their original form, and create Guest profiles for the guest to use with each individual streaming service.

Has there been an update on this feature?

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Happy 2025! Any update for the timing on this? Lots to love about OR but as others have noted, this really is a glaring hole and makes growing difficult.

Has anyone found a workaround?

I’ll likely need to switch PMS if this isn’t something imminent. 

Reviews are of crucial importance to the bottom line on OTAS. Most guests forget to write them, so it is important to send several reminders before the 14-day window. OR currently does not have a 'review status' option on triggers, so it is not possible to automate reminders to be sent ONLY if the reviews HAS NOT been written. It would be great to be able to automate this by adding a 'review status' option on the trigger settings so that reminders only get sent if a review has not been written yet. 

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I would like to request the ability to adjust the commission rate based on the following.

#1 listing site:  why?  different sites charge less than others.  also when direct booking costs less.  

#2 payment by check:  why?  could adjust 2-3% since not paying cc fee

#3 special offers:  we often find ourselves lowering our commission to make a sale.  setting tags for 1% 2% etc. at booking level would make this easier

Thank you for your consideration

Randy 

Happy Crab Vacations 

Hi Shawn, A slightly later response than one might have liked! Other software companies, don't seem to find this an issue. We hope a WhatsApp solution can be rolled out before too long.

We did a lot of R&D and found that international SMS is a wild west, with deliverability unknown for many countries. We have pivoted to spend time on WhatsApp for Business, which is currently in testing.

It's currently possible to record manual/offline payments for rental fees/surcharges/taxes but not possible to do that for security deposits. Ideally we'd be able to do that for security deposits as well and have the security deposit status updated when that happens (so that any triggers based on security deposit status are properly evaluated). 

As an example, for longer-term guests we often will accept check as a payment method and the guest will include the security deposit in their check amount for the regular booking fees. If we record the security deposit as an offline/manual payment, that over-reports the revenue (and reports we use for sales taxes/other monthly reconciliations are skewed/inaccurate). 

Do we have an ETA on the tags automation for when the guest selects add-ons or certain surcharges that are applied?

I collect photos of guest DL's.I'd love to have ability to set a trigger to have that field auto deleted at completion of their stay🙏

When it comes to any files that a guest uploads to a custom field (e.g. a Drivers License) and is inserted into their booking, there isn't a way to tell the system to automatically delete it. I need to go into the booking after their stay and manually delete the files by going to the Files tab in their booking, checking the box to the left of each file then selecting Delete.

Added you Kathy

Please add me to the list!

Thank you, Kathy Bogan, VIP Vacation Rentals

Is it possible to get a report on message response times?

last year we looked at conversion rates and saw the NEED to allow instant bookings Conversion speed drastically increased

Am I understanding Bri's comment here that we won't even have PMv2 quality year-end statement capabilities until the end of 2026 since we won't have been using PMv2 since 1/1/2025??

PLEASE tell me y'all are working to get your existing long-term PM users onto the new model ASAP with some sort of setting or integration that will provide this functionality as soon as possible and will be able to generate year-end statements at the end of 2025!? 

Hi Jean & Shanelle,

Good news! Today's release fixed this. You should be able to see those policies again when printing to PDF. 

Just click the View Purchased Policies button before printing, and you should get everything you need.



Let us know if you have any trouble by writing in to help@ownerrez.com!

YES YES YES! This is the only reason I still maintain my Hospitable account -- their conditional message ability is so robust and blows OR out of the water when it comes to being able to customize communications!

I'm trying to dynamically build a channel message:

paragraph 1: text
paragraph 2: included only when a condition is met
paragraph 3: included only when a condition is met
paragraph 4: text

I want to send this channel message x days prior to arrival date.

I’d like to request owner statements to be downloadable as .OFX or .QFX file formats for easy importing into bookkeeping software such as QuickBooks or Stessa.

I would like to add on to this Feature Request.  In addition to detailed itemization per night, I frequently need to see the subtotal of the Charges by Item type, so it would be extremely helpful to see a subtotal of all the Rent charges, Discounts, Ideally a calculation of Rent-Discounts, the Surcharge subtotal and Tax subtotal.  We frequently talk to our guests in these subtotal amounts and some are combined in other views/widgets/emails, but not for us in the Bookings view. 

This seems like an easy implementation and low hanging fruit.  I might propose a simple additional section at the bottom of the Charges page:

Guest Charge Summary: (5 nights)

Rents Subtotal:  (adds all Rent items, like nightly base rates, channel uplifts)   $1000  $200/nt (100%)
- Discounts Subtotal: (subtotals weekly, repeat guest discounts)                  -$ 200  $ 40/nt (-20%)
= Rents - Discounts:  (removes weekly discounts, etc)                             =$ 800  $160/nt (=80%)
+ Surcharges Subtotal: (adds Cleaning, Pets, Processing, etc)                     +$ 200  $ 40/nt (+20%)
+ Taxes Subtotal: (state, county, city, etc) (Taxable charges: $900)              +$ 100  $ 20/nt (+10%)
= Total Charges: (as shown at top of page, total of our charges)                  =$1100  $220/nt (110%)
+ Channel Fees:                                                                   +$ 200  $ 40/nt (+20%)
= Total Guest Charges: (adds Total Charges + Guest Channel Fees)                  =$1300  $260/nt (130%)

Thanks for consideration of this request.  I will use it every week and I think most OR users will as well.