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Thanks for the suggestion, Chuck. On each booking > Legal tab, it should show the renter agreement that was signed with a copy of the PDF archived there.
Just making so many changes now to keep up. Not daily or anything like that, but probably changes each listing twice in last month or so. And I need to be sure I figure out the right cancellation policy for each cancellation.
Thanks Ken for considering it.
In these days, when some of us may be tweaking cancellation policies to try and fill the huge voids in our calendars, it occurred to me, more than once now as cancellations continue to come in, that it would be nice to know under what policy a booking was made. It seems trivial to pull that out of the property description and drop it into the booking record.
Theoretically the rental agreement kind of does this, but I have to go into the booking email and then determine which agreement was included for them to sign at the time. That is a bit laborious.
Lydia is correct. Just to clarify for Randy, there is a booking criteria for this already on Triggers. It's in the lower booking criteria section on the trigger page. See here:
Within each booking, under "Info", there is a field for number of pets. You can write an email and set up a trigger that only goes to guests whose number of pets is greater than zero, or "greater than or equal to" 1.
Would it be very difficult to add Pets as a Trigger Criteria? I would like to send an email to guests that bring pets to let them know of my requirements. I just had a guest's pet bit another guest's child at one of the resorts where I have condos. This is 2nd incident in 2 years. While I mention it several times during booking and in the rental agreement, most guest say they aren't aware of my requirements. I think specifically sending them an email with those requirements might provide additional protection for me. In Texas, landlords are generally not liable for guests' pets but victims always come after me because they know I have insurance and it covers but my insurance company will cancel if I file a claim. I'm told that AirBnb and VRBO guest liability doesn't cover dog bites.
Ken T said:
We've made this change. Please take a look at your public rate calendar on your website, it should now not be showing rates for booked dates.
Y'all made the right call on where to focus !
Yes, but I have two worksheet going when doing statements to cross reference the reserves and prior months open balance. I would be much easier to see the prior month's balance on the current statement.
Hey Paul, Being able to have owners bookings as opposed to blocked-off times would be great! I was referring being able to keep aside some owner money for unexpected expenses. So, have on hand $100-$350 of owners money on hand for repairs - this way I am not having to spend my own cash for maintenance of the owner's property. This is especially helpful when there is no income coming in but funds for maintenance is required.
Not yet and more's the pity. Still very much needed and a highly requested To Do on our roadmap. The last couple years were filled with deviations for channel integration. When we finally got HA and Airbnb to the table, we spent 90% of our time doing what they needed. It ate up about 2 years of time. Thanks for the nudge on this.
You can sorta kinda do this already with Owner Payouts. After you create a negative statement, just leave it as unpaid until the next month. Then after you create the next statement, do an Owner Payout for both of the statements combined. When you include the negative statement, it will lower the payout total. This is why payouts were created - to allow you to pay something differently to the owner than a statement and account for negative statements.
Nope, that's correct - you have to save and then edit the charges after the fact. Thanks for the suggestion.
Hi Coastal Waves, do you mean owner bookings? Most OR users tend to put those in as blocked-off times. Are you looking for a way to flag them as "this is an owner booking" so that you can filter/report on them elsewhere in the system?
Was this ever addressed? I can't seem to find a way to trigger emails based on the quote status?
We would like to be able to send a triggered email based on days before/after expiry or preempted quotes.
Have the same just this month with a few costs passed on to the owners.
Would be great to be able customize(edit) a quote as you are creating it. For example, the ability to add pet fees, add discounts, or other concierge fees. I believe, currently you have to save the quote, go back to from the quotes tab, make the changes, save it again then send it. If there is a more efficient way - I missed the training part.
Would love to have a way to account for owner reserves!
It would be helpful to be able to carry a balance from one statement to the next. We usually pay repair bills for our owners and just post the expense to their account. There may not income the month of the bill resulting in a negative balance. The following month's statement should show this continuing negative balance. Similarly, if for some reason a statement payout was not made and the closed with a balance owed to owner - this amount should show on following month's statement. This would make our bookkeeping so much easier and fail-proof! Hope OR considers this request!
Wow, that is super! You guys rock!
Right now - no. That's a very commonly requested feature, and I know the engineers have done some work in that direction. No ETA though.
I'm wondering if there is a way to add a note or a flag of some sort to a date on the ribbon calendar? This would be helpful if we want to call out something related to that particular day.
For example, I just approve an early check in time for a guest but I told him if we should happen to take a booking for a guest who would be checking out the morning this guest arrives we may have to revert to the later default check in time in order to allow the housekeeper time to turn the house over between the two bookings. I'd like to be able to add a note to that day on the calendar so that it would remind me about this if I'm looking at the calendar or if I take another booking that checks out on that day.
We've made this change. Please take a look at your public rate calendar on your website, it should now not be showing rates for booked dates.
Excited for this as well. Keep Rocking OR Team.
Later this year, we hope... not right away I'm afraid.
Any idea when the PM changes are coming?
Thanks!
Yes, good point. I've sent this over to the engineers.
We've thought about adding Xero, not sure about those other two. But, you can export just about everything in OwnerRez into Excel files, and most accounting systems will let you import data that way too, so it should be possible to make them work for you.
We're keeping an eye on Google and may add more connections to them in the future.
In the meantime, you can add a link to your email template where you request guests to write reviews, to your "Google My Business" account. We have several clients doing that.
