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Bri's option works, however it would show a list of all Properties.  If you did need it Property by Property you would have to do further filtering.

I think an even better report to run would be the Booking Summary Report. 
https://app.ownerrez.com/reports/bookingsummary

This can be run for different periods and set to give a count by Departure date across all listings and give you individual counts as well as a total

Let's take a look:

Understanding the Booking Summary Report for Count of Number of Bookings 📊 - Watch Video

Hope that helps you more easily get the counts you are looking for each month!

-Steve

Hi Jay,

Thanks for the feedback here, that totally makes sense, especially for repeat guests where you want to keep things low pressure but still follow up at the right time.

Just to clarify one piece first, Triggers only control when a message gets sent. They don’t automatically change anything about the booking or the quote itself (like extending the expiration date).

It sounds like there are really two separate needs here:

1) Automatically extending quote expiration dates
OwnerRez doesn’t currently have a way to “auto-extend” a quote expiration based on guest behavior or quote type (like returning guests vs new guests). And in practice, that can get tricky because expiration timing is often a judgment call. For example, should it extend every time the guest opens the quote? Only if they’ve stayed with you before? Only if they replied? Only if dates are still available?

That’s why today it’s more of a manual, case-by-case adjustment, and you can extend it anytime by editing the expiration date directly on the quote.

2) Sending a reminder before a quote expires
This part you can absolutely do today with Triggers, even if the expiration date itself stays the same.

What we’d do is set up a scheduled trigger that goes out “X days after the quote is created” (ex: 3 days after) with a condition that the Quote Status is open.  This way if the quote expired or was accepted or anything else it won't send your message.  The wording can be a friendly nudge like:

“Just checking in, your quote is still available for now, let me know if you have any questions!”

The only limitation right now, like you mentioned, is that the timing is based on the quote creation date, not the quote expiration date.

But if you set your quote expiration to let's say 5 days, you could send one nudge each day if you really wanted to.  And have a different template for each day.  

Let me show you how in a quick video:

Managing Quote Expiration and Sending Gentle Reminders - Watch Video

Hey Mitch,

We don't have an ETA at present, but we'll be sure to circle back to this forum thread to provide updates as they become available.

Hey Chris,

If you apply the following filters to your Bookings page List View, does this get you what you need? You can filter it by only confirmed bookings that depart within the date range of your choosing. 

The Booking Statistics > Bookings report currently only counts bookings by arrival date, with no option to view counts by departure date instead.

Use Case: I need to verify that my cleaning service is billing me for the correct number of departure cleans each month. A simple count of departures per property for a specified time period (in my case, typically "Last Month") would make this verification quick and straightforward, but there currently exists no report that provides this count.

Current Workaround: I have to export the Bookings Detail Report to Excel and manually create pivot tables to count departures per property - this is time-consuming and unnecessarily complex for such a fundamental operational need.

Requested Enhancement: Add a date criteria toggle (similar to other reports) that allows users to select either "Arrival Date" or "Departure Date" when running the Booking Statistics: Bookings report.

This would benefit any property manager who needs to track turnovers, verify cleaner invoices, or analyze departure patterns.

I would like to extend quote expiration dates (especially for returning guests) versus a standard number of days so I can provide gentle reminders when a quote is about to expire, and the guest has not booked yet. The only current trigger option is the quote creation date.

Hi,

Right now Tax report shows taxes you collect and normally it is the same as "taxes owed", but:

1. sometimes you have to charge renters smth extra -- it goes to "taxable money" column and for everything to tie out nicely you have to manually calculate related taxes and add them manually to related charges (which is already a pain). In certain scenarios (Airbnb integration) you can't update charges unless you convert them to manual, which means if smth changes on Airbnb side -- your charges won't be updated.
2. some jurisdictions charge taxes based on total monthly amount (as opposed to) sum of taxes on individual bookings -- this introduces "off-by-1-cent" discrepancies due to rounding

Would be nice to address these issues -- either new report or new column(s) in existing report. Plus a checkbox for problem #2. In this way I don't need to keep in mind that this month I charged renters extra and therefore I need to calc my taxes manually. Ideally these charges should contain taxes (as separate lines), but it seems that Airbnb simply doesn't support this...

Or at very minimum highlight taxes columns in red if OR observes discrepancy between "collected" and "owed".

Thank you,
Michael.

Reviews are very important in Google searches. 

Currently, it looks like only the review rating is generated by the default schema, but not the review description. Please add review description (at last the snippet):

Thank you, I did use the seasonality option. It was just what came to mind.
I am not sure options are showing up on platforms, I have never had a response from a guest. We have friends test-driving the system, will be talking to them as we fine-tune. Love the responsiveness here, A+ work!

Emily DG

Agreed, it also allows hosts to tailor to season (float tubes in January? Maybe not) and activities available.

Emily, I wanted to let you know that this can presently be done. Each optional item can have its availability tied to any number of pricing seasons, so using your example, you can optionally offer Float Tubes only during summer months. And this is tied to when the booking is for, not when it's made, so it works really well.

See the restrictions on the Optional Extras set-up page, and restrict the item to the appropriate time of year. You can see how in my own example below.

You can restrict which pricing seasons an optional extra is available for. Just select the appropriate pricing seasons that correspond with the season when you want the option available, and voila! The option only shows up for bookings during the selected seasons.

Even if your prices don't vary by season, you could add a few seasons to your pricing in order to differentiate between which options you have available at which times of the year.

If this doesn't make sense, or you have questions about how it works, go ahead and ask. I would be happy help!

Hi Robert,

We'll be starting development on a Guest Portal very soon, and I believe your request will be satisfied with the features being included in that work. I've marked this request as Planned and will circle back with an update once development is officially underway. We're still working on the design aspects at the moment.

Thanks again for submitting!

Re-reading this, I get nervous that something about how this gets executed won't be suitable, or will miss the mark somehow. (I apologize for the lack of faith that demonstrates!) If there is any way I can see and advise on preliminary plans, or be part of testing, please count me in! I have a suspicion that with some early input I will be able to save you a bunch of programming work pursuing something that won't meet our needs, and that some gentle guidance and help at the start may save us all a bunch of time and frustration! You'll get some help from a skilled UI designer and experienced database programmer... at a price that can't be beat! And in this case the help would be worth far more than what you pay for it!

Yes!  We manage 90 properties at a resort that requires us (property manager) to purchase a parking pass for each arriving vehicle and register the driver for each car arriving to the resort.  Travel details always change and guests constantly need to add additional parking passes the week prior to their vacation.  OwnerRez currently offers no way for a guest to add a pass and pay.  They must contact me, I manually add the pass, and charge their card, and then register the additional car with the resort.  During Summer weeks, this may be up to 100 additional passes!   This tedious process results in MANY unnecessary phone calls!  

We need a way for guests to add parking passes (and other Add Ons) to their existing reservation and pay with card on file through Lynnbrook!  All OR integrations that offer Add Ons charge 10% or more for each transaction, SO THIS IS NOT A SUITABLE PROCESS!

I'm hoping this will be expedited, so that it will be available for our Summer Peak season.   OwnerRez PLEASE HELP!

Now that they are being provided for messaging... Update the bookings endpoint to allow for us to retrieve the nightly rates for multi date bookings.  Perhaps an additional include parameter?   We want to be able to do same day year over year ADR calculations and on bookings that span our selected range of dates right now we just divide the total by number of nights which can be close unless there are weekends and/or holidays involved.

Bri4 days agoOR Team Member Joined Mar, 2022620 posts

Hi, all!

We have added new field codes - BNRENTT and BNRENTL - that show booked nightly rates in table or list format. These can be used in emails and documents to show guests a breakdown of nightly rates for their stay.

With that, I will mark this request released! If you have further suggestions for improvements in this area, feel free to open a new Feature Request.

Thanks so much!

Could you add a trigger for x days before a rate season in Owner Rez starts?  

We close online booking until a certain point before the season starts (this year, online booking opens Jan 19 and the spring rate season starts April 21) to give last years guests priority in booking for the following season.  I want to send an email to all booked reservations to confirm they are indeed set with their reservation a few days before opening online booking.  It has been a hard adjustment for our guests to go from the paper calendar booking of the last 45 years to the online system with quotes.  A simple email with all their reservation details sent out a few days before will reassure those that are booked and remind those that thought they were booked because they got a Quote email.   

I have created the email template.  I would like to send 80 days before the start of our Spring '26 Season to those that are Confirmed.  

Jeanna

I was about to submit this exact same feature request. Many of my guests are understandably uncomfortable signing rental agreements and uploading IDs before they can see the specific payment and deposit details for their reservation.

I’m currently adding similar language to my forms, but since I can’t use field codes to tailor it to each reservation, it often leads to back-and-forth emails just to share that information. Being able to use field codes in this messaging would make the booking process far more automated, without taking away the transparency guests need to confidently complete their booking.

Hey Jennifer,

Unfortunately, there isn't a dedicated cancelled bookings report in OwnerRez, as you're already aware. However, you can still access and analyze your cancelled bookings data by exporting your Bookings List View.

- Go to the main Bookings screen
- Select List view
- Use the Filters to select Booking Status = Cancelled
- Export the results to Excel for further analysis

Not a perfect workaround, but I did want to let you know this was available.

Know anyone else who'd want to see this feature implemented? Send them the link so they can add their vote and show there's interest in making this happen!

It would be very helpful to have a specific report for cancelled bookings.  We'd like to monitor the percent and total cancelled booking over different periods of time and on different platforms so we can see trends and make adjustments.

We appreciate you taking the time to submit this feature request! If you know other users who would benefit from this, we'd encourage you to share it with them so they can add their support by way of an upvote at the top of the page.

We've received your feature request—thank you! If you think others would love this too, spread the word and invite them to upvote. Community feedback really helps us prioritize what to build next.

Hi Nicole,

I spent some time discussing this with our engineers and wanted to clarify how the description formatting works with hosted website themes and hopefully provide a solution that works for you.

When you manually select colors or fonts in the property description editor, it creates inline styles that take precedence over your hosted website theme settings. This is why your theme colors aren't showing up in your descriptions even though they're applied elsewhere on your site.

The fix is to use the clear formatting button (Tx button) in the description editor to remove the inline styles. Once you clear the formatting, your descriptions will automatically inherit the colors and fonts from your hosted website theme settings.

The reason it works this way is that property descriptions are designed to be flexible across different platforms (hosted sites, WordPress, etc.), so any manual formatting you apply takes precedence. To have your hosted website theme control the appearance, the descriptions need to be free of inline styling.

We're creating documentation to make this behavior and solution clearer for future reference. If you have multiple properties that need updating, you'll need to use the clear formatting button on each one to remove the inline styles.

Let me know if you have any questions or if this doesn't resolve the issue for you!

Hey Steve, thanks for submitting! If you think others would love this too, spread the word and invite them to upvote. Community feedback really helps us prioritize what to build next.

Hello Bri.

Thank you. As a dedicated anarchist/zagger/go-against-the-flow type, I have a massive aversion to Facebook, who have been proven to do what they do only so they can assimilate, mine and sell data on all of us.

That’s one of the reasons I appreciate these OR forums so much. I’ll go anywhere for a good discussion, as long as it’s not Facebook! 😁

Hi Robert,

Hope you're well!

I'd suggest checking out some of the dedicated Facebook groups for OwnerRez users - they tend to have more active conversations than the OR forums, which might make it easier to connect with those like-minded users and discuss features you're passionate about.

Additionally, many owners are part of local property management or owner groups in their regions, and those can be great places to share your OwnerRez experience and find others who might be interested in collaborating.

Agreed, it also allows hosts to tailor to season (float tubes in January? Maybe not) and activities available. 
Glad this is coming! Would love to beta test. 

That’s done quite well. 
I would ask to add “experiences” like nature walks, local tours, or whatever people dream up. 

It would be great to be able to offer “Experiences” without tithing to AB&B. 😎

This isn’t a feature request specifically, but more of a question relating to all feature requests. On a number of threads in this forum I’ve noticed OR staff say something like:

Feel free to share it with likeminded users who would be willing to give it an upvote!

My question is how? How can we share and/or promote features that we think are desperately needed in OwnerRez?

I personally have requested some features on this forum that to me are as obvious and needed as a steering wheel on a car, and the response has been *insert crickets sound here*. I guess if OwnerRez users want to turn their cars by dragging a foot on the ground out the door, that’s their choice… but I would sure love to be able to share and explain the benefits of steering wheels!

How does one share feature requests (other than simply post the request on this forum)? And find ‘like-minded’ users? (That one seems particularly tough amongst a sea of ‘foot-draggers’!)

I mean no disrespect to anyone, however there are many features lacking in OwnerRez because so many users are focused on Listing Site integration, as that’s where they get most of their bookings, but if the true path to success is through listing site independence, and direct bookings, those features which support and even promote direct bookings need to be higher priorities. Leadership often means having imagination, and seeing what could be better when it doesn’t exist, and NOT following the crowd.

If new features are mandated mostly by what the crowd wants, by definition they are only going to be ‘average’… not leading or cutting edge. There are only going to be a few out front, zigging while everyone else is zagging.

Perhaps we could have a forum dedicated to direct bookings, and features which enhance them; or how those of us less interested in another listing site integration can share and discuss ways to promote and gain market share for ourselves; and discuss in-depth needed features in threads which won’t be closed because moderators don’t truly understand the differences between different features that are being requested? (Ouch!) (Personally I wouldn’t mind wading through duplicate discussions if it prevents a few nuggets of ideas from getting lost.) Rather than closing/deleting threads perhaps a link to a ‘master vote-aggregating thread could be added, asking users to add their vote there as well, or instead, depending on what’s appropriate, as the referred link may not actually be specifically what the original is about?

That is a bit of a digression… so back to the main point; how do we share ideas and find ‘like-minded’ OwnerRez users? And in a related question, if one wants to develop a regional promotional site using the OwnerRez facility available for this (a great feature but how many know about it?) how can one find OwnerRez users it may be of interest to?

Perhaps the answers to these questions exist and are available in an obvious way? If so, go ahead and flame me, I can take the roasting. 🤗

It would be great to have some way to ‘seek out and find new (and other) OwnerRez users, who it seems only visit the forums when they’re looking for an answer to their own questions… to boldly go and promote/lead with new ideas, like no OwnerRez users have done before!!! (Cue cheesy 1960’s style TV music here!)

Any ideas? Anyone?

How do we actively reach out to others, rather than only sit around hoping things get noticed?

We're working on a Guest Portal now that we are planning to work this feature into! I'll mark this request as planned with that in mind.

There's no ETA I can provide at this time as we're still in the design stages, but we'll post updates here as they become available.

Thanks for your patience, everyone!

We appreciate you taking the time to submit this feature request! If you know other users who would benefit from this, we'd encourage you to share it with them so they can add their support by way of an upvote at the top of the page.

Processing adjustment is a very old concept, so I wouldn't worry about that.

On the API it's showing surcharge or surcharge_other for both charges and discounts. You can tell the difference based on the sign -- surcharges will be positive, discounts negative. This is how things are stored under the covers in the data -- everything is a "surcharge", the fee vs discount is just based on sign.