Feature Requests

Latest Activity...

Check in and Check out times for automated tags 4 replies

Magnolia A
Sep 5, 2024 7:09 PM
Member for 2 years 2 posts

Great idea 

This is an awesome addition 

Check in and Check out times for automated tags 4 replies

Diana R
Sep 5, 2024 7:07 PM
Member for 5 years 7 posts

We would like to be able to automatically tag if someone wants early check-in or check-out or if we change the time the guest checks in or out and it automatically tags it. 

Surcharges: ability to select only the applicable tax rate for each surcharge (e.g. GST only not GST/PST) 3 replies

Keltie H
Sep 5, 2024 12:24 PM
Member for 3 years 1 post

We need to use two different tax rates here in BC:

  1. GST (5%) - applicable on all property rental fees and surcharges
  2. PST (8% for us) - applicable on Property Rental Fee only.

Right now we are manually correcting the tax amount by removing the % and manually entering a tax amount. This is liable to human error & a legal issue if we make a mistake.

Can you develop a way to select which taxes apply to which surcharges? 

Comprehensive Fix for Accounting/Quickbooks - develop Roadmap 76 replies

Paul W
Sep 5, 2024 7:51 AM
OR Team Member Member for 16 years 883 posts

I saw that you said Converge and Authorize.net are coming soon but in the meantime, do these updates help anything or should I continue doing our same manual Airbnb fee adjustment process until Converge is supported?

Converge and Authorize.Net are not supported as automatic deposit yet, but you can certainly do manual deposits for Converge or Authorize.Net.  Just go to Tools > Deposits > Manually Record and create deposit records, using the Converge payments that show there.  Any deposits that are created - whether automatic or manually - can be synced to QB.

Also don't forget about Airbnb.  Regardless of your Converge CC payments, you still have Airbnb payouts coming through, and those are fully automated including the deposit.

Disabled Property Reporting 2 replies

Jason B
Sep 4, 2024 10:44 PM
Member for 5 years 63 posts

I agree.. should be a check box on report page.. "include disabled properties"...

Here is a duplicate thread:

https://www.ownerrez.com/forums/general-help/run-reports-to-see-historical-payment-info-from-disabled-properties

Photo organizing 11 replies

Kim Ward
Sep 4, 2024 6:07 PM
Member for 8 years 9 posts

Yes, please! With 33 properties, I am constantly updating photos. This process takes way too long. Have a numbering system!

Comprehensive Fix for Accounting/Quickbooks - develop Roadmap 76 replies

Honeyland Homes
Sep 4, 2024 4:31 PM
Member for 3 years 4 posts

This is great news, Paul! We have been sync'd with Quickbooks and doing manual deposits (specifically for the Airbnb fee discrepancy). Can you tell me if anything will change as of today if we are with Converge?
I saw that you said Converge and Authorize.net are coming soon but in the meantime, do these updates help anything or should I continue doing our same manual Airbnb fee adjustment process until Converge is supported?

I'm looking forward to the day when it's all sync'd up and bookkeeping gets really easy!!

Price comparison widget 55 replies

Tarki
Sep 4, 2024 1:39 PM
Member for 5 years 77 posts

Voting is a good thing but a good idea is a good idea regardless how many people vote for it. We don't always see everything in the forums as we've got busy lives.

So, in my opinion, you should NOT only consider the number of votes but use some common sense as well.

Ability to book directly from general availability search 4 replies

Tarki
Sep 4, 2024 1:12 PM
Member for 5 years 77 posts

I'd like to add something else related to this discussion. OR support tells me in a very casual way that "When it comes to the pricing shown on the Availability/Search widget, it will not factor in any discounts you provide."

 

This is such a fundamental and very important thing. Discounts are a very natural and important part of pricing strategy and if you don't show accurate prices to potential customers they'll be confused, they'll question our credibility and not book with us. 

 

Look at the following examples, take the first apartment for example. Per night price is shown as 332 Euros and the total for two nights is shown as 508 Euros! How is this acceptable?

 

Year End Statement for PM 71 replies

Justin L
Sep 3, 2024 9:40 PM
Member for 2 years 34 posts

Are yawl still on track to release something for 2024 taxes? Would love an update =)

Deposits suggestions 1 reply

Alece
Sep 3, 2024 5:17 PM
Member for 6 years 357 posts

I'm baffled that there is no Detailed Deposit Report or an ability to export into a spreadsheet! 

More options for custom fields 6 replies

Bri
Sep 3, 2024 2:20 PM
OR Team Member Member for 4 years 708 posts

Hi,

I've moved this post over to our Feature Requests forum so that other users can upvote this if they too would like to see this feature implemented in OR!

Comprehensive Fix for Accounting/Quickbooks - develop Roadmap 76 replies

Home Suite Stays
Sep 3, 2024 12:26 PM
Member for 3 years 10 posts

Thanks for the update Paul!

Quotes 0 replies

Amy A
Sep 3, 2024 12:05 PM
Member for 4 years 2 posts

Is there a way to send a quote to a guest and when they book off of that quote, they can enter / edit the number of guests (adults, kids)?

Comprehensive Fix for Accounting/Quickbooks - develop Roadmap 76 replies

Paul W
Sep 3, 2024 8:12 AM
OR Team Member Member for 16 years 883 posts

Can you look at our account and see why the manual deposit sync is not pushing? I'm hoping we can sync prior deposits as I am very far behind on bookkeeping because I hate doing the deposits so much! 

I do see deposits syncing in your account.  Here is the latest deposit, for instance.  You can see the QuickBooks Sync succeeded and links to the bank deposit on the QB side:

Previous (historical) deposits may not sync automatically until you turn them on.  This is so QB is not flooded with new transactions for deposits that were already reconciled.

You should use the manual "Action" button on older deposits to sync them manually. Each deposit in OwnerRez has new QuickBooks fields and an Actions button next to it.

I noticed you said "manual" deposit sync in your comment, so maybe you already know this and have tried it? If so, and there's a specific deposit that won't sync, write to our help desk with the specific deposit so we can take a look.

Comprehensive Fix for Accounting/Quickbooks - develop Roadmap 76 replies

Stacia and Larry M
Sep 2, 2024 11:42 AM
Member for 5 years 22 posts

Can you look at our account and see why the manual deposit sync is not pushing? I'm hoping we can sync prior deposits as I am very far behind on bookkeeping because I hate doing the deposits so much! 

Comprehensive Fix for Accounting/Quickbooks - develop Roadmap 76 replies

Paul W
Sep 2, 2024 11:07 AM
OR Team Member Member for 16 years 883 posts

Would this combine multiple payments sent by Airbnb into a single deposit?

Yep! That's the entire point - to take deposits that contain multiple different payments and fees and properly group them together and produce a single to-the-penny "bank deposit" in QuickBooks.  Then, when your bank transactions come into QuickBooks, you can match them up with a single click.

Note: you have to have Airbnb "transaction sync" running already in OwnerRez for your Airbnb payouts to automatically come into OwnerRez as deposits.  If you don't use Transaction Sync, make sure to turn that on first.

Look at Tools > Deposits in OwnerRez to see your current list of deposits.  Whatever is listed there is what will sync to QuickBooks.  If they don't come in there automatically (like Airbnb, Stripe, Lynnbrook), then you need to use the Manually Record button to create them yourself.  However, even if you have to manually record each deposit, it is much easier to do that on the OwnerRez side, where you have booking and payment data, than in your QuickBooks account, where you don't know which lump sum deposits go with which invoices.

I noticed that you asked this previously, then removed it:

The dropdown for fee expense doesn't open any choices - is that portion not ready yet?

That's a good question, so I wanted to answer it for others that might be wondering the same thing.  The drop-down of expenses comes from your Chart of Accounts in QuickBooks.  So if the drop-down is empty, it means you need to use Refresh References to get a new list of accounts to use.  Refresh References does a live check against your QuickBooks account, pulls the list into OwnerRez, and then you can update your OwnerRez settings.

Comprehensive Fix for Accounting/Quickbooks - develop Roadmap 76 replies

Stacia and Larry M
Sep 2, 2024 10:52 AM
Member for 5 years 22 posts

Would this combine multiple payments sent by Airbnb into a single deposit?

 

Comprehensive Fix for Accounting/Quickbooks - develop Roadmap 76 replies

Paul W
Sep 2, 2024 10:14 AM
OR Team Member Member for 16 years 883 posts

For all of you watching this QuickBooks topic, take a look at our new Deposits & Fee syncing, just released this past week.  There's no product update post about it yet (it will be included in the August 2024 edition), but you can see a support article here that is partially finished:

https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/quickbooks-deposits

We're super excited about this new deposit syncing option and hope we have some QB users here that will turn it on and let us know what they like/dislike.

This will now give you to-the-penny deposits in QB with matching payments and fees (ie. adjustments) included. This new deposit syncing requires you to use our Deposits feature to track your incoming payouts and deposits - it's based on that.  If you use Airbnb, Stripe, and/or Lynnbrook, deposits are created automatically for you.  If you don't use those, you need to manually record deposits in OwnerRez which then flow over to QB via this new syncing option.

PS. For those of you wondering, it does not include refunds.  So if you have a deposit that includes a refund, that deposit will be skipped.

PS 2. We are working on adding automatic deposits for Authorize.Net and Converge, so that you get those deposits automatically as well.

Add an API integration for Hipcamp and Glamping Hub 15 replies

Sandra C
Sep 1, 2024 9:09 AM
Member for 2 years 1 post

I'm going to write to Hipcamp now too.

 

More options for custom fields 6 replies

Sunriverholidays
Aug 31, 2024 3:08 PM
Member for 2 years 1 post

Hello there, Can you please look into expanding the options where a custom field can be applied. I want to collect ID only from my direct bookings and exclude Airbnb/VRBO. 

Make the Inbox feature similar to other messaging apps and inboxes 60 replies

Rim Lakes Vacation Rentals -
Aug 30, 2024 12:54 PM
Member for 5 years 12 posts

As a returning client, I am loving the growth of the unified inbox to include AirBNB, VRBO and Booking.com messages  We have a dedicated Gmail account that we would love to have messages funnel into OR as well.  Is there any update on this?

 

Tag Sorting 0 replies

Casa By The Sea
Aug 30, 2024 10:09 AM
Member for 7 years 7 posts

Add the ability to sort bookings by TAG

Order/hide or filter columns - LIST VIEW 1 reply

Shannon H
Aug 30, 2024 9:51 AM
Member for 4 years 8 posts

Since the roll-out of the new layout, it's been very difficult to navigate scrolling back and forth trying to see all the needed columns in list view even with the black ownerrez nav bar minimized....especially if we use tags.    It would be so helpful if we were able to order the columns the way we need to see them, or hide ones we don't want to see. 
It would even be useful if in the filters we could filter out columns so we can set the default view the way that works for us.

We'd love to take advantage of the new auto-tag feature you just rolled out but doing so will make the view even more difficult to see. 

For example: I don't always immediately need to see the "Status"  or maybe I want to completely hide the "P" column because we don't allow pets. 
I can't see the entire row because in order to scroll down, I either have to only display 20 at a time, or scroll down to the bottom of the 100 I have displayed to find the scroll horizontal scroll bar.   Maybe this isn't a big deal for those who work exclusively from their phones because they can side swipe?   

Map inside Availability/Search Widget 9 replies

Justin L
Aug 29, 2024 3:52 PM
Member for 2 years 34 posts

Bump! I agree.

Levels of Team Access Permissions 62 replies

DreamsNDruthers
Aug 29, 2024 2:43 PM
Member for 8 years 8 posts

Any update on this?  When might we have this “this year”? 

Zapier: Push property name (not just property ID) 21 replies

Alece
Aug 29, 2024 9:48 AM
Member for 6 years 357 posts

Hey David -- I've gotten Zapier to work, however the way OR has their integration with them structured it takes SO MANY ZAPS to complete. (Making it a costly endeavor on the Zapier side.) I wish their integration was more robust so it could be accomplished more simply -- or, as you suggested, a formal integration with OpenPhone would be even more ideal!! 

Integration with Homes and Villas by Marriott Bonvoy 45 replies

Chris B
Aug 28, 2024 7:17 PM
Member for 2 years 2 posts

Please put Marriott integration in the development pipeline.  You risk losing some of your larger luxury PMs without this channel.  Thank you.

Dynamic Length of Stay Pricing 34 replies

Adria H
Aug 28, 2024 4:32 PM
OR Team Member Member for 3 years 185 posts

I have two adjacent properties that are very similar. Summer 2023 I made one property have a cleaning fee that is rolled into rent (mgmt fee) & the other property show the cleaning fee. I have noticed no substantive difference between the two.

Airbnb is already, often, rolling the cleaning fee into rent so that might be part of it.

Dynamic Length of Stay Pricing 34 replies

Nathan
Aug 28, 2024 4:28 PM
Member for 2 years 26 posts

We have been performing well, but it's difficult to determine how much of that success is due to the elimination of the cleaning fee.

I plan to continue with this strategy, as I see no reason to change it. At the very least, guests may appreciate not seeing a cleaning fee, even if it doesn't impact the algorithm.

Additionally, I offer mid-stay cleaning for an extra fee. Since I don't list a cleaning fee on Airbnb, I can adjust my offerings to guests without having it compared to a published cleaning fee.