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Gift Certificates 16 replies

Rex C
Jan 17, 2025 9:39 AM
OR Team Member Member for 4 years 84 posts

Hi Nick,

If you are in contact with someone on the Giftup team, you can give them our email address help@ownerrez.com to reach out about an integration. OwnerRez has an Open API that their dev team could write to, and if they have questions we can get them in touch with one of the engineers. 

WhatsApp Business Integration 43 replies

Nathan
Jan 16, 2025 2:33 PM
Member for 3 years 26 posts

WhatsApp for Business is currently in testing as of January 2025! 
International SMS messaging - Feature Requests - Forums - OwnerRez

Year end statements 2 replies

Amy S
Jan 16, 2025 11:59 AM
Member for 3 years 7 posts

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

Send the POC form alone when no Legal Agreement is required 2 replies

Katie D
Jan 16, 2025 10:53 AM
Member for 4 years 5 posts

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.

Built-in AI (similar to ChatGPT) 39 replies

Nathan
Jan 15, 2025 6:37 PM
Member for 3 years 26 posts

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.

by Paul W – Apr 22, 2024 10:22 AM (UTC)

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.

Year End Statement for PM 71 replies

Jason B
Jan 15, 2025 8:11 AM
Member for 5 years 65 posts

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.

Change the date Airbnb payments are recorded in Quickbooks. 0 replies

David P
Jan 14, 2025 6:33 PM
Member for 5 years 1 post

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. 

Levels of Team Access Permissions 62 replies

Bri
Jan 14, 2025 3:33 PM
OR Team Member Member for 4 years 779 posts

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!

PM Statement Views 0 replies

Pink Pineapple P
Jan 14, 2025 8:34 AM
Member for 5 years 1 post

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. :)

Roku integration 1 reply

Robert P
Jan 13, 2025 11:50 PM
Member for 2 years 94 posts

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.

Export date/time data for Inbox 5 replies

Magnolia A
Jan 13, 2025 11:14 AM
Member for 3 years 2 posts

Has there been an update on this feature?

Match Airbnb's most popular option by adding a "days after booking" tab to the cancellation policy menu 1 reply

Bri
Jan 13, 2025 11:05 AM
OR Team Member Member for 4 years 779 posts

[This topic has been closed as a duplicate of another topic (Additional OR Cancellation Policy Options)]

Additional OR Cancellation Policy Options 11 replies

Bri
Jan 13, 2025 11:05 AM
OR Team Member Member for 4 years 779 posts

Levels of Team Access Permissions 62 replies

Austin B
Jan 12, 2025 5:16 PM
Member for 4 years 1 post

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. 

Add 'Review' status as option for triggers 3 replies

Maven Vacation R
Jan 11, 2025 12:27 PM
Member for 7 years 7 posts

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. 

Stripe Identity 8 replies

Bri
Jan 10, 2025 2:37 PM
OR Team Member Member for 4 years 779 posts

[This topic has been closed as a duplicate of another topic (Implement Know you Customer (KYC) to make charge backs less lightly - ID Checking to lower Fraud.)]

Implement Know Your Customer (KYC) to make chargebacks less likely - ID Checking to lower Fraud 8 replies

Bri
Jan 10, 2025 2:36 PM
OR Team Member Member for 4 years 779 posts

[Another topic was closed as a duplicate of this topic (Stripe Identity)]

Variable Commissions 1 reply

Randy H
Jan 10, 2025 10:13 AM
Member for 7 years 60 posts

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 

                 

International SMS messaging 4 replies

Richard and Dallas C
Jan 10, 2025 8:51 AM
Member for 5 years 12 posts

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.

International SMS messaging 4 replies

Shawn H
Jan 9, 2025 7:21 PM
OR Team Member Member for 4 years 312 posts

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.

Record manual/offline security deposit (e.g. via Check) 2 replies

Chandler K
Jan 9, 2025 5:43 PM
Member for 2 years 1 post

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). 

Tag Automations from Surcharges and Discounts 24 replies

alexa
Jan 9, 2025 4:01 PM
Member for 1 year 5 posts

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

Set a Trigger For for Field in Custom Field 0 replies

Donna M
Jan 9, 2025 5:04 AM
Member for 8 years 50 posts

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.


 

 

Year End Statement for PM 71 replies

Adria H
Jan 8, 2025 10:07 PM
OR Team Member Member for 3 years 186 posts

Added you Kathy

Year End Statement for PM 71 replies

Kathy B
Jan 8, 2025 11:54 AM
Member for 6 years 1 post

Please add me to the list!

Thank you, Kathy Bogan, VIP Vacation Rentals

 

Report on message response times? 1 reply

Jennifer W
Jan 8, 2025 11:47 AM
Member for 6 years 94 posts

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

Year End Statement for PM 71 replies

Alece
Jan 8, 2025 11:29 AM
Member for 6 years 381 posts

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!? 

Detailed Billing Statement 1 reply

Bri
Jan 8, 2025 8:01 AM
OR Team Member Member for 4 years 779 posts

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!

Add dynamic variables to build messages 1 reply

Alece
Jan 7, 2025 1:25 PM
Member for 6 years 381 posts

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!

Add dynamic variables to build messages 1 reply

Rosa R
Jan 7, 2025 12:47 PM
Member for 1 year 1 post

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.