BlueMtnCabins

Joined June 2016
1184 posts
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General Help and Questions » Analytics/tracking help.

I have GA, and I can see people hitting widgets and website pages in real time. However, when inquiry comes into OR, I do not seem to find a way to see where the inquiry has originated. Is there some…

(Posted Jun 19, 2020 11:59 AM)

General Help and Questions » Gap Analysis - filling empty spacing

send a triggered email to renters when there is 1 night left before/after their stay offering to take that night with discount.

(Posted Jun 19, 2020 11:52 AM)

General Help and Questions » HTML Calculations?

There is another way of doing it. You create a trigger X days before guest's arrival if you have orphan night before/after their reservation. And trigger will send them email like this: Hi {CFIRST},…

(Posted Jun 16, 2020 11:11 PM)

General Chat » Anyone using RedAwning

[quote=Paul W] "Google Hotel Search" and "Google Hotel Ads" are the official names. There's a Hotels API but the specs are built for store-front style hotels that are open to the public and have uni…

(Posted Jun 14, 2020 11:02 AM)

Blog » Any of you nice people want to work for OwnerRez? I mean officially; not just on Facebook 😀

[quote=Paul W]Funny - after a couple more CSR's, we're looking to add a QA as well. We produce updates faster than we can test them, so our releases get backed up on QA for a week or two. A part-CS…

(Posted Jun 14, 2020 9:57 AM)

General Chat » Anyone using RedAwning

[quote=Paul W]We explored a couple channel managers and even got close to integrating with them a couple times. In the end, this was our view: https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/channel-manag…

(Posted Jun 14, 2020 9:55 AM)

Blog » Any of you nice people want to work for OwnerRez? I mean officially; not just on Facebook 😀

Did you mean me? LOL. mentioning that I should be on payroll? Dream retirement job for me! I can also possibly do QA testing. I just need to retire as I cannot now take on a 3rd job (between my main …

(Posted Jun 14, 2020 7:36 AM)

General Chat » Anyone using RedAwning

[quote=Chris L](side note: why I've soured on Booking.com is a topic for another thread, ha). But then I discovered that listing on Booking.com was perfectly easy and reasonable to do on my own (well…

(Posted Jun 14, 2020 7:31 AM)

General Help and Questions » Guest choice damage protection - is it here?

There was a talk before about offering guest choice damage insurance (either deposit OR insurance) that they can self select. Any news?

(Posted Jun 14, 2020 7:29 AM)

General Help and Questions » Lynnbrook users - are your fees higher than you expected?

I went from stripe with 2.9% straightforward flat fee per transaction to Lynnbrook which to me seems very convoluted. And that comes from someone working on acquirer side in merchant services for a m…

(Posted Jun 13, 2020 4:40 PM)

General Chat » Streaming Content for guests?

[quote=Paul W][ One of the things we do is pay a monthly maintenance retainer to all of our housekeepers with the expectation that they will: ....[/quote] Glad it works for you. I found that even p…

(Posted Jun 10, 2020 9:46 PM)

General Chat » Streaming Content for guests?

[quote=Paul W] Right, it's your account, not theirs. The point is to set up the TVs that way and then they turn them on and have no need to use their own accounts - it's all set up and paid for. …

(Posted Jun 10, 2020 5:36 PM)

General Chat » Streaming Content for guests?

[quote=Paul W] Netflix has an account setting where you can force profiles to use less data. Looks like this: [img https://cdn.orez.io/w/images/b46d955c133648d6a9f8e1c05deac1f9.png] That lowest 0…

(Posted Jun 10, 2020 3:29 PM)

General Help and Questions » Text message alerting inquiry

You probably can cc yourself on your phone by setting up email to go to <yournumber>@<yourcellprovider>.com which will text you

(Posted Jun 9, 2020 12:20 PM)

General Chat » Streaming Content for guests?

[quote=Jacques L]I have 4 cabins on a lake that I rent. I just dumped DirecTV, which was $200/mo. and am providing Disney+ and Hulu+Live TV instead. With these I'm supposed to be able to have 4 str…

(Posted Jun 9, 2020 11:59 AM)

General Chat » Anyone using RedAwning

I tried few years ago. Not a single inquiry. It is just another one of hose virtual PMs. they list your property on a bunch of channels and their own website. On the channels the add bunch of their o…

(Posted Jun 8, 2020 3:17 PM)

Blog » New Channel Rate Tester, rate table options, Channel Bridge clarity & only bookings on CanadaStays iCal

Thank you Paul. I am not sure what price consistently is, and I did not think that price could be inconsistent since OR pushes it to the channel. I guess I misunderstood the purpose of the tool, i th…

(Posted Jun 8, 2020 3:15 PM)

Blog » New Channel Rate Tester, rate table options, Channel Bridge clarity & only bookings on CanadaStays iCal

[quote=Lydia B]Unfortunately it does the same thing with AirBnB. I think their programming is designed to show what the charges should be based on OR rules (which is the OR column) and then shows wha…

(Posted Jun 8, 2020 9:11 AM)

Blog » New Channel Rate Tester, rate table options, Channel Bridge clarity & only bookings on CanadaStays iCal

I may be slow, not enough coffee LOL. Tried channel rate tester for HA, and it shows same numbers in top table (HA) and bottom table (presume direct?) (and not a comparison of HA vs direct). My HA …

(Posted Jun 7, 2020 10:02 AM)

General Help and Questions » OR / Vrbo integration - guest contact gone? How to deal with booking issue?

Before I was API integrated, I had all the guest contact info (as a PP). Now since the integration the contact info is gone. Which makes little sense - vrbo trusts me enough to collect and refund my …

(Posted Jun 7, 2020 9:54 AM)