BlueMtnCabins

Joined June 2016
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Blog » Cancel For Any Reason (CFAR) travel insurance is now available!

[quote=Paul W] one of the fundamental tenants of insurance law is that it must be something the consumer chose to buy. [/quote] You don't say.. O-care comes to mind....

(Posted Apr 10, 2020 3:16 PM)

General Help and Questions » Empty Nights Between Guests

[quote=Paul W] Hell, the covid scare has pushed a lot of users to turn off their Airbnb listings entirely. .[/quote] yep. April is blocked bc our area asked for it. and reduced airbnb availabilit…

(Posted Apr 10, 2020 3:14 PM)

Feature Requests » AIRBNB HOST FEES

It is already there. Go to booking. Transactions tab. on the bottom there is "airbnb host fee"

(Posted Apr 7, 2020 10:18 AM)

General Help and Questions » Lynnbrook?

[quote=Paul W]Lynnbrook does not return fee data in the transaction, nor do most other processors and gateways. In fact, the only one we know of (anywhere) is Stripe and they only do it because they'…

(Posted Mar 19, 2020 3:59 PM)

General Help and Questions » Lynnbrook?

One more question. When using stripe, I get "stripe fee" with any CC transaction. Now with Lynnbrook I do not see processing fee in OR? Example ORPAY11528722

(Posted Mar 15, 2020 5:47 PM)

General Help and Questions » {BSDRS} - days before check in when sec dep is reserved discrepancy?

Not the BOOKINGRA both the default one. Bookingra was for BDC that I no longer use. Tx

(Posted Mar 14, 2020 12:08 PM)

General Help and Questions » {BSDRS} - days before check in when sec dep is reserved discrepancy?

[quote=Paul W]That IS it actually. 😜 If you preview your agreement (I assume you're talking about the "BOOKINGRA" agreement) against bookings, they are showing 1 day because the booking rule is 1 d…

(Posted Mar 14, 2020 12:00 PM)

Feature Requests » Multiple month calendar widget: Don't display rates for nights already booked

[quote=Ken T]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.[/quote] Super! Wonderful!

(Posted Mar 13, 2020 1:45 PM)

General Help and Questions » {BSDRS} - days before check in when sec dep is reserved discrepancy?

No, that is not it

(Posted Mar 13, 2020 1:44 PM)

General Help and Questions » Tax Time. ABB BDC VRBO FK/FK

Don't you have your own tool to track all that? I have never relied on 3rd parties to provide that info (if they do - great, but I do not need them to tell me how much I earned from which source). I …

(Posted Mar 13, 2020 1:44 PM)

General Help and Questions » RV Rentals

[quote=Ross C] You need to understand - NO ONE seems to offer significant PMS/channel management for motorhomes/campers/trailers that can be driven or offsite.[/quote] Maybe because the market is sm…

(Posted Mar 13, 2020 1:41 PM)

General Help and Questions » 15 properties required to sync ownerres to TripAdvisor?

[quote=Ross C]OK. I will have to use Flipkey as request to book (no instant booking) only. Why in the world are they trying to make less people want to use them???[/quote] I saw someplace their hi…

(Posted Mar 13, 2020 11:05 AM)

General Help and Questions » Lynnbrook?

Another lynnbrrook question. Just started with them and have secdep reserved. it shows on the booking but when I log into their cradpointe portal, I see no record of it there?

(Posted Mar 12, 2020 9:11 PM)

Blog » 7 ways to promote your vacation rental

[quote=Ross C]To me, too far and away the best place is to be on the four major sites. FlipKey TripAdvisor, booking.com, Airbnb, VRBO. Plus you're hosted website. There is no expense to me, because …

(Posted Mar 10, 2020 4:01 PM)

General Help and Questions » {BSDRS} - days before check in when sec dep is reserved discrepancy?

I set it to 2 on property rule. But when I use field {BSDRS} in the rental agreement, it shows 1 day. What am I doing wrong? ORP31455. TIA?

(Posted Mar 10, 2020 3:49 PM)

Blog » 7 ways to promote your vacation rental

A lot of it is not accurate as far as my market goes. And some are missing. For ex., my email newsletters that used to do quarterly and I have over 2K addresses on file resulted maybe in 3 rebookin…

(Posted Mar 10, 2020 10:33 AM)

General Help and Questions » CSS (maybe?) help?

Thank you.The only thing I managed to do is to code overflow-y: auto on some widget containers (like the Smokies owners one); it creates a scroll bar but better than having endless empty space on the…

(Posted Feb 28, 2020 1:22 PM)

General Help and Questions » CSS (maybe?) help?

Without going through hours of tutorials. I use website builder that offers Html Embed object (iframe) that I use to embed the inquiry/.book widget. Here is my dilemma: The defaults supplied Html …

(Posted Feb 28, 2020 10:59 AM)

General Help and Questions » Security deposit for 3rd party bookings

Resurrecting the topic. I want to hear from members how use sec dep (CC hold) on the following: 1. Have you ever had to charge from sec dep? If so, was it difficult? 2. If you had traditional dama…

(Posted Feb 25, 2020 10:14 AM)

Feature Requests » Wheelhouse

with API integration that is being discussed here, there is not need to import rates via spreadsheets They get pushed directly to OR and / or to OTA websites.

(Posted Feb 18, 2020 12:39 PM)