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Ken T

OwnerRez Team Member
Joined August 2019
1572 posts
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General Help and Questions » Blocked time not showing on VRBO/Airbnb

Please write in to the Helpdesk with specifics as to the blocks that are having problems, and we'll investigate what's going on.

(Posted Aug 9, 2021 1:53 PM)

General Help and Questions » Exporting to VRBO

No, that shouldn't be the problem - Vrbo allows only 5 calendars *per property*, but you shouldn't need more than one per each property.

(Posted Aug 6, 2021 3:14 PM)

General Help and Questions » Exporting to VRBO

Yes, that's correct - one iCal link can only contain the data for one property.

(Posted Aug 6, 2021 2:20 PM)

General Help and Questions » Exporting to VRBO

You'd normally need one iCal import from Vrbo into OwnerRez, and then one iCal export from OwnerRez back into Vrbo. So that should be fine: https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/channel-manag…

(Posted Aug 5, 2021 2:39 PM)

General Help and Questions » Damage Insurance Coverage

Here's information about our Damage Protection program: https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/damage-protection-overview The DP program covers the cost of damage and repairs, but not lost r…

(Posted Aug 3, 2021 1:52 PM)

Feature Requests » Texting (SMS) from OwnerRez

You can forward voice calls made to your SMS number, to another phone number, yes. You cannot forward SMS messages though.

(Posted Aug 2, 2021 11:06 AM)

Feature Requests » Owner feature - Reviews and communication feature

We do plan to add additional capabilities to the owners portal over time.

(Posted Aug 2, 2021 9:56 AM)

General Help and Questions » Credit card processing

Actually, one of the Vrbo API requirements is specifically to have your own credit card payment processor - with the API, Vrbo does not handle guest payments. https://www.ownerrez.com/support/arti…

(Posted Jul 29, 2021 10:51 AM)

General Help and Questions » Inquiry: how to setup a trigger for me to notify inquiry person if dates become available due to cancellation?

At present, unfortunately, no, we don't have any automated "standby" notification capability.

(Posted Jul 28, 2021 2:00 PM)

General Help and Questions » Rate calendar not updating

Yes, that would do it - importing rates from a channel creates Spot Rates.

(Posted Jul 27, 2021 1:24 PM)

General Help and Questions » 'Custom fields' in Templates not showing up in correct font/size and on different line - help please?

Formatting and custom fields is a very complex and challenging issue because of all the invisible coding going on behind the scenes - depending on the type of field, there may be embedded HTML in it,…

(Posted Jul 27, 2021 1:22 PM)

General Help and Questions » Rate calendar not updating

There are several overlapping rate systems in OwnerRez that are used for different purposes, and which can cause confusion if you don't know what you're looking at. This video may help explain: h…

(Posted Jul 26, 2021 5:29 PM)

Developer Community » CSS help

Have you taken a look at this page? https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/hosted-website-css-magic If you have more specific questions, please write in to the Helpdesk with a detailed descr…

(Posted Jul 24, 2021 1:28 PM)

General Help and Questions » Airbnb email not imported to OR

Please write in to the Helpdesk so we can take a look - normally, you can pick those up using Channel Bridge for past bookings, and they come in automatically for newly-created ones.

(Posted Jul 19, 2021 7:02 PM)

General Help and Questions » Under Rules: Setting to change minimum nights if there is a gap

[quote=Tarki]It'd be great if we could define the gap length between bookings and minimum nights for this gap. I'd like to be able to have 2-night bookings for 3-night gaps. [/quote] But, you alre…

(Posted Jul 16, 2021 3:26 PM)

General Help and Questions » Housekeeping Scheduling

We've decided not to include or add any further housekeeping-scheduling features in the foreseeable future. It turns out there's a lot of complexity there, and we have solid integrations with partne…

(Posted Jul 16, 2021 10:16 AM)

Feature Requests » Email replies from guests

I wouldn't anticipate this new feature in the new future. Maybe next year.

(Posted Jul 15, 2021 9:57 PM)

General Help and Questions » Auto Email to the Key Service

Most likely, you can create an email template and trigger using our Field Codes to contain the required information, and automatically send the email to a specific email address. https://www.owner…

(Posted Jul 15, 2021 11:20 AM)

General Help and Questions » Does AirBnB collect the payments?

Yes, that's normal, because Airbnb doesn't automatically send us payment information. You have to collect that from time to time using Channel Bridge: https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/ch…

(Posted Jul 15, 2021 11:19 AM)

Feature Requests » Coupon or discount line in the quote/invoice

I think you're looking for this? https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/discount-codes

(Posted Jul 14, 2021 2:23 PM)