Leaving Hostaway because of the 2% booking fee?

James L

Joined October 2021
74 posts
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General Help and Questions » Help with some odd pricing.

I have had a request from one of my clients and I'm going round in circles with the pricing. They want a sat-sat price and a Mon-Fri price, this of course varies several times a year. Any sug…

(Posted 3 days ago)

General Help and Questions » Unblocking a room

I have a guest who has booked an apartment for 3 weeks. Unfortunately a pipe started leaking so I moved them to another apartment. It took 4 days for me to get the leak and everything tidied up. …

(Posted Oct 27, 2024 3:34 PM)

General Help and Questions » SMS in the UK

Has anyone UK based got a workaround to send messages via a UK mobile number? The best I am looking at triggering an e-mail which is sent to something like text connect when then fires of the e-mail …

(Posted Oct 17, 2024 12:25 PM)

Feature Requests » Smart Pricing

Yeah I know. I currently use the Pricelabs one. I just saw this new one had appeared and wondered if anyone else had heard of them.

(Posted Aug 27, 2024 3:06 PM)

Feature Requests » Smart Pricing

Anyone heard of Smartpricing? https://www.smartpricing.it/en I spotted them the other day and the information they have looks good so far but as soon as I realised there was no OR integration…

(Posted Aug 27, 2024 9:07 AM)

General Help and Questions » Booking.com Date change issue

I've just sent the following to Support but I wondered if anyone else had come across it. If anyone has any ideas or experience of this I'd be grateful for the info. -----------------------------…

(Posted Aug 25, 2024 7:11 AM)

General Help and Questions » Any updates to the API connection with Vrbo (in particular VAT)?

Sorry for the title pressed go without finishing..    I was wondering if there have been any developments with the API connection to VRBO. In particular the VAT registration issue in the …

(Posted Aug 16, 2024 6:31 PM)

General Help and Questions » Surcharge and widget issue

I recently changed my pricing strategy and wanted to add a 10% uplift to all of my direct websites. So I created a quick surcharge.10% management fee and selected the websites. It all looked …

(Posted Aug 1, 2024 6:11 AM)

General Help and Questions » Booking.com Passwords

Hi This isn't an OR question as such but I am hoping someone here might know the answer. I have tried logging into the Booking.com extranet today and told me my password was incorrect. Strang…

(Posted Jul 9, 2024 11:55 AM)

General Help and Questions » Bit of a complicated one 90 day + stays

Hi There Got a complicated one here. I'm looking for how to set up a system of allowing minimum 3 night stays during May, June, July and August. Then having a 90 day minimum for the rest of the y…

(Posted Jun 28, 2024 6:58 AM)

General Help and Questions » Location on Booking.com

Hi A quick question about location to the experts on here. I recently took on a new client who had a property already listed on Airbnb, Booking.com and VRBO (through uplisting). I imported th…

(Posted Jun 13, 2024 1:20 PM)

General Chat » Request to book and Seasons.

I want to set up a season (Nov-Feb) where it becomes request to book on both Airbnb and Booking.com. I have looked and request to book is available to me on Booking.com and Airbnb I'm just not su…

(Posted May 16, 2024 8:07 AM)

General Help and Questions » Airbnb Sync status blank?

I just went into my Airbnb listings on their site and found that 3 of them had a blank next to the Sync Status section. I checked permissions and Ownerez is still authorised, I then checked OR itself…

(Posted May 9, 2024 12:47 PM)

General Help and Questions » Rental agreements and booking.com.

Thanks Ken. I found the section under property description. The fine print. You can tick a box in there.

(Posted Apr 30, 2024 9:28 AM)

General Help and Questions » Rental agreements and booking.com.

I am looking for info on how and where we put the info requiring a rental agreement with Booking.com. I keep finding the Airbnb and VRBO information but am going around in circles with booking.com. …

(Posted Apr 29, 2024 5:12 AM)

General Help and Questions » VRBO API and property management.

Thanks Ken!

(Posted Apr 25, 2024 1:50 PM)

General Help and Questions » VRBO API and property management.

I'm running several properties in the UK and need to connect a couple up to VRBO and create new accounts for them. I just wanted to ask how the API is organised? For example for each property…

(Posted Apr 25, 2024 1:37 PM)

General Help and Questions » Uplisting - Moving from

Hi All Anyone have any experience moving a property from Uplisting to OR? I've just taken on a new client and they are currently with Uplisting. Had a brief look around and can't see any guides a…

(Posted Apr 16, 2024 11:01 AM)

General Help and Questions » Airbnb and Booking.com channel messages

Which of the Field codes work through the Airbnb and Booking.com Channel messaging services? Thanks

(Posted Apr 12, 2024 12:30 PM)

General Help and Questions » Airbnb reauthorise problem.

All sorted. Had to get the listing owner to go into his account and confirm his identity? Everything worked again after that?

(Posted Mar 29, 2024 9:46 AM)