OwnerRez closed out 2024 strong - with some powerful new features, including Google Vacation Rentals Request-To-Book, Lynnbrook Group Security Deposit Holds, Airbnb per guest/pet/night surcharges, and the ability to run reports on disabled properties! These and much more rounded out a busy 2024 - read on to see how things shook out in December.
* New Features (#new-features)
* Google Vacatio...
...low them to compare and contrast bookings options amongst our properties.
For example:
I have one immediate req...
...s within the booking. When someone buys a basket or a couples massage (set up as "surcharges") during their booking process, we want to 1) tag the booking with the surcharge automatically which would 2) allow us to send an email out for any booking with that particular tag.
Could you let me know if this type of automation in tagging is in the works? Thanks!
...ely 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.
So I have 1 apartment blocked out with an Airbnb booking for 2 more weeks which doesn’t have anyone in it.
The 2nd apartment has the guests in and I’ve blocked it off for the rest of their stay.
Is it possible to unblock the first apartment?
...to communicate with guests directly through their email. Unfortunately, the channel doesn't always supply client email. One channel seems to pass the guest email through in the booking less than 1/2 the time.
I want the ability to test to see if the email was provided. I have a series of templates delivered to guest emails. When the email is not provided none of the templates is sent....
...filter to the bookings GET
* We've removed the deprecated sinceUtc parameter from the bookings GET. Use since_utc instead.
New Property: entity on Webhooks
[Change effective August 6, 2025]
All webhooks now include a new property entity which contains an object representing the related record.
Example:
{
"action": "entity_update",
"categories": [
"other"
],
"entity": {
"...
New Property: Travel Insurance information on Bookings
[Change effective April 2, 2025]
The GET v2/bookings/{id} () endpoint and GET v2/bookings (
...a guest asked for alternate directions, instead of doing it the old way by choosing "Use Template" and then choosing the one I want, I had to:
1. Go to Setting | Templates | Channel Templates
2. Find the message to use
3. Copy the message by hand
4. Paste the message into my reply to the guest by hand
5. Manually replace all the field codes
6. Send
This is not an improve...
...e able to change that language to "Unfortunately, Saturday check-in's or check-outs are not available"? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Here are examples of what I am referring to (PMS: ResNexus & CheckFront):
...pushing the customer for questions or to convert. You can do that with the new quote triggers. Create a scheduled one, [x] days after quote created, with condition quote status is still "open".
2) Alert the guest that their quote is no longer valid when someone else takes the dates or property. ie. the quote becomes "preempted". Basically, you want to shoot out emails to everyone with those...
We have a number of staff creating and making changes to bookings. It would be great to see in the Activity section, which staff created the booking, which staff made a change or applied a payment, etc. by Camelo Y (/forums/users/347445261) – Oct 30, 2024 2:09 PM (UTC)
This would be a welcome feature in terms of accountability.
...or: (/integrations#GuestCommunication)
If you have additional questions, reach out to help@ownerrez.com by Katie W (/forums/users/347436821) – Jan 31, 2025 2:36 PM (UTC)
Sorry for the late response.... Thank you for the reply and the info, I wil look into this.
Lianne
Thanks for the timely response! If you're working on it, I can tolerate it.
But since you asked what else could be fixed:
(1) Ability to resize the panels
(2) When opening the inbox, the main panel should show the latest message, not a blank screen (maybe this is just my preference)
(3) Filtering is great (thank you!) but it would be nice to have a search function.
Thanks!