Episode seven of Walk 'n Talk: The Business Behind Vacation Rentals () podcast is live!
Inspired by their weekly walks, Paul Waldschmidt and Chris Hynes, co-founders of OwnerRez, created the Walk 'n Talk podcast to give everyone a peek into the challenging conversations that have shaped OwnerRez over the years. Whether you're a host, manager, entrepreneur, or just curiou...
The OwnerRez system handles auto-cancellation and reminders about payments not received. Services for scheduled payments and security deposit collection, reauthorization, and release services occur at midnight in each property's timezone. The service operates around that time, so it may not exactly start at midnight, but any properties within that timezone will be queued up.
While collecting gues...
While the Rates Calendar () lets you set Minimum, Maximum Nights, and Changeover Rules, that's not all. Review our Property Rules Overview () support article to make sure you've configured all your property rules.
Also, check out our Navigate the Rates Calendar (
Disabling a channel integration allows you to stop taking bookings on that listing channel (e.g., Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, etc.) while maintaining your property information in OwnerRez. In this support article, we will review how to disable or delist a channel integration.
Before considering disabling your property in OwnerRez (
New Features
* Add new Quality Center dashboard for property metrics and includes Reviews, Listing Quality Analyzer (LQA), and, if Rezzy-AI is enabled, Guest Sentiment
Enhancements
* Allows hosts to select automatic Avalara transaction synchronization day of the month (1-9)
Design
* Improve Ask Rezzy support chat on mobile
Bug Fixes
* Ensure YouTube Shorts for Hosted Website photos...
On January 5th, 2026 we sent an email to our customers that currently have Converge as a payment processor in OwnerRez. Many have written back in our posted on other forums across the internet with questions and concerns. I wanted to take a minute to explain a bit further why the decision has been made to deprecate Converge as a Payment Processor in OwnerRez.
Converge Deprecation Update
Conver...
4) Way too much unnecessary clicking when navigating. - not sure what you mean - seems subjective
Just have to chime in on this one, as it is a major frustration for me in OwnerRez. It is not subjective at all.
By any measure, it takes way too much clicking around to do anything in OwnerRez.
Just look at Changing Charges on a reservation or quote.
First you have to click 'Charges'...
That's good to hear. Can anything be done about making ORez pull data faster so you can have two way conversation with guests via ORez? It's a bit of an Earth to Mars delay at present.by Piers C (/forums/users/347479492) – Feb 22, 2026 5:41 PM (UTC)
The vast majority of the time, the delay between Airbnb and OwnerRez is only a few seconds, so chatting with Airbnb guests is very normal and the...