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Vacation rental demand at the Jersey Shore is rising for summer 2025 () , with bookings up 4.1% compared to last year, according to AirDNA. However, travelers are waiting longer...
...expectations shaping the market. From policy changes and community pushback to booking trends and rebranding efforts, here's a look at the major developments making headlines this week.
As of April 21, 2025, Airbnb has implemented a global update to display the total price of listings, (
...able, and their rules will still be "no security deposit."
Each property has a Rules area, where you can configure the default settings for Security Deposits.
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Each Booking also has a Rules tab. This is automatically populated by whatever's set for the Prop...
...wnerrez.com/settings/fielddefinitions) ! This is under Settings > Custom Field Definitions.
* Webinar: Focus Session - Fields and Custom Fields ()
* Types of Field Codes (#types)
* Custom Field Definitions (#field-defs)
* Quote Acceptance or Renter Agreement Signing Configuration (#quote-accept)
* Guest Experience D...
...Service Pricing
ProConnect Service clients may choose to add on the ProTransfer Service () for an additional $150 for the first 2 properties, $50 per property for properties 3-9, and then $25 per property for each additional property.
Number of Properties ProConnect Only ProConnect + ProTransfer
First 2 properties $5...
...ort/articles/widgets)
* Adding OwnerRez widgets to WordPress ()
Timeline:
0:00 - Introduction (#0)
0:44 - OwnerRez setup (#44)
2:15 - Widget creation (#135)
2:48 - Shortcode creation (#168)
3:54 - Widget install (#234)
4:47 - Import calendar and set up payment methods (#287)
6:56 - Walk through booking as a guest
7:45...
...u again for choosing {PDISPNAME} for your {BARR} to {BDEP} stay. And we hope that you want to return again!
As a special enticement, we'd like to offer a special 10% discount code, FANCYSTAYAGAIN10 (2-night minimum stay), that you can enter during the checkout process on our website, {MYURL}.
Booking directly with us saves both of us a lot of fees--usually hundreds of dollars. It's not too early...
...r multiplier not on the list will not be used.
* Standard Condition: Property, Season, Listing Site
* Multiplier: Guests, Adults, Children. It only supports multiplying for every 1 item (not every 2, etc.). Discounts don't support multipliers.
* Arrival Days From Now
* Number Of Nights
* Guests, Adults, Children: You can use any of these conditions but only one of them
* Pets. Pet multiplier...
...both and can share their experience .
EDIT:
I'm new here so I'm discovering things.
+1 for OR: Using Tag automations. This appears like it will come in really handy.
EDIT 2:
I've had some time to play around with Ownerrez and here are my takeaways.
Hostaway has a clean and modern feel to it, and a decent amount of customization but it pretty much ends ther...
Currently, we have a 2 day minimum before arrival for all of our guests. We need that window to prepare our properties and we don't take last minute bookings. However, our owners can book themselves on the owner portal and come pretty much anytime. Even the same day, which is nearly impossible during our busy seasons. I'd like to able to have the same 2 day minimum for the owner blocks.
Chris
Hi. We have 3 people interested in renting one of our properties. They want to know if they each can pay individually for their rental? 3 ladies all wanting their credit card perks for a 2-month rental.
Lady 1 pays 33.3% using her credit card
Lady 2 pays 33.3% using her credit card
Lady 3 pays 33.3% using her credit card
...nb, vrbo, and direct
I have worked around this but the result is multiple discount definitions that often do the same thing.
To make this task easier I know I would benefit from the following 2 upgrades to defining discounts.
#1 ability to export, make modifications to exported data, and import new discount information back in
#2 ability to have discounts remain dormaint (ACTIVE FLA...
...own issues and this date change issue doesn’t seem to be in there.
The issue as I see it currently (possibly not an OR issue)
1. Booking.com has allowed a date change to an already occupied date.
2. The original booking is still in the Ownerrez calendar.
3. The new booking date isn’t (possibly due to it already being booked).
I thought you should know for your support documents. Also if the...
while the OR hosted sites are very functional, it would be nice to have the following:
1. newer style website templates
2. ability to embed photo galleries/carousels (that are not of the property photos) in the custom OR hosted site pages - ex. creating a page or blog post with photos of local attractions.
3. easier formatting of the custom pages - currently it is difficult to embed ph...
...everything up I'm sure it won't be long. I probably wouldn't have made the switch if I'd known what I know now.
1)The unified inbox isn't truly unified. Texts and emails are still separated.
2) Zero customization of the list view columns, and a scroll bar at the bottom of all places. Their doesn't seem to be any interest in fixing this surprisingly.
3) Way too much navigation is requir...
...e unified inbox isn't truly unified. Texts and emails are still separated. - correct, OR is not an email app; maybe they can in the future? However, channel messages, texts are all in the inbox
2) Zero customization of the list view columns, and a scroll bar at the bottom of all places. Their doesn't seem to be any interest in fixing this surprisingly. - not sure what you mean - which columns...
Paul,
2 suggestions:
1. I'd like to see everything related to guest communications in one place, communications, rental agreement sent/signed, triggered messages sent. This would show me the total communications with the guest in one place. Also, when a guest makes an instant booking, the rental agreement goes out to them, they sign it and the confirmation message goes out to them. Until...