This week's Industry News highlights a key zoning decision in Maui, Airbnb's latest global Community Fund recipients, Faraday Future's robotics deployment in vacation rentals, AirDNA's 2026 investor outlook, and a new STR ordinance in Evanston, Illinois. Let's dive in.
In continued coverage of Maui County's vacation rental phase-out, previously reported in Industry News on June 6th (/blog/global...
Episode six of Walk 'n Talk: The Business Behind Vacation Rentals () is now available!
Hosted by OwnerRez co-founders Paul Waldschmidt and Chris Hynes, the podcast features honest, behind-the-scenes conversations about growth and what it really looks like to build and scale a software company. Inspired by years of candid discussions, each episode offers a raw look at how...
OwnerRez makes beautifully fast and flexible vacation rental software that covers guest and booking workflows, accounting and financial details, reporting, channel integration, website hosting, and much more.
This video provides a high-level walk-through of how OwnerRez looks across all its menus and features. It doesn't dive deep into each area - that would take hours of video - but this will gi...
New field codes were recently created that can be inserted in the body of a template of a message to a guest that show the rate for each night of a quote or booking.
But that still leaves me unable to view and change each night's rate in Charges of a quote or booking.
This is such a basic fundamental need, it's not really even a feature. Why is it still not provided? The rate for each night...
This week's roundup covers Airbnb's global rollout of Reserve Now, Pay Later, a new World Cup host incentive, Vrbo's new optional weather guarantee, Airbnb's strong Q4 performance, and an Arizona bill that could expand local authority over short-term rentals. Let's dive in.
Airbnb announced that its Reserve Now, Pay Later option is now available worldwide for eligible listings. (
We're excited to share some great news for OwnerRez users listing on Hopper. Listings that are live on Hopper may now also appear on Capital One Travel, giving your properties access to even more travelers and added visibility through one of the largest travel platforms available today. What does this mean?
Capital One Travel is powered by Hopper's underlying booking technology. With this recent...
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...
OwnerRez's templates and triggers automate communication in your vacation rental business, reducing errors and improving efficiency. Personalize guest messages or notify third parties effortlessly!
Understanding how to set up triggers can be challenging. To help you get started, we've created a library of template and trigger examples for common scenarios during each booking stage.
Each support...
OwnerRez offers many options and settings to help automate your short-term rental business. However, before you can do that, you need to set up your properties, settings, and business rules.
Complete the following steps before initiating any listing channel integration connections (e.g., Airbnb, Vrbo). The fastest and most effective way to set up your account is to follow the steps below systemat...
We all want bookings - but how does a guest get there?
* Inquiry (#Inquiry)
* Mark as Spam (#inquiry-spam)
* Unavailable Dates (#inquiry-unavailable)
* Quote (#Quote)
* Filter Quotes (#filter-quotes)
* Booking (#Booking)
* Instant Bookings (#instant-bookings)
* Booking Information (#booking-information)
* Listing Sites and Masked Inquiries (#listing-sites-masked-i...
Just took a look at the New Booking Overview Page.
You asked for comments/suggestions...
You really need to focus on reducing clicking around OwnerRez screens everywhere, and this layout, while improved, doesn't do that.
An example to make the point:
You have a 'Change/Move' button over on the top right side of the screen. Why?
If I want to change the check-in time, I should be...
