...ing them to even send an email?
Want to allow wide-open inquiries for even no-date requests?
Check out the widget settings now. There are a lot of new options.
That's it for now
Lots of other stuff going on, but I wanted everyone to know about these specific feature updates so that you can go make them work for you right away.
As always, if you've seen other change in the system and have ques...
...efresh, you should not need to do this ever again.
Also in this release, a number of email changes were made that will be explained later by Sam. If you click on the Email menu, you'll see the new stuff. We went ahead and released the email changes as well since they were ready to go out.
...now, we've been working on nuances in the core quote and booking engine, tightening up the workflow and doing loads of testing. Those items have been fully hammered down, and now we're on to the new stuff.
Our list of new features and enhancements is quite large, over 150, and our beta users have provided a few more on top of that.
As the new year emerges, we're working hard on the list. Here are s...
...m nights and minimum holiday nights. Since you have blank in holiday nights, and President's day is that weekend, it's picking up the holiday blank and overriding the normal minimum.
All logical and stuff from a computers point of view, but it doesn't make much sense in the real world.
I've got a fix going in with our new prorate engine to make the min holiday nights be same or greater than minimum n...
Thanks, Angela....I'm a bit of a geek on this stuff...I'd be happy to help you set it up if you are interested...it has been an incredibly valuable tool for us and we are constantly learning and improving!
Damon
Michelle
I was looking at some youtube intro stuff for wufoo and looks like I may be able to do that in my website - so I can either send it to @inquiryspot or maybe in the beginning send it to my email address to see what shows up. Now will your programs know the data that is being past? I guess most heading should be the same - first last names, etc - I will look back at the websites you included...
...inor one-offs, we're working on email-related features for the next several sprints. It will probably be a good 3-4 months before we switch to another big area because there's a lot of email-related stuff we need to do.
I can't promise exact dates for templates or mail merge but that's a huge part of this. Nearly everything you've asked for, as it relates to email, has been scheduled except for the...
...oment, our reporting/analytics features have not yet been released. It's a very high priority item, but we've had to push it back for higher priority items. At the moment, we're working on a lot of stuff related to email.
If you collect credit card payments, your gateway/merchant account provider offers some basic reporting though only about basic credit card transaction and batches.
-Michelle
...ight away by users, others we found here before anyone reported it. It's all getting cleaned up now. As you refresh, you may notice some things changing slightly. Nothing dramatic, and it's all UI stuff. No data was lost or anything like that.
-Michelle
...r for centralizing guest records so that you can have an actual CRM system and do reports on your repeat guests and up-selling and such. Obviously custom fields for that would have to wait until CRM stuff was actually out. I can tell you that it will probably a good deal of time before that happens.
There is a lot of focus right now on things like:
- Auto responders for inquiries
- Rules (which go...
...d template that you didn't intend for everyone in the past to get.
It sounds like you're looking for a marketing tool to send newsletter type content out. I don't think any of our scheduled sending stuff fits that bill at the moment. I suppose if we allowed you to take a template and do a one-time in-place send to all bookings (or a filtered list of them), that would meet your need. Something to th...
...onfirmation email might be wrong)
- Check-in and Check-out policy
- House access code for the lockbox
- Specific reminders about the area (fishing licenses, etc)
You can find the custom paragraph stuff in your property area under the Email Settings tab.
Small stuff, and it's going to be fast. Mostly small tweaks, grammar fixes, enhancements. Your request to have a fixed amount for the first payment was included.
-Michelle
Hi GreenJoe,
Ah yes, the Airbnb-style stuff. HomeAway has been trying to duplicate what Airbnb does for the past two years. I figured that was what you were referring to. We're not terribly concerned about it, given HomeAway's track-record and their marketbase. FlipKey has recently been walking down the same road. Both HA and FK don't seem to realize that many of their customers don't want to be...
....com email address and all emails are sent from it. Then, when guests reply, their email goes back into our system and we track both inbound and outbound emails against the guest. There is a lot of stuff to cover here including a much more robust guest/contact system so it won't be coming for awhile.
At the moment, we've programmed all emails that are sent to include a REPLY-TO header with your emai...
