...they successfully gain access to your Vrbo account, they can't change your listings, rates, availability and so on. All of that is driven from OwnerRez. In fact, even you yourself cannot change that stuff from the Vrbo dashboard because of how the API mode operates. So just a reminder here to stop using iCal and switch to API!
Airbnb is gearing up to list its shares on the Nasdaq. Earlier this month...
...to a full booking) the property management settings, like owner and commission, were not being correctly applied. We fixed this - converted blocks now have the correct owner.
Templates used by old stuff. Templates have a cool little thing where each template will show you, if you click into them, what part of the system uses that trigger. For instance, it will say something like "Used by trigger W...
Last night's Google outage is still causing shockwaves through some of their services. Gmail is sending back wrong bounce messages that say stuff like "email address doesn't exist" when in fact they do!
If you're getting a lot of bounce messages from OwnerRez today, please note that we are watching this and reactivating these email addresses for you.
When the smoke clears, please look at your Commu...
...ned, this update took a lot more time because of all the areas of the application that it affected.
You can look at the technical details on the update page, but here's a quick breakdown of the big stuff.
Accounts can now have multiple payment methods
Look at your account overview page, and you'll notice that the text is different in the payment methods section. Click through to view your paymen...
...o categories that they feel are relevant on their end, but may not be the right way to display them on an independent website.
When using the widget, I then had a massive list of poorly organized stuff that was not able to be well-stylized for the site. The only way I found to group things as I wanted in a moderately well-stylized manner was to hardcode my amenities into my site manually. See exam...
...re by adding your GA ID in the Google Analytics Tracking section of your profile (under Advanced Tools).
That will trigger pageviews and events on widgets and bookings.
We don't have the e-commerce stuff hooked up, but it's something we could add. What are you looking for there, exactly? A transaction sent on booking confirm page, with items for each charge lineitem?
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
....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...
Yep, Airbnb's got a bit of a hodgepodge going now, stuff they've added over time. They're working on sorting it out, but that's a longer process, particularly them making changes and then making those new methods available via API.
Last time I did an Airbnb booking as a guest, I recall getting an email with the check-in instructions and driving instructions, and then the house manual being available t...