Google Vacation Rentals requires a manual process by the OR team. Daily, we need to export and then upload an XML file to Google so they can onboard new properties and update major changes to existing properties.
Note: The OR support staff doing this will need Google Hotel Center access and upload rights.
Video on full process https://www.loom.com/share/1688e3411ef04532ab84bc51b6abe5cf?sid=1bbd941a-28fc-4e6a-9adb-5344d53cc84c
- Go to Admin > Feeds (under Tools) (https://app.ownerrez.com/admin/feeds)
- Click Generate
- Go to your Downloads folder on your machine to confirm the XML file generated successfully. The filename will have today's date in it.
- Then go to Hotel Center by Google > Landing Pages: https://hotelcenter.google.com/landingpages/list?a=1391095390
- Click the Upload tab (or use this direct link: https://hotelcenter.google.com/landingpages/upload?a=1391095390)
- Drag file to upload or click to browse files
- If you select 'click to browse files', the file selector will show and you choose today's date's file and then click Open
- Confirm the file is the one you uploaded, and then click Submit
- It will show it's uploading/submitting
- If all is well, then click Publish (if you need to start afresh, click 'New upload' or 'Cancel'
- While publishing it will show it circling
- The Statuses of those that already had recognized landing pages should flip to green checkmarks! The new additions will have a red exclamation point - that is expected. Now begins the wait-and-see mode. [Actually, they sometimes all show with the red exclamation, even the old ones 🤷🏽♀️]
- Post in T2 Chat the number of properties/number of errors, found on the Properties tab:
You are done!