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Is there any way to trace the direct bookings to the property sharing widget?

BlueMtnCabins
Oct 2, 2022 12:55 PM
Joined Jun, 2016 1125 posts

Is there any way to trace the direct bookings to the property sharing widget/site? We have a common website smokymountaincabinsbyowner.com where the widget is housed. Also, each member has it on a page on their respective website. Obviously, there is a lot of cross-referring going on. Is there any way (GA? other) to know that booking X for property Y  originated via the search on a shared widget on website Z?

Thanks

A4Life
Dec 19, 2023 1:15 PM
Joined May, 2023 3 posts

We have the same question...  can we attribute a Property Share originated Booking to a specific Listing Site? 

Caleb M
Dec 28, 2023 12:23 PM
OR Team Member Joined Mar, 2022 147 posts

Hi,

 

There's no automatic means to attribute bookings to individual property shares at this time. However if you create a custom source then you should be able to manually assign bookings to the individual custom sources as a rough workaround.

 

https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/custom-sources

 

Beyond that we have had discussions revolving making source tracking more granular as they relate to hosted sites, though the details and confirmation of this I can't confirm at this time.

 

~Caleb

A4Life
Dec 28, 2023 4:56 PM
Joined May, 2023 3 posts

Thx Caleb.  Some sort of property share referrer url parameter would be a start.  We do use the custom sources, but need to know which source referred them.  Can a url parameter be used to pre-populate a custom attribute on a booking?  Thx!

Alex G
yesterday
Joined Feb, 2021 6 posts

Checking in on this. We have an owner creating a landing page website for their property and going to be directing traffic to that page for bookings. Trying to figure out if it would be possible to attribute a booking to their marketing efforts or if they are organic through our site. Similar to how when bookings come through VRBO, Airbnb, or Google Vacation Rentals. Just trying to keep track of how bookings are coming in. Thanks!