Unfortunately Portal User access does not have a capability for our cleaners to see number of guests for a reservation. This is important piece of information for our cleaners as number of days in the reservation as well as number of guests directly correlated to the length of time it takes to clean the properties. Thus knowing number of guests for reservation would help our cleaners to prepare for cleaning and plan ahead better.
Unfortunately Portal User access gives too much information including finances with we do not want to share with cleaning department. Thus using Portal User access as a work around is not working for us.
Hi Serg,
I wanted to jump in here and provide a potential alternative option in the meantime. Have you considered setting up third party alerts for your cleaners yet?
https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/third-party-communications-options#third-party-alerts
This option would generally provide the number of guests visiting to the cleaner in the alert, see below for an example of one of those alerts.
This doesn't work for us, if a new booking is 3 months out, how is the cleaner supposed to remember the details?
No problem - you can set up a separate template and trigger to send them a reminder, say, 3 days before arrival, much as you would send directions and an access code to a guest a couple days prior.
That's awesome. Is there a video to show how to set this up? Is there a way to submit a notice via SMS to the cleaner also?
That's awesome. Is there a video to show how to set this up? Is there a way to submit a notice via SMS to the cleaner also?
Oh thats great! I didn't know that! Can it be day of cleaning? So they know next expected guest total?
Here are a number of relevant videos and support docs:
https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/email-templates-and-triggers
https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/pre-arrival-email-templates-triggers-custom-fields
And, yes, messages can be sent via SMS as well as email:
https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/sms-messaging-overview
https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/sms-templates
Unfortunately, I do not believe "day of cleaning" is an available trigger, you might want to post that as a separate suggestion. But you could certainly use "day of departure" as a triggering event, which in most cases should be close enough.