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Joined October 2012
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General Help and Questions » HomeAway Calendar Sync weirdness

Interesting. The "day off" issue from VRBO seems to be fixed now. Must have been a bug. I will chat with Evolve about the 2019 booking...my guess is they are gaming the system by synching calendars …

(Posted Nov 14, 2017 12:23 AM)

General Help and Questions » HomeAway Calendar Sync weirdness

There are multiple other iCal calendar synch issues (all with homeaway from Evolve). They seem to be shifted by a day...like there is a time zone issue with homeaway perhaps? Did it change when dayli…

(Posted Nov 10, 2017 12:39 AM)

General Help and Questions » HomeAway Calendar Sync weirdness

Here's something even more concerning. The booking from Evolve on property https://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rental/p4449641#ratesAnchor shows July 24-29 of 2018. The ical synch for OwnerRez results…

(Posted Nov 10, 2017 12:22 AM)

General Help and Questions » HomeAway Calendar Sync weirdness

Yes, it is an Evolve iCal synch from HomeAway. ical: http://www.homeaway.com/icalendar/23d284106cd3413da2588376effd582d.ics

(Posted Nov 10, 2017 12:14 AM)

General Help and Questions » HomeAway Calendar Sync weirdness

For whatever reason my calendar synch with keeps adding a single day of blocked off time then a few hours later it removes the blocked time. This has been happening for a few weeks now, not sure what…

(Posted Nov 8, 2017 12:45 AM)

Feature Requests » Viral marketing idea

Not really sure yet. I think I'd do something like AirBnB does...offer $50 for every referral that books and offer the referral a discount because they were recommended by a friend (kinda like an aff…

(Posted Oct 5, 2017 5:52 PM)

Feature Requests » Viral marketing idea

Hey.. I've been thinking about this for a long time and I think I might know how to make it work. If I could automate the viral marketing for my vacation rental by rewarding people that refer their f…

(Posted Oct 5, 2017 10:25 AM)

Feature Requests » Triggers for cancelled bookings or blocked off time removed

Yeah...I get these alerts. I was thinking about sending an explicit email that says 'make sure to update the calendar in the other site'. Just trying to figure out how to quadruple check that I don't…

(Posted Sep 29, 2017 1:03 AM)

Feature Requests » Triggers for cancelled bookings or blocked off time removed

We use a third party provider as another sales channel. We have to manually update their calendar when we get a booking or a booking is cancelled and we've had a few misses almost resulting in double…

(Posted Sep 29, 2017 12:27 AM)

General Help and Questions » Interesting-AirBnB iCal import sometimes has fees and payments?

I just tried this. Pretty darn slick...I had to adjust a few of the parameters and import a few times but I think I figured it out!!

(Posted Sep 20, 2017 12:50 AM)

General Help and Questions » Interesting-AirBnB iCal import sometimes has fees and payments?

It looks like my bookkeeper must have updated the booking, I didn't realize she did that :). Bummer, I was hoping you'd figured it out :)

(Posted Sep 19, 2017 11:30 PM)

General Help and Questions » Interesting-AirBnB iCal import sometimes has fees and payments?

I was just looking at some of my bookings and noticed that a few of my AirBnB bookings have the total fee charged and shows payments. Not all of them are this way. Curious why they don't all have the…

(Posted Sep 19, 2017 10:28 PM)

General Help and Questions » Potentially simple request

Awesome! Thanks, this works great

(Posted Aug 18, 2017 12:52 AM)

General Help and Questions » Potentially simple request

Interesting thing just came up. Our guests that auto booked on VRBO didn't receive our emails because VRBO isn't passing email addresses through iCal. Wondering if there is a way to send an email to…

(Posted Aug 17, 2017 1:00 AM)

Blog » Gallimaufry of June enhancements

Thanks, or make it even easier that the book now button just acts like the current booking/inquiry widget and begins processing the information immediately!

(Posted Aug 4, 2017 8:31 PM)

Blog » Gallimaufry of June enhancements

Following up on this. I really like the layout on the site http://www.shenrent.com/. For the availability selector it would be nice if the total price with a book now button came up after each proper…

(Posted Aug 3, 2017 2:17 PM)

General Help and Questions » 4th of July Holiday mid-week

I'm trying to figure out an easy way to increase the prices for the 4th of July week, was hoping to use the holiday feature. Any recommendations would be appreciated!

(Posted Jul 12, 2017 11:55 AM)

General Help and Questions » 4th of July Holiday mid-week

How do I get my 4th of July week to add the Holiday surcharge for each day when the 4th of July is midweek?

(Posted Jul 11, 2017 5:28 PM)

Blog » Gallimaufry of June enhancements

Are the hyperlinks supposed to work in the availability search? When I click on the property name nothing comes up but when I click on the details it brings me to the website. Also, is it possible t…

(Posted Jul 11, 2017 4:08 PM)

Blog » Gallimaufry of June enhancements

Awesome! Love the multi property calendar search!

(Posted Jul 11, 2017 12:20 AM)