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Rich S

Joined December 2018
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Feature Requests » Template Fields for Agreement, info guest needs to ADD

Valerie, In my setup I have a custom field named BXALLGUESTS, and when I inspect it in OR it has all of these settings/checkboxes. Type Booking Name All Guests Code BXALLGUESTS Rich Text? Yes Show …

(Posted Jan 15, 2020 6:39 PM)

Feature Requests » Ribbon feature

[quote=Ken T]I'd make the same assumption you do - that a cleaning is needed after every booking. Not sure why a special indicator would be required.[/quote] Ken - when you have multiple properties…

(Posted Jan 15, 2020 2:27 PM)

Feature Requests » Ribbon feature

Would be nice if the ribbon showed a symbol for any day when a cleaning would be required. Details - have a property setting (checkbox) to either include or exclude from the feature (default to incl…

(Posted Jan 15, 2020 12:06 PM)

General Help and Questions » OwnerRez is a thing of joy ;-)

I have to say this - I'm in the middle of the busy ski season with three units, on Airbnb and VRBO, and everything is running smoothly, in large part because of OR. Everyday there are 5-10 email tem…

(Posted Jan 15, 2020 9:36 AM)

General Help and Questions » combining calendars for multiple OR properties?

[quote=Chris Hynes]That's an interesting idea, something we'll put in the pot to start thinking about. Might work if it was just spot rates, but for sure not with seasonal. You could hack this toget…

(Posted Jan 11, 2020 5:08 PM)

General Help and Questions » Month Abbreviation Format

Ken - I agree about the regex, but I'm curious about your css comment. The scenario I was envisioning is when I want to highlight a single word within a block of OR's insertable field text such as t…

(Posted Jan 10, 2020 10:29 AM)

General Help and Questions » Month Abbreviation Format

Let's ask the OR team to provide regex and css handling within custom fields so we can modify them on the fly, like adding a period at the end of Mar or changing font colors!

(Posted Jan 10, 2020 9:30 AM)

General Help and Questions » combining calendars for multiple OR properties?

It's hard enough to manage the nightly rates for my three properties, they change many times throughout each season. There's no way possible for me to keep accurate rates on combined properties.. Is…

(Posted Jan 9, 2020 12:05 PM)

General Help and Questions » combining calendars for multiple OR properties?

[quote=Ken T]Yes! That's the Mutual Block feature: https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/combined-properties-blockoff-lockoff[/quote] Thanks - this is encouraging! Does this feature allow me t…

(Posted Jan 9, 2020 9:27 AM)

General Help and Questions » combining calendars for multiple OR properties?

I'm considering putting together two extra combinations of my three VRBO properties in order to meet VRBO's reqt to have 5 properties to use their API. I have properties A, B, C, and I'd consider of…

(Posted Jan 9, 2020 8:50 AM)

General Help and Questions » Min Nights in Season vs. Rate Calendar vs. Spot Rates List

@Lydia B - I know that I'm able to import nightly rates and min nights using a spreadsheet, with the Spot Rates import, and it works for me. The spreadsheet has one row for each day, and each row has…

(Posted Jan 4, 2020 12:08 PM)

Feature Requests » Another Rate Calendar nice-to-have ;-)

[quote=Chris Hynes]That's an interesting idea. How do VRBO show it? That calendar already gets really busy, perhaps with an optional overlay. You don't really need to worry about that in OwnerRez th…

(Posted Jan 2, 2020 5:16 PM)

Feature Requests » Another Rate Calendar nice-to-have ;-)

Would be nice for the calendar to highlight inappropriate min-night settings, such as 3 night minimum set on a single open night. VRBO started doing this a few weeks ago and it's hugely useful, even…

(Posted Dec 29, 2019 10:59 PM)

General Help and Questions » Is there a report that captures Custom Fields?

Chris - I think this thread points out the need to add a report to list custom fields ;-)

(Posted Dec 29, 2019 8:52 PM)

Template/Design Share » Organizing templates

[quote=Chris Hynes]We've got two standard suggestions for this: 1) When possible, use a single email template for multiple properties and then use custom fields to change up the parts of the email t…

(Posted Dec 29, 2019 8:48 PM)

Feature Requests » Custom Booking Channel option?

[quote=Chuck K]Any way to create/use a custom booking channel? I left EVOLVE recently but am still honoring a lot of bookings I am managing in OR. I have entered all the details through either Excel…

(Posted Dec 23, 2019 1:32 PM)

General Help and Questions » Form Message for {BULEASE}

[quote=Lydia B]I am putting together a template which will be used to request additional info from a guest and get them to sign the rental agreement. The default message at the top of the page says:…

(Posted Dec 23, 2019 1:18 PM)

General Help and Questions » Best way to collect taxes that VRBO doesn't collect for owners

Since Oct 1st on VRBO I've been issuing a followup payment for an additional 8.5% taxes (town & village), since VRBO only collect state and county taxes. I was advised by VRBO to do this instead of …

(Posted Dec 22, 2019 3:08 PM)

Feature Requests » maintain history of last pushed spot rate / min night

I've previously asked for a sparkline type of history on spot rate changes, but a simpler to implement but still useful feature would be for OR to keep a record of the last pushed rate/min night sett…

(Posted Dec 22, 2019 1:46 PM)

Feature Requests » Highlight today's date on Rate Calendar

Would be nice if the current date was prominently highlighted.

(Posted Dec 22, 2019 1:13 PM)