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Ken T

OwnerRez Team Member
Joined August 2019
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General Help and Questions » Does AirBnB collect the payments?

Usually Airbnb will require you to provide banking information so they can transfer the funds to you.

(Posted Oct 18, 2021 11:02 AM)

Feature Requests » Clone a property feature

I'm confused - Duplicate does already duplicate "pictures, picture captions, all amenities, descriptions" etc. when you tell it to duplicate the listing content.

(Posted Oct 13, 2021 6:25 PM)

Feature Requests » Different cancellation policies for different periods on the same property

Unfortunately, since our custom cancellation policy system integrates with Vrbo, we're limited to what they're able to support - and, at the moment, they don't support the ability to set cancellation…

(Posted Oct 13, 2021 3:17 PM)

Feature Requests » Calendar mapping and linking with peer space

We're not familiar with that platform, but, we do offer an open API that any platform can use to connect to OwnerRez. If you have contacts there, you should suggest for them to reach out to our Help…

(Posted Oct 12, 2021 1:56 PM)

Feature Requests » Different Minimum Nights Rule for Different Channels

At present this is not planned, because it would potentially cause a great deal of confusion. What are you trying to accomplish here? You may be able to do something else to achieve the same effect…

(Posted Oct 11, 2021 7:45 PM)

General Help and Questions » Airbnb quick reply template through OR?

We don't announce timelines for development because unexpected issues can pop up, well, unexpectedly - but I do know some of this functionality is in work, and we do prefer to finish what we start wh…

(Posted Oct 11, 2021 6:56 PM)

General Help and Questions » Reviews - Pushing Non-Vrbo Booking Reviews To Vrbo

Yes, this is an API-only feature.

(Posted Oct 11, 2021 5:23 PM)

General Help and Questions » Airbnb API Calendar Mystery Block

That sounds like potentially a problem in the Airbnb system - you may want to reach out to their tech support. If that doesn't help, please send us full details to our Helpdesk and we'll assist with…

(Posted Oct 11, 2021 11:46 AM)

General Help and Questions » Question about Automated messaging and Airbnb

Couple options here: - You could disable the messages in Airbnb, and set them up in OwnerRez instead. You can do that as ordinary emails, or via the Airbnb internal messaging system - OwnerRez i…

(Posted Oct 7, 2021 12:21 PM)

General Help and Questions » Analytics/tracking help.

This is likely because of recent browser changes that restrict cross domain data transfer. Or it's also possible that the website builder has changed the permissions they give to embedded scripts and…

(Posted Oct 1, 2021 5:18 PM)

General Help and Questions » Inquiries from Vrbo within OR?

It is normal for Vrbo inquiries not to come in to OwnerRez - they don't provide enough information for us to handle them effectively. Vrbo inquiries should be handled using Vrbo messaging tools, let …

(Posted Sep 30, 2021 4:49 PM)

Feature Requests » Rate Calendar View for Hosted Websites

You can already do this - there's an option to display rates in your calendar. Write in to the Helpdesk and we'll help you get that turned on.

(Posted Sep 29, 2021 11:26 AM)

General Help and Questions » Consultants Available?

Sure! We have an optional paid ProConnect setup service available: https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/proconnect-setup-overview Write in to the Helpdesk if you're interested in getting …

(Posted Sep 27, 2021 11:48 AM)

General Help and Questions » Calendar imports/exports for Airbnb not working

Note that, by the nature of the rather old technology involved, iCal calendar syncs are quite slow. They don't sync up immediately when a new event is added - they can take as long as a few hours. …

(Posted Sep 24, 2021 12:10 PM)

General Help and Questions » Donations added to surcharge

Our categories are mapped to Vrbo categories, so we can't "just add" one - we'd need to coordinate that with them.

(Posted Sep 22, 2021 4:07 PM)

Feature Requests » VRBO Native Messaging in OwnerRez via API integration

It is our understanding that they are doing some sort of screen-scraping, a little like our Channel Bridge. Due to the time-sensitive nature of communications, though, we've decided we didn't want t…

(Posted Sep 22, 2021 1:10 PM)

General Help and Questions » Mutual Block feature

Yes, that's pretty much correct. As far as new listings on the channels for the combos, if you are using API connections then OwnerRez can push that information up for you to create the new listings…

(Posted Sep 20, 2021 3:21 PM)

Feature Requests » Reporting for inactive properties

You do not *lose* the data - it's all still preserved in OwnerRez. You just can't see it for inactive properties - you need to reactivate them in order for that data to be included in reports.

(Posted Sep 20, 2021 10:55 AM)

General Help and Questions » The security deposit for XXXX was successfully reauthorized

This is a normal part of the process due to the nature of how security deposit holds work. Here's an explanation: https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/security-deposit-holds#multiple-holds

(Posted Sep 11, 2021 5:19 PM)

General Help and Questions » Collecting and remitting taxes

At present, no, but they'd be welcome to reach out to us to discuss an integration.

(Posted Sep 9, 2021 12:41 PM)