On occasion, a guest will behave so poorly or leave the property in such bad condition that it would be nice if that guest could somehow have a “flag” attached to their record, something that would immediately let the property manager know that this guest has a history. In days gone by, that was called […]
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Guest Status(es) We get quite a few requests to allow for the flagging of a guest. Historically this would have been called a “Blacklist” and while the etymology of “Blacklist” has no racial connection, the whole “whitelist” (good), “blacklist” (bad) convention is probably in need of a refresh. As a result we are using “Blocklist”
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Guests want certain items from their rental. The channels call these things Amenities, we call them filters. In most instances a guest wants to filter out listings that do not contain the amenities they desire. According to VRBO, these are the top amenities that are commonly used by guests when searching for a vacation rental.
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Over the past eight weeks, we’ve been actively installing and testing v2.0 of the Lodgix WordPress plugin on various webhosts, themes and page builders. At the same time, development has been making the necessary improvements to deliver the type of performance, functionality and features required of a robust vacation rental website. To view a running
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this functionality has launched and is now live on Lodgix.com! It’s now easier than ever to pass through daily, weekly or monthly recurring expenses to your owners.
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After some review we’ve discovered that Airbnb calculates booking lead time differently than Lodgix and other companies. Airbnb calculates backwards from 11:59 PM on the day the guest intends to check in, in the timezone of the listing. For example, if you set the Booking Lead Time to 3 hours, a guest can make a
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…in addition to the assigning bed types to bedrooms feature that was outlined in our last blog post, the team has been hard at work on several initiatives: Version 2.0 of the Lodgix WordPress Plugin. The video below gives a brief overview of where we are with that. Probably a later September launch. Conversion of
Lodgix now supports assigning bed types to bedrooms. It’s an important update as many of the channels display this data to guests within their listings. Here is a short Loom video illustrating where bed types can be assigned to bedrooms:
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