If you’ve ever shopped for a flight and used the “flexible dates” option to find a cheaper fare or a better travel window, you already understand why this feature matters. Guests searching for vacation rentals think the same way — they’re often open to shifting their trip by a day or two if it means
Why Flexible Date Search Is a Game-Changer for Direct Booking Sites Read More »
…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
The calendar tape now shows the channel origins of all bookings: Neat littel feature suggested by one of our clients to help flush out Airbnb bookings that won’t show the balance as being paid-in-full prior to arrival.
Channel icons now shown in Calendar Tape Read More »
As promised, coming off of a very long, very large infrastructure update cycle, we’ve moved on to some more visible improvements to Lodgix. Housekeeping Enhancements have Launched! This is a great improvement to Lodgix. We are still working on additional tweaks and fixing user reported bugs, however the overlay and app themselves are working great.
Visual Rates Tape & Housekeeping App are Coming! Read More »
We have moved to final testing for the new housekeeping overlay and app. Granted this could still take 2 to 3 more weeks depending on what I flush out, however great strides have been made!
Housekeeping Overlay and App – Getting Close! Read More »
I am still surprised at how many coastal property managers allow guest refunds for stays that have to be cancelled due to named storms. In North Carolina, whenever I’ve booked a vacation rental on the coast, the property management company always recommended the purchase of travel insurance. They let me know at every stage of
Hurricane Dorian – Why Travel Insurance is so important for coastal property managers. Read More »
It’s been awhile since my last post, sorry about that. We haven’t gotten nearly as much accomplished as I’d hoped recently. We’ve been getting eaten up by the channels. Airbnb has been a particular thorn in our side. That has taken lots of bandwidth, however it appears some progress is being made and things have
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There will be times where, for example, a property manager has a 7 night minimum rule in place. Then, for whatever reason, a booking is allowed that creates a period of days that are <7 nights that are book ended by two reservations. At that point, the 7 night rule is not possible to be
Ignore Minimum Night Rule – New Option Read More »
