{"id":4551,"date":"2017-01-20T14:37:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T14:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/?p=4551"},"modified":"2017-01-20T14:37:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T14:37:30","slug":"new-features-and-enhancements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/new-features-and-enhancements\/","title":{"rendered":"New Features and Enhancements"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing earth shattering in this update, but there are a few notable items that will help make life easier for some property managers.<\/p>\n

Channel manager commissions can now be passed to owners<\/h2>\n

Many PMs use channels like Booking.com and Expedia.com as a source of new business. \u00a0 The channels have substantial commission rates which they assess to the PM. \u00a0 Many PMs wish to pass those fees on to the owner via the owner statement. \u00a0 That is now possible!<\/p>\n

The commission rate being charged by the channel must be entered withing Settings > Integrations > Channel Commissions<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Next there is a setting within the property management module for each owner that must be set to allow the commissions to pass through to the owner statement. \u00a0Keep in mind Lodgix charges an additional 2% for Booking.com and Expedia.com reservations, that 2% will be added to whatever commission rate you define for each channel.<\/p>\n

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There is also a new Channel Commission Report which will show all channel commissions for all properties for any given period.<\/p>\n

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Invoice fees can now be included as commissionable revenue on owner statements<\/h2>\n

Previously PM commissions could only be assessed on rental charges. \u00a0Now there is a new option within the setup of each fee or service to allow a commission to be assessed on it.<\/p>\n

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Area filter added to the calendar tape<\/h2>\n

For PMs with larger numbers of properties we had a couple requests to allow filtering by areas. \u00a0This feature has been added to the internal calendar tape.<\/p>\n

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Fees and services can now be designated as internal fees<\/p>\n

Occasionally there are\u00a0fees which a PM might want to assess a guest after the booking. \u00a0These fees are not meant to be viewable by guests when booking online. In our previous implementation there were only options for a fee to be “mandatory, optional or a pet fee”. \u00a0Now there is a new option to denote a fee as being as “Internal” fee. \u00a0When a fee is set to “Internal”\u00a0that fee will not be displayed during the online booking process, it will only be available to the PM within the Lodgix invoice.<\/p>\n

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Please edit each of your existing fees of you need to denote them as being “Internal” fees.<\/p>\n

I hope these new features make your management life a little easier!<\/p>\n

Sometime within the next 10 days or so I hope to be writing about the launch of a significant new feature – the GUEST PAYMENT PORTAL<\/strong>. \u00a0 That’s right, no more calling guests to update their credit card, just send them a payment request and the guest can go online and pay a balance, update their credit card, etc.. \u00a0It’s coming!! \u00a0There’a little more fun stuff that will be included in that release, so stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nothing earth shattering in this update, but there are a few notable items that will help make life easier for some property managers. Channel manager commissions can now be passed to owners Many PMs use channels like Booking.com and Expedia.com as a source of new business. \u00a0 The channels have substantial commission rates which they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[281,333,19],"class_list":["post-4551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vacation-rental-software-new-features","tag-channel-manager","tag-owner-statement","tag-vacation-rentals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4558,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions\/4558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}