{"id":4730,"date":"2018-01-18T03:02:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T03:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/?p=4730"},"modified":"2018-01-18T03:05:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T03:05:11","slug":"updates-coming-to-lodgix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/updates-coming-to-lodgix\/","title":{"rendered":"Updates coming to Lodgix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>..so it&#8217;s been awhile since our last update, sorry about that.\u00a0 \u00a0 Let&#8217;s review where we are at.<\/p>\n<h2>The <strong>single property calendar relaunch<\/strong> is done, but yet&#8217;s it&#8217;s not.<\/h2>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4734 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screenshot_2018-01-12_22-18-22.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screenshot_2018-01-12_22-18-22.png 565w, https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screenshot_2018-01-12_22-18-22-300x134.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screenshot_2018-01-12_22-18-22-200x90.png 200w, https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screenshot_2018-01-12_22-18-22-400x179.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 565px) 100vw, 565px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;ve been happy with the concept, the actual implementation needed tweaking and more flexibility.\u00a0 \u00a0What I am seeing come out of this last round of tweaks looks good, but we&#8217;ll see.\u00a0 Once I am happy with design, it will go live.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Discount and coupon code functionality will relaunch<\/strong> on Monday, January 22, 2018.<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4733 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Promo-Code-Icon-300x187.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Promo-Code-Icon-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Promo-Code-Icon-300x187-200x125.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are two primary reasons for the relaunch.\u00a0 \u00a0The primary reason was that today discounts and coupon codes are a universal setting.\u00a0 \u00a0It is not currently possible to have different length of stay pricing for various properties.\u00a0 It is also not currently possible to assign unique promo codes to individual properties.\u00a0 All of that will change on Monday<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the discounts and coupon codes interface will be retired and that functionality will be rolled into the interface where taxes \/ fees \/ services and deposits are currently setup:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-800 wp-image-4731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/promotions-800x384.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/promotions-800x384.png 800w, https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/promotions-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/promotions-768x368.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/promotions-1024x491.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/promotions-200x96.png 200w, https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/promotions-400x192.png 400w, https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/promotions-600x288.png 600w, https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/promotions.png 1084w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For those integrated to HomeAway, the additional discount flexibility will also allow Length of Stay pricing that can vary by property.<\/p>\n<h2>SMS Messaging for Guests, Employees and Owners<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4732 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sms-icon-blue-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sms-icon-blue-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sms-icon-blue-300x300-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sms-icon-blue-300x300-66x66.png 66w, https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/sms-icon-blue-300x300-200x200.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Should launch early next week.\u00a0 \u00a0There will be a new field for &#8220;SMS Phone&#8221; that will appear in every owner, guest and employee account.\u00a0 Guests will be asked if they wish to receive text notifications from you during the online booking process.<\/p>\n<p>We currently offer SMS notifications for the primary subscriber to receive new booking notifications as well as SMS notifications to the subscriber when payment requests are completed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..so it&#8217;s been awhile since our last update, sorry about that.\u00a0 \u00a0 Let&#8217;s review where we are at. 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While I&#8217;ve been happy with the concept, the actual implementation needed tweaking and more flexibility.\u00a0 \u00a0What I am seeing come out of this last round of [&hellip;]<\/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":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vacation-rental-software-new-features","category-vacation-rental-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730","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=4730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4737,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions\/4737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}