{"id":5269,"date":"2021-04-08T18:32:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T18:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/?p=5269"},"modified":"2021-04-08T18:39:35","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T18:39:35","slug":"exciting-updates-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/exciting-updates-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Exciting Updates on the Way!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Guest Status(es)<\/h3>

We get quite a few requests to allow for the flagging of a guest.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 \u00a0As a result we are using “Blocklist” and “Allowlist”.<\/p>

Blocklisting a guest will still allow the booking to come in, but will quickly highlight to the property manager that the guest is on a blockist using this icon:<\/p>

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and for VIP guests, this icon is used:<\/p>

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Owner Stays<\/h3>

Occasionally a property manager wishes to enter more information for an owner stay than what is provided in the owner block functionality.<\/p>

At present that would entail creating an actual invoice and then zeroing out most of the rate \/ fee fields.\u00a0 This works, but it creates two problems:<\/p>

  1. The “owner stay” looks like a “guest stay” and throws off the occupancy reports.\u00a0<\/li>
  2. The “owner stay” isn’t differentiated at all within the calendar or the invoice to make it easy to identify as an “owner stay”.<\/li><\/ol>

    To help with that, we are building out some new functionality within the invoice to identify the invoice as an “owner stay”.<\/p>

    The invoice will clearly note that it’s an owner stay versus a guest stay and the calendar tape will display owner stays in the same color as owner blocks to assure that it’s easy to identify owner stays versus guest stays.<\/p>

    Wait Listing<\/h3>

    The wait list feature is also under development and will allow the property manager to enter a guest and put them on a waitlist for a specific property (or a range of properties) for a range of dates.\u00a0 \u00a0The desired function would be to provide some ability for a property manager, in the event of a cancellation, to quickly view the wait list and to reach out to any guest on the waitlist who might be able to fill the canceled dates.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Guest Status(es) We get quite a few requests to allow for the flagging of a guest.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 \u00a0As a result we are using “Blocklist” […]<\/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":"default","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":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","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":[],"class_list":["post-5269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vacation-rental-software-new-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269","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=5269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5276,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5269\/revisions\/5276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodgix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}