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Product updates, practical hospitality tips, and setup strategies from our team. Showing posts from 2013.
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Design - November 20, 2013 - 4 min read
ReservationKey is proud to have Matt of http://www.vacationrentalmarketingblog.com fame as one of our long time users. Matt does a great job with his blog of helping vacation rental owners market their properties with many creative methods and common sense advice. The 14 Do’s and Don’ts of Vacation Rental Email Correspondence Because many vacation rental owners and …
Operations - November 8, 2013 - 2 min read
It is now possible to give your prospective guests the option to filter their search results by amenities which have been linked to your rooms/units. Whether or not you want to use this is up to you. For many users, it may be better to just leave the search form as simple as possible (just …
Operations - October 30, 2013 - 2 min read
For those who use ReservationKey to manage vacation rentals, we are happy to announce that we now have full connectivity with external systems using iCal links. It is possible to import reservations into ReservationKey by adding the link from an external system to ReservationKey, and it is also possible for external systems to update their …
Operations - September 27, 2013 - 1 min read
Thanks to suggestions from a number of users, we have added a new bar at the top of the internal calendar. The idea with this bar is that it is a place to keep track of special events, holidays, or any other notes that you want to make especially obvious. Unlike the notes bar (the …
Operations - September 19, 2013 - 2 min read
Now there is a way to quickly print templates for many reservations at one time. This feature can be used for printing registration forms for all arriving guests for the day, week, etc. First, just create your registration form (or whatever you want to print per reservation) in the Website Tab, Email Templates section. There …
Operations - May 30, 2013 - 3 min read
Here is an update as to some of the miscellaneous features we have been working on recently. Remove taxes individually- For certain guests you may need to charge some of the taxes instead of automatically including all tax categories linked to a room. Now, when selecting the taxes section you can select which taxes to remove …
Operations - March 26, 2013 - 1 min read
We’ve made a small change to the calendar header functionality, in order to make it easier to view past reservations from earlier in the current month. Now, when clicking the current month, just like when clicking any of the other months, the calendar will start at the first day of that month (instead of X …
Operations - February 23, 2013 - 1 min read
Of the five reservation page types we offer (multiple units, calendar search mode, single unit, single unit search, hotel), with two of these types (calendar search mode and single unit), guests click dates on a calendar which means that it is possible for them to reserve non-consecutive night stays. This was actually created on purpose, …
Operations - January 29, 2013 - 2 min read
Skip Auto Emails and Exclude From Reports We’ve noticed that users are now using the Reservation Status “Don’t block the calendar” for uses other than for what it was originally designed for, for cancelled reservations. Since this was originally for cancelled reservations any reservation set to a status which doesn’t block the calendar would not …
Operations - January 26, 2013 - 1 min read
It is now possible to set the color of the Room/Unit name on the internal calendar. This can be useful for grouping units into different properties, especially for users that are managing many properties with ReservationKey. The setting can be made at any level – Property/Location or Room/Unit or Fraction. Setting the color at the …
Operations - January 7, 2013 - 1 min read
Now there is a way to search availability internally, for a date range, and select unit(s) from those that are available. In some situations, this may be faster than selecting dates from the Availability Calendar. Just click the [S] in the Availability Tab. This brings up the search box, where the arrive/depart dates can be …