We now have an option to show minimum stay requirements directly on the internal calendar grid. This makes it easy to see what days have a minimum stay requirement, which should be especially helpful as a reminder if your minimums change throughout the year. On any days with a minimum stay more than 1 night, …
Thanks to suggestions from users we’ve already made some big improvements to our new pre-book links feature, which was just released yesterday. To summarize this feature, it allows you to enter a reservation internally and then provide a link to your guests that they can use to go to your Reservation Page to fill in …
Now it is possible to create a reservation internally, adjust the room prices, and then email the guest a link to be used for entering their contact information and payment. This makes it easy to negotiate a price over the phone or email, and then provide your guest with a link to your reservation page …
Several of our long time users have been working hard to create a new directory website for independent lodging facilities, innrewards.com. The idea with this is to provide a central place for guests to find properties and avoid paying commissions to the big Online Travel Agent sites. ReservationKey has worked with innrewards.com to provide a …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …