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 … Read more
We’ve been working hard to make the forum more functional, especially to help with organizing and prioritizing requests that we receive. We now are sorting all messages into one of three categories – Technical Support, Feature Request, and Bug Reports. And from there we are connecting the post with the area of ReservationKey it is … Read more
We’ve update our “Simple” themes to reflect trends in modern web design. Most noticeable are some brighter colors, larger text, and larger form fields. But we’ve also added responsive design into these themes, meaning that the page formatting automatically adjusts to fit the user’s screen, no matter what size. This means it isn’t critical to … Read more
For users that are taking advantage of our connection with our channel manager partner, myallocator.com, we now have two ways to set up matching between ReservationKey and Myallocator. By Room TypeWe’ve just added the option to match room types in ReservationKey to those set up in Myallocator. With this method you don’t need to set … Read more
We’ve now added the ability to process modifications to existing reservations sent to ReservationKey from MyAllocator. How this works is we set the prior version of the reservation to cancelled and then insert the modification as if we were inserting a new reservation. If the ReservationKey account doesn’t contain a status that doesn’t block the … Read more
As we continue to acquire users worldwide, we have had a lot of requests for the ability to set the time zone used on public Reservation Pages. It is now possible to set the time zone to be used by each of your Reservation Pages. This setting affects things such as which day counts as … Read more
Recently a few users posted requests that that Reservations Tab save their search criteria. This would make it easier to do a search for a group of reservations, open one, and then be able to click Reservations again and go back to exactly the same search results. We’ve just added this capability to the Reservations … Read more
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 … Read more
We are pleased to announce that ReservationKey has been certified by TripAdvisor as a Plus Partner. Here is the message we recently received from TripAdvisor: “Great news, everything runs fine and you are now certified and your customers will be able to use the TripConnect within 48 hours.” This means that any of our clients … Read more
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 … Read more