Tips on Authorize.net Integration

Using Authorize.net as your payment processor with ReservationKey is easy.  Here are a few tips to help with some of the settings in both systems. Turn Test Mode Off Even though you might be tempted to leave Test Mode enabled, disable it.  When your authorize.net account is in Test Mode it will not work with … Read more

New Yearly Comparison Report

For users that have been on ReservationKey for several years, now there is a report that makes it easy to compare one year to another.  At the bottom of the reports list, select Booking Date Comparison.  The report shows you how many bookings you have for the future, as of a certain month, based on the … Read more

Two New Income Reports

We now have two new reports for quickly seeing how much income you have generated. One is useful for seeing income by month, over the span of a year, and the other report shows income by unit. Here is the current listing of all the reports we currently offer, with the news reports noted: Income … Read more

More Ways to Find Reservations

Two new features make it easier than ever to find reservations.  In header section, in the upper right, we now have a link for quickly pulling up new reservations, and on the upper left, a link for searching for reservations. Reviewing New Reservations As you enter reservations manually, or new online reservations come in, the … Read more

Alternate Payment Schedules

You might think, wouldn’t it be nice if I could charge a different deposit amount depending on how many nights the person has selected?  Well, now you can, using the Alternate Payment Schedule setting in the Reservation Page settings.  For example, for reservations for only one night you might want to charge 100% of the … Read more

A Few New Features

Recently we’ve added a few miscellaneous features which are useful, but might not be too obvious, so it seems a good idea to highlight them here. Thanks to popular demand it is now possible to set whether or not the deposit amount includes taxes.  Simply check the box “include taxes” when setting up your deposit … Read more

ReservationKey Facebook Apps

It seems more important than ever these days to have a Facebook presence.  From looking at a lot of Facebook business pages it seems that people set up the page but then don’t really know what to do with it.  And, the more online ventures you get into, the more time it takes to maintain … Read more

Do You Need Your Own SSL Certificate?

The following information applies to users that:1. ask for credit card information on their reservation page, and2. want to emebed their reservation page in their website. An issue arrises when users want to embed a ReservationKey reservation page that asks for guest’s credit card information into their website using iframes, but they don’t have their … Read more

Reasons Why People Switch to ReservationKey

I am sure there are lots of reasons people switch to using ReservationKey versus selecting a different system.  There are so many systems out there that it seems people often are overwhelmed when trying to select a new reservation and management system.  Those that are the least worn out by the process of selecting a … Read more

Red Flag Guests / Set Alert

By popular demand, we have added the ability to flag specific guests.  Users have been asking for this in order to be warned when the guest books again, or for an obvious reminder for a current guest. This feature can be used to red-flag a guest as someone you might not want to stay with … Read more