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• Announcements

  Announcements regarding MyVR and the community

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  Our latest product update makes it easier for you to convert bookings on HomeAway with consistent pricing & rate updates. What’s changing with the upgrade: Consistent pricing: This upgrade is designed to ensure that the price you intend to charge is what travelers consistently see at search, checkout, and all the way through booking. In the past we used real-time quoting which likely had travelers seeing a different price at search versus checkout. Since up to 50% of travelers will walk away from a booking if they see different prices), HomeAway made an important change to Consistent Pricing. Push updates: HomeAway will no longer do a real-time quote to your MyVR system. Instead, MyVR will instantly push any rate changes you make to the HomeAway platform to be processed. What are the benefits? More conversions: Travelers are less likely to abandon a booking when the price is the same at checkout More data: Price consistency is the foundation to powerful HomeAway data. HomeAway can offer Market Level data for supply, demand, occupancy, pricing and forecasting with it. More visibility: Eligibility for distribution to the 675M visits to the Expedia Group family o*f sites every month. A total benefit by being with MyVR: Because MyVR is both a channel manager and a PMS, we can show pricing on channels in the most accurate way possible and instantly process any rate changes you make to the HomeAway platform. Most traditional channel managers are stuck using stale data from other PMS systems. That means many of the pricing tools that those systems offer only modify the live quote data - meaning the rate tables are not using the manager's best pricing. So, we're tooting our own horn just a little bit What you need to do: Most of our customers have been upgraded automatically, and if you haven't, we've reached out to you.
• Get Help Using MyVR

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  If you are currently using MyVR's Booking.com application, the following product update has import information that may be relevant to your account. Please read it carefully. We're excited to announce the broad release of Booking.com property syncing. Starting on January 14th, 2019, all accounts using MyVR's Booking.com integration to manage listings on Booking.com will include full property sync'ing automatically. What is Booking.com Property Sync'ing? Booking.com property sync'ing allows MyVR to update the property data in your connected Booking.com account with the latest property data in your MyVR account. This let's you keep a single set of authoritative property data - descriptions, amenities, fees, photos, and more - in MyVR and have it sync'd to Booking.com automatically. This is particularly helpful for fee management, as you can be assured all fees in MyVR are synchronized with Booking.com. With the release of Booking.com property sync'ing, MyVR is now able to offer full property sync'ing for all channels we support. Background When we first released our Booking.com application, we did so with a limited set of critical functionality focused on processing bookings. Users were still required to setup properties and all associated data manually in Booking.com. For the last 3+ months we've been beta testing property sync'ing with Booking.com. A significant number of accounts are currently using this functionality and we're now opening it up to all connected accounts. How Will this Affect My Account? If you are currently using Booking.com property syncing, there will be no changes to your account. We will continue to sync property data from your MyVR account to Booking.com. If you are currently using MyVR's Booking.com integration and not taking advantage of property sync'ing, we will automatically enable this functionality on January 14th, 2019. This will ensure your connected properties have the latest data from your MyVR account, including all descriptions, amenities, photos, fees, etc. Please make sure your property data in MyVR is up-to-date prior to January 14th, 2019. If you have questions or concerns about this upcoming change, please reach out to MyVR support prior to January 14th. If you're not currently using MyVR's Booking.com integration, we encourage you to check it out. It's a great distribution channel that can drive incremental bookings to your existing inventory and help boost your revenue. And with our new property sync’ing functionality, the integrations is more powerful that ever before.
• MyVR Best Practices

  Share or browse tips for getting the most out of MyVR

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  In case you haven't seen our product update, we are excited to announce the broad release of Property Syncing with Booking.com! This means all accounts using MyVR's Booking.com integration to manage listings on Booking.com will include full property sync'ing automatically. Read the full update here: Booking.com Property Sync'ing @Thomas-Kilmer followed up with a helpful workaround for applying custom javascript to a target attribute. His suggestion would enable you to make links on your website open in new tabs. Read on here. @Steven-Talbott-0 resurrected an old thread to share his best practice for displaying guest contact information on the calendar. Did we miss a post that you thought was great? Add a link to it in the comments below.
• General Discussion

  Unstructured discussion about MyVR and the Vacation Rental Industry

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  @dawn-berry how very odd! I wonder if you could set up a new PPB listing for that property?