Hi All,

Whether or not your availability calendar shows ‘slashes’ is dependent on that specific property having same-day turns enabled. If the property doesn’t allow same-day turns to happen, calendar events won’t have the half-day slash format due to the entire day needing to be blocked. Details on where this setting lives on the property can be found in our below help article:

This is a setting on the Book Now page of your website. It’s a page that only is edited by support, so you’ll want to submit a support ticket for that.

@jenny-oest

Jenny; Thanks for your help but I did a different work around with the help of the folks at PriceLabs. Basically I had to go to particular dates on MyVR calendar rates and turn off the Saturday check-in/check-out (ONLY for those dates I wanted this exception for).

Then I went to PriceLabs and instead of choosing all nine (9) nights as one block, I kept the Saturday to Saturday as is but them made Thursday, March 5 and Friday March 6 two separate “orphan” days (still requiring a 7-nite minimum stay.

Then did sync and it is working fine.

Hope you are well.

Thanks for your continued assistance in all things MyVR related.

Later,

John H

https://community.myvr.com/topic/1167/how-to-remove-quote-hold-from-calendar

Hi Sarah,

A quote hold is an optional step you can take when creating a quote, that “holds” (blocks) those dates from being booked by other entities for a period of time you specify. It’s not the default option, and needs to be manually selected.

This option is set on the last section of the quote builder:

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If you’d like to remove the hold you can cancel the quote with the hold.

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@amanda-king yup. 🙂

Hey Sarah, that’s handled in the Booking Policies > Online Booking Defaults section;

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@Sarah-Plitt check this out

@Michael-Corrales this would be a good feature request!

@jenny-oest LOL clearly I was overthinking this! I don’t know why I didn’t think of that. It’s been a long day! Thank you so much!!

I realize this is an old post but I came up with a solution to this problem and wanted to share. Instead of adding guest details to the calendar export, I opted to create Google Contacts for each guest instead. I added a bunch of custom fields so all reservation information would pop-up on my phone if a guest called.

I am a huge fan of automation tools like Zapier and Integromat. In this case, I set up an automation in Zapier (aka “zap”) to take care of this.

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When a new reservation is booked, contacts are searched to make sure there’s not an existing entry. If there is and there’s new information, the contact is updated. If not, a new Google contact is created.

I used to manually add each and every guest to my phone which I hated doing. Each time a guest calls or texts, everything I need to know about them is right where I need it! In case you’re curious, here are some screenshots showing the way the Zap is setup as well as the contact card in my phone. I blurred the guest details out.

Sorry about the image size! I couldn’t figure out how to shrink them with markdown!

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Hope this helps.
Steven

@windsock-acres
I’m not sure I understand what you mean about the linking or getting a notice.
You could create a tentative reservation for the property that they want to be wait listed for - would that help?

OR

How about creating a TAG on the booking for that property - or better yet… a note that is pinned and pops up when you view the reservation. Then, if you need to cancel it, that note will pop up and tell you that there is a wait list for those dates and that property?

Any of those ideas help?

Jenny

Hi @Eva-Greene,

Yes, you can export the calendar from one MyVR property and import that calendar into another MyVR property. If you only need to block off other listings sometimes and not all of the time, I would recommend doing that manually by creating a blocking calendar event.

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Finally, here is a good discussion on how to combine multiple units into a single, rentable listing.

Best,
Danny

@mary-freiberg Thanks not good! I just sent a note to find out what happened. Sorry about that - someone will be in touch soon.

Hi @Kris-Dykema ,

As always, @Jenny-Oest offers great advice. It’s best to use one calendar as your master calendar, and we highly recommend using MyVR as that main calendar.

With regard to the particular issue that you’re having, MyVR should notice when you remove events from a HomeAway calendar. Calendar events are synchronized and processed roughly once an hour, including events that are removed. If you waited an hour and the events still weren’t removed from MyVR’s calendar, please report an issue.

Cheers,
Danny

Just a housekeeping note regarding use of the Calendar Widget in a WordPress Install.

Before anyone attempts to paste the widget into your webpage, I would suggest removing the blank lines in the javascript.
If not, Wordpress will automatically insert some html code ( <p> </p> )to preserve the empty lines.
The inserted html will cause the script to appear similar to the script below. The html causes the script to fail.

<script id=‘myvrCalendarScript’ type=‘text/javascript’>
(function(m,y,v,r,t,a,g){m.MyVRWidgetObject=t,m[t]=m[t]||function(){
(m[t].q=m[t].q||[]).push(arguments);},m[t].l=1new Date(),a=y.createElement(v),
g=y.getElementsByTagName(v)[0],a.async=1,a.src=r,g.parentNode.insertBefore(a,g);
}(window,document,‘script’,‘https://static.myvr.com/public/calendar/widget.js’,'myvr’));
myvr(‘calendar’, {propertyKey:‘b371f253f7286005’, showRates:false});
<p> </p>
/
You can optionally specify a unique HTML element id as a 3rd parameter
above. If specified, the calendar will be rendered at the element
instead of inline.
<p> </p>
myvr(‘calendar’, {
propertyKey:‘b371f253f7286005’,
showRates:false,
elementId:‘#elementId’
});
*/
</script>

@Darrell-Looney112 you’ll probably need to send in a problem ticket with your specifics. They’ll need to look at your specific settings.

Hi Carole,

MyVR doesn’t have any way to create test properties, but you can test this by creating inactive properties. While most things such as websites, bookings, and full channel integrations don’t work with inactive properties, you should be able to create basic calendar synchronizations with these properties to test what was discussed in Shared / Combination Properties – Calendar Management?.

Cheers,
Danny

Hi Chris,

While I can’t help you estimate costs, I can direct your to our API. It allows CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations for both rates and calendar events. If a third party company can build a solution that connects to our API, they should be able to meet all of your requirements.

Best,
Danny