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Lodgix now integrates to a variety of different booking channels including Airbnb, HomeAway, Booking.com, Expedia and TripAdvisor. These channels have no mechanism to collect a signed digital signature on a rental agreement. That creates a problem for property managers that require a signed rental agreement with every booking, regardless of where it originated. Currently every […]

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Jul 19 2017

Lodgix Airbnb Integration Has Launched

New Features / By Brent Kleinheksel

READ THE DOCUMENTATION!!! Our integration to Airbnb has launched. It may still require a bit of tweaking in the next couple of weeks (July 2017), but we felt it was close enough to warrant it going live. Airbnb REQUIRES that a new Airbnb account be established for the integration. Lodgix will then populate your

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Jul 17 2017

Search by Tags Added to WordPress Rentals Search Widget

New Features / By Brent Kleinheksel

Lodgix publishes a WordPress plugin to sync Lodgix inventory with a WordPress website. Within that plugin there is a rentals search widget. The rentals search widget can be used by guests to search for properties and narrow down the search results. Property managers can optionally choose to search by: Location # of Bedrooms Price

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Jun 13 2017

Trigger Negative Exception Functionality Added

New Features / By Brent Kleinheksel

We’ve added a bit of new flexibility to the triggers interface. It is now possible to NOT send trigger communications depending on the source of the booking. This is directly related to our new Airbnb integration which will be launching soon. Airbnb collects the guest payments and remits the host payments to property

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Jun 6 2017

Custom Invoice Variables Have Launched

New Features / By Brent Kleinheksel

Custom property variables have been a part of Lodgix for a long time. Custom property variables allow for custom fields like for example, wi fi codes, gate codes, directions to property, pool instructions, special notes, etc.. These fields can then be referenced using merge tags in guest communications, rental agreements, etc. Super convenient and flexible.

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May 30 2017

Arrival Report Changes

New Features / By Brent Kleinheksel

The arrival report has been cleaned up and enhanced a bit. Previously there were separate columns for invoice notes, services and housekeeping notes. We’ve combined all into one column with an identifier showing what sort of notation is being displayed: When an invoice has both arriving housekeeping notes, invoice notes / block reasons, and a

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May 22 2017

Housekeeping Report Enhancements

New Features / By Brent Kleinheksel

Housekeeping notes have been split up into two fields: By splitting up the fields the notes for the departing guest can now be displayed on the housekeeping report: The arriving guest notes will continue to show up as before. Owner block notes / reasons have also been added to the reports. These will show

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May 16 2017

Airbnb Integration Update

New Features / By Brent Kleinheksel

Slowly but surely we are working through all of the nuances of integrating to Airbnb. We are hoping for a soft launch with a few selected customers in the last week of May. Before that however I thought it would be good to review how the Airbnb integration will work and what will comprise their

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