..so it’s been awhile since our last update, sorry about that. Let’s review where we are at. The single property calendar relaunch is done, but yet’s it’s not. While I’ve been happy with the concept, the actual implementation needed tweaking and more flexibility. What I am seeing come out of this last round of […]
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HomeAway recently announced that they will be moving to a secure messaging platform. This is not a Lodgix initiative, we can only code our platform to make the changeover as seamless as possible for our users. I do feel bad however for those who use HomeAway as the primary source of their bookings, as
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It is now possible to configure a text alert (SMS) when new online bookings occur. To configure this service: Navigate to settings > important settings within Lodgix (https://www.lodgix.com/system/isettings/bookings/) Go to the Bookings Tab Verify your mobile phone number, and then click on Verify Phone and enter the code that is sent to you via
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Entries were shuffled… …and put in a candy treat bowl…(I had no hat readily available and I love Halloween!).. ..and a winner was chosen! …lucky number 13?? Even as I write this post, I don’t know the actual name of the winner of the iPhone7. I emailed the final list to my colleague and have
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Thanks to all of the 64 Lodgix subscribers who left us wonderful reviews over the past few weeks. To celebrate such a great response, we’ve entered all 64 reviewers into a drawing for a new iPhone 7 (up to $600 value). Rather than using a random number generator online, I am going to do it
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Our two primary development projects have made significant progress since our last update. Online Booking Page Redesign I’ve seen the first online booking page redesign / recode test pages and can’t tell you how excited I am to get rid of our current pages. Those pages continue to work well, however the design is dated
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The last 12 months have largely been spent rearchitecting large portions of the application. This can be extremely time consuming, even for some of the best developers in the world. Recoding and refactoring the backend, while simultaneously launching a new front end framework requires a lot of man hours. The good news is that
as I predicted long ago…..the fools that are vacation rental owners and managers will sign up in droves, even though it will cost them 3 to 4x what an annual flat paid listing would cost. http://news.investors.com/092713-672818-homeaway-users-like-new-pay-per-booking-model.htm?ven=yahoocp&src=aurlled&ven=yahoo I guess I need to start offering pay per booking as a model on Lodgix? Since it seems vacation
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