Q4VR: Barefoot Configuration – 1 Account Multiple Locations / Websites

Overview The  Q4VR Barefoot integration was refactored to accommodate customers who have more than one location & website but will share the same PMS account. Additional configuration fields are available within the Q4VR Plugin and Q4VR Hub to make this happen. Barefoot Area Filtering To segregate properties within one PMS account Barefoot allows for filtering … Continued

Q4VR: Barefoot Configuration – HUB / Amenity Configuration

Finding and Using Amenity Codes to Properly Configuration The Hub For Barefoot Customers Background Barefoot (BF) does not have a normalized view of amenities on their platform, meaning each client can have different amenity names, values, and types (checkbox, dropdown, textboxes, etc). Furthermore, BF sends the amenity codes in the API responses and these codes … Continued

How to Build Citations (Through Whitespark)

As part of all SEO packages, we provide our clients with citation building services. This is done through Whitespark. Citation Building Package Inclusions: Basic SEO Package: 10 citations/month Enhanced SEO Package: 15 citations/month  Aggressive SEO Package: 20 citations/month  Note: Each client will eventually max out in the number of citations they can build through Whitespark. … Continued

Q4VR: Adding a Request More Information Form

A lot of our VR customers like the idea of adding a “Request More Information” form to their property pages. Below, you’ll find instructions on how to add this form to the site without needing dev’s help! Form Appearance     |     How to Build It      |     How to Add the Form  … Continued

How to Review a Marketing Strategy Calendar

General Overview 1. Review each section of the calendar before it’s sent to the customer. This should take no longer than 20 minutes. Make sure the sections are filled in with lots of detail, and that the strategy is specific to the customer and their vertical. (Ex: We don’t want to push midweek stays for … Continued

Misc. Reporting Tid bits

I usually pull bookings over revenue Reservations Reserved on, Reservations by Booking Date, Booking Summary Report are the usual reports i pull from ResNexus, think and escapia respectively Most booking revenue pulled is pre-tax If i do not have this access by the time PIR’s are due i will create a Zoho task for you … Continued

PIR Process

Partnership impact report (PIR) Focuses: Onboarding Set-up, Ongoing Process and PIR Efficiency Tips Process during the 30-day onboarding period: CSM gets access to the customer’s booking engine, Google Analytics account, Search Console, Facebook (if applicable), and anything else that will need to be included in the PIR (ex. Instagram, Google Ads, etc.). CSM grants the … Continued

Updating the PIR Tracker: CSM

There are only 2 fields you would need to update on the tracker “*Report added to Gdocs” and “Report Sent” If they send us bookings, please place the date of when they sent it to us (of course forward me their bookings as well) if we have booking login info write “have log-in info” under … Continued

Adding and Removing Customers

Adding new customers Under your names tab enter a new row and fill in all information possible. Be sure to list whether or not we have their Booking log in information under column K “Report added to GDocs” Removing/Transfering customers If we need to remove a customer under their start date (column E) enter their … Continued