Channel manager for VRBO

Self Service Onboarding Pre-Fill URL 

• Here are the instructions to Pre-Fill the Self-Service Onboarding link with "Gracesoft-Easy InnKeeping" as the chosen PMSC as well as the PM’s AdvertiserID on behalf of the PM.
• You can use this link to choose the GraceSoft as an channel manager.

1. Go to Setup >> OTA Settings >> OTA Connectivity >> Choose "VRBO" from the OTA drop down.
2. Under "VRBO Rooms Additional Details Required", VRBO URL field contains the predefined link, which leads to the VRBO landing page, where the property owner can directly login to the VRBO account and choose the "connectivity partner" as GraceSoft.

Mapping Rooms to VRBO

Goto setup -> OTA Settings -> OTA Connectivity -> Select OTA -> VRBO.

Choose the room that you want to map, Provide the room name that needs to be displayed on VRBO, verify the included occupants, and roomtype max.Occupancy and click Add.

• Room type that is available on Easy Innkeeping.
  Note: Each Room Type should have only one room configured.
• Provide the Room Name that needs to be displayed on VRBO.
• Click the Add button.

• Once the Room Type has been added, if there is no issue with Occupancy mismatches the Status will show with the Green Tick symbol, and the Action button will be replaced from Add to Edit/Delete. Repeat the same action for adding more room.

Note: Dont send settings or availability now.

Configure Rooms for VRBO:

• Goto Setup -> Front Office -> Room Types. 
• Locate and Open the Room type and do the following as listed.

Upload Image:

For VRBO, Images are mandatory to be uploaded in below conditions:

• A minimum 6 images need to be uploaded,
• The resolution for the image needs to be a Minimum 1024 x 683
• image size needs to be less than 2 MB.

If any existing images are present on the Room Types, Please right-click on the images, and save the images locally, now remove those images, We are doing this process because, we are not validating existing available images, so it was giving an error in the validation stage.

Once removed now add the new images, this condition is only for vrbo mapping room types. 

VRBO Settings: