Custom listing attributes (to create message tags)
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Elam King
The new custom messages tags is awesome. However I find it just short of fully robust.
What I would like is the ability to create a custom tag such as wifi, listing specific vrbo link, aribnb check in guide, etc on the listing then pull it into the broader custom tags.
For example lets say wifi. I have the ability to create a custom tag field named "wifi" this then shows up on each listing. I then fill that in on the listing level. This then is a tag that can be pulled in anywhere.
Otherwise I have to creat a lot of custom messages around just wifi.
Where it gets even more cumbersome is if is both listing specific and channel specific like airbnb.com/room/listingid.
there is not way to do this without creating a custom tag for each listing (lets say I have a hundred) and then for each channel. That would be 100x4=400. However if I has custom message tags specific to the listing i could do it with 1 instead of 400
Vince Breslin
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Check out this Facebook Group post for a bit more context
https://www.facebook.com/groups/191448321586965/posts/905513690180421/
Vince Breslin
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Custom property attribute tags are now live! This is a great feature and will go very well with our upcoming automated message upgrade.
See more here:
Vince Breslin
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We have started working on custom listing attributes.
Vince Breslin
planned
Check out this Facebook Group post for a bit more context
Vince Breslin
Thanks Elam King - perhaps one thing we can do relatively easily is add additional inputs on each listing which can then be used as regular message tags, for example wifi name, wifi password.
What inputs would you like on each listing?
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Elam King
Vince Breslin: Here is what comes to mind but I'm sure there are others.
- wifi
- listing url for airbnb, vrbo, booking.com etc
- checkin guide for airbnb
- custom textbox 1
- custom textbox 2
- custom textbox 3
- External guidebook URL such as touchstay or hostfully
- Custom URL to external source 1
- Custom URL to external source 2
- Custom URL to external source 3
- Access Code
etc etc
Mark Petrillo
Vince Breslin: I agree with custom text boxes. For example, as things are currently set up, I have check in instructions that look like this:
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{{check_in_riverview_1}}
Please only park in front of the sign designated for Unit D - this is the one furthest to the right when facing the building, next to the colorful mailboxes. A second car or an oversized vehicle, should you have one, can be parked along Columbus Ave on the north side of the property, between the street and the sidewalk.
Riverview Blue is Unit D, the blue door to the right at the top of the stairs inside the building.
{{check_in_riverview_2}}
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If I had a custom tag, I could call it {{parking}} or whatever, and then set it up for each different unit I have, as necessary. Then I could drop all of this into one simple {{check_in_riverview}} message that would nicely pull in all of the custom tag info.
Hopefully this makes sense.
Here is another example (showing SmartBNB custom codes I use):
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You will be staying in Unit %%unit%%, the %%nickname%%.
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The pulls the unit number and nickname for the property (instead of the long Airbnb name) into the message, so it reads well. All I had to do was set up all of the "unit" and "nickname" shortcodes once per property, and then everything nicely drops into place with the same message text, referencing the same shortcodes.