Lay My Hat

TBH, i'm finding Booking.com a lot more professional than any of the other sites at the moment. They respond to problems quickly if there are any. You just have to watch you follow the rules, and set your prices and minimum stays correctly from the start. Finding them best for out of season bookings...

I've had French bookings recently from booking.com and also France-Voyage, but that is just for French properties.

Right clicking gives me the option to print.

I don't have the room for a separate lockable cupboard or chest, hence the ottoman bed. No-one can really tell it it there, and everything underneath is either bagged or boxed. No-one has helped themselves without permission.

I found an ottoman type bed was best for underbed storage.

You may need an additional option to take card payments online. .Yes, you can set up a Stripe account, but it isn't easy to just add it to PMP. You need something like PIMS see www.holidayrentalmanagement.com to enable Stripe to work.

No, you still pay tax on it, and it doesn't have the tax advantages that a furnished holiday let will have.

I know UK owners who simply alter something on their BC listing to make it a different product. They may offer an early checkin on one but not the other or include cleaning.

I've been asked several times, but it hasn't made any difference, they've all still booked.

Create a new invoice, and skip sending it, use the Save and record payment option' at the bottom. There's an option to charge a credit card. If there is a saved card, it will allow you to charge it.

It should be saved in the customer details (Sales section).

It is Niv, he used to live over in Serre Chevalier where my apartment is.

Where are you based? Alpe du'Huez? I know your Leggett agent, nice guy.

What makes you think e-richard doesn't have a 'real job'? Browsing electronic 'chit-chat' may even be part of it. As he runs a web-based system for managing holiday rentals, I would jolly well hope he was online, and keeping his finger on the button. You imply that being online is a waste of time an...

A friend declined a booking as it was for over-occupancy, but as BC don't class children under 2 in the occupancy figures, they made her pay the extra for the rebooked accommodation, despite there not being enough beds for the 7 people who wanted to stay in a 5 person apartment. As it uses bunks and...