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Using Wave and Twilio to simplify accounting

With my second year of rentals complete, I've started to look at improvements. There are a few pain points I set out to solve: I decided to drop the spreadsheet and use Wave instead. Wave is a free online accounting software. It's meant for running a…

By Jonathan Poland

Using Twilio from SmartThings

In our prior post, we covered using Twilio for our vacation rental. It gives us a great combination of low cost and programmability. In this post, we're going to extend the use of our Twilio number to automatically text guests when they first unlock the door.

By Jonathan Poland

Twilio for Vacation Rentals

It's been a busy summer and a full rental season since I first automated my vacation rental and it worked beautifully! All season I simply forwarded new reservation emails and it took care of everything else. But there is still one sticking point... I don't want…

By Jonathan Poland