About text alerts

Guests: booking updates

Open a home listing, choose available dates, then select “Send a free booking request.” Enter your contact details. The separate SMS checkbox is unchecked by default and optional. Select “Send request” with or without it. If you opt in, we text a confirmation and the host's accept or decline response about that request.

The SMS disclosure on the request form is:

I agree to receive text messages from Poconos Vacation Rentals LLC about this booking request at the mobile number I provided. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to opt out or HELP for help. Consent is not a condition of purchase or of sending a booking request. For help, email hello@vacationrentalspoconos.com. We never send marketing texts.

View the live guest consent form screenshot. A separate marketing checkbox is for email only.

Hosts: booking-request alerts

Sign in, open Profile & sign-in, and find Booking contact. Enter your mobile number, select the optional “Text me when a guest sends a request” checkbox, then Save contact. The checkbox starts unchecked for a new booking contact. You can leave it off or turn it off later and still receive booking emails. The same choice is offered when adding a home. Changing the mobile number requires new consent.

The SMS disclosure shown beside that choice is:

I agree to receive booking-request text messages from Poconos Vacation Rentals LLC at this mobile number. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to opt out or HELP for help. Consent is optional and is not a condition of purchase. Support: hello@vacationrentalspoconos.com.

Only registered hosts can save this setting. If our team records consent for a host, we first send the full SMS disclosure and policy links and keep the host's separate affirmative reply. General listing terms alone do not authorize texts.

Owners: one requested sign-in code

On Sign in, choose “Text me a code,” enter your saved mobile number, read the disclosure above the send button, then select “Text me a code.” This requests one code, not a subscription to booking alerts. Each additional code requires another request. Email sign-in is available instead.

The disclosure before sending states: By selecting “Text me a code,” you ask Poconos Vacation Rentals LLC to send one sign-in code to this number. One text per request; message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to opt out or HELP for help. Consent is not a condition of purchase. You can sign in by email instead. Support: hello@vacationrentalspoconos.com. View the live sign-in disclosure screenshot.