Setting Up for E-mail Requests

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If you're interested in setting up Campground Master to retrieve online reservation requests from E-mail messages (e.g. web site form submissions or online service confirmations), the following areas need to be addressed. (See the related sections for details.)

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Make sure the Reservations data field "Resv_Online_Request_ID" is enabled.

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Make sure you have a POP3 E-mail mailbox available that will receive the E-mail requests.

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Set up the POP3 connection settings for downloading E-mail (must at least be "Enabled" for some other setup functions to be available).

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Set up one or more Parsing Sets to extract the data from the E-mail. You'll need to know the format of the requests -- if using your own web site form, you might want to tweak it to make parsing easier and get as much information as possible in the format Campground Master uses.

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Enable the Site data fields "Site_Online_Email_ID" and/or "Site_Online_Email_Type" if the site name or type in the requests will not be exactly the same as the site name and type used in Campground Master. You also need to decide how you want to handle requests -- e.g. assign a site yourself, or use the customer's requested site if possible, etc.

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Fill in the Site data fields above with the appropriate values.