In addition to Availability Calendars, Property Pages, Property Group Pages and Cleaning Calendars which Vacation RentPro can optionally post to your own website, the software also provides the option of interfacing with AvailabilityOnline.com for accepting Online Bookings directly on your website. This feature allows your guests to make reservations online based on your available dates and rental rates in Vacation RentPro, and then import those reservations.
Vacation RentPro also integrates directly with HomeAway / VRBO, RedAwning, and BookingPal for 2-way Online Bookings and Full Listing updates. RedAwning and BookingPal are Channel Managers which can distribute your listings to all the major channels, including: HomeAway, TripAdvisor, Airbnb, Booking.com, Hotels.com, Priceline, etc. The interface with Availability Online is for accepting secure online bookings on your own website.
AvailabilityOnline provides several options and features for providing Availability lookups across multiple properties and allowing Guests to make reservations directly online. They also offer the option of accepting payments online from guests or just requiring the credit card info so you can process the payments according to your payment schedules in VRP.
AvailabilityOnline has been in the reservations business for many years, and we believe they offer the absolute best price for accepting online bookings and a great value for our customers.
The price for AvailabilityOnline is a flat rate of $95 / year for unlimited properties. You can’t beat this price anywhere for allowing secure online bookings.
Vacation RentPro incorporates a seamless, two-way Interface with both AvailabilityOnline.com as follows:
- Uploading Available Dates and Rental Rates across multiple properties, and
- Downloading new Reservations made by Guests and converting them into Bookings.
The service notifies you when new reservations have been made.
Once reservations are downloaded into Vacation RentPro, you can automatically convert them into actual Bookings on a reservation-by-reservation basis. This process allows you to review each reservation and modify or add any additional fees, if necessary.
Example of Integration with Availability Online
This sample Property Page provides an example of integration with Availability Online. In the Menu bar, click on “Calendar/Quote or Reserve”. Select your dates and click “Book it Now” in the Instant Quote.
Future Interfaces
In the future, we plan to include additional interfaces to other third-party sites as we develop new relationships. Our goal is to give our customers multiple options and not limit them to a particular service for providing these and other features.