Accepting Online Bookings with Vacation RentPro
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™ or Webervations.com™ for Online Bookings and Availabilities. This feature allows your guests to make reservations online based on available dates and rental rates uploaded by Vacation RentPro, and then have those reservations downloaded and converted into Bookings as you review them.
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Both AvailabilityOnline and Webervations provide 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.
Both AvailabilityOnline and Webervations have 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.
As of July 2011, the price for AvailabilityOnline is a flat rate of $85 / year for unlimited properties. And Webervations 1.0 is $ 0.84 / month per property for 19 properties, (less for more properties). You can't beat these prices anywhere.
Between the two, our recommendation is AvailabilityOnline.com. They cost less if you have 7 or more properties, and they are actively working to improve their system even further. They also provide multiple fees and tax calculations within the reservation form.
Vacation RentPro incorporates a seamless, two-way Interface with both AvailabilityOnline.com and Webervations.com as follows:
- Uploading Available Dates and Rental Rates across multiple properties, and
- Downloading new Reservations made by Guests and converting them into Bookings.
You can easily execute either of these options within Vacation RentPro at the click of a button. Each service can also be set up to automatically notify 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.
Examples of AvailabilityOnline booking sites
AvailabilityOnline provides many options for displaying your special events, offering packages, and other options. They also allow defining custom questions with optional or required answers. You can also specify your Cancellation policies which the guest must agree to before finalizing the reservation. They have many other options as well.
Online Bookings form - Mini Calendars demo
Online Bookings form - Search and Display demo
Examples of Webervations online booking sites
The links below provide samples of websites which include Webervations interactive Bookings Calendars and Reservation forms. Webervations allows you to easily add "searchable" calendars and reservation forms such as these to your existing Property web sites.
Note, that these pages are examples, and therefore some of the links are not active.
2-Week Group Calendar option example
Both of these sites offer many options for how you want your
reservation forms to appear. You can learn about these options
on their web sites.
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.