Technology

Tools that make it easy to track the performance of your vacation rental business. You can read important statistics, generate reports and analyze your website traffic.

A website or mobile app that is designed to enrich the guest experience. It will provide guests with everything they need to know before and during their stay. In some cases, guests can chat with the host via the digital welcome app, as well as book local activities or add-ons.

An online software that builds a website based on the information users have provided.

A pre-designed webpage (or set of webpages) that anyone can use to easily create their own website (even without any design or programming skills).

A cloud-based program that allows you to build a website, accept direct bookings with online payments, connect to key third-party distribution sites and manage all your reservations and guest communications from one place.

A property equipped with smart home devices and can be remotely managed.

Software that facilitates the management of rental properties. this includes reservations and booking calendar, guest communication, rates, listings on other channels, property information, and more.

Your website name, the address on the internet where users can access your website.

Synchronization between a variety of platforms allowing owners to maximize the discovery of their properties by guests. Exportation of rates, listing content and calendar availability to the top OTAs to provide a reliable means of listing on different sites.

A software plugin for hospitality industry websites which allows them to take online bookings with payments.

An application or software used on accommodation websites to securely process reservations and payments.

A full connection between two software platforms that allow data sharing. For example, channel managers usually offer API connections to the top booking portals such as Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, Vrbo, etc.

Technology that streamlines short-term rental property management operations by setting up triggers to activate action flows, such as contacting visitors, screening guests or making payments.

A tool that offers synchronization between third-party distribution sites and a central platform for managing reservations. Channel managers typically synchronize calendar availabilities, though some connections will offer synchronizations of property data, rates, messages and more.