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How to Choose the Best OTA Channel Manager for Your Vacation Rental Business
The Role of an OTA Channel Manager Managing vacation rentals can be challenging, especially when listing properties across multiple Online Travel Agencies (OTAs). Keeping availability updated, avoiding double bookings, and optimizing pricing requires a centralized tool that can effectively manage these tasks. This is where an OTA Channel Manager becomes essential, acting as the hub for managing your listings across various platforms. But how do you choose the right OTA Channel Manager? What...
Is your Vacation Rental Business becoming Everybody’s Business?
By now, everyone should be aware of significant changes afoot with some of the bigger channels; changes that have been trending for some time and are continually encroaching on property manager profitability. The most notable example is a recent announcement from HomeAway stating that they plan to...
Enhancing Guest Satisfaction: Reasons Why Guests Don’t Book
Finding it difficult to encourage guests to book after they’ve sent you an inquiry? The race to get bookings starts the moment you get an inquiry and doesn’t end until you’ve received a deposit and confirmed the dates on your booking calendar. The good news is that if you get off the block first...
Website Blog Series I: Are You Ready For The Google SSL Disruption?
Google started warning the world back in 2014 about its plan to ensure the protection of information shared on websites. Everything began when one of the members of the Chrome Security Team sent out a proposal to mark all HTTP websites as “Not secure”. Now, this is a reality. From October 1st,...
5 New Property Management Software Features We Are Excited To Tell You About
365Villas is a cloud-based platform that helps radically reduce your costs and make a lot more money from your short-stay rental business. As pioneers in Property Management Software (PMS), we work daily with agents like you from around the world to deliver the best and latest feature...
What Is An Online Payment Gateway? The Basics For Property Managers
Most vacation rental businesses work with channels that generate bookings for them. This is definitely important, but let’s give it a second thought. Travelers usually compare many properties across several channels and websites before making a decision. What about the payment gateway? When you...
Website Blog Series II: Why Your Fancy Website Is A Turn Off
We may not judge a book by its cover, but we always judge a business by its website. As the web has evolved considerably over the last couple of decades, website design and functionality have changed massively, too. Unfortunately (and surprisingly), there are some websites that are still stuck in...