Online Rental Software

May, 10, 2012, by member Cindy Amato

If you run a rental business of any kind, you know how difficult keeping up with your rentals can be, especially if they are short term rentals for vacations or even weekends. It can be tough to keep up with how many bookings you have, what you must charge each customer, and how long everybody was staying. How much simpler would it make your life if you could simply click a button and have access to all that information? Online rental software is designed to streamline your rental business, making it more cost effective and time friendly.

None of us has enough hours in the day, most especially business owners who own popular rentals that must be managed. Between bookings, maintenance, collecting money and answering questions, you can find yourself not having enough hours in the day. Rental software is a nice thought, but many smaller business owners cannot afford the high price of most rental software on the market, forcing you to make do with software that gets the job done, but saves you little in the way of time. Online rental software, however, is far more reasonably priced than you think, and can save you a lot of time that can be better spent elsewhere. Online rental software has to be worth the money spent, however, so it is important to know what it can and cannot do for you.

You should look for software that can automate all of your booking processes, as well as offer you a lot of handy tools that can make the rest of your bookwork far easier than you ever thought possible. The right software should offer you the flexibility to create your bookings however you need them. Online rental software should allow you to customize all of your rental fees, as well as any deposits you might charge, and all applicable taxes. You should also have the ability to customize offers to bring added value to your customers as well as offer special deals and extras. This can be a great way to make a bit of extra money on your bookings, or to give your customers a special deal that will bring them back to your service again and again. You can customize discounts for things such as multi-day bookings as well, encouraging your clients to make the most out of their vacation. You should also have controls to change the minimum stay for your customers, as well as the ability to collect fees or deposits for the bookings your clients make. In other words, your Online rental software should be as flexible as you want to be, and should offer you the ability to automate the entire booking process. Finally, you will want a way to contact potential customers and repeat customers, so your software should automatically collect guest contact data and provide a way to download a list of these. Then you can use this list to either contact these customers manually, or with a service (Constant Contact, MailChimp) with news and specials.

Please visit Bookerville if you are interested in our highly affordable and efficient online rental software. We offer a 30 day free trial so you can see for yourself what our software can do for you. We promise you won't be disappointed!

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