All Forum Posts by: Buck Dabill

Wow - having one of the only water front properties in the area will be awesome! I bet your property will do well. I would make sure you have all your licenses up to date. I would start out by only opening the first few months to see what hits. You can then adjust the pricing in the summer to make sure you're maximizing your revenue. 

I have used hospitable for a few years and liked it a lot.  This PMS is inexpensive and consistently adding new features.  

However, I recently switched to Guesty for the following reasons:

Direct booking site is included and easy to use (hospitable was in beta when I switched).  Guesty also integrates with stripe so you can accept bookings on your site, no manual processes required.  Previously a guest would request to book, then I would have to email them back to accept, put the booking into the calendar, and determine how the payment would be made.  You can also creat discount codes ( I like to send these to my previous guests to encourage direct bookings)

In platform reporting (hospitable only allows you to download the data to a csv)

Integration with wheelhouse 

Create payout statements if you are managing properties for other owners.

In app cleaner/maintenance management.  Cleaners get access to a portal where they can follow your checklists, submit photos, and mark tasks complete.  I now get a notification when the cleaners and hot tub maintenance complete the post stay tasks (previously I would have to check the cameras).

This sounds like I didn’t like hospitable, which isn’t true.  There were just some features/integrations that I was longing for.  

Hospitable which integrates with Schlage Encode locks to automatically generate guests codes. It also integrates with Pricelabs for dynamic pricing as well as Turno for cleanings. 

I use OwnerRez www.ownerreservations.com, and pricelabs. OwnerRez took a bit to set up properly. It has also been good for my direct booking site also.

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