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Silver Plan
A FREE online Vacation Rental Management Software system with multiple property support and membership of the VR Referral Network™:
- An always-up-to-date, customizable calendar for integration with your own website or direct link
- A Guestbook for integration with your own website or reference - with auto language translation
- Synchronize calendars with all major advertising sites, your website and your personal calendars automatically
- Share and receive surplus inquiries with your local community
- Simple check-in/out report
- Upcoming availability gap summary to highlight dates for special offers
- Advertiser performance analysis
Extensive help| Help is always there to assist with mouse-over fields, page directions and a help section. The Help section pages provide an overview on how to set up and operate the tools. Many pages have a Directions column that gives specific advice and recommendations for the page being viewed. Finally, and of most use, is the mouse-over help that you get on just about every field in the system. Put your mouse pointer over the field name for a description and examples as appropriate. | VR Referral Network™ Membership| Quickly find additional properties close to your own for those large groups that need more space - by street, community and city. Receive qualified inquires from owners in your neighborhood for additional rental opportunities. Share surplus inquires within your local community and earn a referral fee (note that this for inquiries that the owner has generated directly and not for forwarding those generated by your advertising sites). | Synchronize calendars with all major advertisersKeep one calendar up-to-date for linking to or embedding on your own website. MyVRZone will automatically update the calendars on other supported advertising sites. The following calendars are kept up-to-date currently:
The following calendars are updated automatically:
Advertising/Listing sites:
- HomeAwayConnect (formerly Rentors.org), servicing
- - VRBO.com
- - Cyberrentals.com
- - A1Vacations.com
- - GreatRentals.com
- VacationRentals.com (a HomeAway.com site with separate calendar)
- Holiday-Rentals.co.uk (a HomeAway.com site with separate calendar)
- Rentability.com
Personal Calendars (using the standard iCal format), servicing:
- - Google Calendars
- - MS Outlook Calendars
- - Windows Calendar
- - and many others
more synchronizations are added on demand...
Note that some features may not be available when using HomeAwayConnect/Rentors.org as your up-to-date calendar.
| Multiple Property support| Add as many properties as you like. Your calendar can display them all at once so you can quickly see where you have availability. | Tentative, Pending & Confirmed statusAssign status to each reservation. You can choose how you use the status but the following is recommended: - Tentative for initial or unverified reservations, no booking paperwork, no booking deposit.
- Pending for reservations with booking paperwork but awaiting a booking deposit.
- Confirmed for reservations that have booking paperwork and have paid any booking deposit.
| Advertiser Tracking and Performance tracking| Each reservation tracks 2 advertising sources and a report shows the performance of each. You can track the fact that an inquiry came in directly from your own website and that it got to your website from a particular advertiser's link. | Integrated Credit Card processing (blank form)Credit Card & PayPal payments page is provided for you to allow your guests to pay online. Send a secure link to your guest so that they can log in and complete a blank form online. You and the guest are emailed a confirmation of the payment. Only accounts with eComm (the MyVRZone preferred provider) are supported with the free Silver Plan account. | Reports (Check-in/out, Gaps, Advertiser Performance)A Check-in/out report shows the guest, dates and days before arrival that were unoccupied (Back-2-backs are highlighted). The Gap summary shows date ranges that are not booked so you can quickly decide if you need to make any special offers. The Advertiser report shows the where your reservations have come from over a period of your choice along with nights booked and occupancy rate. View, Email, Print or download them as a Spreadhseet. | Personal, integratable calendar - truly independent with no links/advertisingIf you have your own website then either integrate or link to the MyZRZone calendar and know that your visitors will always see the latest availability. Customise the colors, how many months are displayed, how to show pending reservations (booked, unbooked or pending) and whether to display as half-days to show back-to-back availability more clearly. For multiple properties, choose to show them all on one display for easy viewing. There are no links to other properties or services so you can be confident in keeping your visitor on your site. | Mouse-over/Click calendar to manage| When logged in to MyVRZone, mousing over your calendar will show you a summary of any reservations. Clicking on the reservation will take you to that reservation. | Language Translation (Guest Book, Feedback Form, Payment Form)| Allow visitors to view your Guest Book and read the Feedback Form in a foreign language with automatic translation. If you are using the integrated Credit Card procesisng then that, too, will be included in the translation. |
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