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How Vacation Rental Automation Streamlines Property Management and Boosts Direct Bookings

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In this blog post, well explore how vacation rental automation enables efficient property management and saves time. By leveraging tools like Zeevou, it streamlines operations, and increases direct bookings while enhancing guest experiences. This includes booking confirmations, check-in instructions, reminders, and thank-you messages.

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How to create an effective vacation rental marketing plan: 14 ways to stand out

Rentals United

Find the right mix of distribution channels If you take away one thing from this guide, it should be this: find channels that fit your rentals and target audience, and get listed on as many as you can. If you manage to find the channels that fit your properties and align with your target audience, they can be a great source of bookings.

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Sites like Airbnb: main competitors and their differences

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From major OTAs like Booking.com to niche platforms like Plum Guide, as a property manager you have a world of options beyond Airbnb to expand your reach and maximize bookings. As for pricing, property managers who connect to Vrbo through a channel manager like Rentals United pay a service fee of 12-15% per booking.

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Airbnb Smart Pricing and Its Alternatives

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Airbnb Smart Pricing uses an algorithm that analyzes and evaluates relevant data for each property listing to calculate and adjust the nightly price. The tool uses various factors about your listing and area and automatically updates the nightly rate to match the demand of the relevant market. Sign up now!

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Vacation rental revenue management: how to optimize your strategy in 2025

Rentals United

You can have the right price at the right time, but if your listings on sales channels arent effective, your properties wont get booked. While this can increase revenue per booking, it may lead to unsold rooms on less busy days, potentially lowering overall RevPAR. Operations.

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Optimizing Minimum Night Stays

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They seem to offer a way to simplify your booking calendar and possibly enhance profits per guest. We will look at how such stay policies can influence your visibility on booking platforms and affect your occupancy rates. They may not align with guest demand, leading to lost bookings and decreased flexibility.

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Complete guide on how to get listed on Google Vacation Rentals (2025)

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Google Vacation Rentals is not an OTA, so the search engine doesnt actually play a role in processing bookings. If you dont have a website, it can also send searchers to your listing on a compatible OTA. Bookings from Google can also be completely commission-free. Commission-free bookings Google charges zero commission.