We are using reservation system by Synthense, and all reservations and down payments are executed by system for 3% charges. It takes us out of picture for payments. It is cheapest reservation system we could find. We tried to establish our own system as we need some thing very simple but we were unable to get any thing to work correctly. People who do not like to pay using paypal can deposit money to our bank account. We charge 30% down payment and balance due on arrival. Last time we sign our property to website which does everything for us.Book instantly or let hotels, b&bs, and vacation rentals compete for your stay.jpg
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Automated systems which free you up to focus on hospitality -- bescover.com
I think I just went into the Expedia website and looked for contact details - however once we signed up we had lots of help from Heidi Warner, t-hwarner@expedia.com, so perhaps you could contact her for a start.
Re commissions, from memory it may depend on how many rooms you have - we only have 3 self-contained cabins so perhaps that's why we only pay 10%.
Dear Daphne,
I look at your property in Australia and it looks great.
How did you manage to be on Expedia and Venere?
We have one of our property on Expedia but I think is through BandB where we had to pay to be listed, and for two rooms that we agreed to have automatic reservation they charge 30% for each reservation. On top of it I have to watch each reservation so we do not double and most of time when somebody want to book with us room is not available. Our situation will change soon when I finish download and set up reservation system with beds24.com you were kind enough to give me leads to. Any more advises?
Dear Daphne
Thank you very much it was the best advise. I know TripAdvisor is very good one, but I was unable to list my property, only I sow was business listing or FipKey. We listed on FlipKey, but was big time waste of money, even worst with vacationrentalpeople.com. We are listed on HelloTourist.com , it is funny service we are getting many requests for quotes, many requests for making packages No any real reservation, wasted time.Limba is good and they charge only for reservations made, and they charge to clients only. We like hotelscombined.com.
I'm working now on new reservation system from beds24.com. All great leads from tripatini. Thanks
Thank you very much.
Beds24.com really looks great but I do have reservation system. What is most important to me system I'm using provides also reservation in Polish language. Our properties are in Poland and most of our customer are Polish.
What I really need help with is how and where to advertise our accommodation, so we get more clients.
There are many websites that for price offer to place your property on their website, but most of time you do not get any reservation from them. And good one like TripAdvisor are very expensive, we can not afford it.
I appreciate any advise.
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But you don't have to pay to have a listing on TripAdvisor - you can have photos, basic description and limited contact details etc all for free. http://www.tripadvisor.com/Owners-t2
This is our listing http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g499650-d612341-Reviews-Dai... and lots of guests tell us that's where they found us! As you'll see we have also signed up with Expedia so people can book directly - they charge 10% commission which we can cope with. We did try TA's (yes expensive!) full Business listing for a few months but cancelled it as it was a waste of money and didn't bring any more business.