Vacation Rental Availability Calendar
The Availability Calendar is a very helpful tool
for managing your reservation requests, and we recommend that you use one, and keep it up to date. One of the biggest complaints from renters is either no Availability Calendar, or it not being current.
A Calendar
will make it much easier for your clients to make
a reservation because they know what dates are available
in advance, and much easier for you in that it will
eliminate having to correspond back and forth about
available dates. Once your client sees which dates
he can reserve, he can immediately either go to your reservation
form and make the reservation, or call you. Upon receiving the
reservation request you can confirm the reservation, and make arrangements
for taking a deposit.
We have a choice of two different Availability Calendars. Both are very easy to maintain, and you can have either style you wish.
Availability Calendar Style 1:
If you are seeing this message, your browser does not support this version of Flash.
This first one can be place directly on your Reservations Page to make it easy for someone to check your available dates. You will have an Admin Area to update your calendar at any time you want.
Availability Calendar Style 2:
You can click on the Availability
Calendar at the right to see a sample of what the second one looks like. This one can show several months at a time, and is seen in a popup. You will have an Admin Area in which you can update the calendar at any time you want.
There can be various ways for you to collect the deposit (see the Credit
Card Processing and the FAQ's
page for more info):
* By taking the Credit Card information by phone.
* By having them use the FAX Credit Card Form on your website.
* By setting up your web site with the ability to bill their credit card
or checking account online over a secure server (we use Paypal).
* If you have a Merchant Account, we can set up a payment page to take credit card information SECURELY online for you to charge through your Virtual Terminal.
* With a link to another web site of yours at which you can accept online
payments.
* By having them send a check. The least desirable solution since it takes so
long, but a good option for the balance once you get the deposit.
|
