After managing our own rental property for several years, we became frustrated with the lack of simple tools in the industry.
We reviewed dozens of products but couldn't find the software we wanted that checked all our boxes. Some tools helped us manage the property well but didn't offer ways to book. Others only concentrated on booking features but didn't let us sell add-ons like Travel Insurance or Damage Protection to our guests. Almost none of the tools integrated with our website and the ones that did were clumsy and inefficient. We wanted a full-featured API so that we could customize our site completely. We wanted to be able to generate custom quotes that didn't reserve time until the guests finalized it themselves. In fact, we wanted guests to do just about everything themselves - including enter their own credit card information - and we wanted all this in a beautiful, modern application that was light, fast and powerful.
We also happen to be web developers who have years of experience working on large, modern web applications including a number of high profile media websites. Many of the websites and web applications that we've developed involve financial services and several of them manage millions of visits per day.
We knew, as we looked around, what features should have been available because we knew how we would have built them. But we couldn't find what we wanted.
So we got to work.
OwnerReservations.com, as a product, is simple. It's simple because it only does one thing and it does it better then anyone else. Most of our competitors' software is broad and shallow. 'Broad' because their software tries to do every aspect of every part of rental management, and 'shallow' because none of those aspects are developed completely and thoroughly. OwnerReservations.com, on the other hand, was built with a narrow and deep perspective. As we grow, our feature list might get broader but never at the expense of depth.
Our features are built for owners that only have a few properties but want a unified interface, great options, great customization and professional control. We want owners to manage all their properties from one centralized repository, book them, deal with inquiries, sell add-on services, generate reports, track inquiries-to-bookings but it should feel easy and fun. Every option we build into the system should be useable via API so developers can extend our services to their own applications. Have a website? We'll help you integrate our services. We'll also let you grant access to others so your management company can login and view your information or list your property on their website via the API. If you don't have a website, don't worry - you don't need one. We host a number of public web forms that you can give your guests access to to view quotes, finalize bookings, update credit card information and more.
Oh, and the best part is - the price is flat and cheap. We don't believe in charging percentages. Anyone is able to set up a new account for free and manage their properties. No catch, no hidden fees. If you want to stick around, we'll only charge you a low monthly fee. That's it. No matter how much traffic your site gets, no matter how many pictures you upload, how many bookings you create or how often you use the API - we only charge a single fee for whatever you do.
We sincerely believe that we are positioned to be the best software available for vacation rental property.