Channel Manager for Vacation Rentals

How does a Channel Manager for holiday lettings help you?

A Vacation Rental Channel Manager is an essential tool for managers and owners looking to maximise the visibility and occupancy of their business on major booking platforms such as Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, Expedia and more. A Channel Manager helps to optimise booking management and eliminate operational errors such as overbooking, making holiday rental businesses more efficient and profitable. Thanks to a Channel Manager it is possible to synchronise availability, prices, rates, bookings, which avoids the need to manually manage each platform, automates processes and allows sales segmentation.

All channels available at all times, without limits or extra costs

Synchronize and differentiate your vacation rental properties with all the channels you want, penetrate new markets and multiply bookings connecting with channels from all over the world.

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All connections developed with the most modern technologies to guarantee maximum reliability

All developed connections with the most important channels are bidirectional and exchange all possible information to centralize your business management.

Simplify your listing management, differentiate your offer, raise visibility and maximize your revenue.

Depending on the channel and its technology you will be able to synchronize various informations, apply strategies and create new listings directly from our PMS Channel Manager saving precious time.

Calendar

Synchronize availability in real time to update your calendar in less than a minute. Forget overbookings.

Reservations

Receive all your bookings in one single multichannel calendar and stop inserting reservations manually.

Prices

Synchronize rates and prices and apply differentiated sales strategies for each channel.

Listings

Transmit listing content (titles, descriptions and photos) to channels. Creating new listings was never this easy.

Differentiate your sales strategy per channel

Close availability in the channels you want on the dates you want
Apply a fixed price increase per channel and per rate to fight OTA commissions
Modify further all sent prices based on your strategy
Close specific rates (available only for Booking.com and Expedia) to make them exclusive

Main channels

All connections with main channels are developed in full and our catalog is in continuous expansion to offer property managers a constantly increasing number of sales opportunities. Synchronize all the information with Booking.com, Airbnb, VRBO, TripAdvisor, Holidu, HomeToGo, TravelStaytion and many more!

If interested in a particular channel yet not present in our catalog we can develop a simple connection in a matter of hours to synchronize availability via iCal technology.

Here are some of our connections:

Booking.com is the leading online booking portal.

We are Premier partner.

Airbnb, along with Booking.com, is the most requested OTA due to it being extremely effective in terms of reservations.

It is definitely one of the leaders among OTAs, especially for the new travel generations, also because it attracts new markets.

Icnea has full connection and synchronizes the entire listing: availability, prices, reservation details and content, along with the message system (chat) which we integrated for you to use directly from our PMS.

The world's leading vacation rental platform that brings together various brands such as HomeAway, Fewo-direkt and Abritel under the power of VRBO.

We have a complete ad connection with reviews, prices, availability and reservations. We are developing the property status (to facilitate the process of activating new properties) and discounts for new listings.

Travelstaytion is a company specialized in vacation rentals since 2012 with the mission to help owners and managers to offer unique experiences in their trips. With a portfolio of more than 95.000 properties in more than 700 destinations arround the world, Travelstaytion offer a selected collection of accommodations managed by a community of owners and managers who share their comittment to offer high standards of hospitality.

The comparator for excellence. Working with Tripadvisor will help your owners to have more visibility.

In addition, you will be able to synchronize with different channels of their brand:

logos of different portals

We have full ad connection, pricing, availability and reservations.

Holidu is one of the leading booking platforms for vacation rentals based in Germany, with strong European growth and more than 100,000 monthly bookings.

We have full ad connection, availability, pricing and reservations.

In addition, you will be able to synchronize with different channels of their brand:

HomeToGo is the fastest-growing vacation rental booking channel worldwide, offering property managers a direct booking experience. Access to direct guest communication, tailored cancellation policies and fast and reliable payment solutions – that’s how HomeToGo helps property managers stay in control of their bookings.

HomeToGo also operates brands such as:

International vacation rental platform mainly focused on hotels but also with a wide range of vacation rental properties such as apartments and villas.

With this channel we synchronize availability, prices, and reservation details.

At the moment we are developing a new version in order to offer full connection also with this other important channel and allow our clients to create new listings in Expedia directly from our PMS Channel Manager like we already do with many other main channels.

Flatio is a leading European monthly rental platform that specializes in providing tenants such as expats and slow-traveling remote professionals known as digital nomads.

With Flatio, you can maximize your income from hosting traditional tourists, while experiencing higher occupancy, lower costs, and greater peace of mind.

The connection synchronizes availability, pricing, reservation details, and content.

Locasun is one of the leading portals in France, specializing in holiday rentals, both sea and mountain, in France and Spain, for the French tourist.

We have complete synchronization of the announcement, availability, prices and reservations.

POPLIDAYS is the leading holiday property site, offering you properties managed exclusively by estate agents..

Other synchronization methods for your Channel Manager

iCal Synchronizations

Icnea disposes of iCal calendar links to synchronize availability for any property with any system easily.

Furthermore, we can also create an independent calendar to visualize all iCal connections and monitor them better.

API integration

Our integrations team constantly develop connection improvements to improve exisiting connections and provide new ones.

On the other hand, we also have our own API available for any channel that doesn't have their own to advertise themselves to our clients.

API documentation

FAQs

The use of a Channel Manager in a vacation rental business has several advantages for property managers:

Synchronisation of bookings and availability: the Channel Manager automatically synchronises bookings and availability across multiple booking channels. As a result, every time a booking comes in on one channel, the calendar of all connected platforms is updated, eliminating the risk of overbooking.
Synchronisation of prices and rates: thanks to the connection with the PMS, the Channel Manager synchronises the prices established for each channel and allows the use of a pricing strategy segmented by channels based on the manager's needs.
Increased visibility across multiple channels: with the use of a Channel Manager it is possible to list properties across multiple channels by synchronising all the elements mentioned above. This allows increased visibility and a greater number of potential guests to be reached, thus maximising occupancy and revenue.
Performance reporting and analysis: with a Channel Manager it is possible to receive information on property performance and sales per channel. This data allows you to make decisions based on information about which channels are performing best and implement pricing or occupancy increase strategies in each case.

A Channel Manager can have different costs depending on the provider and the features offered. Some have a monthly fee, while others offer a commission-based model. At Icnea, the Channel Manager is linked to the PMS and our clients have no additional cost or commission fees for its use.

The Channel Manager helps to avoid overbookings by synchronising properties and their availability with the channels. This ensures that each booking is updated on all platforms by locking availability when a date is booked. In addition, if the property manager applies changes to availability or minimum length of stay, these are also updated across all channels to ensure that the information is displayed correctly on all channels.

A Channel Manager for vacation rentals is a tool that allows you to manage and synchronise listings, prices, bookings and availabilities of vacation rentals on multiple channels such as Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, etc. A Channel Manager synchronises calendars, prices and bookings in real time to ensure that no operational errors such as overbookings occur and no manual management of each platform is required.

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