Vacation rental channel manager
Keybee’s vacation rental channel manager offers complete and seamless channel management. No double bookings, no lost income, and better ratings.
What is a vacation rental channel manager?
Keybee’s Vacation Rental Channel Manager is our software tool that ensures your vacation rental property is seamlessly managed across all rental platforms.
What is a unified calendar, and why do I need It?
Our state-of-the-art, unified calendar synchronizes reservations across platforms and unifies all your bookings and available dates into one place.
A unified calendar prevents double bookings and eliminates booking loss, as booking on one platform renders the property unavailable on all other platforms. In addition, the property becomes immediately available on the platform calendars if there are any alterations or cancellations. As a result, keeping the calendar updated ensures no potential bookings are lost.
The intelligent channel manager updates everything cross-platform instantly to ensure the most up-to-date and optimal pricing on all the platforms you host. In addition, our pricing tool automatically updates your listings with the best prices across the platforms. Automatic pricing updates allow you to maximize your vacation rental income continuously.
Cross-platform synchronization.
Any changes in property characteristics, availability dates, cancellations, or pricing are instantly updated across all reservation platforms.
Your property is always up-to-date on all platforms to ensure a perfect guest experience and better assessment by platform algorithms.
The best part? You don’t even need to log in. Our Team will use Keybee’s vacation rental channel manager to manage your property across all platforms.
Why do I need a vacation rental channel manager?
To increase your reservations, your property must be listed on all significant STR platforms, such as Airbnb, VRBO/HomeAway, and Booking.com. Listing on different platforms means addressing different audiences and reaching more potential guests. But that’s not enough. Flawless cross-platform management is essential to maximize reservations. How is that done?
Calendar synchronization.
Keybee’s Unified Calendar brings all platform calendars updated to one place. In addition, our Team tracks your property reservation details in real time. New reservations feed all platform calendars, and cancellations instantly open dates on all calendars. As a result, tracking property reservation details, including specifics like date and availability, is better than ever.
Property details update.
Keybee’s rental channel manager synchronizes the characteristics of all your properties across all reservation platforms. For example, availability dates, new amenities, property descriptions, and many more are seamlessly synchronized across all channels.
Cross-platform pricing.
Our top-of-the-line pricing tool ensures that the optimal daily price is always synchronized across all listing platforms. This seamless synchronization ensures that the optimal price is always available across all platforms so you maximize profits from your property listings.
Why is Keybee’s channel manager better?
Keybee’s channel manager quickly updates your vacation rental property with fresh information. Combined with our Team’s expertise, you can expect the best management for your vacation property.
Unlike many competitors, Keybee has access to an exclusive platform partnership channel. The official partnership means we don’t have to rely on out-of-the-box calendar integration. Instead, we provide our hosts with reliable, instantaneous synchronization across all platforms. With Keybee, calendars are updated directly through our partnership channel. Instant synchronization eliminates double bookings and provides hosts with the most up-to-date information across all platforms they use.
Zero double bookings.
Keybee’s channel manager eliminates double bookings and cancellations, avoiding missing out on income. Your property is always available whenever you need it to be.
Better reviews.
Keybee’s channel manager accurately informs potential guests about your property availability, pricing, and characteristics across platforms. Not likely to experience an out-of-the-blue cancellation, they have a good user experience, leading to higher ratings. In turn, better reviews help your property appear higher on search results when guests are looking for a place to stay in the area.
Increased property income.
Keybee’s vacation rental channel manager ensures that optimal pricing, availability dates, and property information are constantly updated across all reservation platforms. Add the 5-star guest reviews in the mix that increase your property’s visibility, and you get the best performance for your property.
Time saved.
With Keybee’s channel manager, everything is organized in one place. There’s no need to log in to different platforms and update different listings. Instead, our agents use the channel manager to manage your property so you can sit back and relax.
Airbnb channel manager
An effective Vacation Rental Channel Manager is essential for short-term rental properties. Airbnb’s algorithm considers several factors in assessing property quality, such as reservation rates, cancellation rates, and message responsiveness. The higher the perceived quality of your property, the higher the chance to be shown on relevant search results.
Keybee’s channel manager helps your property achieve higher ratings and positions in Airbnb’s search results.
- Airbnb’s calendar communicates in real-time with your property’s unified calendar. That way, it is constantly updated with any reservations or cancellations happening on other platforms. Airbnb users, along with its algorithm, will always have an accurate view of your property’s availability, book their desired dates, and experience no cancellations or overbookings.
- Your property’s pricing on Airbnb will always be optimal. Our pricing tool does all the advanced calculations to define the best daily price. Subsequently, our channel manager communicates the price to Airbnb in real-time. Your property always has the optimal price on Airbnb, which means higher chances of getting reservations at premium rates.
- Keybee’s channel manager updates your property details on Airbnb automatically whenever a change on any platform is detected. Your Airbnb property is always up to date with amenities, images, and descriptions, providing accurate and updated information to your potential guests. Your guests know what to expect, make an informed decision on their booking, and are more likely to give your property 5-star reviews.
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Guest Access
Guests have access to the rental property as soon as they arrive.
Maintenance & Repairs
Maintenance, repairs & deep cleaning services arranged by us.
Restocking
Never run out of supplies - we will restock and replenish your property.
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The complete guide to short-term rental property management
In this article, we’re going to give you a complete guide to short-term rental property management. Whether you’re a beginner or experienced in short-term rentals, this guide is for you.
Frequently Asked Questions
No more late-night calls and emergencies. We handle all guest communication for you. From before your guest’s arrival to during their stay and after their departure, Keybee manages communications, 24/7/365-including those late-night surprise messages. You don’t need to check and reply to any of your messages. We check and respond to all messages for you.
- Proactive guest communication before, during and after their stay, with real people who understand the real problems that can arise who always provide guests with an outstanding communications experience.
- Answering guests’ phone calls around the clock and responding to guest messages the fastest in the industry.
At Keybee, we’ve developed a pricing tool that ensures you don’t leave money on the table. Our income-maximizing pricing algorithm uses supply/demand, events, and seasonality, among other critical measures, to get you the best rates. As a result, your rates will fluctuate daily and will differ on weekdays and weekends. The algorithm is also highly customizable. For example, we can enforce minimum nightly rates and specific prices for particular dates.
Using the power of data analytics, we’ve studied millions of Airbnb transactions and know what features, discounts, and other pricing options bring your listing to the top of the search results. A high ranking means increased visibility, more bookings, and higher earnings.
Full income transparency
Keybee provides full income transparency. Monitor what you’ve earned and when you would be paid using our dashboard. Payouts are released by each platform fast and direct into your bank account within 48 hours of bookings. No more middlemen!
Your listing is your passport to a higher income! We create a listing for you that stands out from the competition and publish it across all major hosting platforms. The listing(s) and account(s) are yours to keep.
The listing will include a description of your property’s space, neighborhood, getting around, house rules, and more. Our specialized copywriters know what keywords to use to rank your property higher in search results.
All listings are optimized for each platform’s algorithm for the best rankings and performance possible. Ranking optimization gets your vacation rental properties consistently viewed and booked, earning you more. Keybee achieves this through knowledge of what matters for the best performance on each platform.
Retain complete ownership
While we manage and optimize your listings, you retain all ownership. Photos, reviews, and descriptions stay on the platforms even if you decide to manage the listing without Keybee. And you can see all your earnings in real-time, any time inside the app.
Keybee uses its intelligent channel manager for all your short-term vacation rental properties. It seamlessly synchronizes property characteristics, pricing, and calendars in one unified system. As a result, cross-channel issues are minimized, and reservations are maximized.
- View all your property availability dates and reservations in Keybee’s unified calendar.
- Quick cross-platform updates, so everything stays up-to-date.
- Optimal pricing across all platforms.
- Increase your property’s outreach and occupancy rate by listing it on all major platforms for you.
We know how important a thorough guest screening is. Therefore, Keybee runs comprehensive automated checks coupled with human screening whenever necessary. Due to human screening, you can rest assured that your properties are in good hands!
Our systems detect if potential guests have previous reviews and validated government IDs on each platform.
- If government ID has not been provided in the platform, potential guests are automatically notified to provide it in time for their stay.
- Real people, not machines, detect red flags, such as large crowds and party risks.
- Avoid and reduce costs from damages and fraud.
- Feel safe and relaxed knowing experts handle your properties.
No need to worry about the safety of your keys and no need to worry your guests will need last-minute help locating your property – we take care of it all for you. We make it simple and secure for your guests to obtain the keys via an easy-to-access lockbox near your property.
As a result, your guests are left satisfied, which results in better reviews.
We offer and arrange additional services, such as maintenance, repairs, and deep cleaning (charged separately). So pick and choose the service of your choice, and we’ll handle the rest.