Looking For A Property Management Software (PMS) System? Here Are The Top 5 For 2019
Looking For A Property Management Software (PMS) System? Here Are The Top 5 For 2019
February 25th, 2019
Here at Xplorie we work with vacation property rental management companies across the country. One thing we’ve found is that property managers who have invested in a quality software based property management system (PMS) have higher booking revenues, fewer open dates, and provide their customers with a better, more engaging customer experience.
A PMS can help you organize your bookings, automate contact with your guests, and help to market to them post-stay to drive up future bookings. Let’s take a look at the top five property management systems available, integrations available and some of their best features!
February 25th, 2019
Here at Xplorie we work with vacation property rental management companies across the country. One thing we’ve found is that property managers who have invested in a quality software based property management system (PMS) have higher booking revenues, fewer open dates, and provide their customers with a better, more engaging customer experience.
A PMS can help you organize your bookings, automate contact with your guests, and help to market to them post-stay to drive up future bookings. Let’s take a look at the top five property management systems available, integrations available and some of their best features!
Streamline
Streamline is designed to help you get faster conversions, deliver a powerful trust accounting suite of tools, and includes yield revenue management to help you maximize profitability. Streamline’s administration system and open API even lets you build, customize, manage and control your own proprietary guest app. Channel Partner Integrations helps you to maximize bookings through a number of different distribution channels. With Streamline you can even manage your housekeeping and maintenance, hassle-free. Powerful mobile apps make managing multiple properties easier, wherever you are. For the past 10 years, Streamline had worked to simplify vacation rental management. This suite of tools can make it much easier to manage a large volume of properties by providing all the functionality you need.
Barefoot Technologies
Built on one of the most mature and robust cloud-based platforms, Barefoot is one of the top PMS solutions in the vacation industry. It’s a scalable platform which means it easy to add functionality as you need. Barefoot offers flexibility in lead marketing with a built-in CRM with automated niche marketing flexibility. Barefoot technologies allows you to customize your user experience to meet your specific needs and features an OPEN API which means that you can add custom functionality as your needs change.
Ciirus
Since 2005, CiiRUS has been leading the industry for complete all-in-one vacation rental software. With over 30,000 homes their network is constantly expanding. CiiRUS is a suite of tools that can help you manage, market, and connect your properties with over 1000 listing agencies in addition to equipment vendors. credit card processing engines and insurance resale.
With CRM, integrated accounting, comprehensive training, and a technical support team, CiiRUS is a complete property management solution.
HomeAway Sofware
With powerful trust accounting, reservation calendars, housekeeping/maintenance management, and no-fee online distribution, built in, HomeAway is a great PMS solution. Designed to help you attract new guests, automate outreach, and dozens of other time-consuming tasks from housekeeping to billing, it’s a comprehensive suite of tools that can help you deliver a stellar guest experience. With a solid user base and over 1,000,000 vacations under their belt, HomeAway is here to stay, and a powerful PMS that can help you grow.
Red Awning
Founded in 2010, Red Awning is a platform that provides property managers hotel-style reservation capabilities, with no security deposits, standard contracts, and live reservation staff. With over 100,000 homes from all over the world in their database, RedAwning ensures listings and photos are accurate. Guests can book directly from the site using a simple process and one contract. They offer your guests 24/7 phone text and online service for free on all of their properties, for the entire duration of their stay. Their branded app features seamless access to driving directions, check-in instructions, contact information and the key features of your properties. Guests can use the app to browse and book their stay. They’ve partnered with Airbnb, Booking.com, Trivago, HomeAway, Expedia, and others to offer users a wide selection of properties to choose from. This is a platform that provides consistency, service and all the benefits of a hotel stay for property managers by handling most of the front end tasks of listing, booking and confirming guests.
A property management system can help you to better organize every aspect of your business, from accounting to CRM, marketing, housekeeping, and maintenance. These are the top five PMS platforms in the industry. Each offers various levels of functionality and can be custom designed to meet your needs and can help you to grow your business. Start by defining your needs and then visit these five websites to better compare functions and features. The right property management system can improve your business and also the guest experience.
*Xplorie is a proud partner of Streamline VRS and we provide our Property Managers access to a suite of cutting edge tools: Learn more here.
