Online Booking Systems for Cottage Owners

Why Use an Online Booking System?

•    Online, increasingly people expect instant results and responses.
 
•    If you have an Online Booking option you are offering customers the convenience to book instantly when it suits them.  
•    You therefore reduce the risk of losing a potential customer who may decide to book somewhere else because they didn't know if you were  available or not and weren't prepared to wait around to find out.
 
The Importance of Showing Up to Date Availability Information:

Similarly, people expect information online to be up to date and accurate and can get frustrated if your availability information is not up to date.
Using a booking system that we integrate with can mean that your availability information can be updated daily instantly via our integration.

What Does each Online Booking System Offer?

Find out more about the companies we integrate with and about the pricing of their systems:

Holiday Bookings Online

Holiday Bookings Online offer a sophisticated online booking system that not only takes online bookings and payments, but also makes managing your bookings easy.  Our Premium account significantly reduces your workload by sending customer payment reminders and arrival instructions.  Just a few of the many features of the Holiday Bookings Online Ltd system include flexible additional booking charges and questions, SMS booking alerts, mobile friendly calendars and reports you can import in to spreadsheet software as well as a host of other useful features.

The Standard account costs from £89 + VAT per year and mention Country Cottages Online referred you and we'll waive the normal set up fee on Standard and Premium accounts if you sign up during November or December 2017.
For more information see www.holiday-bookings-online.com
 
Supercontrol
SuperControl is intelligent booking and management software for self-catering businesses that helps you get more bookings with less work so you can free up money, time and resources to grow your business.
Founded in 2007 Supercontrol's system is responsible for hundreds of millions of GBP bookings each year; note, however, we are on a mission to be the best, not the biggest.
SuperControl does more than just take bookings. We connect you where it matters and work with you long-term, helping you to excel tactically and operationally.

We give you the tools to:

•    Get your business seen.
•    Grow your business with smarter pricing.
•    Upsell and maximise profits.
•    Nurture guest loyalty.
•    Analyse trends and opportunities.
“Without SuperControl we would not have won the awards that we have or increased our turnover by 25% year-on-year of late.” Dewi Davies, Clydey Cottages.
Supercontrol's Pricing
Read more at http://www.supercontrol.co.uk/software-pricing
Interested?
To find out exactly how SuperControl can benefit your business, call John or Keven on +44 (0)1556 506701 or email info@supercontrol.co.uk.

PIMS
PIMS is a Rental Management System that helps you organise your rental bookings the way YOU want to. It will help you:

•    Build quotes and send emails from your own templates.
•    Manage your availability calendar and automatically update CountryCottageOnline calendar as well.
•    Keep track of everything you need to remember to do and sends you reminders daily.

And above all

•    It will ensure that you never inadvertently take double bookings !
Pricing for PIMS
The basic system costs from as little as £29.00 per year, but if you also want to manage online bookings and payments, then our Gold version starting at £149.00 per year is the ideal product.

Importantly, whatever version you decide on, and you can upgrade at any time, there are NO transaction charges and no booking fees. Everything you do is controlled by you and you will always have direct contact and receive direct payments from your guests. We just make it easy for you to do it all in your website.

Interested in PIMS?
For more details see https://www.holidayrentalmanagement.com/ or email richard@holidayrentalmanagement.com

 
Prop Sync
Prop Sync is a channel management system which offers property owners the chance to synchronise their calendars between certain booking systems, vastly reducing the risk of double bookings and relieving owners from manual updates.
The document below is an extract from a member’s dash board, displaying information to help them track and record information.
This includes the date you registered, the transactions updates and the estimated hours you have saved since using Prop Sync. Other information displays the date your subscription expires as well as graphs so you can visually see the progression of your transactions and bookings.