Everything to do with using your own website to advertise your rental property. Design, usability, hosting, getting listed on the search engines, optimising your site, pay-per-click, etc, etc.
Well, if it's not for availability, give it a go. I think I will, looking at it again.
I wouldn't have thought it's physically on your site, but it gives the appearance to a visitor that it is.
I will investigate and report back - it's certainly got a load of features.
I've been trying to find a calendar which can show 4 properties' availability horizontally (our place is one chalet, which can be split into 3 apartments, so as far as the punter is concerned it could be 4 - as far as we're concerned, it would be so useful to have an instant glance at availability - rather than a web-based spreadsheet or a tatty bit of Filofax year planner which I carry around like a prayer mat).
Hi Goat
I've had a look at the Google calender and it looks fine for what I have in mind.
Have you looked at this site? http://www.rentcalendar.com/....it was featured on This French Life recently. It is really good but unsure if you could have 3/4 calenders on the same page. May be worth looking at though.
Thanks, Phoenix
Yes, I did look at Rentcalendar and tried it out. It can do the 4 properties, but not display simultaneously. I was also a bit unnerved by the lack of support and also how they were finally going to zap us for the cost. I think Portuguese was one of the languages and it would have been useful to direct our cleaner long distance for her duty days. Downside is she hasn't got internet access.
This display of 4 horizontally on Google would work fine - just what I need, but I can't see any way of adjusting the colours, which would make it clearer.
There's a lot of add-ons as well - such as e-mail for guests. I will persist with Google - thanks for getting me back on!
Goat
Some of the others may know more. I found this site whne looking for a calendar for my property and was pointed there by someone. I did set it up initially and then went for my online booking one instead.
I've been trying to find a calendar which can show 4 properties' availability horizontally (our place is one chalet, which can be split into 3 apartments, so as far as the punter is concerned it could be 4 - as far as we're concerned, it would be so useful to have an instant glance at availability - rather than a web-based spreadsheet or a tatty bit of Filofax year planner which I carry around like a prayer mat).
If I understand correctly, I am currently doing this on our website. Four calendars, side-by-side, to help people book multiple properties.
These are the free rentors.org calendars, displayed via a link to Rentalbot, our rental management software. If you want more info, just let me know!
debk
MG,
There's a management handover starting Saturday on Rentalbot, which also involves change of servers. I would wait until Monday because the site may not work properly over the weekend and it sounds like they're going to change the code that embeds the calendars, so we'll all be doing updates. This wouldn't affect obtaining the 4 free calendars from rentors.org that you would need to start, only the software you would then use to run them side by side on the same page, as per Debk's site. The system also controls the calendars on various listing sites, so when you confirm a reservation, one click simultaneously updates management pages, your own website calendar, Rentors.org AND various listing site calendars as well. Brilliant.
(See thread on 'personal...too personal')
