Very Very last minute booking ?
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Very Very last minute booking ?
We have a booking for the 9th September, which is only two days away. As we don't have facilities to receive payment by credit card/pay pal etc how would you advise us to take payment. We are on the villarenters website, and i believe there is a facility on there for us to take our own customers bookings, if anyone has ever used this method I would be most grateful if you could explain how it works.
many thanks Phil.
many thanks Phil.
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You only need an email address to take Paypal. Depending on the amount involved you can set up an account very quickly, although you will then have to wait to have your account verified before you can withdraw the money. I haven't used the Villarenters method, but I suppose as it is last minute my argument for not doing so is not relevant, as they ahng on to your money until afte the holiday.
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cash deposits into business accounts can lead to high charges tho
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actually quite nice apartment in Gozo!
actually quite nice apartment in Gozo!
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Hi Angel,
as you are aware if you supply your own bookings, villarenters only charge 2% commission as opposed to 10% if they create a booking. To be honest villarenters have produced very few bookings, however the facility to use their payment by credit card could be very useful, especially for last minute bookings, it's just a case of never having used this facility and I just wandered if it is straight forward to do so.
Many thanks Phil.
as you are aware if you supply your own bookings, villarenters only charge 2% commission as opposed to 10% if they create a booking. To be honest villarenters have produced very few bookings, however the facility to use their payment by credit card could be very useful, especially for last minute bookings, it's just a case of never having used this facility and I just wandered if it is straight forward to do so.
Many thanks Phil.
Ah... ok. What you need to do is get your own link to the booking system which you can give to your clients. They can then book as normal using credit/debit card. It's the reference in the link that shows it is your own booking and not VR.
Go to your property on rentalsystems, click on Marketing and choose "obtain link and code to your calendar".
HTH
Go to your property on rentalsystems, click on Marketing and choose "obtain link and code to your calendar".
HTH
It really does mean instant! If I pay cash or a cheque into my Nationwide account it shows up immediately on the internet but of course a cheque doesn't show in the cleared balance as the cash does.Mountain Goat wrote: Alifrank - we've got a dormant NationWide account somewhere. How instant was instant or was it really instant?
MG
It also works with a transfer between Nationwide accounts. I transferred money from one account to the another last Saturday morning via the internet and then went straight to my local ATM to check and the transfer showed in the balance.