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About RentalSystems
RentalSystems.com Ltd was incorporated in March 2002. The brainchild of an owner of several holiday homes, the site was launched as a pilot in the new year of 2003 after much development work. The work continues and the system has evolved enormously since the early days with several transformations thanks to the help of the pioneers that adopted us. 22 September 2006 Daily Mail and General Trust’s Travel Subsidiary Teletext , Acquires Leading Online Villa Specialist Teletext Ltd has strengthened its online travel portfolio with the purchase of leading villa rental specialist, www.villarenters.com.
Ray Mason, Teletext Holidays Managing Director said: “Villarenters.com is a very exciting and rapidly growing business with a radically different approach to online villa rentals. By providing simple online booking and payment tools directly to private villa owners, Villarenters.com can offer superb properties for letting, which would not otherwise be available to the public. With over 300 new owners joining every month attracted by the low commission of 10 percent - half that demanded by most agencies - bookings are doubling year on year in a tough market, For Teletext Holidays, Villarenters.com is a perfect addition to our portfolio, allowing us to offer our customers the widest choice of holiday accommodation online.” Tim Coulton, Villarenters managing director said “ We are really excited by the prospect of working with Teletext. Villa Renters is the e-bay of self catering holidays – our system matches potential holiday makers with villa owners- and with live reviews by guests who have just visited, the customer knows exactly what they will get. Owners and renters like using the system and that’s why it’s growing so rapidly. Working with Teletext we can reach even more owners and consumers and maintain the high levels of service we cuurently provide” Taking the hassle out of searching and booking private holiday accommodation, www.villarenters.com is an online directory marketing over 10,000 quality private holiday villas, apartments and houses for rent worldwide, providing an extensive choice which can be booked, via credit card, instantly and securely online.
With a fully automated booking system offering instant responses to booking requests, price quotes and availability checks, the frustration of booking and paying for private holiday accommodation both home and overseas is now a thing of the past with www.villarenters.com.
The fully transactional website also features extensive validated property and resort reviews by genuine holidaymakers who have just taken their holidays giving feedback from real customers rather than relying on brochure or owner recommendations. It also features a last minute deals section, long stay discounts and early bird savings, ensuring visitors to www.villarenters.com receive the most competitive prices in the marketplace.
Using the free online rental software provided by Villarenters.com, property owners benefit from a wide range of features designed to make letting property as profitable and simple a process as possible. These include a fully customisable online booking system suitable for one property or thousands. It’s a commission based system so there’s no joining fees and low rates of commission paid per booking. Thousands of affiliates have been recruited to market the Villarenters portfolio bringing record bookings every month Owners can take full control of rentals online enabling them to track the status of all bookings and all booking details, customer information and communications are stored centrally in the Villarenters.com booking system. Other invaluable tools include a central booking calendar and payment system that integrates with the owner’s website, allowing owners to use the system for all their bookings making double bookings a thing of the past. The ability to create individual automatic discounting models, where last minute, long stay or early bird discounts are calculated instantly, and arrival instructions automatically sent to customers are just a few of the other great benefits available to owners.
The concept from the outset was to provide holiday home property managers with a complete template in which to operate their rental business. Members are able to create what we call RentalSystems powered websites - property websites hosted by RentalSystems with their own booking calendars. Members can now operate their business 24 hours a day. RentalSystems powered websites enable taking bookings, fielding enquiries, chasing and processing credit card payments to be all automated.
Villarenters.com, our sister site was launched on Valentines Day 2003. Villarenters provides us with a vehicle in which to market our clients properties and since its launch we have seen numbers of members grow quickly - at the time of writing (July 2003) we have over 450 members actively using their RentalSystems powered websites to attract and manage bookings for their holiday rental properties. Our staff has grown too and we are always on the look out fresh talent to join our team.
Both Villarenters.com and RentalSystems.com were acquired by the Daily Mail & General Trust in August 2006 as part of their online travel strategy and is administered by the group's travel subsidiary Teletext Holidays.
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RentalSystems revolutionises the online travel marketplace
RUTLAND, England – (BUSINESS WIRE) – Feb. 4, 2004 – Renting out a holiday home can be a real headache, involving phone calls from renters who don’t speak the language, waiting for cheques, managing your booking calendar, calculating discounts, and processing payments from different countries that can incur extra costs and delays. Why do it the hard way when it’s easy with the online holiday home management system from RentalSystems.com?
The RentalSystems system gives villa owners everything they need to run a successful holiday rental business, whether they have one property or hundreds. Thanks to RentalSystems’ complete management system, owners can advertise their properties to a receptive audience and fully automate everything from bookings to payment collection. A handy ’Robot Secretary’ creates invoices, chases payments from renters, and automatically emails managers, agents and customers.
RentalSystems’ system gives total control, as owners can input bookings gained from other sources into the calendar, centralising all their activities. The booking calendar can be linked to an existing website, tie in with other marketing partners, and provide an ideal destination for customers who enquire by email. Owners needn’t worry about vacant weeks, as RentalSystems automatically applies discounts for last minute bookings and long stay, through its dynamic ’Auto Discounter’ feature.
Unlike most other holiday rental sites, RentalSystems accepts credit card payments from buyers without owners having to arrange their own merchant accounts – a costly and time consuming process. With RentalSystems, owners can be up and running with their own online booking and credit card payment system within minutes which they can use for all their bookings from any source.
Owners can take advantage of advertising on the marketing portal www.villarenters.com – RentalSystems’ properties are highly placed in search engines, which bring considerable traffic to owners’ listings. A growing number of affiliates market the properties to bring enquiries and bookings from every possible source.
Tim Coulton, co-founder of RentalSystems, comments: “As property values rise many owners are re-mortgaging their homes and buying villas overseas. Our system helps them manage their rental activity, for just a few minutes’ effort a day, without getting bogged down in admin. There’s very little for the busy villa owner to do...aside from entering the prices, preparing the villa, and organising hand-over of the keys!”
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