365villas

Kommentare: AWESOME. Just great. Sure, a couple things could be improved, but 365 is head and shoulders above all of the competition. They have a useful, modern product and a helpful, responsive staff. We are very grateful to have found them.

Vorteile: There are so many great things about 365. I did a TON of research on different CRM options before settling on 365villas. We are a 14-unit vacation cottage business, and for us 365 was the best by far. They are a breath of fresh air. 365villas does all the things that you'd expect of a modern lodging CRM: calendar sync, online booking from your website, billing, contracts, email management and automation, promotion codes, etc. It is set up with automation and simplification in mind. Many competing companies look shiny and new on their sales website, but the feel and function of the user experience is straight out of the '90s. Not so with 365villas, which operates and feels completely modern, both for the business owner and the guest/customer. Another common pitfall that I discovered with other CRMs is that hidden fees appear only after you are well into your trial. It's common to charge fees for calendar sync or channel bookings, although these fees aren't mentioned in the sales process. Thankfully, 365villas has been completely above-board. While not cheap, it is reasonably priced and what you see is what you get. The simple channel calendar sync is included in the price. Works great for us! Most of all, I'm impressed by the people at 365villas. They respond quickly & thoughtfully to questions. They consistently show willingness to engage - and actually solve! - issues we mention. They clearly care and keep working to improve. Thank you, 365villas team!

Nachteile: I've heard that a QuickBooks sync and an app/better mobile experience are on the way. We are very much looking forward to both. Hopefully the sync solves our long-time (from way before 365) headache of having to manually associate income to the correct cottage within QuickBooks. For us, two improvements would be of tremendous benefit: 1.
I wish that there were a good way to handle group bookings! We get plenty of groups booking multiple cottages under one reservation. In the current system, a family group renting 5 cottages must sign 5 different (nearly identical) contracts, pay 5 deposits, pay 5 final payments, get 5 sets of automated emails, etc. 2.
Payment collection could improve. We typically receive bookings months in advance, so we take a deposit upfront and a final payment before arrival. 365 automates this, which is great! However, if somebody books a cottage for next Tuesday, the same deposit and first payment are still automatically charged separately. There is no way to customize the individual guest's payment schedule. Payment collection would also be hugely improved if 365 stored the guest's credit card number so that we could manually charge it upon their departure. Guests expect you to store their card and run it when they check out, as hotels do, and most guests are confused by the fact that they have to give us their credit card twice.

Kommentare: We have been able to drive the business forward using this software.
Our time has been freed up to spend on other areas of our business.
The module reduces day to day administration (IN A BIG WAY!).
Our clients have never once complained or objected to any of the output or automatic emails which use clever substitution codes that create bespoke emails.

Vorteile: We are a company of 35 years so we know a thing or two about processing reservations.
For such a multi-faceted solution, this package is very easy to use and understand.
Bookings are quick to enter and amend, and payment tracking is highly accurate.
The user interface is clean and clear.
Properties can be managed together, or individually so the package works for larger companies as well.
Pricing, minimum stay, arrival days can be set within the season bandings and these parameters can be set for all properties or individual properties.
Correspondence (general emails as well as auto-generated emails) are tagged the corresponding booking.
The auto-generated output saves us hours (every day), and customers are kept reliably informed about the status of their booking, so our office now runs more smoothly.
The system is multilingual and multi-currency, but simple to navigate and employ (we use both, daily).
Reporting and accounting modules are accurate and useful.
There is functionality that you would never think could be useful, but in time this comes to make sense and brings more productivity.
The customer service is excellent, as and when issues may arise or if bespoke changes are required, the team are quick to act or can suggest intuitive work-arounds.

Nachteile: Some software update bugs can cause the odd glitch, but these are minor and are quickly fixed.
The search and booking on-line software is not multilingual (yet) although I understand this is functionality that may come in time.