There are apps for almost everything and everyone. With highly customizable apps available for specific professions like engineers, lawyers and doctors, short term rental managers are no exception.
Here are some apps for property managers, designed to help manage rental properties more easily. The best part? All of these apps are available for free!
1. MagicPlan
Adding a floor plan to your property listings is a powerful marketing tactic that can help boost your bookings. In fact, your listings will look more professional and transparent, making them stand out from the competition. Potential guests will also be able to get a good idea of the vacation rental, the layout of the furniture, and make a more conscious decision about whether the home suits their needs. In addition, it will help you save time in answering questions about space. Luckily for you, there is an app that can easily help you out with the creation of the floor plan!
MagicPlan is an app that lets you quickly create professional floor plans and work estimates. It measures rooms and draws floor plans just by taking pictures. Simply add objects, annotations, photos, and attributes to generate reports or complete estimates. MagicPlan offers a free version that lets you get access to two projects and includes all features, and three different monthly subscription plans.
2. Dulux Visualizer ZA
Wondering if the time has come to upgrade your vacation rental’s style to make it more appealing to guests? Sometimes a new fresh coat of paint is all that’s needed to give your home a whole new look.
This app will set your imagination free with smart technology that allows you to identify a colour from a photo or your camera, and then virtually test it out in your own home – or rental property. The Dulux Visualizer app helps you get the closest match from over 1200 Dulux colours and offers suggested colour schemes for you to choose from. And if you’re feeling undecided, you can share your personalized designs and room ideas with your family and friends to narrow down your colour choice.
3. Rydoo
As a property manager, having a good expense reporting system is very important as it can help you see how much and where you’re spending your money, and see if you need to apply changes in the future. While spreadsheets have been the norm for quite some time, there are now even simpler ways to make expense reports. Expense management softwares is the new way. Try Rydoo, and see for yourself how expense reporting and management can be done without any hassle.
With the Rydoo app, all you have to do now is take a photo of your receipts and VAT stubs. The receipt scanner will read out the relevant information, such as the name of the merchant, transaction date, purchase amount, currency used, etc. This information is then stored automatically in your account, and an expense is created. Generating expense reports and keeping track of your spending has never been easier.
Rydoo offers a free trial and three different subscription pricing plans.
4. Sortly
With so many people coming and going from your vacation home, keeping track of all the furniture and objects, as well as their condition, is a critical aspect. As an owner or property manager, having an accurate picture of your inventory will allow you to maintain a good condition on your property, and identify missing or damaged assets. Nowadays there are easy ways to keep track of your assets. Inventory apps let you scan QR codes or barcodes with your phone to easily list your assets and track them, as well as creating a rental home condition report that you can give to your guests.
Sortly is such an app that allows you to create a comprehensive inventory and record the condition of a property with details, text descriptions, custom fields, and pictures. You can also group items by category, location, conditions, and then save the reports in CSV or PDF format.
Sortly offers a basic free plan that is a great option for individuals or new businesses that need to keep track of their inventory, plus other three paid plans depending on your needs.
5. Travelade
As a vacation rental owner or manager, offering personalized travel guides to your guests is a great way to connect with them. Guests love to get tips from people with insider knowledge about the local attractions and places of interest in the vicinity of their vacation rental. And of course, there is a website that can easily help you do just this!
Although Travelade is more of a website than an app, it is a great way to build and share personalized travel guides and recommendations. This mobile-friendly website allows you to create customized travel guides for yourself, your guests, your followers, and your friends. By creating a Wanderguide (that is, a guide on Travelade), you can easily share your local travel tips, favorite restaurants, bars, attractions, activities, and places of interest. The guides are highly customizable with comments, maps, photos, and more. You can then easily share your guide through a custom link or a QR code to all your guests.
Travalade offers a free plan that includes up to 5 Wanderguides, perfect for rental owners. There is also a premium plan for larger short-term rental companies.
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Using digital solutions to manage your property
Gone are the days where property managers had to take care of everything manually. Nowadays, there are a variety of digital solutions that can help you manage your properties in a simple and efficient way, allowing you to save time and money. A Property Management System (PMS) will help you run your vacation rental business, and optimize your occupancy and revenue. In fact, using only one system to administer all your booking through different sales channels, as well as all other aspects of the business, can save time and energy, while getting you better results. Read more about how property management systems work.
The Your.Rentals Channel Manager helps you connect your properties to more than 20 channels like Airbnb, Booking.com, TripAdvisor, without needing to have an account on every channel. In fact, you only need one Your.Rentals account to build your listing, publish it on your selected channels and start managing your bookings, calendars, and guest messages. Plus, if you’re already listing your properties on a sales channel, you can easily import your existing listing into Your.Rentals and get listed on all the other sites in just a few minutes.
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