Trekadoo Vacation Rental Software Continues to Expand Product Offering by Partnering with RentalSpot.com

Trekadoo vacation rental software has partnered with the free vacation rental listings search engine RentalSpot.com to provide its vacation rental software offering to RentalSpot.com’s growing community of users, vacation homeowners, and agencies.

In an announcement early this week, Trekadoo CEO Kathryn Christensen said, “We are excited about our latest partnership with RentalSpot.com. This partnership is the first in a series of partnerships that we are working on to improve the functionality and usefulness of Trekadoo.”

Trekadoo vacation rental software is designed for individual home owners allowing them to easily take online payments and run their rental properties. Partnerships, like the one with RentalSpot.com, give homeowners the ability to take bookings directly from the listing site. This functionality removes the need for home owners and renters to constantly e-mail back and forth in order to rent a property. Now vacationers looking for a property to rent on RentalSpot.com can simply book online - the same way they would book a hotel or flight.

RentalSpot.com provides free listings to homeowners and agencies while allowing users to search vacation rental properties using a highly intuitive map-based interface. In addition, community members can easily collaborate with family and friends and rate properties they have rented. Free to advertise and free to use, RentalSpot.com is a more targeted alternative to expensive vacation home rental by owner sites like HomeAway and VRBO.

“We believe incorporating Trekadoo’s web-based vacation rental management software into our web presence will give our community of vacation home owners and agencies an easy way to accept secure, online rental payments,” said RentalSpot.com’s CTO and Founding Partner Nate Yaconis. “Our Trekadoo partnership is a logical fit that will benefit our growing user base.”

In Trekadoo’s effort to continue expanding its offering to vacation home owners, Christensen added, “We are communicating with other listing services that see the need for this type of functionality in the market. Booking online is such a simple thing. It amazes me that the technology in the vacation rental industry is so far behind the rest of the travel industry. We are changing that.”

The vacation rental industry is rapidly changing, with more companies and services for vacation home owners popping up every day. While online payments are not common now, the founders of Trekadoo believe only those sites that provide this functionality will survive over the next five years. Trekadoo’s goal is to make this simple functionality commonplace in the industry.

“There are many people who don’t use vacation rentals because they’re simply not as convenient as hotels,” said Christensen. “There is a fear of the unknown, especially when it comes to dealing with individual people, mailing payments, or sharing credit card information over the phone. People are just not comfortable with that. As online booking becomes more prevalent and secure, we will see an explosion in the market. Vacation rentals will quickly become mainstream; we’re already seeing this with the explosion of airbnb.com.”

For more information on these services, visit http://www.trekadoo.com or http://www.rentalspot.com.

Trekadoo Vacation Rental Software Adds Features

Trekadoo is the first vacation rental software designed to help individual home owners run their vacation homes quickly and easily. Today they announced their latest feature release - Trekadoo Sync Calendars. Trekadoo calendars allow renters to book vacation homes the same way they book a hotel, flight, or rental car. Online, instantly, with a credit card.

Kathryn Christensen, CEO of Trekadoo stated; “this is a huge leap forward for the vacation rental industry.” Most vacation home owners list their vacation properties on two to six vacation rental listing sites (think of auto-trader - except instead of selling cars, these sites are renting vacation homes). Unfortunately home owners must log into each of these websites individually to update their properties’ availability. 

According to Christensen every time a renter books a property the property owner must log into all of these sites and update their availability calendars, it’s time consuming and difficult. Trekadoo’s latest product release will solve this issue. Today Christensen said; “Our latest release will save vacation home owners hours of work, and will improve the overall health of the industry by providing vacationers accurate and up to date information. These features will make vacation homes more appealing to the general traveling public.” 

Until now the hotel industry has had a real advantage over the vacation rental industry. Hotels manage reservations in a professional manner, give accurate up to date availability, and allow customers to book online with a credit card. With Trekadoovacation rental software the vacation rental industry has made a huge advance seemingly overnight. “The hotel industry is now looking over its shoulder, as companies like Trekadoo give them a run for their money,” Christensen. 

Over the past 10 years vacation rentals have become a very attractive way to travel. They are particularly attractive to large groups, individuals who like to experience local cultures and customs, and those that want something different and new when they travel. Christensen says; “It’s the only way I travel anymore, whether I’m going on vacation for two days or a month I only stay in vacation rentals. They're just so pleasant.” 

If you own a vacation home you can check out what Trekadoo has to offer over at www.trekadoo.com