Take your Vacation Rental Business to the Next Level! 

alluraDirect.com website users can search by detailed or vague criteria, view listings and book accommodations instantly.

Enjoy the following marketing services:

• Diligent search engine marketing. Google search an accommodation-related keyword specific to your destination and we will likely be within the top ten. *This may vary according to keyword popularity and destination (destinations on the site longer tend to rank better)
• Newsletter marketing to over 18,000 total newsletter subscribers

Once you have discovered where and how to advertise (yes, it's ok to advertise on other sites), how are you going to handle all the business leads?

alluraDirect.com's vacation rental software includes an extensive, private property web-site creation and reservation management system that easily handles all of your business leads. There is no relationship or access from your personal property web site to alluraDirect.com. Consequently, you will not lose business leads to other property owners on the main alluraDirect.com directory.

If you already have an existing personal web site, simply plug in our booking tools and feed all of your reservations into a single management system.

Check out a sample private site: www.whistlerskipad.directvacations.com

Wouldn't you prefer to pay by credit card when making a reservation? How comfortable would you be sending a cheque to a complete stranger?

Your biggest business barrier is customer confidence. From the renter's perspective, paying by credit card is an insurance policy in case you're fraudulent and the property does not really exist. Many renters also need to pay via credit card, or simply want to capture more loyalty points - like Airmiles.

Credit card processing fees are a cost of doing business that you must factor in to your rates. Trying to avoid them by insisting on cheques results in less money and greater hassles: like blocking off your calender and losing sales while waiting for a cheque in the mail. It might never come, and it might bounce.

At this time, all payments are processed in Canadian dollars and deposits made to Canadian bank accounts. We anticipate diversifying to other currencies in the future.

Use our vacation rental software and receive a tested and centralized web-based reservation management system that reduces liability, mistakes and overall administration time to five or 10 minutes per day. It also increases reservations from all sources by making it easier to book your vacation property.

Automatically schedule and distribute guest and owner self-reminders and reservation correspondence based on your preferences. Don't drop details and make costly mistakes!

It's not enough to have a great personal web site if it doesn't help renters book when they want to! Your site must make it easy and obvious for people to make an instantly confirmed reservation based on your rules, otherwise you risk losing them to someone who is ready to take their money! It should also automate routine administration, and ensure that critical tasks are completed.

With the alluraDirect.com vacation rental software you can:

• Configure your reservation rules based on your preferences. You are always in control. Bookings cannot occur unless the dates are open on your calendar, the renter pays your posted rate and agrees to your policies.
• Create a reservation email template library and instantly create customized emails unique to each new reservation, including booking and guest details.
• Automatically track reservation and payment status. Receive late payment alerts.
• Create reservation and revenue reports within seconds in order to track your progress and ease the yearly book-keeping process.
• Automatically generate reservation receipts.

Pick our brains for tips on:

• Quickly configuring your business and property logistical operations from scratch
• Tested policies that protect you and your renters
• Building a long-term customer base that increases the value of your real estate investment
• Achieving a rates and occupancy equilibrium
• Managing cleaning and maintenance

Transferring your website and online rental business to a new Owner takes less than 15 minutes. The new Owner keeps the same alluraDirect.com property ID and private website address. Your past renters can continue to find and book the property in the same place.