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Need help organizing your business?

Take your business into the digital era! If you've found yourself fumbling through stacks of papers to find a renter's information or are managing several properties "the old-fashioned way", you might want to consider either or both of our premium services - Availability Calendar Management and Reservation Management. With easily-accessible rental information directly at your fingertips, managing your vacation rental business has never been easier!

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About our Premium Services

VacationPads Premium Services are offered as optional features of several listing packages. These services include Availability Calendar Management and Reservation Management and are intended to simplify your business and provide an always-accessible, online view of your rental business.


Availability Calendar Management allows you to track the open and reserved dates for your vacation rental properties; these dates are accordingly displayed on your listing's availability calendar on the "Rate Information" page. Reservation Management allows you to maintain all details of your rental transactions, including renter information, rate information, payment/refund information and short notes. Reservation Management also provides the ability to generate real-time reports, such as Occupancy reports, for each of your rental properties.


The following services are provided as options within our listing packages. To utilize these services for your listings, simply choose a listing package option that offers the desired feature!

Availability Calendar Management
What is Availability Calendar Management?

Availability Calendar Management lets you maintain availability calendars for your VacationPads easily and conveniently. With the Availability Calendar Management service, you maintain availability calendars for your VacationPads listings directly through the VacationPads.com website. Since VacationPads is a full-service, integrated site, you will not have to leave the VacationPads.com website to update and maintain availability calendars, and your potential renters will not have to leave our site to view availability for your VacationPads.


By maintaining availability calendars for your VacationPads, your listing experience is enhanced in the following ways:

  • An availability calendar is displayed directly on your VacationPad's "Rates and Availability" page. Potential renters will be able to view availability for current and future months.
  • As a convenience measure, potential renters will have the ability to check availability by entering rental dates directly on a form available on your listing's "Rates and Availability" page so they do not have to scroll through your availability calendar to find what they're looking for.
  • Your potential renters will know exactly when your property is available so you do not receive unnecessary inquiries.
  • Displaying your VacationPad's availability adds a feel of extra professionalism and convenience

Of course, if your package includes Availability Calendar Management and you choose not to display this information on your property's listing, you have the option to disable publication of the Availability Calendar in your member section. Even when your property's availability is not published, you will still have the ability to make updates to the calendar. In this case, only you will be able to view your property's availability; site visitors will not see any Availability Calendar on your listing's "Rate Information" page.

Tour of the Availability Calendar Management System
Availability Calendar Updates
Enter up to 3 sets of rental dates simultaneously

Maintaining availability calendars is simple with our Availability Calendar Management System!

  • Enter up to three sets of checkin/checkout dates simultaneously
  • You can "reverse" availability at any time - if a renter cancels their reservation, simply reset the reservation dates
  • Current availability is displayed beside the availability entry form for quick and easy reference
How your listings are affected
Listings display availability calendars

Each listing that is part of a package that includes Availability Calendar Management will be published with an Availability Calendar on the listing's "Rate Information" page. Visitors will be able to view availability for a single month directly on your listing, or by clicking the "six-month spread" option which displays availability in a new window for a six-month period.


If you have defined a rate schedule, any estimated estimated rental quotes that are requested on your listing's "Rate Information" page will account for availability based on the dates you select as unavailable and notify the renter accordingly.

Reservation Management
What is Reservation Management?

Are you currently recording and managing your vacation rental business from notepads and scraps of paper? Do you need help keeping track of your rentals and monitoring your vacation rental business? Do you often wish you had a more organized system that was always at your fingertips?


Bring your property rental management business into the digital era!


VacationPads Reservation Management System is an industry-first, all-inclusive feature that gives you the tools you need to successfully manage your business in a virtual environment. From maintaining a renter's contact information to automatically calculating reservation rental rates to generating property performance reports, the Reservation Management System will simplify and organize your business and allow you to access your records from any location where you have Internet access.

Features of the Reservation Management System
Reservation Management System Toolbar
Maintain records for all your rentals

For any business, it is extremely important to maintain an accurate record of all correspondence with the customer. The Reservation Management System allows you to enter details for all your rentals, including renter contact information, dates, rates quoted and notes. When you correspond with the renters, you can record the content of your conversations as they happen to help eliminate potential misunderstandings in the future. The Reservation Management System will also alert you if you try to book rentals with overlapping dates.

Access existing reservation information quickly and efficiently

Suppose a renter contacts you requiring information about their rental. Instead of flipping through stacks of paper trying to find what you're looking for, quickly access their reservation online in the Reservation Management System using the reservation search feature. You can search for reservations based on a number of criteria, including payments/outstanding balances status!

Track payments and payment history

Maintain an accurate log of all payments received and refunded. You also have the ability to enter notes along with each payment. As payments are entered, the outstanding balance on reservations is automatically calculated so you can always keep track of which rentals are paid-in-full and which are not.

Monitor your business

The Reservation Management System includes a reporting engine to help you understand how well your business is performing.

  • The Occupancy Report calculates the occupancy rate for your properties over a given period of time.
  • The Rates Summary Report summarizes the amounts charged for your reservations during a given time period, and breaks the amounts down into base amounts, taxes and cleaning/other fees.
  • The Payments Summary Report summarizes the total amount of your payments credited and refunds issued over a given period of time.
Automatic Availability Calendar Maintenance

All listing packages that include the Reservation Management System also include Availability Calendar Management. As a preference, you can choose to keep your availability calendars automatically synchronized with the reservations you enter into the Reservation Management System. Whether you enter new reservations into the system or cancel existing reservations, your availability calendars will always reflect the reservations you store in the Reservation Management System.

Manage your business from anywhere, anytime

Whether you're on vacation or away from your home, the Reservation Management System is always at your fingertips to keep you in-touch and up-to-date with your vacation rental business. Simply login to your account from any computer and access the Reservation Management System from your member section.

Please note: The Reservation Management System premium service is designed as a convenience measure for vacation rental owners allowing them to monitor and keep track of their vacation rental reservations in an online environment. It does not allow renters to book reservations at properties nor does it collect funds from renters. Only vacation rental owners who subscribe to listing packages with this service are able to access the Reservation Management System. Users of the Reservation Management System are strongly encouraged to maintain physical records of reservations (outside the scope of the Reservation Management System) to protect against service downtime or unavailability. VacationPads is not responsible for loss of data, accuracy of data or system downtime.
Listing Packages Offering Premium Services
The following listing packages offer Availability Calendar Management and/or Reservation Management:
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Package NameAvailability Calendar ManagementReservation ManagementPackage TypeFee
Professional Plus Package Individual

$0.00

Free!

Enterprise Package Individual

$0.00

Free!

Small Business Gold Package Group

$0.00

Free!

Small Business Platinum Package Group

$0.00

Free!

Realtor's Gold Package Group

$0.00

Free!

Realtor's Platinum Package Group

$0.00

Free!

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