Vacation Rental Software

Choose the Right Airbnb Automation Software for Your STR

Automation software is a useful tool to simplify everything from organizing your booking calendars to resetting your property between each guest stay. Below, learn about some of our top picks for vacation rental automation software.

by The Turno Team

Pricing Automation Software

The purpose of pricing automation software is to take the guesswork out of dynamic pricing for your short-term rental property. This type of tool will give you helpful market insights while automatically setting your nightly rate based on numerous external and customizable factors. 

Some of the top pricing automation platforms are detailed below. 

Wheelhouse

Wheelhouse is a dynamic pricing tool designed for new hosts, vacation rental owners, and seasoned property managers. 

The platform offers custom pricing recommendations to help you begin crafting your pricing strategy. You can then preview the potential impact of this strategy and make adjustments as you see fit. 

Settings you can configure on the platform include:

  • Minimum price
  • Maximum price
  • Seasonality adjustments
  • Last-minute discounts

As your short-term rental business grows, Wheelhouse makes it easy to track your progress and make continuous improvements. 

Beyond Pricing

Beyond Pricing offers demand-driven pricing insights for short-term rentals, allowing new and seasoned hosts to maximize their revenue without the tedious guesswork that comes with determining nightly rates. 

This tool is unique in that it provides a health score for your property, meaning you can see how your rental is pacing relative to the competition. 

PriceLabs

Why do thousands of short-term rental owners and property managers use PriceLabs

One reason is that they integrate with over 50 channel managers and PMS’. This means that it’s quick and seamless to begin automating your pricing with PriceLabs, no matter what other software you use. 

Also, the flexible and customizable tool is available globally and has no geographic limitations. You can get top pricing insights anywhere in the world. 

Scheduling and Booking Automation Software

Running a vacation rental requires scheduling mastery. Not only do you have to organize bookings across multiple OTAs, but you also have to schedule cleaning services in between each guest stay, property maintenance, and more. 

Turn to some of the most popular booking and scheduling automation tools to simplify these processes.

Turno

Many new Airbnb hosts choose to do their own turnover cleaning, but as you scale, this becomes a huge time suck. To save time and energy — so you can focus on other aspects of your business — consider hiring a professional Airbnb cleaning team

Turno specializes in scheduling automation for vacation rental cleaning. With the easy-to-use Host App, owners and property managers can sync their rental calendars and ensure a professional cleaner is scheduled in between each and every guest stay. 

You can use the Cleaner Marketplace to find experienced, professional cleaners in your area, or you can invite to the platform a cleaner you already know and trust. Regardless, with Turno, you’ll never miss a vacation rental cleaning again.

Zeevou

In addition to automating your cleaning, you’ll also want to consider automating your booking processing. This is where Zeevou comes in. 

This hospitality business community offers world-class training and support, as well as easy automation tools to ensure a seamless booking process. Their 5-Step Booking Confirmation Process ensures that booking is simple, payments are secure, and guests are vetted. 

Booking Automation

Booking Automation is for hosts who feel like their bookings come with too much manual work. With this tool, you can instantly publish listings on all major OTAs while consolidating your bookings to one single calendar. This will help you maximize your potential earnings while preventing double bookings. 

Booking Automation also helps you get direct bookings right to your website. And if you don’t have a website, this platform makes it easy to build one. 

Check-In and Check-Out Automation Software

When you’re the host of just one property, it may not be too much of a hassle to meet guests on-site whenever they’re checking in or out. As you scale your vacation rental business, however, making numerous trips to your Airbnb properties each week can eat up time that could be better spent elsewhere.

Learn about time-saving check-in and check-out automation tools below.

Host Tools

Automated messaging ensures a hands-off check-in and check-out process. The Host Tools automated messaging feature sends the right messages to the right people at the right time. 

The feature is fully customizable, so you can make sure your guests are in the loop and on the same page when they arrive at your property and after they leave. Save hours of time spent facilitating guest check-in and check-out so you can focus on growing your business.

RemoteLock

Not only can you automate your check-in and check-out communication. You can also utilize smart technology to allow guests to enter your property without you having to be there in person. 

RemoteLock is a universal access control software that works with your smart lock to provide safe keyless entry to your vacation rental property. You can create access schedules for your guests and cleaners, and they can use a unique, self-expiring code to enter your property when you choose. 

The technology works with any Airbnb smart lock hardware, so you can develop a custom solution that fits your needs and budget. 

KeyNest

KeyNest is a key exchange tool that allows guests to access your property without you having to be there in person to let them in. All you have to do is leave your property key at one of the 4,000+ KeyNest stores worldwide, provide your guests with a unique collection code, and they can pick up the key from the store’s shopkeeper while you go about your day. 

The platform will notify you whenever your keys are picked up and dropped off, so you never have to worry about where your keys are. 

Guest Communication Automation Software

Numerous automation tools exist for guest communication to help reduce the volume of tasks that hosts encounter on a daily basis. Find out more about these software options below.

Hospitable

As you begin hosting, you’ll likely find that you receive numerous questions from guests about everything from the Wi-Fi password to airport directions. Hospitable offers guest experience messaging to help you take care of guests’ needs automatically. 

You can choose from various templates and customizations to answer guest messages with ease and in no time at all. And you can automate these conversations in your own voice — so you won’t sound like a robot.

RueBaRue

Awarded the 2021 VRMB Keystone Award for Best Vacation Rental Property Management Software for Guidebook and Guest Apps, there’s no doubt that RueBaRue is one of the top guest communication tools on the market.

Their communication automation software helps with:

  • Digital Guestbooks
  • Guest SMS Messaging and SMS Automation
  • Guest Reviews and Surveys
  • Local Area Guides
  • More

Enhance guests’ stays and simplify your host responsibilities with this automated guest communication tool.

Guesty

If you feel like as a vacation rental host you’re always on call, Guesty can help with that. Their auto-messaging feature allows hosts to message guests through email, SMS, or a booking platform at any stage — from pre-booking to after check-out. 

With Guesty, not only can you receive all of your messages from various booking platforms in one single inbox, but you can also save hours of your time automating the routine messages you send out at every guest’s stay. Their automation capabilities ensure you save time, build credibility, maximize profitability, and reduce the risk of human error. 

Reviews Automation Software

Host reviews, whether positive or negative, are very important to guests. Future travelers use reviews as selection criteria when booking a particular property. Not only that but booking platforms like Airbnb favor listings with numerous positive reviews. In other words, the more 5-star reviews you have, the higher your property will appear in search results.

So, how do you get more positive reviews? One way is to review your Airbnb guests after their stay, and you can easily streamline this process through automation tools. 

Uplisting

With Uplisting, you can review each guest instantaneously after their stay — without lifting a finger. You can automatically send gleaming reviews after a positive guest stay, and in case of a poor guest experience, you can easily customize an unfavorable review.

iGMS

The iGMS review automation feature helps hosts receive up to 50% more reservations. As stated, more guest reviews mean higher rankings on booking platforms. 

iGMS makes it quick and simple to write guest reviews and, in turn, get more reviews back. What’s best? You can submit your reviews right through their platform without having to be logged into your various booking sites. 

Hostfully

With Hostfully, you can create message templates that are automatically triggered after some period of time following a guest check-out. You can customize the amount of time you want to pass before publishing the automatic review in case you’d like to leave a manual review. 

The feature allows you to create multiple templates so that they’re sent out randomly and you avoid sending out the same review each time. 

Make Airbnb Management Easy By Automating Your Airbnb

In addition to automation software, there are numerous other products that can make your job as a host easier and more efficient. Not to mention, they’ll also enhance the guest experience for those who book with you.