Software > Vacation Rental Management
1/28/2016
The software below is a prototype of open source software for the Vacation Rental Management space.
This page is designed to convey basic functionality to:
If you are a Vacation Rental Owner with limited or moderate technology skills this may not make enough sense for you. Another presentation will be made for you.
The software below is a prototype of open source software for the Vacation Rental Management space.
This page is designed to convey basic functionality to:
- Technology oriented vacation rental owners
- Technology professionals interested in open source software and software that doesn't rely on a centralized db model
- Those that invest financially in Software as a Service businesses
If you are a Vacation Rental Owner with limited or moderate technology skills this may not make enough sense for you. Another presentation will be made for you.
- Use of this software starts with the commitment for a booking and it provides functionality and tracking from A to Z from that point forward. Another module very similar can be built for quoting and or that can be included in this file very easily (although not recommended). There is also a detailed reporting module not shown
- Payment processing not included in this, but payment tracking is. We have payment processing options including credit card and ACH but the updating of a payment will always be manual in this system. Our payment system options are comparable in use with using Square or Paypal for processing.
- This is initially designed to assist individuals managing one to five vacation rentals.
- Its scalability as a full management system for 5 to 500 to 5000 properties is yet to be determined
- The document management and email distribution components of this are very powerful. Those components are immediately scalable and may be integrated into much larger processes immediately.
Business System Basics
Good digital Business Systems do two basic things:
Advanced digital business system do many things. Here are three of the most desired, all of which are reprsented in the software solution below:
This "simple" looking system below does all of the things above. In addition to that, it is
This "example" was created for vacation rental management, but see if you can identify the implications of this socially, commercially, and economically...
- They enable a user to Add, Update and Delete Database Records (data storage and management)
- They present data in pretty and relevant formats (reporting)
Advanced digital business system do many things. Here are three of the most desired, all of which are reprsented in the software solution below:
- They allow for manual or automated tracking of status codes associated with various processes (process tracking)
- They allow for the creation of, editing of, and deletion of complete documents -- as compared to individual records above (document management)
- They enable automated and/or integrated use of email for outbound and inbound communication with record and document related data (email integration with data integration)
This "simple" looking system below does all of the things above. In addition to that, it is
- open source
- fully customizeable by the user
- without a centralized data repository in the traditional sense
- difficult/impossible to monetize with the Software As a Service billing model
This "example" was created for vacation rental management, but see if you can identify the implications of this socially, commercially, and economically...