Software
Discover essential vacation rental software solutions for effective short-term rental management. This category provides vacation rental managers and short-term rental managers with reviews and insights on property management software, channel managers, dynamic pricing tools, guest experience tools, and operations management software. Learn how to streamline operations, enhance guest satisfaction, and improve booking management with the right software.

PMS Guesty raises $170M and triples its valuation
Vacation rental software remains attractive to investors. Guesty announced on August 16, 2022, that it had closed its latest funding ...

PriceLabs: $30M to help property managers better price their listings
PriceLabs, a leading dynamic pricing tool for the short-term rental industry, went from bootstrapping to raising $30m and from figuring ...

Techsplained, the show that demystifies vacation rental tech
Techsplained is a show that helps vacation rental property managers and owners clearly understand what industry tech solutions do. Every ...

$16 million in seed funding for Jarvis ML, a machine learning solution provider for vacation rental managers
Jarvis ML helps short-term rental and vacation rental management companies increase their revenues and profits by letting them leverage their ...

Investors buy into the importance of guest experience: Touch Stay closes seed funding round to ignite growth
Last March, we spoke to Andy McNulty, co-founder and CEO of Touch Stay, a digital guidebook company with 18,500 active ...

AirDNA and Transparent acquired: Hotels, Real Estate, OTAs and STR investors hungry for Vacation Rental Data
Vacation rental data is hot, not just for professionals from the short-term rental industry. Over the last two weeks, two ...

How to execute a Homeowner Acquisition Campaign (and when to outsource it to experts)
A homeowner acquisition campaign is a marketing strategy employed by vacation rental management companies to attract homeowners who own property ...

Listify.ai: Vacation rental and Airbnb listing descriptions powered by AI
Can AI-powered tools help property managers do a better and faster job at creating and updating their listings? In an ...

How HospitalityTech entrepreneur Henry Bennett created PropertyCare.com, after YourWelcome (product marketing series)
In our vacation rental tech product marketing series, we interviewed Henry Bennett, the CEO and co-founder of the YourWelcome tablets ...

How to build and position a vacation rental tech company (with Hostaway CEO Marcus Räder)
Marcus Räder is one of the best-placed persons in the world to talk about building and growing a vacation rental ...

Property management can be a headache – Not with Guesty
Complex operational needs that property managers face on a daily basis – from guest communication to task assignment to payment ...

Case study: How DPGO wants to shake up the STR dynamic pricing market
For a long time, the list of short-term rental dynamic pricing vendors was rather stable, with BeyondPricing and PriceLabs leading ...

Rentals United and VrTech founder Vanessa De Souza Lage on attending VRWS 2021
Vanessa De Souza Lage is one of the most recognizable faces in the vacation rental industry. A tireless industry maven, ...

Vacation rental tech: Own vs. Rent, a live workshop with Yoomondo
If you are scaling your property management business, it comes a time when you wonder you should be switching from ...

How AI can help you write more attractive property descriptions and reply to guest reviews faster (even negative ones)
The concept of AI-generated content has been around for a while. You may have even seen some clever and witty ...

ART Review: Competitive nightly pricing with Rented’s new pricing tool
A handy tool for vacation rentals is dynamic pricing. Done right, dynamic pricing can help short-term rental owners and managers ...

PriceLabs Review: Revenue management with dynamic and data-driven pricing
Whether you are a single-property owner, a co-host, or a property manager, chances are pricing right is a tricky subject ...

Transparent Review: Consolidated vacation rental data tracking with Smart Rental PRO
From establishing baselines, setting goals, to moving forward, data must inform all business decisions for utmost efficacy. We understand the ...

Airbtics Review: Efficient property acquisition and competitive pricing for property managers
Expanding a vacation rental property management business requires due diligence. When looking to identify optimal acquisition opportunities, the more data ...

AirDNA review: Better pricing and pacing data with My Properties and Comp Set
How to leverage AirDNA‘s new “My Properties” and “Comp Set” features to finetune your listing rates? How can you start ...