eviivo

Eviivo covers the majority of our use cases:

-Vacation rental reservation with individual home and property calendars
-Rate management with multiple seasons for 3+ years (clunky implementation)
-Venue calendar management
-OTA integration with all major platforms
-Quickbooks online integration for payment processing and accounting

They are also very open and welcomed my feedback and enhancement requests/suggestions.

A little challenging to configure for our unique business model, vacation homes and wedding venues on a private resort/estate, but overall really pleased. They started in the UK and are set up to support an international market including the US so there are features and terms that don’t really apply to our market. A US product manager would greatly benefit them. They also need to provide the option to configure some key details at a system global level vs at each property as we needed to repeat entering details individually for every home. We only have 8 homes right now but this could be a challenge for larger vacation home businesses. However, it’s relatively easy to navigate through these.

-Need centralized inbox within the application to handle all OTA communication and internal direct guest communication
-Can’t support group bookings with our vacation home model of unique calendars vs hotel room types
-Need calendar to show holidays for ease of rate setting
-Need e-sign capability for vacation rental contract agreement and allow attachments with reservations
-Need customized cleaning checklist
-Need damage communication and billing process beyond the pre-auth for the deposit

Their system is very thorough in gathering information. A lot of detail and in depth planning, but takes a lot of time. Their integration seemed good but I didn't complete and bookings that way.

Customer service and onboarding was awful. Getting help, whether a small question or pushing a button to activate something was like pulling teeth. They had folks on chat support but they always said I needed to talk to my onboarding agent who didn't reply to emails or answer my questions. I got very simple, template like replies, like "just click here and here." Instead of helping me set up website capabilities on the back end (HTML) or scheduling a meeting. As a client, I should never have to wait more than 24 hours for a reply when onboarding. If you're busy, just reply and set up a call. If you're on vacation, have an away message.

The setup platform, and the way our B&B displays to the public. As I use the platform more and experiment with different aspects of the program, I have developed our business to a much better performing one, baring the covid-19 issues this past year and the shutdown of our B&b industry for most of our season.

At fist it was the availability of online assistance, which is still slim on Sundays. Please remember that for us small B&B's Sunday is a high traffic day, and the availability to contact assistance with an issue is still spotty to non existent.