Welcome to 2021. As always, I would like to start the New Year with a few insights and opportunities for vacation rental managers that I hope you will appreciate. I believe that times of change...
For over 20 years, Barefoot Agent 4.0 system is the most innovative solution in the vacation rental industry. We provide our clients with the most reliable and capable trust accounting solution in the industry. Our focus is on helping our clients become a vacation experience provider, not just a vacation rental company by pushing the envelope on concierge and activity upsell.
Barefoot provides the following trust account functionality for critical business functions:
Rate Management might be the most important thing that you need for your business. We offer the following tools:
Barefoot has the most extensive partner program in the industry. We give you choices for how you implement the tools that drive your business:
We have long believed in the need for our clients and others in the vacation rental industry to provide more than just a house… the opportunity is there to become the trusted adviser for an entire vacation rental experience by offering concierge (grocery deliver, packages, in house chefs) or related area activities (water park tickets, transportation, zip lines, etc).
Barefoot has the ability to upsell concierge or activity items, by service type – “kayak rental”, then have multiple service vendors and then multiple products under each vendor.
Once set up in Barefoot, those can be shared for upsell to the website, internally to the guest portal for upsell (especially during the reservation process) and on the reservation itself if the reservation is taken verbally.
Resort Products
To make our clients vacation companies and not just vacation rental companies, Barefoot continues to develop tools to seamlessly connect all potential guest services into our system. Our philosophy is to make your business the hub you’re your guests’ entire vacation and electronically connect all players with block chain functionality. As always, we work with directly with our resort clients to tailor these products for more efficiency and market share growth that results in remarkable return on investment. Our continued expansion of functionality based on client direction is the reason why we have a 90% client retention rate since inception.
Here is an overview of some of our products:
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As the strongest and most mature trust accounting system in the industry, Barefoot manages other people's money very efficiently including your commissions both as flat or percentage fees. It is the backbone of all our tools listed below. In the past many have stayed away from concierge because commissions compared to the amount of work where rather small. With Barefoot accounting the process is automated and is no different than paying an owner. |
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Barefoot Vendor Access was the first of its kind almost eight years ago. In the interim, we have added to its functionality with 3rd party housekeeping and maintenance. We now allow any 3rd party services and vendors to access to communicate about pre-bought services and activities with you monitoring the entire conversation. |
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Barefoot was the first system to offer an owner and guest portal. In addition to empowering tools we offer upsell of service options that tie back into Barefoot Agent guest folios. |
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Barefoot has built functionality that can link popular Point Of Sales (POS) system charges into your folio page resulting in you being able to make your entire market your resort. |
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Barefoot has built a tool that can charge services and items back to the folio for those companies with out a POS system in a safe and secure environment. |
![]() Barefoot has one of the most extensive API and partner programs in the industry. As an Enterprise Resource Program (ERP) our goal is to make integrations as seamless as possible including single sign on to share data either through iframe, with download links or two-way integrations. https://www.barefoot.com/partners. |
Barefoot has been providing thought leadership and related functionality for the vacation rental industry for over 21 years. Right now, we believe that becoming a property asset manager is the most important thing that vacation rental management companies can do to create value and a "sticky" relationship with their owners that will provide benefits that far outweigh what national or global portals can offer.
Please reach out today to learn more about this market leading differentiation.
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