As many of our customers know, Barefoot is constantly striving to make business connections that will reward our clients. We continually announce new partnerships in our news page and always try to have a blog post up describing our new partnership and what we can do for you the customer. The newest partner to come on board with Barefoot Technologies is Vacation Storebuilder, a Software-as-a-Service platform that enables vacation rental companies to quickly and easily manage their websites.
Will your company be there to capitalize on these trends? At Barefoot our motto is “Vacation rental software fitted for Visionaries”, and we are curious if you fit this description. If you would like to be a leader in your market, build a stable cash flow and asset worth to your company, and set the bar that your competition will follow then contact Barefoot Technologies to talk to us about what we can do for your company.
Last week Ed and I travelled down to Atlantic City for the Triple Play Relators Conference. It was held on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday at the Atlantic City Conference Center. While we were there we met a lot of great people, often they confused us for Barefoot wine which explains their excitement to meet us. Throughout the week classes were offered as well that we were able to take. Ed received his certification in (forgot the name of your class for second homes) on Monday while I was lucky enough to sit in on several classes about technology in this field.
I am at Phocuswright show listening to Brian Sharples from HomeAway and he mentioned their new service for owners. The ability in 5 minutes for an owner to sign up to take credit cards or echecks. There is no credit card review process and the commission is a flat 2.5% for credit cards and 1% for echeck. The product is not designed to put HomeAway into the middle of the transaction but more to continue their model but allow them to do electronic transaction. It will be interesting to see how cancelations will work regarding this new product and the issue of charge backs when it comes to owners and how the one can police those owners that need to be controled for misrepresentation.
