We’ve gotten requests from some of our vacation rental owners for the option to hide the availability calendar on their listing pages. They either don’t want a calendar or already have one with another site and don’t want to be bothered with having to keep multiple calendars up to date.
Well, now we’ve set it up so that the calendar will only be displayed on the property page when dates have been marked in the calendar. If you don’t have any reservations or blackout dates market in the calendar for the next 12 months, your calendar will automatically be hidden.
Thanks to those of you who have given us feedback on this issue. And as usual, we always love hearing your feedback.
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We’ve created yet another widget for vacation rental owners who advertise their rentals on their personal websites.
‘Book reservation’ widget
Using our new ‘Book reservation’ widget, visitors to your website could easily book a reservation directly from your website. You will receive all reservation requests by email through your Ravant account.
Styling the widget
Like with our Contact form widget, we give you the option to choose the background and text colors to match your sites theme.
Demo
Here’s a live demo of a website using our ‘Book reservation’ widget.
Free
Like our other widgets for vacation rental websites, this one is free to use.
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As an owner of a vacation rental website, your goal is to keep visitors on your site for as long as possible before completing the task set out for them (i.e. making an inquiry or booking a reservation).
When it comes to rental inquiries, you ideally don’t want to just give them your email address as a method of contact, since you risk loosing their attention between the point of leaving your site and sending their email. They may end up not sending you email inquiry in the end.
Contact form widget
With our new ‘Contact form’ widget, however, visitors to your website will be able to submit inquiries directly from your webpage without having to leave your site. You will receive all website inquiries by email through your Ravant account.
Styling the Contact form
When setting up this widget we give you the option to choose the background and text colors in order to match your sites theme.
Free to use
Like our other widgets for vacation rental websites, this one is free to use.
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We have now added the ability for owners to place an embedded map directly in their vacation rentals websites (See demo below).
All you need to do is simply copy the code we provide into your website and the map will be created for you automatically.
By placing the map directly in your webpage, you will benefit by keep visitors on your website for a longer period of time, rather than sending them away to a 3rd party mapping website (such as GoogleMaps).
Customize map dimensions
What’s great about embedding these maps is that you could easily adjust its dimensions. You may choose from some default dimensions, in addition to setting you own custom width and height.
For example, you may want to choose a narrower width when placing your map on the sidebar.
Get started
Setting up your map is easy, simply click on the ‘Area map’ link in the ‘Marketing’ section on your ‘My account’ page.
Demo
Here is how a map (with dimensions of 500 x 300) will look on your site.
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We’ve added a new feature that allows owners to export their vacation rental listings to Craigslist (See a preview of the Craigslist ad template).
Craigslist, a free classifieds website, is a popular choice for owners to list their rentals. Owners typically see an increase in bookings by listing on Craigslist.
The exported Craigslist ad is professional looking, and will certainly help your rental stand out from among the other Craigslist ads.
Exporting your listing to Craigslist is easy, simply click on the ‘Craigslist’ link in the ‘Marketing’ section on your ‘My account’ page.
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Over the next couple of months we will be releasing new tools and services to help owners market and promote their vacation rentals.
Today we’ve added the ability for you to put a stylish slideshow of your vacation rental photos on your website. All the photos you’ve uploaded to your Ravant listing will automatically be included in the slideshow.
This is a free online service to help you add more value to your website by including a slideshow of your rental property photos. Adding a photo slideshow to your website is another great idea to make your rental more look attractive to potential renters.
Adding the slideshow is easy. You simply copy the slideshow code we supply to you and place it in your website. The slideshow code can be found under the ‘Marketing’ section on your ‘My account’ page.
Demo
Here is the slideshow as it would appear on your website:
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Hi all. It’s about time we say hello to all of you and welcome you to our blog.
We’ve been working hard over the past year to get Ravant up and running. There is a lot more work ahead for us as we build features and service to help vacation rental owners promote and advertise their rentals.
This is where you’ll find all the updates and news about our site, ravant.com
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