Native apps available now!!!! We have just launched our brand new iOS and Android Smoobu apps. We are super excited and hope you are as well. After registration download them from the Appstore or Playstore. Including push notifications. (more…)

A dedicated website is ideal to generate direct bookings and optimally present your accommodation. Your website is your business card. But today a website without a booking engine is a bit like a business card without contact information. The trend goes towards direct bookings, few guests want to deal with booking requests. The guest asks, the apartment turns out to be occupied or his reservation is canceled, and his feeling is one of frustration. With the booking engine you can now accept reservations, including payments, just like in the reservation process in the big portals. But of course, without commissions.

There are two different ways of using Smoobu to generate direct bookings.

1. You already have your own website, for example from Jimdo or WordPress, and you want to integrate the Smoobu booking engine into your site.
2. You build your website with Smoobu Website Builder and you want to provide your guests with the booking engine.

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In order to connect Smoobu to Expedia not many steps have to be taken. It is very easily done. Once you have the connection set up you can manage your bookings, prices, min. stay from within Smoobu and never have to worry about double bookings.  (more…)

Online check-in for guests

In order to make life easier for holiday home owners, Smoobu has developed a new feature: online check-in. Often, for government agencies or official events, the guests’ data must that be collected goes beyond the normal booking process. For example, date of birth or nationality. Now it’s easy to automatically request this data from your guests, even before they arrive. No annoying filling of paperwork on site.

Thanks to the new “Online Check-In” function at Smoobu, the collection of registration data or online check-in can be done quickly. Of course, all this is encrypted and secure against access by third parties. Here you will learn how to proceed.

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Link the calendars of Booking.com and Airbnb – an example – the live test

Booking.com and Airbnb are among the largest portals for vacation rentals. Many landlords are already active there. And again and again we hear from these landlords that they are afraid to connect both with a channel manager. “Too complicated”, “too dangerous”, “too time-consuming” are the terms we hear over and over again. This is different with Smoobu, I we want to prove it with the following test.

I am stopping the time I need to link my calendar from Booking.com to that from Airbnb. I start with the registration and stop the time when everything works and the real-time synchronization between Booking.com and Airbnb is active.

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Central communication with your vacation rental guests via Smoobu

For a long time Smoobu has enabled you to automatically send messages to guests. Whether booking confirmation or a thank you note 2 days after departure. Without having to write a message every time, you build a positive customer relationship. From now on it is not only possible to send emails, but also to receive them directly via Smoobu and then answer them again. This saves you from clicking through the various portals and you have all your messages in one place. Communication made easy. (more…)