Vacation Rental Website Features

Your Beautiful Website back to top
Your own free, professional website at your own domain name, hosted and maintained by us

• Create your Website in 7 Minutes
  Futurestay's intuitive wizard helps you create a website in about 7 minutes for free, then customize and go live at your own domain name. Change colors, backgrounds, fonts, navigation, shadows and more for millions of different combinations.
• Slideshow and Unlimited Pictures and Captions
  A picture is worth a thousand words, so how about a thousand pictures? Show off every corner of your property in full detail; from the slideshow on your home page to each individual property gallery.
• Customize Anytime
  Change the content, look and feel of your site at any time. Add new photos or logos and see the results online in a split-second. New room or property? Add it to the site in a click. You'll never need to hire a web designer again!
• Virtual Concierge
  Travelers need to know what to do in your area! Add nearby activities and points of interest to your dynamic map along with detailed descriptions and even attraction or restaurant website links.
• Integrated Google Maps & Streetview
  Google Maps shows visitors the exact or approximate location of your property on a dynamic map to help them plan trips and familiarize them with the area. Google Streetview gives them a 360 degree virtual tour of the area (approximate or exact) in which your property is located.
• Individual Property Controls
  Descriptions, photos, privacy settings, pricing and discounts can be managed separately for each property.
  
  
• Variable Privacy Controls
  Display as much or as little about each property as you'd like, use exact or approximate addresses and even withold complete addresses until booking is complete.

Seamless Online Booking back to top
Customers search and book in real-time on your website, keeping you in control

• Seamless Booking Process
  Search, Select, Book. Travelers search and book on your website just like on Expedia.com or any other 'big travel websites'. No more lost bookings because of confusing check-out processes or off-site payments.
• Real-Time Availability Calendars
  Travelers see exactly what's available at any time right on your website.
  
  
• Accept Credit Cards Online
  Accept credit card payments online in real-time through your website with no credit check or merchant account required.
  
  
• Full Pricing Control
  Require payment in full or accept deposits at the time of booking. Create special price rates for up to 5 custom season ranges, 5 custom holiday periods, weekend, weeknight and extended stays.
  
• Lease Agreement Protection
  Stay protected! Customers must accept your lease/booking/payment terms before booking.

One-Click Marketing Tools back to top
Simplify online marketing and reach new customers automatically

• Automatic Search Engine Optimization
  Futurestay automatically performs both on-page and off-page Search Engine Optimization for your website. Create meta-tags instantly by simply typing in a few words about your property. Create hundreds of valuable and real backlinks without lifting a finger with VR Feed (below).
• VR Feed™ - Property Distribution System
  Our proprietary Vacation Rental Feed™ system automatically publishes and keeps your property listings up-to-date on over 100 listing websites such as Vast.com, Yahoo Travel and Lodging.com; providing you with instant traffic and valuable SEO backlinks.
• Integrated Social Networking
  Let your guests market for you by sharing your property website on Facebook and twitter through your built-in social networking links. Automatically creates a detailed post on their page for exposure to hundreds of new customers each time your website is shared.
• Exportable Customer Email, Phone and Address Lists
  Ready to increase your repeat booking rates? Futurestay automatically keeps track of all of your customers contact information and exports them in a format compatible with all major email or flyer services.
• One Click Craigslist (HTML) Ad Generation
  Craigslist and other HTML classified sites are ideal and free resources for advertising short-term rentals. But uploading pictures and typing ads every day can be a chore. FutureStay creates beautiful HTML ads with pictures that you can easily copy and paste.
• Online Gift Certificates
  Visitors can purchase eGift certificates to give to friends and family directly through your site, where you can redeem and track them.
  
  
• Integrated Website Metrics with Google Analytics: Futurestay integrates with Google Analytics to keep track of every visitors location, site usage, and if they booked. See which online ads or listing sites are working best and maximize your return on investment from advertising!
  
  

User-Friendly Management Software back to top
Keep track of reservations, manage pricing & handle customer service in one easy system

• Manage from Anywhere (AKA "the cloud")
  Control your cloud-based management system through any browser, even your web-enabled mobile phone. Never have to 'go to the office', it's wherever you are!
  
• Complete Property Dashboard
  See your upcoming schedule of check-in's check-out's along with all customers RSVP information and contact details on one clear screen. View your entire portfolio and see vacancies and occupied units, as well as the current or next tenant in each.
• Easy-to-Use Customer Management System
  Running your business is easy when you can search, sort, view, add and edit reservations in just clicks.
  
  
• Exportable Financial Reports
  Run financial reports by property and date that can be exported and loaded into your favorite bookkeeping program like MS Excel.
  
  

And a bunch of other stuff... back to top
Sure, your new Futurestay website is awesome. But we think you'll like our other ideas, too.

• Never Pay a Dime: Your Futurestay website is free for you to set up and use. Our 10% booking fee is added to the price you want to receive for your property; less than the 12-15% that you'll find on most listing sites.
  
  
• No Contracts or Hidden Fees: If for some reason you don't like having a powerful, beautiful and free website you can cancel at anytime; no contracts.
  
  
• Free Customer Service: Need help uploading a picture or have a question about your color scheme? Give us a call anytime. Futurestay was built by customer service.
  
  
• Future-Proof Website: Futurestay is the last website your rental will ever need. Just like cars and computers get outdated, so do websites. Except for Futurestay. Over time, we add more features and more classic and current style options.