VR Booster | Double your online bookings!

Save your visitors 8 minutes and 34 clicks to reserve!

Imagine a prospect who wants to reserve a property from September 10th to 17th. He wants to compare the prices of 3 or 4 available properties - price is the #1 driver followed by location (Jupiter Research & Hitwise, June 2008).

With VR-Booster, he can do so in a record 5 seconds.

Source and methodology: test on an Escapia powered website and www.rentego.com ; clicks to get to the first online reservation form counted excluding those to select date and type of unit (about 4 clicks).

...thanks to the QuickClick booking path:

This is possible because when visitors enter stay dates on VR-booster get the list of AVAILABLE units with the EXACT PRICE for the period requested.

Seduce through beautiful design and pictures. Our state-of-the art template visible on www.rentego.com favors large pictures and integrates the latest best practices and tricks for vacation rental websites.  We can also create a unique design inspired by your wishes, transfer your own design or any other from a template...

We can create the website design of your dreams to make your site more distinctive..

Or you can choose from thousands of templates to save money and time

Rich information sells - videos, maps, reviews, floorplans, etc. are key to convince. SNAD - Significantly Not As Described - is one of the main fears preventing potential guests from choosing vacation rentals vs. more standard accommodation like hotels. Today, thanks to the Internet, you can present your properties in a detailed way that creates trust. As the general managers of Cozumel put it: “At At Home in Cozumel, we have been in business for over 25 years and we built our reputation on choosing great properties ( All of our Cozumel vacation rentals are not just near the sea, but right on the sea.) and providing honest descriptions. So we were happy to use all the features VR-booster has to display that – maps, floor plans, panoramic pictures, and so on…”

Show location with Google maps to create trust

Location, location, location is key… With vacation rentals it is also the main SNAD concern…(Is it really by the sea? Near the main attraction? Close to the center?) Google Maps is much more trusted than homemade maps. All you need for properties to display on maps is have their latitude and longitude filled in VRS fields.

Display customer reviews

All you need for reviews to display is have them activated in VRS You get the choice to display all reviews or to eliminate those deemed unfair or obsolete.

Show layouts with floorplans

Often vacation rental customers want to save money but they are concerned about privacy: - Who will have a private bedroom? - Who will get a convertible sofa in the living room? With floorplans they know where they go.

Display many pictures nicely

Pictures sell. See the following Escapia post http://blog.escapia.com/escapia/2009/04/double-your-bookings-in-a-flash.html

Panoramic pictures

If you still have panoramic pictures from the older Escapia website, VRS booster can still display them.

Video

Videos are our future...and already our present.

Secure online reservation with a seal

Of course sites designed by VRS booster are secured using the seal of your choice (Verisign, Godaddy) with the option to go for the green bar. CC details go into your VRS and can be processed exactly as usual- no change in your organization and safety

Easy downloads of brochures and videos

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Many of your visitors start reservations but do not finish.

An e-shopping survey by AT. Kearney showed 4 out of 5 consumers give up before completing an online purchase. In our experience in vacation rentals about 35 % start filling the online reservation form without finishing. It does not mean they are lost; some of them will reserve later anyway, maybe they need to check competitor’s prices, or think a bit more. Chances to get their reservation are much higher if you can contact them and address their concerns or adapt your offer.

VR booster enables you to catch up hesitating customers who gave up on online reservations

You get the contact information that the prospect started to fill in. Usually it is easy to address their concerns and get the booking. Often they abandon the reservation due to concerns you can address, (for example: Is online payment by credit card safe? (You can give them guarantees or have them phone you their CC number)). Prospects react very well to this extra care and attention. You can also use this info to improve your website.

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Compare properties side by side

Always useful for visitors- and your team can also use it online as a sales tools while on the phone. It works both before search, and after search (thus for avilable units with exact prices.