- Live OwnerRez booking engine via a secure proxy
- Custom booking wizard with itemised quotes & direct-booking discount
- Geo-IP multi-currency pricing (GBP, EUR, CAD, USD)
- Gated guest portal with a CMS-driven digital guidebook
- Guest smart-home controls: locks, alarm, AC & pool
- Self-service door-code setup & vehicle registration
- Native iOS app with push notifications
- SEO landing pages backed by Schema.org structured data
A direct-sales funnel, not a brochure
A custom booking wizard runs entirely on the site: guests pick dates, review an itemised quote and confirm — with a 10% direct-booking discount for stays of ten nights or more and live availability pulled from OwnerRez.
Built for an international market
Geo-IP detection shows prices in each visitor’s currency with exchange rates cached for 24 hours, and even adapts the copy by region — “car hire” for UK visitors, “rent a car” for everyone else — removing friction for the owner’s core overseas audience.
Owner tools & SEO
The owner manages the guidebook CMS and a rich-text blog with its own sitemap and RSS feed, while keyword-targeted landing pages — Orlando vacation rentals, Disney World villas — are backed by structured data for rich search results.
The guest area
After booking, guests unlock a personalised portal that turns their phone into the villa’s remote — a CMS-driven guidebook, a self-set door PIN synced back to OwnerRez, live smart-home controls during their stay, and a gamified checkout checklist with push reminders.
The booking engine, built on OwnerRez
A three-step direct-booking wizard wired straight into the OwnerRez API — real availability, real quotes and real reservations, every price shown in the guest’s own currency.
Pick dates against live availability
A dual-month calendar scrolls up to three years ahead, matching the property’s real OwnerRez booking window — green dates bookable, red strike-through already gone, the chosen range highlighted as you go.
- Availability pulled live from OwnerRez — Airbnb, Vrbo & Booking.com sync within minutes.
- A minimum-stay guard and tap-friendly guest steppers stop invalid selections before they happen.
An itemised quote, in the guest’s own currency
A transparent, line-by-line breakdown — nightly rate, cleaning, fees, taxes and total — the clarity OTAs hide until the last moment. Every figure is a live OwnerRez quote, regenerated in real time when a coupon is applied.
- Click Book and the quote becomes a confirmed reservation — blocking those dates everywhere instantly.
- Geo-IP shows the total in the visitor’s currency (here £), with a clear “charged in USD” notice.
Inside the guest area
A private portal that turns a confirmed booking into a phone-controlled stay — sign-in to checkout, every screen built to delight the guest and cut the owner’s support load.
Frictionless, branded sign-in
No new username or password — guests sign in with their OwnerRez booking number (auto-prefixed “ORB”) and surname, dropping straight into their personalised guest area.
- Two things guests already have — no email loops, no password resets.
- Validated live against the OwnerRez API, with brute-force rate limiting.
Their phone becomes the villa remote
One panel arms the Ring alarm, unlocks the front door for a delivery, and streams the doorbell and driveway cameras — disarming is intentionally kept to the keypad inside, for safety.
- Arm Home/Away, remote-unlock the door, and watch live security feeds.
- Every command runs through a whitelisted Home Assistant proxy, time-gated to the stay.
Two-zone AC, from the pool deck
Guests tune the downstairs and upstairs zones from anywhere — live temperatures in °F and °C, a bounded slider, and Cool/Heat at a tap. A pool & spa heater card heads off the most common question of all.
- Owner-defined 70–76°F limits protect the property from energy abuse and frozen coils.
- “Pool heat is pre-paid” — schedule and spa availability spelt out up front.
The paper binder, gone digital
Tabbed sections from Welcome to Farewell let guests find what they need in seconds — greeted by name, with an embedded villa-tour video and content the owner edits in a custom CMS.
- Welcome, Arrival, Pool, WiFi, House Rules — organised, personalised, searchable.
- Owner updates door codes, WiFi & hours in a CMS — live for every guest instantly.
Checkout, quietly gamified
The Farewell tab turns “did I remember everything?” into a satisfying 9-point checklist — pool fence, streaming sign-out, lock-up, alarm — with progress saved live and a confetti finish.
- Real-time saved progress, a live bar, and a deep-link to the alarm instructions.
- A 7am Florida-time push nudges anyone who hasn’t finished — protecting turnover.