Top 10 Reasons to Use TenantWIZ Property Management Software

In the last few months we've seen an explosive growth of sign-ups and I wanted to start out by thanking all of you who've recently joined our community of online property management software subscribers. There have been so many tremendous upgrades recently that it's been hard to really update you guys all about it, however, if you aren't following our twitter feed then be sure to follow us on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/tenantwiz.

There are so many great reasons why TenantWIZ has become one of the leading online property management solutions, however, there are 5 that really stand out as to why people are flocking to TenantWIZ.

#1 Use TenantWIZ to manage Short-Term or Long-Term Rentals

One of the most important features of TenantWIZ is that it gives you the ability to manage short or long term rentals through the same software interface. Simply set the property rates by defining weekday, weekend, weekly or monthly rates for each season or set of date ranges you choose. Once you've setup your rates, you can define the minimum rental period for each property. For example, if you're doing short term vacation rentals your minimum rental period may be one day, three days, one week, or so on. You can also define the day of the week you want your rental to start (if any) such as Saturday, Sunday, or choose any. For your long term rentals you can specify a minimum of 30 days for the rental and set your monthly rates. Renters can even login to their renter accounts, sign digital contracts/leases, make payments from their account, and so much more.

#2 Get a Built-In Website, Software Upgrades, Support and Web-Based Admin!

TenantWIZ provides our customers with their own Website (domain must be provided), along with the popular built-in TenantWIZ administration software which is upgraded automatically on a period basis, as well as free hosting & support services. Our software is used around the world by and hailed as one of the most powerful & robust reservation management & property management software solutions on the market today! In the recent months we've seen loads of new features come online that provide more power to our customers in the day-to-day management of properties through the TenantWIZ system.

#3 Use as a Rental Management system or Rental Listing Service!

Some of our most recent upgrades now allow our customers to use TenantWIZ to not only manage properties, but also allow owners to post properties through the owner login section. This allows you to instantly create a listing service Website similar to that of VRBO.com or Homeaway.com! You get to define the rules of the listings for the owners and also charge owners a listing fee (or allow them to list for free). You also get to set additional rules & options such as whether or not owners can post their own rates, create special offers, confirm their own reservations and so on.

#4 Low Monthly Fee that doesn't tie you into a Single Merchant Account!

Some of our competitors boast a low monthly fee, but then tie you into processing credit cards through their dedicated merchant account sometimes costing you upwards of 10% to 20% of any gross rental transaction!

With TenantWIZ, you can process payments the way you want! We provide integrated payment services through popular payment systems such as PayPal, 2Checkout, Authorize.net and more! You can use TenantWIZ for as low as $29 per month with a one-time setup fee of $69. To learn more about our pricing options click here.

#5 Built-In Enterprise Level Features not Found with other Service Providers

With TenantWIZ, upgrades are always free and on-going. We work closely with our customers to continually improve our software everyday! We listen and learn from you. Some of the terrific built-in features of our software are:

• Built-In Electronic Contracts / Leases
• Dedicated Renter Accounts for your Renters
• Dedicated Owner Accounts for your Owners
• Sophisticated Search Engine System for your Rentals in Real-Time
• Built-In Booking System allowing Renters to Reserve & Book Online
• Sophisticated Calendar showing Real-Time Availability & Rates
• Integrated Payment features through PayPal, 2Checkout, Authorize.net and Others!
• US or European Date Formatting
• and so much more!

If you're interested in learning more about the features available in our software click here, or to sign-up today, click here.

Google Maps added to Search Results

We're excited to announce the new addition of Google Maps to the search results page of our popular vacation rental software system.

As many of you are already aware, we added the Google Maps feature last year to the property details page on TenantWIZ (which we're hard at work upgrading by the way), and we've now added the map to the search results page as well.

We've also added a nifty AJAX driven feature to the search page as well. Now you can select an area, and the sub-areas will auto-populate into the drop-down box just below it.

If you want to check out any of the new features, just fill out the form located at http://www.tenantwizdemo.com/tenantwiz/store/searchResults.asp and you'll get instant access to the online demo system!

We've got several other upgrades in the work as well, and of course, all customers get instant automated upgrades on a period basis as they become available. Our most exciting feature that we have in the works is an all new language upgrade system, which will allow you to add different languages and translate them yourself directly through the TenantWIZ Administration system!

To sign up for our vacation rental software system today just visit the sign-up page on our Website located here: http://www.tenantwiz.com/vacation-rental-software-sign-up/

Happy Renting!

Upcoming Vacation Rental Software Updates & New TenantWIZ Custom Site Launch

There's been lots of exciting things going on at TenantWIZ and we wanted to take a moment to update you on the happenings of our software. In recent months we've seen dramatic improvements to our platform and an overall extension of our business into the European markets. This is partly due to the improvements that we've made on our software for our European client base, providing the flexibility for anyone in the world to utilize our platform to run their vacation rental business no matter how large or small.

Recently, we've made some great upgrades to the software and have several others that are in the works. Some of you may have noticed the new search results and property catalog listings pages. We're in the process of upgrading the entire design CSS to give you more flexibility in the design & presentation of your vacation rental software Website.

Email Templates Upgrade

We also recently completed some upgrades to our email template system, allowing you much more flexibility in how your automated emails appear when they are sent to owners, agents, renters, and sales persons. Since the TenantWIZ system utilizes a unique reservation lifecycle, automated emails are sent through each stage of the reservation ( from pending, to processed, to confirmed, and cancelled), and you now have full control over the display and data sent in these automated emails.

New Customized Site Design Launched for ZamilpaRentals.com

Some of you already now that we're not just a software company, but we're also a Web design company! TenantWIZ provides exciting customized stunning designs for clients on a case-by-case basis. Our custom design work showcases some of the best looking vacation rental software Websites on the Internet today. Our most recent Website (http://www.zamilparentals.com/) which is pictured above, is just another example of the talented design work done by our designers. Other examples of customized design Websites are:

http://www.jetpadhomes.com/

http://www.endlessrentals.com/

http://www.clickngetaway.com/

http://www.lemontreerentals.net/

http://www.greencoastvillas.com/

... and so much more! If you're interested in our custom design work, don't hesitate to contact us today!

How to Use TenantWIZ to Launch your own Vacation Rental Listings Service

Starting up a vacation rental listing service doesn't have to be that difficult or that costly. By utilizing the TenantWIZ Vacation Rental Software and Property Management Software system, you can quickly & easily utilize an array of online features to configure a vacation rental listing service without all the hefty costs of involved with custom development.

Many people think of TenantWIZ as just a property management software system, but yet, it comes full of features that allow you to build a vacation rental listing service. Similar to the likes of popular listing services VRBO, Homeaway and GreatRentals, building a viable service that can compete with these larger services is now cost-effective with TenantWIZ.

How to Configure TenantWIZ as a Listing Service

To configure you TenantWIZ Vacation Rental Software system as a Vacation Rental Listing service, simply modify a few of the settings located in the system settings section of the software. The system settings section contains critical settings regarding the overall operation of your store, some of which are related to permissions granted to owners in the system.

Recommended settings for running a Vacation Rental Listing service:

Owners can add/update Properties?
This setting is the most important one. It will allow owners to actually add and update their own properties after they've purchased a listing from you. In addition to adding & updating their properties, they will also be able to add & update special offers and blackout dates on their properties as well.

Owners can see Renter Details on Invoices?
Allowing owners to see renter details would only be a setting you would want to turn on if you weren't providing property management services. As a pure vacation rental listing service, you'll want owners to see the renters' details so that they can follow up with owners when receiving reservations for their properties.

Owners can see Pricing Details on Invoices?
Akin to seeing renters' details you'll want to make sure that owner's can also see pricing details when running a vacation rental listing service. This option simply allows owners to see the price for which the reservations were entered into the system for. As a traditional property management service, some property managers don't want owners seeing just how much they're making.

Owners can Confirm their own Reservations?
If you decide to run reservations through your system to allow owners to take bookings through your Vacation Rental Listing service, this setting will allow the owners to confirm their own bookings. In the traditional settings as a pure vacation rental management company, most don't want owners confirming their own reservations as it would take away administration control from the property management company. However, as a vacation rental listing service, you want to put as much power into the hands of the owner as you can so as to automate tasks you wuold generally have to do manually.

Allow Renters to Place Reservations Online?

One of the most important considerations you'll have to make as a vacation rental listing service is whether or not to allow the placement of reservations online while running a vacation rental listing service. There are several pros and cons to whether or not you would want to enable this feature or not with your TenantWIZ Vacation Rental Software driven Website. Allowing reservations could also mean that you would increase your revenue since you can charge a fixed percentage for all reservations that run through your system, yet at the same time you would need to bear the brunt of processing payments if you chose to do so real-time.

Property Listing Prices

If you're going to run a vacation rental listing service using TenantWIZ Vacation Rental Software then the most important feature are the property listing prices. This is located in the system settings section in the Main Menu Administration. Upon adding property listing prices, an owner will be able to purchase a listing and setup his own property, rates, blackout dates & special offers within his account. To enable an owner to register on his own, simply link him to: http://www.mydomain.com/tenantwiz/store/ownerRegister.asp

New BETA Calendar System for TenantWIZ Vacation Rental Software

After much anticipation our new calendar system for the TenantWIZ Vacation Rental Software has now moved into BETA. The new calendar offers several improvements on the old system as well as a sleeker look and feel. We also have some other upgrades in the works for our calendar such as AJAX driven calendars that break-out, weekly/monthly/yearly rate quoting, and others.

We want to keep some of the new features that are coming out on the wraps, however, this new calendar feature offers a few upgrades and elimination of some old bugs in the past calendar system. For example, the old calendar system did not allow you to showcase check-in and check-out dates, which have now been corrected with the BETA release of this calendar. Additionally, the old calendar had a few minor bugs such as showing the last known daily price on the calendar throughout the remainder of the calendar if no other prices had been entered.

The new calendar system is currently in BETA on a few select TenantWIZ Vacation Rental Software driven Websites and will be released shortly. Should you have any questions regarding the new calendar system, please email us at support@tenantwiz.com

Intuitive Free Online Tools to Manage your Vacation Rental Property

The vacation rental industry has spawned into a burgeoning industry, generating over 80 billion dollars in rental revenues in North America alone. It's safe to say that vacation rentals have become an industry to reckon with. As the economy continues its down-turn, hotels are simply flapping in the wind. Family's are traveling less, and also less-willing to travel far when they decide to, due to soaring fuel costs, and the continued faltering economy. However, vacation rentals seem to be the diamond in the rough, so to speak. People are turning to this new style of travel due to several different factors, including lower-cost, comfort, and the sensibility of providing all the creature comforts of home, away from home.


Still, to this day , there really hasn't been any one company that has put themselves out there to provide tools that help the owner that has just one property manage leads, income, expenses, rates, and more, through one simple to use interface.


As you know, the TenantWIZ Premium Service does provide you with all the tools to manage your rentals like the pros, however, I came to realize that not everyone needs all of the extensive tools that TenantWIZ has to offer. So why not offer a free array of tools to the one-off property owner or manager that needs something simple to manage one property, create a calendar and manage inquiries, and some minimal accounting? Thus, came the Free Online Tools.

The Free Online tools now allow you to post your very own property directly on TenantWIZ.com for free. In addition, you can create and build your own real-time availability and pricing calendar, specify blackout dates, receive reservation inquiries via email & text, manage property accounting and more! In order to sign-up for the free online tools, you'll need to create an account on TenantWIZ.com (if you haven't already done so) here: http://www.tenantwiz.com/vacation-rental-software-sign-up/ Once you've created your free account, simply log-in (you'll have to validate your email address first) and click on the Free Online Tools link to get started!


While you won't get your very own Website with the TenantWIZ Free Online Tools (your property shows up on our Website at TenantWIZ.com - see sample here) you still get some powerful tools that can help you get on the way to managing your rental like the pros!

TenantWIZ Vacation Rental Software Adds Google Online Tools

Annoucing the exciting addition of two of the most popular online tools from the Google Suite of tools: Google Maps and Google Analytics Integration.

In addition to our recently added search engine optimization tools, you can now utilize Google Maps with the TenantWIZ Vacation Rental Software and Online Property Management Software System. Integration of Google Maps is simple and can be done by following the brief instructions within the administration system of TenantWIZ. Once you've added you Google Maps API information (generated by clicking on a link and entering your Website URL), Google Map information is displayed on your property details page by clicking on the "view map" icon. This provides renters with specific information to where the property is located.

In addition to Google Maps, we've added the Google Analytics feature to TenantWIZ. With a quick & simple integration through the TenantWIZ Administration system, you can get detailed analytics on Website traffic using Google's popular suite of analytics tools. Track visitor origins, content surfing, create & manage goals, get quick overviews and more!