Rent One Online Announces RentalAdConnector™
The industry’s first XML-based technology solution that delivers property information from any rental management system to any advertising Web site; only $1 per property per month and free for users of Rent One Online’s Vacation Rental Manager solution.
Scotts Valley, CA (PRWEB via PR Web
Direct) June 16, 2005 -- Rent One Online, a leading provider of web-based
marketing and management tools for vacation rental managers, today announced the
availability of the Rent One Online RentalAdConnector™, the latest innovation in
a series of 100% Web-based solutions that are re-defining the way the vacation
management industry leverages its information. Using XML-based technology and
customized adapters, RentalAdConnector is the first technology solution that
connects any vacation rental management system to any advertising Web site. No
matter the software systems or platform, RentalAdConnector gives vacation and
rental property managers the power to increase revenue and bookings by freely
distributing property information to popular rental advertising and consumer
travel web sites. RentalAdConnector is free for users of Rent One Online’s
Web-based Vacation Rental Manager™ solution and is only $1 per property per
month for users of other vacation rental management systems.
Vacation and
rental property managers have faced a long standing industry challenge of
interoperability; that is, property information stored in systems can’t be
easily distributed to other systems, resulting in a labor intensive process for
entering property listings into advertising sites. Even when property
information can be shared electronically, synchronizing property, availability
and reservation data is highly problematic. RentalAdConnector solves these
problems by normalizing the property information from property management
systems using an adapter architecture and delivering the selected property
listings to advertising sites in the specified formats. Further, the
RentalAdConnector “closes the loop” by routing the request and reservation data
from advertising sites back to the property management system.
Additional
key advantages of RentalAdConnector include:
- RentalAdConnector provides a
way for property managers to increase the exposure of their properties and take
advantage of any advertising model
- It provides a way to link advertising
listings to reservations and bookings, which ensures the integrity of the
property and availability information
- It is a Web-hosted solution so there
is no software to install and no servers to manage and maintain
Rent One
Online is uniquely positioned to bring this capability to the industry, due in
large part to President Bart Meltzer’s experience with XML, e-commerce and data
normalization. He is a lead author on several important technology patents
including Web-based marketplaces (US Patent 6,125,391) and XML/E-Commerce
Servers (US Patent 6,226,675). Combined with his experience running a successful
vacation rental management company, 1888TRYKONA, the hurdles to sharing rental
property information have been eliminated.
“We are passionate about
bringing efficiency and the power of the Web to the vacation rental management
industry,” said Bart Meltzer, founder and president of Rent One Online. “I have
combined the lessons I have learned in running my own Vacation Rental Management
business with the state of the art in XML-based e-commerce in architecting our
RentalAdConnector product. It doesn’t matter if rental managers are using our
Web-based rental management solution or some other vendor solution, we can
enable the delivery of property listings to advertising Web sites. Equally
important, we ensure that booking requests and reservations make it back to the
management systems.”
About Rent One Online
Rent One Online provides
Web-based marketing and management tools for vacation rental managers. The Rent
One Online mission is to bridge the gap that currently exists from the vacation
property market to the larger travel services industry. Rent One Online does
this by increasing marketing effectiveness, providing professional management
tools and offering complementary and revenue-producing travel services. Visit www.RentOneOnline.com.
Media Contact:
Joel C.
Messenger
Director of Marketing
415.637.4296
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