7 Essential PMS Features for Flexible Pricing on Small Rentals
Summary
This PriceLabs article details seven essential PMS features crucial for flexible pricing strategies in small rental operations. It emphasizes dynamic pricing, channel management, native integrations, reporting, payments, mobile operations, and automation. Owners can leverage these features to automate rate adjustments, maximize revenue, and streamline operations. PriceLabs offers integrations with 160+ PMSs to improve pricing strategies.
Key Insights
- •Integrated payments automate invoicing, deposits, refunds, and receipts. PCI compliance is crucial for secure data handling.
- •A channel manager synchronizes listings, prices, and availability across OTAs and direct booking engines, preventing double bookings. When linked with PMS and pricing tools, updates happen in near real-time.
- •Dynamic pricing, utilizing AI and market data, allows for daily rate updates to optimize length-of-stay and lead-time pricing, and can fill short gaps. This approach helps maximize revenue potential.
Action Items
- ✓Ensure your PMS includes secure payment processing, automated billing, and built-in tax calculation.Effort: lowImpact: medium
- ✓Consider choosing a PMS with pre-built integrations to reduce setup time and sync friction when adding tools.Effort: mediumImpact: medium
- ✓Implement an automation and rules engine to manage minimum stay restrictions and price recommendations, and guest messaging.Effort: mediumImpact: medium
Tools & Resources
- →PriceLabs: PriceLabs provides dynamic pricing and integrates with over 160 PMSs and channel solutions.(pricelabs.com)
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