The Story Behind LiveRez.com’s QuickBooks Integration

LiveRez.com's QuickBooks Connector is a one-of-a-kind integration of the company's robust reservation system with the industry standard in trust accounting.

Call LiveRez.com’s QuickBooks Connector a matchmaker.

When developing its end-to-end solution for vacation rental managers, LiveRez understood that its expertise was in understanding the needs of vacation rental managers and giving them the tools to be successful online, with a robust, web-based reservation system that is completed integrated with an online booking engine and dynamic websites.

But, when it came to adding an accounting component to its platform, LiveRez was confronted with a choice: build its own accounting platform or adopt the industry standard trust accounting system. It turned out to be an easy choice.

Born of its desire to give its partners the best accounting software, period, LiveRez developed the QuickBooks Connector. This happy marriage has saved LiveRez.com partners valuable time and money, and today it’s a key reason why flocks of vacation rental managers are switching to LiveRez and leaving behind the cumbersome proprietary accounting systems that came with their old software providers.

How Many People Use QuickBooks?

As the standard for trust accounting software worldwide, QuickBooks is used by more than 38 million people across the globe. You may be one of them.  According to a 2010 Vacation Rental Managers Association (VRMA) survey, more vacation rental managers use QuickBooks than any other accounting software. In fact, it was eight times more popular than the next integrated accounting software platform.

Unfortunately, not all of these VRMs were taking advantage of LiveRez.com’s exclusive integration with QuickBooks (that’s right, you won’t find another connection like this anywhere in the industry). In fact, these non-LiveRez managers had to manually export data out of their reservation systems and import it into QuickBooks. They wouldn’t have had to do all that hard work if they had the QuickBooks Connector.

How the QuickBooks Connector Works

By completely automating the flow of your financial information from your reservation system to QuickBooks, the LiveRez QuickBooks Connector does the work for you. By mapping fields between your reservation system and QuickBooks upon set-up, the QuickBooks Connector is easily able to take information from a field in your reservation system and copy it to the corresponding field in QuickBooks. This ability allows you to create invoices in QuickBooks either automatically or on a pre-determined batching schedule.

Why Use the QuickBooks Connector

So let’s look at some reasons why you might want to use the QuickBooks Connector:

• You like saving time and money
• You already use QuickBooks (or know how to use it)
• You’re not happy with the proprietary system that came with your current vacation rental software platform
• You’re ready to step up to the best accounting software available
• Your bookkeeper just read this and threatened to quit unless you switched to LiveRez!

Learn More

Have more specific questions about our QuickBooks Connector? Want a first-hand look at LiveRez.com’s industry-leading platform? LiveRez offers guided product tours, where a product expert will show you first-hand how our system operates and will answer all of the questions you have about LiveRez.

To view a brief online demo and schedule your guided-product tour, visit our Demo Page or call (800) 343-2891.