15Feb/120

Why Do Vacation Rental Managers Switch to LiveRez?

Vacation Rental Software

LiveRez has many happy partners who have to switched from other software providers.

During the sales process, vacation rental managers always ask: “Why do managers switch to LiveRez?” It’s a great question, seeing as how LiveRez is the fastest growing vacation rental software company in the industry. Of course, this rapid growth wouldn’t have been possible without many of our partners making the switch to us from one of our competitors.

The purpose of this blog is to go over the major reasons why our partners have made the switch. So, without further ado, here’s the list.

QuickBooks

For the many managers that are tired of either doing their accounting manually or trying to deal with the sub-par accounting software that came with their system, LiveRez’s real-time integration with QuickBooks is a huge selling point. LiveRez is the only company in the industry with a real-time connection with QuickBooks, the world’s most popular and trusted accounting software.

Integrated Dynamic Websites

A lot of managers are tired of paying extra for their website, dealing with multiple companies (software, design, SEO, etc.), and then not having the ability to change their website when they want to. With LiveRez, you get a professionally-designed, high-ranking, high-conversion website with the industry’s best online booking capability – all as part of your start-up costs. Furthermore, with LiveRez’s content management system, you have the ability to change your website’s content whenever you want to – right from the back office. LiveRez is the only software in the industry that offers this level of end-to-end integration between its website and back office.

23Jan/120

Fight Tax Season Fear: Get LiveRez’s QuickBooks Accounting Integration

QuickBooks North Carolina Approved Vacation Rental Accounting

LiveRez's QuickBooks Integration for vacation rental accounting is approved by the North Carolina Real Estate Commission.

Since the turn of the new year, an elephant has plopped itself down in the corner of every business across America, and vacation rental managers aren’t immune.

That elephant is tax season – that dreaded part of the year when companies really start to realize how good (or bad) their current accounting software really is (if they have software at all). For many managers in the vacation rental industry, they are stuck with the accounting software that came with their vacation rental management platform. Some dislike their software so much, they export their data out of their system and import it into a consumer accounting software product.

At LiveRez, we knew there was a need for great accounting software in the vacation rental industry; that’s why we chose to make our industry-leading vacation rental software integrate with QuickBooks, the world’s most-trusted accounting software with more than 38 million users worldwide.

13Sep/110

The Story Behind LiveRez.com’s QuickBooks Integration

QuickBooks Connector Vacation Rental Software

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.

28Jun/110

LiveRez.com’s QuickBooks Integration Earns Trust Accounting Compliance in North Carolina

The company’s exclusive integration with the world’s most trusted accounting platform was recently certified as compliant by the North Carolina Real Estate Commission

BOISE, Id. –– LiveRez.com’s exclusive QuickBooks integration has been evaluated by The North Carolina Real Estate Commission (NCREC) and has been found to comply with the provisions of the Commission's Rules and Trust Account Guidelines.

QuickBooks Trsut Accounting

QuickBooks is the world's most trusted accounting platform.

“This is exciting news for us and the many vacation rental managers in North Carolina,” said Tracy Lotz, founder and CEO of LiveRez.com. “With this certification, managers in North Carolina will now be able to use the world’s most trusted accounting platform.”

According to a 2010 VRMA survey, more than 40 percent of respondents said they used QuickBooks, making it more than eight times more popular than the next integrated accounting software platform. LiveRez.com’s QuickBooks integration is a one-of-a-kind feature in the industry as it allows vacation rental managers to seamlessly integrate all of their accounting data into the world’s most popular accounting platform.

LiveRez.com, which has devoted hundreds of hours to developing this QuickBooks integration, was informed of its certification via e-mail on June 27.

“I can give the compliance nod based on the 6.15 QB (QuickBooks) file, or in other words ‘LiveRez, version 6.15,’” said Emmet Wood, director of audits and investigations for the North Carolina Real Estate Commission.