If you are a property manager and manage a group of apartments, you probably know that adding a new listing requires time and a series of precautions in order to meet the minimum requirements required for pushing to the various OTAs.
For this reason we have developed a new function that will guide you step by step in creating your new advert, already giving you the guidelines to ensure that it is suitable for publication on portals.
In the apartments section of your master account you will be able to see this new feature:
By clicking on this button you can access the guided process for creating your lisitng:
Step 1 General information:
Choose the name of your ad, it will be the same name you will see for the Octorate ID that will be created at the end of the process.
Minimum 8 characters are required.
You can decide whether to create an ad from scratch or copy the information from another listing in your network:
If you decide to copy, all the information of the next steps (except photos) will be pre-compiled, you can check them and make any changes going forward.
At the bottom the save draft button allows you to save the information entered up to that time. You can then also fill out your ad in several stages, always returning to where you left off.
Select the type of your listing (Vacation rental)
Enter your contacts:
Enter the address of your property and check that the geolocation is correct:
Step 2 listing details:
Set the number of guests for your listing. This will be the number of guests in your main rate from which you may be able to start creating your derived rates.
If you want to manage your Occupancy listing in portals like Airbnb or Vrbo, you will have to enter the occupancy you consider with your base price, on which you will then add the price for each extra guest.
If you have doubts about your configuration in occupancy on the portals, we recommend that you read this article.
Enter the expected check-in and check-out times for your listing.
The check-in start and end time must have a window of at least 2 hours:
Indicate the structural information of your listing: square meters, rooms, bathrooms.
Step 3: Descriptions
Enter a description. On this page we ask you to write a description that meets the requirements of Airbnb and other portals. The description field and the district view field must have a minimum of 175 words together, and the Descriptions field must have a maximum of 500 characters.
Insert the photos for your ad, you will be asked minimum 15 photos:
Select the services (minimum 5), you can decide whether to filter only the most used or see them all:
Step 4: Pricing
Enter the minimum price for your ad. The minimum price will not be set on your calendar or sent to portals. If you enter a lower price in the calendar, you will be notified by an alert.
Set an extra for final cleaning, you will find this extra configured in the settings > extra section at the end of your ad creation.
Enter the name and treatment of the tariff plan that you want to associate with your main tariff, you can also decide whether to use one already present in your master account
Step 5: Legal information
Configure the value of the tourist tax as provided in your municipality
Specify the VAT percentage
Summary
Here you can see the report of your ad with all the information you have entered.
If you need to correct something, just click on the link of the reference step, correct the information you need and go ahead again.
When you have checked your information, you can click on the complete button.
Your listing will be ready and you can proceed to the connections with the portals.
You will find your new ad in a new child ID of Octorate, already included in your network.
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