Bye 2016, Hello 2017 : Our Year In Review

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Another year has come to an end, let’s look back together on 2016!

What happened at BookingSync this past year? This article will give you a better insight on what our teams worked on.

Exchanges

  • Vacation Rental Management Association Seminar: VRMA’s Europe Seminar took place from March, 6th to 8th in Barcelona, which featured: meetings with professionals of the industry, exchanges and presentation of our new integrations (FetchMyGuest).

  • Ember Thalassa in Greece: we provided Ember’s developers with two villas in Greece, on the Island of Lefkada, in May and October to thank them for their investment - Ember is a Javascript framework.

  • BookingSync x Vacation Rental World Summit: the 3rd edition of the Vacation Rental World Summit took place on October, 29th and 30th, in Barcelona. It allowed us to know better the main actors of the vacation rental industry and to freely exchange ideas with them.

  • HomeAway event in Arcachon, France: This meeting is the first one to have been dedicated to vacation rental agencies and independent property managers. Organised on December, 8th, it allowed us to meet professionals of the sector and introduce our vision: Save Time and Book More, as a partner of the event.

What’s new

  • BookingSync and Airbnb are now official partners: in July, we officially introduced our partnership with the community rental platform Airbnb. It allowed us to offer an advanced synch thanks to a direct access to the programming interface.

  • Webinars (almost) every day: our Relatonship Officer, Maud, settles webinars in French and English every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. They are accessible to any property manager/vacation rental owner interested in our software. Take your chance to ask your questions live!

  • Instant booking with HomeAway is now set up on our platform

  • 3 new “Channel Managers”: Outswitch, BookingPal and RentalsUnited. Dependind on your rentals catalogue, you’ll be able to distribute them on the most relevant and effective portals in order to maximise your occupancy rate and profitability.

  • 2 new partners: FetchMyGuest and CurbAppeal - Listing Camera

  • Tax management with billing date

  • “Instant booking” on our clients’ websites

  • Our Website app interface has been entirely rebuilt and translated into French. Managing your BookingSync website will get even smoother.

  • New apps: Notifications centre, Bills, Owners and Zapier to help you synch your services.

New co-workers

The BookingSync team has grown in 2016:

  • Romain: in charge of the Marketing and Happiness Strategy

  • Reinforcement of our customer care service: Delia, Aline, Ella and Emilie

  • Marine: in charge of social networks and our blog

  • 5 new developers: Julien, Daniel, Roman, Leonid and Mateusz

  • David: in charge of the design

Babies and weddings!

  • Florian, our co-founder, is now a daddy: welcome to our world, little Hugo!

  • Marine and Emilie got married (but not together!)


What about you, what will you remember from 2016?