Q. What is the definition of Vacation Rental ?

A vacation rental as a privately owned home rented on a nightly, weekly, or monthly basis for vacation and leisure purposes. Property types include hotels, homes (single-family and townhomes), condominiums, villas, condo hotels, cabins.

Q. What are the Benefits of using the World Village Property Management & Reservation Tools?

• Increase your revenues by giving your customers the ability to book your rooms online. They can see immediately if rooms are available and you are sent a confirmation email letting you know when a new booking has been made and whether you want to accept it. This saves time and the hassle of dealing with back and forth phone calls and emails from customers inquiring about availability.
• Access your data anytime and anywhere. Because World Village is web-based, you and your staff can access the system from any location with Internet access, ultimately improving data flow & communications.
• Improve your efficiency by managing your entire business online. World Village provides a complete toolset to manage your business efficiently on a single platform ultimately saving time and money.
• Save money by not buying expensive software or technology. World Village hosts all of the technology you need, so there's nothing to buy, install or maintain. Transaction based pricing results in improved cash flow and more predictable costs.
• Our Professionally built and maintained web based infrastructure is more scalable, reliable, secure, flexible and cost effective than even your own custom built website. With out template system you have the ability to update and change your website quickly and easily.

Q. What is the World Village Property Management Tool?

The World Village web site enables you to login to our web based application which hosted in a secure data center. Once you login you have access 24/7 to all of your property management tools, including, property setup, seasonal groupings, reservations, and website setup tools.

Q. What is the World Village Booking Feature?

World Village has created a web based booking or reservation feature which you can customize and add to your existing website or you can signup with our service and create a fully customized website for your property which will include this online booking feature. Of course, when you create your own website all of our property management tools are also included.

Q. What are the benefits of a Web-Based Application Service?

We take advantage of the internet by installing and maintaining the applications at our data center while our customers access them with an Internet browser.

• We can offer better economies of scale while eliminating additional hardware and software needs.
• Customers can access the application from anywhere: home, airports, or remote and multiple management sites.
• We handle all the maintenance, including backups, disaster recovery and upgrades.

Q. How do I get upgrades to the World Village tools?

Because World Village tools are a Web Base applications, any time we add a new feature, you will have access to it immediately the next time you visit the Web tool. There is no need to download any software or make system adjustments. Also, all upgrades are free of charges, so there are never additional costs for upgrades.