Simplify Vacation Rental Accounting with Guesty x VRPlatform

Guesty: A Vacation Rental Management Solution Established in 2013 by twin brothers Amiad & Koby Soto, Guesty is an end-to-end hospitality operations platform built to optimize and automate every aspect of your hospitality operations. With advanced technology, industry-wide expertise, and a team of 200+ engineers, Guesty saves time, maximizes revenue, and keeps your business ahead…

Read More

Outsourcing vs. Upgrading: Two Options for Vacation Rental Accounting

outsource or upgrade accounting

Outsourcing vs. Upgrading: Two Options for Vacation Rental Accounting The exacting demands of trust accounting create huge headaches at most vacation rental management businesses. Trust accounting is a time- and labor-intensive obligation that repeats month after month. Even harder, the particulars of trust accounting are foreign to many working accounting professionals and hard to learn…

Read More

Tax Reporting Tips for Vacation Rental Property Managers

tax prep

Tax Reporting Tips for Vacation Rental Property Managers Tax season may be unavoidable, but it doesn’t have to be an obstacle for vacation rental property managers. Make sure you do everything right by following these tax reporting tips from the team at Ximplifi, experts in accounting for vacation rental property managers: What Not to Report…

Read More

Making Owner Statements a Breeze for Vacation Rentals With Sage Intacct

In Depth Owner Statements for Vacation Rentals With Sage Intacct

In Depth and Valuable Owner Statements for Vacation Rentals With Sage Intacct For vacation rental property managers, one responsibility matters more than all the others: preparing monthly owner statements. No matter how well a property manager performs in other respects, they can’t expect to keep clients without delivering accurate owner’s statements and timely owner payouts.…

Read More

Do Your VRM Apps Integrate? Don’t Overlook This Key Capability

Do Your VRM Apps Integrate?

Do Your VRM Apps Integrate? Don’t Overlook This Key Capability When your vacation rental management business goes searching for the right piece of software, you consider lots of criteria: the features and functions, the interface, and the cost are usually the top priorities. But that list also needs to include whether the app integrates with…

Read More

Budgeting & Planning for VRMs with Sage Intacct

Budgeting & Planning for VRMs with Sage Intacct

Budgeting & Planning for VRMs: Getting it Right Every Time With the vacation rental industry projected to reach a $113 billion valuation by 2027, it looks like a great time to be a vacation rental manager. But any high-growth industry attracts competition and encourages consolidation. That is to say, success isn’t guaranteed even as billions…

Read More

The Power of Best-in-Class for VRMs

The Power of Best-in-Class

Historically the belief has been if you want good trust accounting and owner statements you have to choose a property management system (“PMS”) with built-in trust accounting.  The problem is those systems are often hard to use, are not tried and true accounting systems, not very flexible and don’t provide much in automation functionality or…

Read More

How to Automate Vacation Rental Accounting

Automate VRM accounting

How to Automate Vacation Rental Accounting How much time do you spend each week on vacation rental accounting? If you’re like most firms, the answer is too much. Critical as accounting may be, it consists of tedious, time-consuming, error-prone processes that take hours to complete. And then the cycle starts all over again. Making matters…

Read More

Best Practices for Month-End Close in Vacation Rental Management

Best Practices for Month-End Close in Vacation Rental Management

Best Practices for Month-End Close in Vacation Rental Management The month-end close puts extra strain on vacation rental management businesses. They’re not just accountable to themselves; they send month-end reports to property owners who will expect to see positive numbers presented on time. The month-end close consumes a lot of resources and inspires a certain…

Read More

The True Cost of Employees

The True Cost of Employees Companies outsource accounting functions for many reasons: to overcome a talent shortage, to gain specialized expertise, to scale their staff fast enough to keep pace with growth. But perhaps the biggest reason a company considers outsourcing in the first place is to cut costs. They want to do the same…

Read More