Mark Simpson explains three booking options for a short-term rental aimed at bachelorette groups: instant book, inquiry, or a mixture. The customer in this example prefers inquiry-only. He emphasizes using a proven website framework (not reinventing design) and highlights the importance of syncing the site with Hostfully for management.
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The vibe that this property is going for is bachelorettes. Okay? Now, I'm going to show you three different types of booking that we have with the Hostfully team. So obviously with this one, because it's a big property, bachelorette parties can be an absolute dream or they can be an absolute nightmare. Depends on who you're speaking to. Right, so what you want to have, you've got three options. You can have, number one, which is instant book. Number two, you can have Inquiry, or number three, you can have a mixture of both. Now, obviously, this customer wants to have inquiry only. So basically what we did is we set up the website, and again, the websites all have the same framework, because at the end of the day, the framework works, right? We're not trying to reinvent the wheel. We're not trying to create the Mona Lisa of websites. We know what works. We know where to put the right buttons in the right places at the right time. And we've done this over, I say, eight years. We've done thousands of websites. We know what works. The true gold in what we do is the connection and the sync that we have into Hostfully.