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Maximizing Property Management Efficiency with Automation and Messaging 🤖🔧

1 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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The video (by Mark Simpson) explains how property management operations are complex—turnovers have many failure points that can lead to bad reviews and poor guest experiences. It describes an operations automation system that drives turnovers reliably and a separate messaging product that automates guest touchpoints (arrival/stay), supports two-way personalized SMS, and integrates with Airbnb messaging and property management systems (PMS).

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Even with one property. You know, it's a complex dance that happens when you turn over a property and there's so many points of failure and risking that failure and risking, you know, a bad review or letting the guest experience at the property start on the wrong foot so that you're behind the whole time. You know, it's pretty, it's pretty tough. So the operation system sort of dials all of that in. Make sure that it happens with a lot of automation. And then separately we have a messaging product so that as your guest is arriving while they're staying with you, you can automate certain touch points through text messaging to interact with the guest, offer more services, make sure they're having a great stay, you don't have to worry about remembering to send that message. And then if they write back, you can coordinate and you can communicate one to one, two way texting and pick it up and personalize it. And that's integrated directly with Airbnb messaging or directly with your PMS system.