Which plan is the best fit for you?
Check out the Premium vs. Basic Plan feature comparisons below. If you’re still not sure, give us a call at 802-774-1124.
Booking Engine Displays | PREMIUM $240/year | BASIC $125/year | |
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Works with all website platforms | ✓ | ✓ | The Availability Online Booking engine is compatible with all website platforms, incuding WordPress, SquareSpace, Wix, GoDaddy, traditional html sites, and others. Your booking engine link can also easily be added into your email campaigns. |
Traditional Calendar Display | ✓ | ✓ | The traditional calendar display shows 2-weeks of availability at a time, and gives guests the ability to search up to 2 years in the future. The two-week calendar is an effective tool for your website helping guests see your entire inventory. Unit rates, a single photo, descriptions and links to your website's room pages can be easily added to this availability display. |
Availability Search Display | ✓ | ✓ | The Search & Display booking engine model shows your guests only units available for the dates searched. This display option has the ability to show descriptions, rates, links to your website's unit pages and unit photos (1 photo for Basic Plan, up to 5 photos for Premium Plan). |
ADA Accessibility | ✓ | ✓ | All Availability Online booking engine pages include an accessibility widget. The widget contains several accessibility tools to make booking easier for those who need audio and visual assistance. |
Standard Visual Settings | ✓ | ✓ | Easily change certain visual elements, such as font, colors, etc., to match the look of your website. |
Monthly Availability Calendars | ✓ | Place monthly calendars anywhere on your website to display availability for each month. |
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Enhanced Visual Settings | ✓ | With the enhanced visual capabilities guests won't know that they are using a 3rd party software when booking online. Your booking engine can be fully customize to seamlessly match your website's navigation links, logos and color schemes. |
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Individual Unit Availability Display | ✓ | Show an entire availability calendar for a single unit. |
Administrative Tools | PREMIUM $240/year | BASIC $125/year | |
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Easy to use Administration Center | ✓ | ✓ | Manage your property on your schedule. Log in to your Availability Online Booking Engine Administration Center 24/7 to update your rates, change minimum night stay requirements, edit unit listings, and check on new reservations. |
Simple Point & Click Calendar Updating | ✓ | ✓ | Availability Online is designed to accommodate small to mid-sized properties with our easy point-and-click manual update feature. If you still use paper charts, you can set your manual update vacancy feature to match them, making it easy to update your availability. |
Adjust Occupancy Settings | ✓ | ✓ | Set specific maximum occupancy settings for each unit in your account. Guests will know exactly how many guests, adults and/or children are allowed in each unit. |
Flexible Minimum Night Stay Options | ✓ | ✓ | Improve your booking process by displaying and enforcing your minimum night stay requirements. This gives guests the information they need upfront, helping to prevent reservations that don't meet your criteria. |
Easy Interface to Make Reservation Form Edits | ✓ | ✓ | |
Easy Interface to Make Unit Information Edits | ✓ | ✓ | |
Credit Card Processing ** COMING SOON IN 2025 ** | ✓ | Seamlessly process your guest's credit card payments directly from your Availability Online Administration Center. Coming the end of 2025. |
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Property Management Solutions | ✓ | Availability Online is a stand-alone, award-winning booking engine. However, if you need a more robust solution, our premium service connects with several Property Management Software (PMS) systems. |
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Automatic Vacancy Updating | ✓ | Updating vacancy info and rates can be made less time consuming with automatic uploads using one of our Property Management add-on solutions. With a click of a button your entire property's vacancy/rates can be updated into your booking engine. |
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Automatic Reservation Downloads | ✓ | Automatically download online bookings using one of our Property Management (PMS) add-on solutions. With a click of a button new reservations will automatically be downloaded into your PMS system making reservation and guest management quick and easy. |
Taking Reservations | PREMIUM $240/year | BASIC $125/year | |
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Secure/PCI Compliant Booking from your Website | ✓ | ✓ | The Availability Online Booking engine is compatible with all website platforms, incuding WordPress, SquareSpace, Wix, GoDaddy, traditional html sites, and others. Your booking engine link can also easily be added into your email campaigns. |
Calculate Nightly/Seasonal Rates | ✓ | ✓ | Choose to display and calculate your nightly rates. Adding nightly rates to your Availability Online Booking Engine gives you the ability to show your guests how much each unit/night is and show a reservation total. Different nightly rates can be applied for each different unit and/or date, so you can easily add seasonal, weekend and/or special holiday rates. |
Automatic Email & Text Notifications | ✓ | ✓ | Busy innkeepers can't always sit in front of their computers waiting for new online reservations. Choose to be notified of new reservations via text message. |
Reservation Confirmations | ✓ | ✓ | You can send guests a reservation confirmation email from your Availability Online Administration Center (if you choose). Your guest's reservation information (ie: name, check-in date, cost, etc) will automatically generate in the confirmation email. You can also add custom default text. |
Reservation Policy- Guest Agreement | ✓ | ✓ | Require guests to Agree to your reservation policy information prior to submitting their online booking. |
Sell/Reservation Add On Capabilities | ✓ | ✓ | Our secure booking form allow your guests to purchase individual ala carte items (ie: box of chocolates, spa services, theatre tickets, etc). |
Collect Guest Credit Card/Payment Info | ✓ | ✓ | The Availability Online Booking Engine securely collects credit cards. A full payment processing gateway coming the second part of 2025! At this time properties are responsible for processing credit card payment as they would a phone reservation. |
Reservation Request Forms | ✓ | ✓ | The reservation request form would be used for those who wish to have a more hands-on approach with guests. Guests will expect to hear back from you directly with final confirmation. Guests will automatically receive an emailed copy of their reservation request. |
Real-Time Booking Forms | ✓ | ✓ | The real-time booking form can immediately and automatically block out the unit/date when a reservation is submitted. |
Add Custom Questions to Booking Form | ✓ | ✓ | Easily create fully custom questions to ask guests during the booking process, such as; How did you hear about us?, or Do you have any special dietary restrictions?. |
Add Taxes to Reservation Total | ✓ | Choose to calculate your state, local, lodging taxes into your reservation subtotal. Guests will know exactly how much their reservation costs. |
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Add Cleaning & Other Fees to Reservation Total | ✓ | Choose to calculate fees, such as a cleaning or resort fee, into your reservation subtotal. Your guests will know exactly how much their reservation costs. |
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Additional Person Fees | ✓ | Set your reservation form to calculate additional person fees. Add the same fee for all guests, or apply different fees based on if the guest is an adult or child. You can also choose to calculate a total for under occupancy reservations. |
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Show Reservation Deposit Amount | ✓ | Have your reservation form automatically create and show guests the deposit due at the time of booking. |
Marketing Features | PREMIUM $240/year | BASIC $125/year | |
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Download Past Reservations Function | ✓ | Easily download guest's email addresses for e-mail marketing blasts, or find your online booking revenue history. Download options include file type, selecting specific fields to be included in your download, and what type of reservation(s) are you looking for, ie: archived reservations, pending reservations or all reservations. |
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Discounted Website Design Services | ✓ | Our partner designer, OnnaWebDesign.com, offers Availability Online Booking Engine users a discount on new design costs. Professionally designed and affordable WordPress sites that are fully responsive and customized to meet your needs. Design Samples / Get Quote |
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Secure Gift Certificate Order Form | ✓ | Place a secure Gift Certificate Order form on your website allowing guests to purchase gift certificates from you online. |
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Special Events Display | ✓ | Special Events or notices can be shown on the availability display section of your booking engine. Choose to show these events at all times, or only when certain dates are searched. |
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Google AdWords Pay Per Click Tracking | ✓ | Availability Online can work with your Google AdWords campaign tracking so you know how many online reservations are derived from your advertising. |
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Google Analytics (GA4) Tracking | ✓ | The Availability Online Booking Engine offers full Google Analytics (GA4) E-commerce tracking capabilities. *Availability Online does not provide Google Pay Per Click or Google Analytics setup support. |
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Google Hotel Direct Booking Link | ✓ | Get found in Google Hotel search results. Add your Availability Online Booking Engine link into your Google Business Profile. You can track how many potential guests clicked through to your booking engine from your Availability Online Administration Center. |
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TripAdvisor/Trip Connect Interface | ✓ | Link your Availability Online Booking Engine directly to your TripAdvisor listing. This is a great way to give you direct, commission-free bookings! |
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iCal Export Feed to AirBnB, VRBO, etc. | ✓ | Export your vacancy information from Availability Online to 3rd party booking sites such as AirBnB, VRBO, Google Calendar, Yahoo! Calendar and more. This feature could save you time as you will only need to maintain vacancy in one location. Your Availability Online iCal Feed will work with sites who accept .ics/iCal formats. |
Support Services | PREMIUM $240/year | BASIC $125/year | |
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Free Booking Engine Setup | ✓ | ✓ | Getting started with Availability Online is a hassle-free experience. We'll quickly set up and customize your booking engine for you, all at no extra charge. |
Free Phone and Email Support | ✓ | ✓ | Enjoy free, unlimited phone and email support from our friendly and helpful technical staff. |
Free Booking Engine Updates & Maintenance | ✓ | You're busy! We get it. If using our Premium Plan contact us anytime and we will update any information found in your booking engine such as rates, min. stay requirements, photos, etc. |
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Discounted Website Design Services | ✓ | Our partner designer, OnnaWebDesign.com, offers Availability Online Booking Engine Premium users a discount on new design costs. Professionally designed and affordable WordPress sites that are fully responsive and customized to meet your needs. Design Samples / Get Quote |