We’re in the early stages of developing a new site—Visit North Captiva—which will serve as a verified, independent directory of vacation homes available for rent on North Captiva Island. Our goal is to offer travelers a trusted, centralized space to view property photos, amenities, and availability, with direct links to book on the homeowner’s preferred platform (such as Airbnb, VRBO, or their personal site). We will not be booking directly through our site.
Because this is a simplified listing model—featuring verified homes with iCalendar integrations and links out to existing booking platforms—we’re wondering if you offer a discounted listing price for this type of format, without the need for additional booking tools, payment processing, or messaging services.
We’re aiming to keep the experience clean, fast, and transparent for guests while providing visibility and control for homeowners. If a reduced-rate option is possible, we’d love to discuss how we can collaborate.
Have you considered a property share format? Owners in the Smokies have this property share smokymountaincabinsbyowner.com. You can see how we set it up on smokymountaincabinsbyowner.com/join. The requirement is that all participants have to be on OwnerRez. The website is hosted on Wix, members contibute $5/property/year to cover hosing fees. Currently, 150 properties participate. Every member is also obligated to have a share widget on their respective website, like this : https://www.bluemountaincabins.com/more-cabins-573986261. This format encourages direct bookings, not dependent on slow ical, and gives travelers immediate availability/price without needing to send an inquiry upfront
Hello,
I know our Marketing team reached out to you via email, but I did want to share that info here as well for visibility.
Sounds like Property Sharing may be a solution for what you're hoping to accomplish here. Property Sharing is a way for OwnerRez users to collaborate by cross-listing properties on each other's websites via widgets. Occasionally, a local group will create a website and allow other OwnerRez users to list their properties, aka join the property share. For example, take a look at:
https://www.smokymountaincabinsbyowner.com/
You can learn more about Property Sharing here:
https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/property-sharing
Alternatively, we do offer a channel API which would allow you to become one of our first-class OTA channels, just like the companies you see here:
https://www.ownerrez.com/integrations#ChannelIntegrations
There is a lot more involved if choosing to go this route. You can learn about our channel API here:
https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/api-channel-integration-overview
We don't offer discounted OwnerRez accounts since both options require the person who owns or manages the listings to have an account to manage bookings, messaging, etc. But you can become an affiliate if you go the Property Share route, which will allow you to earn some kickback for those who sign up using your link! You can learn about this here:
https://www.ownerrez.com/support/articles/affiliate-program
