Pointe South Vacation Rentals Gets New Website
Trent Blizzard | 22 August 2009 | 2 Reviews »
Pointe South Vacation Rentals is a vacation rental management company servicing Perdido Key and Pensacola Beach, Florida.
A primary goal of their new website was to integrate a booking engine with a live XML feed from their First Resort property management software. The booking engine:
- Displays live data on the website via the ISIlink XML API (lot of acronoyms there!)
- Is very search engine friendly
- Processes bookings in real-time
- Is easy to add descriptive text, photos and rich media to individual properties
- Tracks ROI through Google Analytics
- Offers usability enhancements like save to favorites, mapping, and integrated property reviews via Flipkey
The entire website is built on a Wordpress content management platform. This makes it easy for Pointe South to update all of their content on their website. Plus, that platform performs pretty well in search engines.
September 8th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
I think it’s great that companies are making websites more interactive like booking reservations online. Is makes it so much easier than using the phone and it’s much faster.
Great post!
October 4th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
We also use the Word Press CMS for our websites. But I don’t think I’ve ever saw it implemented for a reservations / booking system.
I think it will definitely give you a good ROI. Customers always want to see more features and more user-friendliness.
That’s great! You guys are being pioneers in the industry :)