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Guide - For providers of vacation rentals

Here you can read about the individual steps involved in registering and activating your entry. If you need help, please feel free to contact us.

Registration

Registration process

1. How can I register?

Click on Register or, if you are already registered, on Log in.

Enter data for registration and confirm e-mail adress

2. What do I need to do to register?

  • Please fill out the form completely.
  • Read our terms of use and confirm that you accept them. You will then receive an email from us.
  • Please open the email in your inbox and confirm your registration.
  • You can now log in as a user.

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Create new listing

3. How can I register a new vacation rental?

Click New listing.

Details

Enter vacation type

4. How can I register my type of accommodation (house, apartment, boat, etc.)?

  • Please select Vacation Rentals.
  • Under Category, you can specify whether it is a house, apartment, or other type of property.
  • If you select other property type, you have the option to enter accommodations such as tents or boats.
Details and informationen about your vacation rental

5. How can I insert details and information about the accommodation?

In Details you can enter all the information about your vacation accommodation.

Further information about your accomodation

6. Where can I enter information on sustainability and organizational issues?

  • Describe what makes your accommodation so special: What can your guests look forward to?
  • What values and principles are important to you as a host? One value could be treating other guests and the host with respect, for example, or being considerate of one another.
  • Please only list sustainability certificates that are officially recognized, such as the EU Ecolabel. If you have a certificate, please name it and include the year it was awarded.
  • If you do not have a certificate, you could list the sustainability measures that apply to you. Here are a few examples:
    • Conscientious waste separation
  • Environmentally friendly cleaning products
  • Sustainable energy generation with solar energy
  • etc.
  • In the Special features and organizational details field, you can include information on key handover, cleaning, or other informative details.
  • Under Deposit and tourist tax, you can enter the amount of the deposit and describe whether it is to be transferred to you in advance or is payable on site.

Once you have entered all the information, please click on Continue.

Ort

Enter and confirm the address by clicking in the field.

7. How do I enter the address?

Enter the address to record the location. Click “Continue.”

Preis

Enter seasonal prices using price variants

8. How can I add price variants?

  • You can enter different daily rates for each season by clicking Add price variant.

  • For example, daily rate for the winter season or daily rate for the summer season.

  • You can delete your entry by clicking Delete price variant.

  • If you have a discount code for the agency, you can enter it here. The discount code reduces the commission charged by Footprint Properties.

availability

General availability indicates whether your vacation rental is generally available for booking every day.

9. How can I record my general availability?

To record general availability, click on Set the standard schedule. By specifying the days of the week, you indicate whether your accommodation can generally be booked every day or is only available on certain days.

Enter days already booked in the booking calendar

10. How can I customize the booking calendar?

To avoid double bookings, you can adjust your booking calendar at any time and mark days that are already booked as unavailable:

  • Click Add an availability exception.
  • Select Unavailable in the input mask.
  • Select the days in the calendar that are already booked.
Adjust and maintain booking availability for each booking

11. How can I adjust my booking availability?

  • You can keep your booking calendar up to date by marking availability exceptions for periods that have already been booked.
  • Please add an availability exception for each booking. This allows you to make quick adjustments if a guest cancels.

Periods that have already been booked will be grayed out for both you and potential guests. Potential guests will no longer be able to book periods that you have already entered in your calendar.

Fotos

Take photos of the accommodation

12. How do I add photos?

Click on + Add a photo.

You can add photos up to a maximum size of 20 MB. We recommend that you take at least 8 photos. These should be bright and of good quality (not pixelated) and show different aspects of your vacation rental.

Style

13. How can I set a style for my ad?

  • Select a style by clicking on a color chart.
  • You can now publish the entry.

Payout settings

How can I register my account for payouts?

14. How can I register my account for payouts?

Footprint Properties works with Stripe to ensure secure payment transactions.

  • Use the input mask to specify whether you are a private individual or a company.
  • Click on Verify yourself. You will then be redirected to Stripe to enter the remaining information so that your tax and bank details are correct and we can make payments to you.
Verification via Stripe

15. How does verification via Stripe work?

For verification purposes, Stripe will ask for your email address and phone number. Please enter these details. A verification code will be sent to your cell phone. Enter this code in the input field.

Enter data and publish entry

16. How can I publish the entry?

  • You will be guided through the process by Stripe's input mask. The verification process is only complete once you have entered all the information.
  • Once you have entered all the information, you can close the window.
  • Confirm entry published

Your entry will then be published.

Published listing

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17. How can I make changes on a published listing?

Your listing has been successfully published. You can make changes on your listings at any time by clicking on Change listing or clicking on your icon and choosing the listing you want to update in your overview.

Do you have any further questions?

FAQ Vacation Rentals