Vacation Rental Housekeeping Software Solutions

04 November 2019

Meeting the expectations of your guests with regards to cleanliness is an essential element of managing vacation properties. Whether you are the owner or a vacation rental management company, you want the best solution for your housekeeping needs. In this post, we list the best housekeeping and cleaning solutions for vacation rental properties and management companies alike.

Cleaning Solutions for Vacation Rental Properties

The individual needs of a rental property owner will be different to a rental company. Vacation Rental Companies needs also change drastically as they grow. Here is a list the range of solutions that are now available to help meet the changing needs and demands of these companies and individuals.

Cleaning Software for Rental Management Companies

VRWorks

Vacation Rental Housekeeping Software

The most popular requests from growing Vacation Rental companies are streamlining peak season check in days by improving housekeeping and guest communication during check in. VRWorks does this with cloud-based access the gives people the ability to access their platform from anywhere they like.

Guest Communication during checkin

Rental companies can text guests access codes for entry to the property, and maps of the unit too.

Housekeeping Operations

One single Operations Managers can manage hundreds of properties from one screen. Housekeepers and inspectors each get a unique viewpoint that gives them a snapshot of what is going on at any one time. Messages between departments and notations can bee sent and seen with ease which help the teams to operate more efficiently and more fluidly. Housekeeping billing is quick and easy, and it helps make your housekeeping team more productive and more efficient.

Vacation Rental Software

As you would expect from the name, vacation rental software provides users with a range of features and reports that include housekeeping, inspection and client check-ins. Many do this with reports and basic functionality. As companies change from having to manage the needs of 10-20 properties to hundreds, companies are often searching for a better solutions.

Online Cleaning Networks

Airhosta

Airhosta is a platform that is dedicated to connecting rental property owners with Airbnb services providers. It gives you access to a range of useful services that are located nearby and who have experience in their respective fields. They also make it incredibly easy for you to connect with a range of other useful services such as interior designers, activity planners, concierge services and more. Once a job is posted, you get tailored quotes and you can choose which is best for you.

This platform and their services are provided to clients across the globe.

Properly - Cleaner Marketplace & Checklists

The Properly app is a little bit different to the other apps in this list. If you are a property owner, this is a highly visual app that gives you the unique ability to get real-time management, detailed imagery and instant reports about property damage, cleaning status and more. There is an API connection with a number of major property listing sites and a useful an comprehensive marketplace for cleaning services and professionals too.

This service is currently available in the UK, Canada, US, Ireland, France and Australia.

TurnoverBnb (Network of Airbnb Vacation Property Cleaners)

For complete hands-free management of the cleaning side of your vacation rental business, TurnoverBnB is an easy way to create automated cleaning schedules and provides you with an easy way to integrate its services with a number of major booking platforms, such as Airbnb, Homeaway, and booking.com. Essentially, it gives owners the ability to schedule their cleaning services around their occupancy.
The marketplace feature gives you a world of choice in terms of finding highly-rated vacation property rental cleaners locally. If wanted, you can track and record all completed jobs and provide automated payments to your service providers.

The Turnover platform is only currently available in Canada and the US.

Cleaning Services for Homes and Long-Term Rentals

Airtasker

Airtasker is a trusted platform that gives you the ability to post a job to a huge community of ‘freelance’ workers. There is a section of the site that is dedicated to cleaning services and this makes it easy to receive multiple quotations from qualified professionals for the job you need doing. Once you post a job, you will receive ‘offers’, you can easily view the profile and reviews to help you make a decision on the best cleaning service to hire.

The Airtasker service is only currently offered in the UK, Ireland, and Australia.

Handy

While this isn’t a dedicated vacation rental cleaning site, the platform offers a great choice for those wanting to organize property cleaning services. The pricing is reasonable, and it gives you a decent communication tool that allows you to send messages through to cleaners, tip them, reschedule appointments, and more. You also get the reassurance of being able to use a 24/7 services that can also give you easy access to handyman services and much more.
What’s more, any household services are performed by independent professionals that go through a strict pre-screening process.

The Handy app is available in numerous US, Canada, and UK locations.

MaidThis

The MaidThis platform market themselves like a matching agency for vacation rental owners in California and services providers who can help them with their needs. They screen the individual service providers to make sure they provide quality candidates. They even have a dedicated area on their site that has been created to meet the needs of Airbnb hosts. The cleaners listed provide their own and are verified experts in their respective fields.

This service is only currently offered in Los Angeles, the OC and San Francisco.

Cleaning Services for Short-Term Rentals

GuestPrep

As a specialist Airbnb cleaning service with more than 20k turnovers to date; GuestPrep is an experienced pair of hands in short-term rental cleaning. They provide two core services, the ‘Deep Clean’ and the ‘Express Clean’. This provides customers with a cost-efficient cleaning option for short-stays, along with a more thorough cleaning services in case a customer stays over a longer period. In addition to their core cleaning services, they also offer a restock service that can take care of essential kitchen and bathroom items.

The GuestPrep service is only currently offered in Austin, Washington DC and Denver.

DoInn

This platform is designed to provide a range of useful cleaning services for vacation and short-term rentals. It has a number of unique features that property managers find particularly interesting. Calendar-syncing via iCal, integrations with rental listing sites via API, along with a range of other instructional fields that cover commonly asked questions about storage space, stock replacements, keys and more.
For property managers or individuals with multiple properties, there are other useful features such as being able to be billed separately for each property and being able to bulk-import data into excel.

The DoInn services is only currently offered in France, Spain, and Portugal.