Avantio is a property management and channel manager platform for pro vacation rental managers, mostly in Europe. It covers bookings, owners, and sales across booking channels.
If you use Avantio, you may want a separate tool for payments and guest ID checks. Avantio's main focus is bookings and channel sales.
This article covers what Avantio offers and where it fits in your tools. It also shows how a payment layer like ChargeAutomation can work with your Avantio setup.
Avantio provides a channel manager and property management system for pro vacation rental firms with many units. It has tools for owner reports, bookings, and sales across many booking sites.
Many agencies in Europe use it to run dozens or hundreds of homes. Avantio is built around bookings, owners, and channel sales. So you often still need a separate tool for guest payments and ID checks on each booking. Managers who run Avantio often use it to handle:
Managers who run Avantio often still handle pre-arrival payments, security deposits, and guest ID checks by hand. Some use a separate tool. These tasks sit closer to the guest than to bookings and channels.
This gap tends to grow as you add homes. Chasing payments by hand gets harder to keep up.
ChargeAutomation is built to support a wide range of payment gateways and PMS platforms. It automates the guest payment and ID check steps of a booking. This fits well with the booking and channel work Avantio already does. Managers who add payment tools to Avantio often want to automate:
ChargeAutomation can collect pre-arrival payments for you. It can pre-authorize and release security deposits. It can also ask guests to check their ID before check-in. It does all this next to your Avantio bookings. It does not replace them.
ChargeAutomation supports many properties from one account. So you can use the same flow for every home you run.
ChargeAutomation is PCI and PSD2 compliant and supports 3D Secure. This adds a safety check to online charges, no matter where a booking came from. You can add it as a payment and ID check layer and keep your channel setup as it is. Agencies that run Avantio often automate the following through ChargeAutomation:
Avantio provides a channel manager and property management system for pro vacation rental firms. It covers bookings, owner reports, and sales across booking sites.
Avantio focuses mainly on bookings, owners, and channel sales. So most managers use a separate tool for guest payments and ID checks.
ChargeAutomation is built to support a wide range of payment gateways and PMS platforms. It automates guest payments and ID checks. This fits well with your Avantio setup.
No. ChargeAutomation is built to sit next to your booking and channel tools. It does not replace them.
You can use a tool like ChargeAutomation to pre-authorize security deposits and release them on time. This works no matter which channel manager holds the booking.
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