Zeevou Property Management: Where ChargeAutomation Fits
Zeevou is a property management and channel manager platform for serviced apartment operators and short term rental managers. It covers bookings, direct booking, and sales across channels.
If you run Zeevou, you often still need a separate tool for payments and guest ID checks. Zeevou's main focus is bookings and channel sales.
This article covers what Zeevou offers and where it fits in your daily work. It also shows how a payment layer like ChargeAutomation can work with your Zeevou setup.
Key Takeaways
Zeevou provides a property management system and channel manager for serviced apartment and short term rental operators.
Zeevou tends to focus on bookings, direct booking, and channel sales. It does not focus on guest payments.
ChargeAutomation is built to support a wide range of payment gateways and PMS platforms. It acts as a guest payment and ID check layer.
ChargeAutomation supports many properties from one account. This helps operators use the same automated flow across all their units.
ChargeAutomation is PCI and PSD2 compliant and supports 3D Secure. It adds a safety check to online charges, whatever booking system you use.
What Zeevou Offers Property Managers
Zeevou provides a property management system and channel manager for serviced apartment operators and short term rental managers. It has tools for direct booking, bookings, and sales across many platforms.
Operators with many serviced apartments or rental units often use it to control channels and bookings in one place. Zeevou is built around bookings, channel sales, and direct booking. So you often still need a separate tool for guest payments and ID checks on each booking. Managers who run Zeevou often use it to handle:
channel sales across booking sites
direct booking
booking and calendar sync
serviced apartment operations
Where Payment Automation Fits Alongside Zeevou
Managers who run Zeevou 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 units. 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 guest payment and ID check steps. This fits well with the booking and channel work Zeevou already does. Managers who add payment tools to Zeevou often want to automate:
pre-arrival payment collection
security deposit pre-authorization and release
guest ID checks before check-in
steady payment follow up as you add units
How ChargeAutomation Supports Zeevou Managed Properties
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 Zeevou bookings. It does not replace them.
ChargeAutomation supports many properties from one account. So you can use the same flow for every unit you run. It 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 ChargeAutomation as a payment and ID check layer and keep your channel setup as it is. Operators who run Zeevou often automate the following through ChargeAutomation:
pre-arrival payment collection across properties
security deposit pre-authorization and release
guest ID checks before check-in
automatic retries on failed payments
payment reports for many properties from one account
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Zeevou offer property managers?
Zeevou provides a property management system and channel manager for serviced apartment operators and short term rental managers. It covers bookings, direct booking, and channel sales.
Does Zeevou handle guest identity verification?
Zeevou focuses mainly on bookings, direct booking, and channel sales. So most managers use a separate tool for guest payments and ID checks.
Can ChargeAutomation be used alongside a Zeevou managed property portfolio?
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 Zeevou setup.
Does adding ChargeAutomation require changing an existing Zeevou channel setup?
No. ChargeAutomation is built to sit next to your booking and channel tools. It does not replace them.
Can security deposits be automated for properties managed through Zeevou?
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.