Built specifically for the short term rental accommodation industry (STRA), with unmatched features we simplify the task of Trust Accounting. With deep integration into property management systems and unique automation, we can save you significant amounts of time. Get on board and regain control of your trust account now.
Using seamless API integration we receive all booking: payments, updates and cancellations directly over the Internet from your property management system. The bookings are colour coded to make the booking status clear. Adjustments can be made to any booking attributes prior to disbursement. Click here to see the property management systems OTA+ integrates with.
Our trust accounting modules are fully compliant with the Trust Accounting Laws & Regulations of all Australian States and Territories, New Zealand, South Africa, UK and some states of the USA. Our trust accounting modules have been in continuous service for more than twenty years without one Regulation issue. Click here to see our compliance matrix.
White glove onboarding, one of our dedicated team members will work with you to carefully understand your business operation, set up your fees & charges, and get your branding on all of the templates. If we are onboarding your financials we will make sure we have a three way match between your current system, your bank statement and OTA+.
Pay suppliers invoices on behalf of your property owners for services such as pool cleaning, lawn mowing, window cleaning, repairs and maintenance. Optional payment via the ABA batch file for upload to your online banking for same day electronic payment. OTA+ Auto generates the bills and line items for your Booking.com invoices.
No more confused property owners. A detailed report showing all disbursed bookings for the selected period, details separate management fees so your guests can see the agreed amount applied. An attractive pie chart gives an indicative overview of the disbursed funds. Includes the property owners Trust Account Ledgers for transparency.
Optional clickable hyperlinks to supplier invoices on the property owner report. The property owner will need to claim expenses against their incomes and for this they need copies of the supplier invoices. One click shows the supplier invoice behind the bill.
Side by side viewing of uploaded supplier bill and data entry of bill details. Upload suppliers bill in PDF, PNG or JPEG. The uploaded bills are immediately available for your property owners to view online or download for taxation purposes. This also makes it easier to check the data entry of the bill against the actual supplier invoice.
Get ahead of the curve, your property owners will be calling you for their end of financial year income and expense information. They will need this for their accountants so they can submit the correct information for their end of financial year income and expense accounting. One click to send out a copy of the property owners EOFY reports.
Auditor preferred three-way reconciliation of Bank Statement, Trust Account Ledgers and the Cash Book with one click and integrated into one neat screen. Supports all Australian Regulations. Our click balance feature matches your bank statement balance as you click so you can spot issues instantly. Reconciliation reports auto saved to OTA+ for historical safe keeping. OTA+ makes trust accounting reconciliation a breeze.
This is an extension to uploading a supplier bill. OTA+ STRA uses Artificial Intelligence to read the uploaded bills and convert image to text and auto data enter the bill into OTA+ ready for approval and payment. The bill image is displayed side by side allowing you to quickly confirm and pay. Paying the bills is time consuming, OTA+ uses automation and AI to reduce one of the pain points.
In OTA+ STRA if the booking agent bills by invoice at a later date, for example like Booking.com & Home-Stayz-VRBO then OTA+ automatically creates a supplier invoice against the property and continues to add line items to the invoice for all disbursed bookings for the property in the current month. When the agent invoices arrives simply compare to the auto generated invoices. Most of your work is done.
Draw a payment from a ledger and choose type ABA-EFT. This payment will be placed on your Bank file ready for upload to your online banking. Most financial institutions clear ABA payments the evening on the same day you upload to your electronic banking. If you have a daily upload limit on your ABA banking OTA+ will automatically split the files to ensure you do not go over your limit.
In OTA+ STRA every guest booking has its own unique separate sub ledger. The Trust Funds belong to the guest until they have completed their stay. Provide your guests with a compliant Trust Receipt statement showing all credits and debits. Peronalise with your logo, seasonal messages, different fonts and change the email text. We take Trust Account Regulations seriously.
Using the stripe merchant gateway? OTA+ can connect to stripe on when stripe payments are received and find the stripe fee total so we can auto adjust the net payments in OTA+ to match what your bank statement. If required we can include these as subtractions on your management fees so you do not overstate your management fee. Connecting, integrating and automating with other systems is our speciality!
A complete Global Fees System. You can add & modify the fees, descriptions and text. Also you can setup optional Property based fees that over-ride the Global Fees. This allows you to fine tune the fees around the requirements of your property owner.
OTA+ auto detects when a guest has been moved to a different property and it handles the move instantly. It auto journals the funds to the new booking ledger and cancels and closes the booking on the previous property. Drag and move a booking on your PMS and the move will be auto detected in OTA+.
The guest receipt, property owners trust receipt for payments, the property owners report and the suppliers remittance advice are all templates that allow you to personalise them with your logo, your electronic signature, choice of fonts and personalised messages.
OTA+ (STRA) offers complete property file management, assign specific property fees, search for property files based on property name, property management system number, client name or other details. Close properties no longer required and we no longer charge you for these properties.
Stop chasing property owners for maintenance money. Our system maintains a negotiated balance in a separate contingency ledger specifically for property maintenance. New booking disbursements will top up the contingency ledger if it falls below the negotiated amount. This provides a ready source of funds for maintaining your owners property.
Optional Extra: Automated bulk payment of all owners. This module is a big timer saver, it will cycle through all owners ledgers and pay the remaining balance to the owner via the ABA payment system. If you have a daily upload limit on your ABA banking OTA+ will automatically split the files to ensure you do not go over your limit.
Optional Extra: Automated bulk email of all owners reports. This module is another big time saver, it will cycle through all owners checking for ledger and booking activity and generate their end of period booking report. The system will auto send the reports to your owners via your own personalised email address.
Owners reports options: Choose the owners report style: Minimal Disclosure, this is the most popular and discloses only the Management Fee and the Owner remittance. Mid Disclosure: The same as minimal plus one or two fees. Full Disclosure: This discloses everything a guest pays for and additional expenses taken from a booking.
Owners with multiple properties have a choice, one report and one payment per property or a single payment and a combined report across all owned properties. OTA+ STRA gives you the flexibility to provide choices to your property owners.
Interruptions to the daily routine costs money. Auditors can now login remotely, they have read only access to the trust accounting system and trust account reports and nothing else. Your history of reconciliations are kept in OTA+ and each report contains all of the sub reports required by an auditor.
Your business and your data is important to us! We treat it like our own. All of the data you key in to OTA+ (STRA) is instantly replicated across our servers at two separate physical locations. If one data centre is unavailable the system switches over to the backup data centre.
All data sent and received from our systems (data in transit) is encrypted using the 256 bit SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption. We have also taken the additional step of encrypting all data on our servers and backups. Security is everyones concern, lock your account down with MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) using both a password and code from your mobile phone.
OTA+ STRA is built on a solid object based platform that allows us to continuously roll out new features to our clients. Our new cloud based solution utilizes our rock solid proven trust account technology that has been running for two decades with zero audit infringements.