CHANNEL MANAGER - PMS - OTA+ (STR)

Booking Integration

Using API connectivity we receive bookings, payments, updates and cancellations directly over the Internet from your property management system. The bookings appear colour coded to their status and all adjustments can be made prior to disbursement. We use the published Open Travel Alliance API protocols. Click here to see the property management systems OTA+ integrates with.

20 YEARS OF COMPLIANCE

Fully Compliant

Our double entry 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.

UPLOAD SUPPLIER BILLS

Upload Supplier Bills

Owners have access to images of bills paid. 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.

TOTAL TRANSPARENCY

Property Owner Report

No more confused property owners. A customizable 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. Send the property report to all owners with a single click.

PROFESSIONAL RECEIPT FOR YOUR GUESTS

Auto Email Guest Statement/Receipt

In OTA+ (STR) 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.

BIG TIME SAVER

Contingency Ledger System

Stop chasing property owners for maintenance money. Our system maintains a negotiated balance in a separate contingency ledger specifically for property maintenance. Each booking disbursement 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.

COMING SOON - HUGE TIME SAVER

AI to Read Invoices

This is an extension to uploading a supplier bill. OTA+ (STR) uses Artificial Intelligence to read the uploaded bill and decipher the text and auto create the bill ready for approval and payment. The bill image is displayed side by side allowing you to quickly confirm and pay. Paying the bills on a hundred properties is time consuming, not with OTA+ because it uses Artificial Intelligence to automate the process.

MORE AUTOMATION TO SAVE YOU TIME

Deferred Invoices

In OTA+ (STR) 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.

ABA AVAILABLE NOW BPAY VERY SOON!

ABA & BPAY Payments

Draw a payment from a ledger and choose type ABA EFT or BPAY. This payment will be placed on your Bank filed ready for upload to your online banking. Most financial institutions clear ABA Cemtex & BPAY payments the evening on the same day you upload to your electronic banking. If you have a daily upload limit on your ABA or BPAY banking OTA+ will automatically split the files to ensure you do not go over your limit. BPAY Available soon!

OUR ONBOARDING TEAM HERE TO HELP

Import Existing Data

One click and we can import your existing properties/sites from most property management systems. Then step by step we walk you through a series of screens to get the rest of your bookings and trial balance information into OTA+ Then we work with you to carefully understand your unique business operation to make sure all of the fees and charges are set up correctly, and we get your branding on all of the templates. The most important part of on-boarding is matching the balances in OTA+ to your previous trust accounting system. When complete you commit your data and go live.

REGAIN CONTROL OF YOUR TRUST ACCOUNT

Three-Way Reconciliation

Our Three-Way Click balance reconciliation supports all of the Regulations and matches your bank statement balance as you click allowing you to spot issues instantly. Reconcile Bank Statement, Trust Account Ledgers and the Cash Book with one click. Everything you need for reconciliation is integrated into one neat screen. All final reconciliation reports are auto saved to OTA+ for historical safe keeping. OTA+ makes trust accounting reconciliation a breeze.

NEW FEATURE AVAILABLE NOW

Bulk Disbursements

You have too many properties and bookings to disburse individually? Bulk disbursements allows you to auto disburse a large amount of bookings that meet a select criteria. Auto deep inspection of bookings for missing fees, debits not matching credits, the checkout date & time has passed. Back date your postings into the correct period. Keeps a history of your bulk disbursements. These are Enterprise features for the busy property manager. We automate to give you more time for more productive activities.

COMING SOON

OAUTH 2.0 Common Authentication

Log in once across many platforms, OTA+ will adopt the OAUTH 2.0 standard authentication standards. Allows client to login once across many platforms including OTA+

COMING SOON

Work Order System

You can offer complete transparency to your property owners. One click to email your clients with a user name, password and a link to click and login. They will see a property dashboard where they can drill down to a detailed level on bookings and property maintenance bills. Coloured graph shows disbursed bookings, future and last years bookings. All viewable from a mobile phone, tablet or PC.

COMING SOON

Pro-Rata Bookings

Does your property management system use the stripe payment gateway? We can easily connect on every payment received and find out what the stripe fees are so we can auto include these on your booking fees ready for disbursement. We also import your stripe pay-outs for easy reconciliation. Connecting, integrating and automating with other systems is our speciality!

YOUR BOOKING PORTFOLIO AT A GLANCE

Interactive Timeline

A colour visual overview of all booking activity across your property management portfolio for the week, month or year. It shows when guests are arriving & departing. Coloured according to status. Hover the mouse over a booking for more details or click a booking to open a fully featured booking workflow screen.

PROPERTY OWNER MOBILE ACCESS

Mobile Friendly Property Owner Logins

You can offer complete transparency to your property owners. One click to email your clients with a user name, password and a link to click and login. They will see a property dashboard where they can drill down to a detailed level on bookings and property maintenance bills. Coloured graph shows disbursed bookings, future and last years bookings. All viewable from a mobile phone, tablet or PC.

AUTO IMPORT STRIPE FEES & PAYOUTS

Stripe Integration

Does your property management system use the stripe payment gateway? We can easily connect on every payment received and find out what the stripe fees are so we can auto include these on your booking fees ready for disbursement. We also import your stripe pay-outs for easy reconciliation. Connecting, integrating and automating with other systems is our speciality!

COMING SOON GROUP BOOKING SYSTEM

Group Bookings

Take advance payment on a group of sites/properties. This will sit in its own ledger until you get further details on the breakdown per site. Payments on any individual sites may be drawn from this group booking ledger. It does not matter if your property management software supports this or not, however if you are using a platform like newbook.cloud all groups booking payments are automatically picked up.

COMING SOON BOOKING/GIFT VOUCHERS

Booking Vouchers

A popular gift item is a booking voucher at one of your best properties. Put an advertisement on your website as a gift idea. You decide the on the expiry date and the cost of the vouchers. When sold issue a unique number and receipts the funds into the voucher's ledger and issue a receipt. The funds will remain until the voucher is used or expires. We support the newbook.cloud voucher system. You can also use this for the Government issued vouchers.

COMING SOON AUTOMATIC BANK FEEDS

Bank Transaction Feeds

The Australian Federal Government is adopting the new Consumer Data Rights Amendments which gives individuals choice who has access to their transaction data using a token based system. This will allow you to securely nominate OTA+ to receive your transaction data without revealing your banking login details. With your trust bank account transaction data feeding into OTA+ automatically we can move towards automated reconciliations

TRACK SUPPLIER INVOICES

Bill Payment System

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 ONSITE INTERRUPTIONS

Auditor, Accountant & Bookkeeper Logins

Interruptions to the daily routine costs money. Accountants and Bookkeepers can now login remotely, they are limited to the access that you give them, lock them down to only see or update what you want or make them read only. Auditors have read only access to the trust accounting system and nothing else.

FLEXIBLE FEES TO SUIT ANY REQUIREMENT

Global & Property Fees

A complete Global Fees template is included when you sign up for OTA+ (STR). 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.

YOUR OWN BRANDING

Personalised Logo on Templates

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.

SECURE FAST AUSTRALIAN SERVERS

Dual Data Centres

Your business and your data is important to us! We treat it like our own. All of the data you key in to OTA+ (STR) 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.

MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION

Role Based Permissions

Access to OTA+ (STR) is tightly controlled by a roles & permissions based security system. You assign access levels required to perform the functions. Security is everyones concern, lock your account down with MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) using both a password and code from your mobile phone.

YOU HAVE FULL CONTROL

Property File Management

OTA+ (STR) 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.

POWER & FLEXIBILITY

Multi-Bank

Create as many Trust Bank accounts you need, when you create a new property file and property owner you assign a Trust Bank Account to the file. All Trust Account functions for that file are then associated with the selected Trust Bank Account.

OWNER LIVES IN A DIFFERENT COUNTRY?

Multi-Currency

Assign the currency to a Trust Bank Account, then assign a property file to the selected bank account and it will automatically recognize the currency when operating on the property owners Trust Account.

COMING SOON

Recurring Owners Fees

Using tags you can apply different tags to different properties and use these tags for different types of processing like recurring fees, end of month owners payments or mid term owners payments.

NEW FEATURE AVAIALBALE NOW

Auto Moved Bookings

Whether you have a few moved bookings or many like in a hotel resort style complex, OTA+ auto detects when a guest has been moved to a different suite or 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 watch it instantly move in OTA+.

COMING SOON

Ledger Based Suppliers

Optional instant pay for small suppliers or ledger based for larger suppliers. Pay your big suppliers on amount covering many invoices and send them a remittance summary of all invoices paid.

COMING SOON

Fast Sundry Billing

Purchased bulk items with one receipt for your property owners? Quickly recover your sundry expenses with a screen that works through all of your properties allowing you to apply small sundry fees. It totals all current sundry fees up and llows you to make changes and when ready you can post the lot.

END TO END SERVER SECURITY

Security & Integrity

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. In fact any data on our servers, backups and archives are encrypted to a very high Government standard which is called Encryption At Rest. Security & Integrity is very high on our agenda.

CONTINUOUS FEATURE UPDATES ROLLOUT

Cloud Based Application

OTA+ (STR) 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.