Blue Tent and Escapia Create A Silky Smooth Booking Process
Akumal Direct Reservations is the premier vacation rental provider in beautiful Akumal Mexico. This little slice of heaven is nestled in the heart of the Riviera Maya on the turquoise blue waters of Mexico’s Caribbean coast.
Working with Sydney at Akumal, Blue Tent built a sleek and dynamic Drupal site evocative of the warm tropical beaches that make Akumal such an amazing vacation destination. Apart from eye-catching aesthetics, the real story of the Akumal site is about what we were able to accomplish working with one of our technology partners. We work extensively with Escapia because they provide amazing property management software platforms for the vacation rental industry.
In order to make life as easy as possible for Sydney, and for her potential online bookers, we created a custom API feed that integrates directly from Akumal’s site to their Escapia software setup. This custom integration enabled us to design and develop custom property preview and property detail pages with quick search and advanced search features. Availability is directly populated by the seamless integration with Akumal’s Escapia software to custom calendars on the property detail pages. Other benefits of this integration include:
Frictionless Booking Process – Prospective clients find a property that appeals to them, learn more about its details, the dates it’s available to rent, and are able to input the necessary info to secure the booking all on one page, without being taken off site.
SEO – Akumal benefits from a search marketing perspective because there is more fresh content for Google and Bing to find and more pages for them to index.
Easy Management – Sydney only has to go to one place to manage her property details, photos, and availability. She doesn’t need to cross reference with anything else. Sydney can access everything she needs to manager her properties through her Escapia software, eliminating the danger of double bookings.
We’re really proud of this site and the work that went into making this amazing functionality a reality. It couldn’t have happened with out a solid team. Thanks to Sydney at Akumal for the awesome content and for being such a great client to work with. A big shout out to our partners at Escapia for creating quality software and for providing the support to Lauren so she could make the integration happen. Lastly props must go to Sam for building a great customer relationship.