sNOWsh* - BETA

Find your perfect holiday destination

Add your holiday rental property to the webs most dynamic holiday accommodation search engine! sNOWsh!

 

Join sNOWsh now!

sNOWsh GDS network membership packages

 

Bronze package:

Pricing: Totally Free!

 

 

Silver package:

Pricing: TBA

 

 

Gold package:

Pricing: TBA

 

  • Free copy of the full sNOWsh client application to help you power your own website
  • listing in the main search functions, full page listing
  • all outgoing links visible to search engine spiders so this will help your website rating in search engines like Google
  • your news items can be included on sNOWsh
  • Unlimited special offers
  • Unlimited short breaks
  • last Minute availability listings (automatic created from your current availability)
  • affiliate schemes with our partner sites - more details to be announced.
  • Exclusive page. No other properties will show on your listings
  • Your property will also be added to the main place page for your town / resort along with photographs and short description.

 

sNOWsh provides the webs most powerful holiday property rental marketing and management solution available to the independent sector.

sNOWsh is unlike any other company or website that you currently advertise with. We are an open GDS (Global Distribution System) designed to benefit the independent accommodation sector. To learn more about GDS systems, take a look at this page. We are building up a new network of websites, some new, some existing. All tied in and linked using a standard method of formatting information. If your website is compatible, you can keep the network up to date simply and quickly merely by keeping your own website up to date. But that's just the beginning, sNOWsh is here to help you with so many more things SEO is just one example

 

For Property Owners -

 

  • sNOWsh provides extensive search options to potential renters, which means if your property meets the renters search criteria, it gets displayed with a short list of properties that also meet that criteria too. Your property listing wont get lost in a long list of irrelevant results. We also feature advanced search functions to allow the public user to narrow their search further based on other criteria.
  • For equal opportunity to all the listed properties, sNOWsh displays the results list of properties in random order
  • Attractive property listing page including description, features, location, pricing, as well as your own terms.
  • sNOWsh client: A professionally designed web application to enable easy management of multiple properties, For complete privacy of your companies data, the sNOWsh client is installed to your own website. 
  • Unlimited photos for each property, with detailed captions plus advanced image galleries. You can even add movies if you wish as well as Flash content.
  • Extensive Availability and rate calendar - a choice of 3 pricing models, per bed, per room and per property.
  • 24/7 Access to tools to create and update your property and photos via your own website.
  • High visibility link Link to Your Personal Web site (Depending on membership level)
  • sNOWsh Support via Email and Phone
  • Customer feedback system for confirmed guests. this is managed on your own site so you remain in control of your feedback content.
  • Additional programs to increase occupancy rate during the low season - Off Season Specials, Last Minute Deals, short breaks. Property and subscription option for the renters to be notified about off season deals, last minute deals, new properties, etc
  • The Ability to associate your property with events in your town / resort
  • The ability to offer content to describe your town / resort. and have your property featured in the resort page for free.
  • Comprehensive Reservation Management System for your own website is included in the sNOWsh client.
  • Automatic updates to your availability calendar when you create/ confirm reservations, all direct from your own website
  • Create new reservations including your customer information, prices, deposits, taxes and notes
  • Ability to track payments and deposits for all reservations
  • A personal URL (e.g. http://www.snowsh.com/properties/5/1/) for direct access to your property on sNOWsh

 

Getting your property listed on sNOWsh is easy!

To add your property details to the sNOWsh network, simply sign up here and then download your own copy of the sNOWsh client application and install it to your website. This is a fully featured website solution designed to power a property based website, it is also your new system to help you manage your properties and bookings as well as make connection to the sNOWsh GDS. To learn more about the sNOWsh client application look here

 

  • Register your details with sNOWsh here
  • Once you have registered, download your new sNOWsh client from the download zone.
  • Upload and install the sNOWsh client to your website. If you want to keep your existing website intact, upload and install the client files to a subfolder or create a new sub domain.
  • Once you have installed the sNOWsh client to your site, simply enter your property details and pricing in the admin section. The client will also provide you with front end pages for your own website so you can show things to the public like your availability and pricing if you like. There is even a customer enquiry / booking form that will populate your enquiries into your new enquiry / booking admin as well as a regular contact form. The contact forms have been designed to make sure your email addresses are never revealed to the public, so they are invisible to spam harvesters. We have even included a fully featured Content Management System to help you publish other pages of interest to your own website.
  • The sNOWsh client is easy to modify by using simple HTML template files. This means you can customise all the front end pages to make them fit with the look and feel of your current site.
  • Once set up, make sure your sNOWsh registration details from step 1 point to the correct location of your new sNOWsh client. Your update sNOWsh button will now work!

 

Would you prefer to add your property details to the sNOWsh network without using the sNOWsh Client application?

sNOWsh hosted client:

If you are not able to install the sNOWsh property management application to your website, you can now take advantage of our new hosted membership. To add your property details to sNOWsh just sign up, then click on the create hosted client button. you will instantly have a full sNOWsh client application complete with public front end pages such as calendars, contact forms and more. These front end pages can even be integrated into your current website. 

sNOWsh XML:

If you are already running a specialised system on your website that helps you keep your website fresh and keep track of enquiries and bookings, then you might be able to modify it to output XML information in our required format. You can learn more about our XML requirements here. Warning, this is not easy and will require professional development.

How much does it all cost?

 

For now while we are in our BETA launch, we are offering the sNOWsh property management application totally free of charge, but hurry up, because once we have launched sNOWsh we will be charging for it. RRP will be in the region of £200 GBP for the Client software, this will be a one off charge. There wil be an annual charge for the hosted application. Membership to sNOWsh is based on 3 levels, bronze Silver and Gold.  We are also currently offering a free 12 month Gold subscription to all members who sign up and get their website ready during our Beta phase. So sign up now, install sNOWsh to your website and spread your message instantly around the sNOWsh network and see your search engine listings and site hits increase dramatically!

 

  • Bronze level Membership: Totally Free, for ever, always!
  • Silver Level Membership: TBA
  • Gold Level Membership: TBA