Great Progress on Digital Signatures This Week! – Vacation Rental Software Blog

Spent most of the week tweaking and testing the new Digital Signatures Module that (fingers crossed) should finally be launched next week. We overcame some User Interface and API obstacles this week and are well on our way to the last phase of testing.

Digital signatures will be an optional, additional monthly fee module. Some subscribers don’t use contracts and even those who do, may not want to have them signed digitally. Digital signatures are not free. We have to buy the signatures and user accounts in bulk and leverage a third party platform (RightSignature) to issue the signing credentials to assure that the document and the signature are valid, legal documents.

Additionally we leverage RightSignature to provide the cross platform embedded signing technology that allows a guest to sign and submit the rental agreement online and on any browser or mobile platform.

Here are some additional screenshots to generate some excitement as we approach launch:

sig-request — Screenshot showing how a subscriber would manually request a signature of a rental agreement.

Area of guest control panel showing whether the rental agreement was signed or not. If signed, an onmouseover event displays who signed it and on what day and time. If not signed, the icon will show as either pending or it will provide a link to open a window to send a signature request.

This screenshot shows the signed rental agreements stored in the documents tab for each invoice (hyperlinked to PDF of signed rental agreement).

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When only the BEST will do!
Pros: My "real job" requires me to be available 24x7, so I knew I needed a system that could automate everything in VRBO business the way *I* wanted it automated and this system is it!! I tried a few others but I knew they weren't for me when I was still trying to learn them three days later. With the Lodgix system I was up and running within a day because the system is *super intuitive* and just that easy to use. I think the one of the best testaments to the system is every time I ask myself "I wonder if I could have the system do X" and it can. Like others I enjoy: 1) Waking up in the morning to bookings that occurred over night while I slept. 2) Reading emails from my staff confirming job assignments that were automatically assigned by the system based on bookings. 3) Being able to handle all credit card transactions within the same system. Finally, I have been able to achieve a 70% occupancy rate through mid 2014 with no effort since Lodgix does all the work! Cons: Not a one! Overall: When only the best will do - get Lodgix, there is simply nothing better! Vendor Response by Lodgix.com Hi John, thanks for the kind words. It's been great working with you over the past couple months. I think you'll be quite pleased when we get into the some of the fun social media stuff in the latter part of this year. We'll be putting out some neat tools for Facebook and Twitter to bring those important marketing vehicles into Lodgix to allow for easy updating, booking and automation using Lodgix. Thanks again!

John Cummings, Owner
Home in the Hawthorne

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