Get Ready for the Grand Launch of istria.holiday on January 25, 2025!
Right now, we’re offering villa owners an exclusive deal—sign up before the launch and get 50% off your first year on any paid subscription plan using the code LAUNCH50.
This limited-time offer is valid only until our launch day, so don’t miss your chance! Plus, your subscription won’t start until January 15, meaning no charges before then. If you’re not ready to commit, we’ve also got a free subscription plan available.
Don’t wait—showcase your villa and start attracting guests today!
The Old Way: Costly and Uncertain
Villa owners in Istria often face high agency commissions, needing up to 25 days of peak season bookings to break even. This model reduces profits and adds stress to managing rentals.
Our New Approach: Zero Booking Commission
Our subscription model offers 0% booking commission fees. With just two to eight booking days on our platform, you can cover your entire annual subscription cost, making every subsequent booking pure revenue. Save up to 100% per booking on our Starter Plan, freeing up funds for reinvestment into your property.
Please note that the savings mentioned are based on modeling and may vary depending on factors such as booking rates, occupancy, and seasonality.
Risk-Free with Our Starter Plan
Experience the benefits of our platform with zero risk. Our Starter plan is completely free, offering essential features without any upfront cost. Enjoy the freedom of no booking commissions and the opportunity to maximize your profits from day one.
Starter Subscription
Experience the ease of completely free bookings with our Starter Subscription. This plan offers everything you need to kickstart your villa rental business, including an integrated booking calendar, seasonal pricing, and up to 6 photos—all at no cost and with 0% booking commissions. Start attracting guests today without spending a dime.Enhanced Subscription
Elevate your villa’s potential with the Enhanced Subscription. Enjoy advanced tools like booking management, discounts, and increased photo slots, helping you attract more guests and streamline operations. This plan is designed to grow your rental business efficiently and effectively.Premium Subscription
Stand out in the market with the Premium Subscription, offering site-wide promotion, video hosting, and advanced booking rules. This plan maximizes your villa’s visibility and ensures a steady stream of bookings, making it ideal for owners looking to boost their rental income.Elite Subscription
Dominate the villa rental market with the Elite Subscription. With premium features like 20 photos, 2 villa videos, and annual Google and Facebook advertising, this plan offers unmatched exposure and booking potential. It’s the perfect choice for owners committed to maximizing their property’s success.Packages can be changed, paused, or canceled at renewal.
Take your villa’s visibility to the next level with our range of advertising add-ons. Whether you’re looking for quick exposure or sustained promotion, these options help you reach more potential guests and increase bookings. Our team will fully manage the process for you—setting up, optimizing, and running the campaign to ensure maximum results. These campaigns can also be combined with our coupons and discounts package features to create even more compelling offers for potential guests. To access these add-ons, you must have active Premium or Elite subscription with us. Choose the package that fits your needs and get started today!
Explore the key features included in each subscription plan, from no booking fees to advanced marketing tools. These features are designed to boost your villa’s appeal, streamline bookings, and maximize your rental income, helping you achieve your rental goals with ease.
With our platform, you pay no booking commissions, allowing you to keep all the revenue from your rentals. Our minimal subscription fee replaces the high per-booking commissions of traditional models, offering significant savings. This means more of your income stays with you, maximizing your profitability while still benefiting from comprehensive property management tools.
Our Integrated Booking Calendar gives potential guests real-time access to your villa’s availability. This seamless feature ensures that your calendar is always up to date, making it easy for guests to see when your property is available and book with confidence. By providing accurate and current availability, you enhance the booking experience, increase trust, and improve your chances of securing reservations.
Our Seasonal Pricing feature allows you to adjust your villa’s rates according to demand throughout the year. This means you can set higher prices during peak seasons when demand is high and offer discounts during off-peak times to attract more guests. By dynamically adjusting your pricing, you can optimize your revenue, ensure consistent bookings, and stay competitive in the market.
Craft a compelling and detailed description of your villa that highlights its unique features, amenities, and ambiance. This feature allows you to present your property in the best possible light, giving potential guests a clear understanding of what makes your villa special. A well-written description can significantly boost your villa’s appeal, helping you stand out from the competition and attract more bookings.
Showcase your villa with up to 20 high-quality photos, giving potential guests a vivid and detailed view of your property. This feature allows you to highlight the best aspects of your villa, from beautiful interiors to stunning outdoor spaces. Well-selected photos can make a strong first impression, attract more interest, and significantly increase your chances of securing bookings.
Showcase the key amenities and unique aspects of your villa, such as a private pool, outdoor dining areas, or proximity to the beach. This feature allows you to highlight what sets your property apart, helping potential guests easily see the benefits of staying at your villa. By clearly presenting these features, you can attract guests looking for specific experiences, increasing the likelihood of securing bookings.
Clearly communicate the expectations and guidelines for guests during their stay. This feature allows you to outline important rules, such as check-in and check-out times, pet policies, noise restrictions, and other important details. By setting clear house rules, you help ensure a smooth and enjoyable experience for both guests and hosts, reducing the risk of misunderstandings and protecting your property.
Our Booking Management service automates key aspects of your villa’s reservations, including managing availability, processing payments, and sending automated booking confirmations. This system ensures your bookings are handled efficiently and professionally, freeing you from the manual tasks of managing reservations. By streamlining these processes, we help you maintain accurate availability and secure bookings with ease, allowing you to focus on enhancing your guests’ experience.
We offer tailored discount options, including early bird, last-minute, and long-stay discounts, set up upon your request. These discounts help you attract different types of guests, fill vacancies, and encourage longer stays. By leveraging these promotional tools, you can enhance your villa’s appeal and increase your booking rates, all while providing value to your guests.
We can create custom coupons for your villa upon request, allowing you to offer special discounts to attract more guests. These coupons can be used for promotions, repeat guest incentives, or special events, providing a flexible way to boost bookings and reward loyal customers. By offering coupons, you can make your villa more appealing and increase your occupancy, all while providing added value to your guests.
Apply flexible fees for extra services or mandatory costs during a guest’s stay. Choose from the following options:
- Per Booking: A one-time fee applied to the entire booking (e.g., cleaning fee).
- Per Day: Charge based on the number of booked days (e.g., daily heating).
- Per Guest: Fee based on the number of guests (e.g., extra guest fee).
- Per Day / Per Guest: Charges calculated by both days and guests (e.g., utilities per guest).
- Per Pet: A fee for each pet staying.
Ensure all custom charges are included in your House Rules to inform guests clearly. These charges will be automatically applied during booking.
Boost your villa’s visibility with our Site-wide Promotion feature. This service places your property prominently across our platform, ensuring it reaches a broader audience. By featuring your villa in key areas of the site, you increase the chances of attracting more potential guests and securing bookings, making your property stand out in a competitive market.
Get your villa showcased on our popular Facebook channel, reaching a wider audience through targeted social media promotion. This feature highlights your property to potential guests, increasing visibility and engagement, and ultimately driving more bookings. By leveraging the power of social media, you can connect with a larger pool of interested travelers and make your villa stand out in the crowded vacation rental market
We’ll feature your villa on our YouTube channel using your provided video content. This promotion enhances your property’s visibility by showcasing its best aspects through engaging video tours. By reaching a broader audience on YouTube, your villa gains more exposure, attracting guests who prefer a visual experience before booking. This custom video feature helps set your villa apart and drives more interest and bookings
Showcase your villa to potential guests by displaying your video directly on your listing. This feature allows you to highlight the beauty and unique aspects of your property through engaging visual content. A well-crafted video can create a stronger connection with potential guests, making your villa more appealing and increasing the likelihood of bookings.
Customize your villa’s booking requirements with Advanced Booking Rules. This feature allows you to set specific conditions such as minimum stay durations, check-in/check-out days, and booking windows. By tailoring these rules to suit your villa’s needs and guest preferences, you can optimize occupancy, manage guest flow, and ensure that your property is booked according to your terms. This flexibility helps you maintain control over your rental schedule while enhancing the guest experience.
The Villa Boost 500 add-on is included with your base subscription after 6 months of uninterrupted subscription, providing your villa with one annual boost to enhance visibility. This boost promotes your property on priority channels, increasing exposure to potential guests and helping you secure more bookings. If you require additional advertising, you can easily purchase more Villa Boost add-ons as needed to further increase your villa’s visibility throughout the year.
Istria.Holiday offers significant advantages over traditional online rental platforms, especially in terms of cost-savings and marketing opportunities.
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0% Booking Commission = Major Cost Savings: Traditional platforms often take up to 20% (or more) in commissions for every booking. In contrast, Istria.Holiday charges no booking commissions—you keep 100% of your booking revenue, minus only bank transfer fee.
For example, if your villa rents for €2,000 per week, a traditional platform could take €400 or more per booking in commission. With Istria.Holiday, you keep the entire €2,000, leading to hundreds or even thousands of euros in savings over multiple bookings.
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Reinvest a Portion of Your Savings to Boost Bookings: The savings from avoiding high commissions can be reinvested into marketing to attract more guests and drive more bookings. Instead of losing a large percentage of each booking to commission, you can use that money for:
- Villa Boost advertising campaigns on Google or Facebook, targeting a wider audience with tailored marketing efforts.
- Seasonal pricing strategies to maximize income during high-demand periods and remain competitive during off-peak times.
- Offering discounts, coupons, or last-minute deals to fill vacancies and encourage longer stays.
By allocating just a portion of what you’d normally lose to commissions into these marketing strategies, you can significantly increase your villa’s visibility and drive more bookings, resulting in higher overall revenue.
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Predictable, Flat Subscription Fee: Instead of unpredictable commissions cutting into every booking, Istria.Holiday offers a simple, flat monthly subscription fee based on the plan you choose. This gives you predictable costs and allows you to better manage your budget while still benefiting from powerful marketing tools.
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A Complete Marketing Platform: Istria.Holiday is more than a booking engine—it’s a full-service marketing platform. You get tools like:
- Site-wide promotion for greater exposure.
- Social media features on Facebook and YouTube.
- Video hosting for immersive property tours.
The standout feature is Villa Boost campaigns on Google and Facebook, allowing you to target specific audiences and attract more bookings. Even after investing in Villa Boosts, you’ll still save significantly compared to traditional platforms that take up to 20% commission.
In summary, Istria.Holiday’s 0% commission model allows you to keep more of your rental income. By reinvesting a portion of the money you save into marketing, you can further increase your villa’s visibility, attract more guests, and generate higher revenue than you would on traditional platforms that take up to 20% in commission.
- Starter: No booking or payment management. Owners handle guest transactions directly.
- Enhanced, Premium, and Elite: Include booking management, payment processing, seasonal pricing, discounts, and promotional features. Premium and Elite subscriptions offer additional benefits like video hosting and advertising.
Your subscription officially begins on our launch date, 15th January 2025. During this initial period, we will work with you to set up your villa profile, gather the necessary details (such as photos, descriptions, and house rules), and complete your listing.
Importantly, during this period:
- No services will be activated, and no payments will be taken.
- You have the flexibility to cancel your subscription at any time within this four-week setup period without any charges or penalties. This cancellation option provides you with extra peace of mind, ensuring that your villa profile is fully ready before the subscription officially starts.
After the setup period, the subscription term officially begins, and your monthly billing will commence, unless you choose to cancel or pause the subscription before the renewal date.
When you subscribe to Istria.Holiday, you are entering into a Subscription Agreement. This agreement outlines the terms of your chosen subscription plan and your responsibilities as a villa owner.
Key points of the contract include:
- The specific features and terms of the subscription package you select (Starter, Enhanced, Premium, or Elite).
- Your obligation to provide accurate and up-to-date information about your property, including descriptions, photos, and house rules.
- Compliance with local laws, such as guest taxes and safety regulations, remains your responsibility.
- Agreement to use Istria.Holiday’s standardized Booking Terms and Rules for guests who book through the platform.
You can cancel, change, or pause your subscription at any time before the renewal period begins. However, no pro-rata refunds are provided for changes made during an active subscription term.
For Enhanced, Premium, and Elite subscribers, Istria.Holiday manages bookings, processes payments, and sends booking confirmations to guests. For Starter subscribers, you manage bookings and payments directly with guests.
With Istria.Holiday, there are no booking fees or commissions on any bookings made through the platform. Unlike traditional online rental agencies that charge a percentage of each booking (sometimes between 10-15% per booking), we charge only a fixed subscription fee. This allows you to keep 100% of the revenue from each booking, minus any applicable taxes or fees.
Booking terms are standardized across Istria.Holiday for consistency. However, you can set custom house rules that will be added to the booking terms. These rules should be provided during the onboarding process and will be included in your villa’s listing.
Istria.Holiday does not handle security deposits. You are responsible for collecting, managing, and resolving any disputes related to security deposits directly with the guests. Ensure your deposit requirements are clearly outlined in your villa’s house rules.
Payments from completed stays or cancellations are transferred to your designated bank account on the 15th of each month for all stays that ended in the previous month.
If your subscription payment fails, we will attempt to collect the payment again. If it remains unpaid after 10 days, your subscription will be canceled, and your villa listing will be removed from our platform. No future bookings will be processed until the subscription is restored.
Yes, you can change, pause, or cancel your subscription at any time before the next billing cycle. However, no pro-rata refunds are offered for changes or cancellations made during an active term.
If you cancel your subscription, all future bookings will be processed according to our Booking Terms and Rules, but no new bookings will be accepted. Your property will be removed from the platform until you reactivate or choose a different plan.
We provide an integrated booking calendar. You can either link your main calendar to our platform using an iCal link or use our calendar as the primary one and integrate it with other platforms. Accurate calendar management ensures potential guests can see real-time availability.
Yes, Enhanced, Premium, and Elite subscribers can offer tailored discounts such as early bird, last-minute, and long-stay discounts. To create coupons or make any changes to your villa profile (e.g., updating photos, descriptions, house rules), you’ll need to reach out to us, and we will set them up or apply the changes for you.
You are responsible for keeping your villa’s information accurate. If you need to update your property details (such as photos, descriptions, or house rules), you’ll need to reach out to us to apply these changes.
- Enhanced, Premium, and Elite subscribers are entitled to three free listing reviews per year. After that, any additional updates will incur a fee of €89 per review.
- Starter subscribers must pay €89 for each review.
This ensures that your listing remains accurate and competitive throughout the year.
We support seasonal pricing, allowing you to adjust rates based on peak and off-peak demand. Provide us with your pricing calendar, and we’ll apply it to your property listing. This feature is available for Enhanced, Premium, and Elite subscriptions.
You can set and amend house rules and add custom charges (e.g., cleaning fees or per-guest charges). These will be applied during the booking process. You are responsible for providing these details during the onboarding process or as needed.
For Elite subscribers, one annual Villa Boost 300 advertising campaign is included. You can purchase additional Villa Boost campaigns for higher exposure. We’ll create and manage the campaigns based on your instructions, targeting either Google or Facebook.
We fully comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to ensure that personal data collected during bookings and payments is securely managed. This includes the personal information of both villa owners and guests.
Additionally:
- We only use personal data for the purposes of processing bookings and payments, and we do not share this information with third parties for marketing purposes without explicit consent.
- Third-party service providers (such as payment processors) are also required to comply with GDPR to ensure that all personal data is handled safely.
- You have the right to request access, correction, or deletion of your personal data, and we retain this information only for as long as necessary to meet legal or booking obligations.
If you have any further questions or need more details about managing your villa with Istria.Holiday, don’t hesitate to reach out. Our team is ready to assist you with everything from subscription options to marketing strategies, ensuring you get the most out of our platform.