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3 DEC 2024
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NEW Market Insights Tab →

Beyond has added the power of Market Insights directly to your listing in Pricing.    

Why? → More data for your property listing helps empower strategic decision making, so Beyond has made it easier to access that data directly in Pricing. 

How? → The new Market Insights tab on each Pricing listing now displays more market data, including occupancy levels and pricing, in addition to enhanced filter views. 

15 NOV 2024
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New Custom Column Data →

New metrics are available to add as Custom Columns in the Pricing dashboard.    

Why? → Beyond users requested additional metrics be added to custom columns to allow for more efficient and precise performance reviews. 

How? → Users can now add new data as custom columns on the Beyond Pricing dashboard to help sort and organize listings for analysis. 

30 OCT 2024
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Non-Peak Event Pricing →

Automatically adjust pricing for non-peak event dates when peak dates become unavailable.   

Why? → The value of event pricing decreases when peak dates are already booked, so surrounding dates should be lowered.  

How? → Beyond's dynamic pricing tool will automatically detect peak dates for events in any market. Then, when those dates are booked, any surrounding dates will be automatically lowered to encourage occupancy where guests are less likely to travel. 

21 OCT 2024
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New Insights KPIs →

Gain insight into the impact of available nights on your calendar!   

Why? → Viewing the impact of unbooked nights on your calendar can be difficult. 

How? → Using Lens View in Insights, users can now see Unbooked Nights, ADR of Unbooked Nights, and Total Potential Revenue to review the impact of current availability. 

3 OCT 2024
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Owner Insights →

Beyond launches Owner Insights!  

Why? → Delivering value to owners is critical to keeping owners happy and onboard. Manually creating performance reports takes time - Beyond is here to help.  

How? → With Owner Insights, users can create custom dashboards and reports to share performance with homeowners. AI-powered summaries make analyzing reports a breeze. 

2 OCT 2024
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Listing Search Data →

Dive deeper into Search Powered Insights with listing-level search traffic data!   

Why? → Understanding search trends for specific listings can help identify areas for opportunity.  

How? → This data can help users monitor website performance of individual listings & draw conclusions regarding the efficacy of content updates, promotions, and other changes to their websites.

1 OCT 2024
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Enhanced Grid View →

Check out our completely new version of Grid View!   

Why? → Analyzing and updating your portfolio strategy at scale can be time consuming.  

How? → Our new version of Grid View adds new efficiency features including a refresh user experience, bulk actions, and more! 

24 AUG 2024
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Performance Filters →

Easily sort listings by current performance statistics!   

Why? → Analyzing multiple listings can take time and focusing on the ones that need attention can be difficult.  

How? → Performance Filters allow you to sort listings by metrics like occupancy, booking activity, and more to save time with your revenue management reviews. 

11 JUL 2024
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Historical Reservation Comparison →

Ever wondered how the value of an amenity changes throughout the year? Should a listing with a pool charge the same amount for that amenity in winter months compared to summer months? 

Why? →  Historical context matters. We know that many revenue managers can spend a lot of time comparing performance year-over-year, so we decided to help make that process easier.

How? →  We've introduced new data to the Calendar that enables a quick glance comparison to booking data from the prior year for any date. 

5 JUL 2024
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Insights Exportable Reports 2.0 →

Users love exporting PDF reports directly from Beyond's Insights tool and we just added even more features!

Why? →  Sharing portfolio and market performance data with key stakeholders is paramount to any advanced revenue management strategy and short term rental business. 

How? →  Report exports are now faster than ever before with enhanced reliability and improved formatting for easy use. 

29 MAY 2024
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Power Factors →

You asked, we delivered. Add custom Power Factors to your pricing strategy today. 

Why? →  We understand that you may need to raise or lower dynamic prices via the Beyond algorithm due to a number of reasons. 

How? →  Power Factors allow you to raise or lower dynamic prices for any date range on any listing. Create your own pricing factors to dial-in your strategy as needed. Ask your Beyond representative for more details. 

23 MAY 2024
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Additional Multi-Unit Data →

More support for multi-unit performance data! 

Why? →  Analyzing multi-unit listings in Insights is an important aspect of revenue managing this type of inventory. 

How? →  We have added support for multi-unit listings in Lens View within Insights as well as in Dashboard filtering as well. Additionally, multi-unit listings are now supported in Comp Sets as well. 

17 MAY 2024
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Seasonal Amenity Data →

Ever wondered how the value of an amenity changes throughout the year? Should a listing with a pool charge the same amount for that amenity in winter months compared to summer months? 

Why? →  The value of certain listing amenities like pools and hot tubs changes depending on the time of year and pricing should reflect these changes in demand. 

How? →  Beyond's advanced dynamic pricing algorithm now automatically detects seasonal amenities at a listing level and adjusts pricing throughout the year accordingly, saving users time by reducing manual pricing changes. 

13 MAY 2024
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Seasonal Maximum Prices →

Allows users to set maximum price ceilings defined by specified date ranges. 

Why? →  Some property managers or hosts want to limit how how dynamic prices can go for individual listings for a specific date range rather than the entire calendar year. 

How? → Users can now add seasonal maximum prices for unique date ranges via listing customizations. 

7 MAY 2024
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Booking.com Comp Sets →

Booking.com listings are now available in Custom Comp Sets!  

Why? → Some markets have the majority of their listings distributed via Booking.com, making this data in Comp Sets incredibly valuable. 

How? → Users can now add listings from Booking.com to custom comp sets, either tied to a current listing or in a new market they are exploring. 

18 APR 2024
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Seasonal Time Based Adjustments →

Auto-adjust your time-based strategic changes based on the time of year or date range.   

Why? → Average booking lead time and booking windows shift throughout the year, so the ability to automatically update your time-based adjustments by season is important. 

How? → Users can now add time-based adjustment rules based on unique date ranges directly within customizations or via. a bulk edit. 

27 MAR 2024
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New Market Insights KPIs →

Market Insights just got even better with more data including market fees, minimum stay requirements, and insights from Booking.com    

Why? → The more data available for a market, the better users can understand their competition and guest travel trends. 

How? → Market Insights now showcases average cleaning fees, service fees, and minimum stay requirements as well as new data from Booking.com including average rating scores and average night rates. 

28 FEB 2024
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Predictive Revenue Solution →

Beyond's Predictive Revenue solution is a unique set of revenue management features designed to help property managers, hosts, owners, and revenue managers stay proactive with their strategy instead of reacting to the market.

Why? →  Revenue management continues to evolve alongside the need for property managers and owners to elevate their revenue management strategy against their competitors. Basic dynamic pricing tools are no longer effective when managing rentals in a competitive market.

How? → Search Powered Pricing availability has expanded into new markets worldwide, allowing property managers and hosts to get ahead of demand by using guest search data directly in their pricing strategy. Plus, revamped Market Insights metrics and upgrades to Comp Sets have made it easier to keep an eye on the latest market trends. 

6 DEC 2023
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Custom Dashboard Columns →

Custom Columns are now LIVE on the Dynamic Pricing dashboard!  

Why? → Reviewing many listings at once can be made easier by sorting listing or property performance by different metrics. 

How? → Custom Columns can be added and organized on the Dynamic Pricing dashboard for users to customize their dashboard view, helping with regular performance reviews and allowing for more specific reporting. 

22 AUG 2023
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Tally →

Tally by Beyond is a modern payment processor built for property managers by vacation rental experts. Users who switch to Tally save 11% on average compared to their previous processor. 

Why? → Vacation rental payment processing has long been antiquated. Difficulties with daily payouts, disputes, and more can be easily solved with a modern payment processor. 

How? → Tally makes it easy to optimize cash flow oversight, receive daily
settlements, and automate collections through one-time payments and automated billing schedules. Additionally, Tally supports all major payment methods, including Apple Pay and Google Pay. 

18 JUL 2023
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Beyond Pro →

Beyond's Pro package provides users with advanced competitive analysis and enables them to collect, analyze, and automate actions using real-time guest search data. Additionally, Market Insights highlights rich data for users to understand market dynamics and take action quickly. 

Why? →  Short-term rental revenue management is constantly changing. Property managers and owners are continually looking for new ways to stand out in their market by using new data and technology. 

How? →  Beyond collects guest search demand data directly from booking websites to automatically adjust pricing based on demand. Over 400,000 connected listings globally also help power Market Insights to provide in-depth analysis. 

22 MAY 2023
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Multi-Unit Support →

As the short-term rental industry grows, so does the need for support from technology. Supporting multi-unit type inventory is now available within Beyond's dynamic pricing tool.  

Why? → Unlike a single property, a multi-unit property requires a comprehensive approach that takes into account the similarities between units such as nightly pricing, occupancy rates, and strategies to maximize revenue. 

How? → Managing booking pace for multiple units each night is made simple with Beyond's new dashboard views, allowing property managers to effectively adjust rates for unsold units. These automated pricing updates safeguard nightly prices and guarantee that they are aligned with the speed at which other units are being booked.

25 APR 2023
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Search Powered Insights →

Search Powered Insights showcase guest search demand patterns for property managers to gauge conversion rates, where guests are searching from, popular amenities, and more. 

Why? → Analyzing guest search patterns has been nearly impossible for property managers and owners, making it difficult to understand where their guests are coming from and what they are searching for.  

How? → Search Powered Insights displays the latest search data from direct booking websites, enabling property managers and owners to connect their revenue management and market strategies to opportunities in the guest booking flow.  

25 APR 2023
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Search Powered Pricing →

In an industry-first, Search Powered Pricing brings innovative guest search demand data to dynamic pricing. As guests search for stays, Beyond automatically adjusts pricing based on demand. 

Why? →  Most dynamic pricing algorithms read market occupancy as demand, meaning guests need to make a booking before demand is realized. Getting ahead of guest demand has historically been difficult to do. 

How? → Search Powered Pricing automatically detects high and low demand dates based on guest searches. Then, Beyond automatically updates daily prices to reflect the latest guest search trends. 

3 MAR 2023
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Market Insights →

Market Insights displays key performance indicators for any market, making it easier than ever to understand local demand trends and effectively align your revenue management strategy with market dynamics. 

Why? →  Revenue management strategies should naturally evolve along the market, but it can be hard for property managers and owners to access actionable information about their market. 

How? → The Market Insights dashboard allows property managers and owners to dive deeper into market data trends, including occupancy, ADR, RevPAN, amenities, cancellation policies, and more. This data is aggregated from over 400,000 connected listings and a vast database of scraped data. 

13 JAN 2023
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Exportable Reports →

Exportable reports offer a new way for Beyond users to keep an eye on pricing strategies and customizable settings across a portfolio of listings.  

Why? → When managing more than a few listings, it can be difficult to keep track of settings like minimum stay requirements, turnover days, price overrides, and more. 

How? → Beyond users can now export all of their listing settings directly to a CSV file to audit, document, and share their strategy at scale. 

14 DEC 2022
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Availability Yielding →

Manually managing pricing calendars with customizations can be overwhelming, especially for larger portfolios.  Allowing automations to detect changes to listing calendars can help increase occupancy and save time. 

Why? → Booked reservations or unavailable dates on a listing calendar can devalue surrounding dates, such as an available Friday night next to a booked Saturday night. These nights can be hard to sell if a potential guest cannot stay through higher demand dates. 

How? → Beyond now automatically adjusts pricing for available dates to help increase your revenue on a date that will likely go unbooked due to surrounding unavailable dates.

10 NOV 2022
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Comp Sets →

Comp Sets allow users to create custom competitive sets for their short term rental listing to help compare listing performance against competitors. 

Why? →  Manually shopping around for competitive listing information is inefficiency and ineffective when it comes to revenue management and pricing benchmarking.

How? → Beyond surfaces posted prices, average occupancy, and more data for individual listings in a market. This data is then aggregated and used to build custom comp sets for individual listings in Beyond. 

13 SEP 2022
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Signal 2.0 →

Signal by Beyond has helped increase direct booking conversions since launching in 2020 and now features an updated and improved checkout page flow, new integrations, faster load times, new property pages, and a standalone booking engine! 

Why? →  The online booking landscape is constantly changing and direct booking websites should regularly evolve as well. Efforts to improve booking conversion are on the forefront of our Signal development team. 

How? → The Signal team has completely reimagined the guest checkout page flow to help increase bookings and has added new integrations with Hostaway and Guesty. Plus, now users can take advantage of the innovative Signal booking engine on their own direct website. 

13 MAR 2020
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Insights →

Insights by Beyond provides personalized, actionable short-term rental data and analysis so you can expertly grow your portfolio.

Why? → Difficulty in accessing and utilizing actionable data effectively. The main issue is the challenge of understanding and acting on rapidly changing market trends and competitive dynamics, which can impede strategic decisions and growth in the highly competitive market.

How? → It offers real-time market and performance analytics to facilitate informed decision-making, enabling users to optimize pricing, improve occupancy rates, and effectively compete by analyzing and acting on market trends.

 

30 JUN 2020
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Signal →

Signal by Beyond pairs custom direct booking websites with an optimized and integrated booking engine to increase booking conversions and enhance the guest booking experience. 

Why? →  Offering a direct booking channel helps property managers save on third-party channel distribution fees and control the guest booking experience. 

How? → Signal websites are optimzed for discovery and frictionless, secure bookings that help increase conversions. Websites are easy-to-maintain with self-service updates, support, and direct integrations with property management systems. 

1 SEP 2019
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Relay →

Relay by Beyond helps distribute property available and pricing data to third-party distribution channels, helping to capture more bookings and maximize revenue across channels. 

Why? →  Distributing listings across multiple platforms helps increase exposure to potential guests and therefore bookings, but this process can be difficult to implement and maintain. 

How? → Relay maintains automated updates between a property management system and online travel agencies to save time and avoid double bookings. 

1 APR 2014
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Dynamic Pricing →

Dynamic Pricing by Beyond combines the industry's largest database of short term rental data with an advanced algorithm, customizations, and reports to help property managers, owners, hosts, and revenue managers maximize their revenue potential. 

Why? →  Static, manual pricing fails to properly address daily shifts in market supply and demand, causing rentals to underperform and fall behind competitors.  

How? → Beyond's dynamic pricing algorithm helps properties react to real-time changes in market dynamics and maximize average daily rate as well as occupancy to optimize revenue.