Plan Comparison

Which plan is the best fit for you?

Check out the Premium vs. Basic Plan feature comparisons below. If you’re still not sure, give us a call at 802-774-1124.

Select any feature name to read more about it.

Booking Engine Displays
FeaturePremium$240/yearBasic$125/year
Works with all website platforms

The Availability Online Booking engine is compatible with all website platforms, including WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, GoDaddy, traditional html sites, and others. Your booking engine link can also easily be added into your email campaigns.

✓ Included in Premium✓ Included in Basic
Traditional Calendar Display

The traditional calendar display shows 2-weeks of availability at a time, and gives guests the ability to search up to 2 years in the future. The two-week calendar is an effective tool for your website helping guests see your entire inventory. Unit rates, a single photo, descriptions and links to your website's room pages can be easily added to this availability display.

✓ Included in Premium✓ Included in Basic
Availability Search Display

The Search & Display booking engine model shows your guests only units available for the dates searched. This display option has the ability to show descriptions, rates, links to your website's unit pages and unit photos (1 photo for Basic Plan, up to 5 photos for Premium Plan).

✓ Included in Premium✓ Included in Basic
ADA Accessibility

All Availability Online booking engine pages include an accessibility widget. The widget contains several accessibility tools to make booking easier for those who need audio and visual assistance.

✓ Included in Premium✓ Included in Basic
Standard Visual Settings

Easily change certain visual elements, such as font, colors, etc., to match the look of your website.

If you are using the Traditional 2-Week Calendar Display, choose from over 50 no-vacancy graphics to show which rooms are booked on your calendar.

✓ Included in Premium✓ Included in Basic
Monthly Availability Calendars

Place monthly calendars anywhere on your website to display availability for each month.

Show multiple(1-24) months of availability or use the single calendar allowing guests to click to view future months.

Monthly graphic calendars can show availability for a single room(s) or your entire property.

These calendar displays are ideal for vacation rental properties. B&B's also love to use these calendars on their website's individual room pages.

✓ Included in Premium– Not included in Basic
Enhanced Visual Settings

With the enhanced visual capabilities guests won't know that they are using a 3rd party software when booking online. Your booking engine can be fully customized to seamlessly match your website's navigation links, logos and color schemes.

If you're not an expert in web design, don't worry. We'll customize everything for you at no cost!

✓ Included in Premium– Not included in Basic
Individual Unit Availability Display

Show an entire availability calendar for a single unit.

This option gives you all the same features as the full availability calendar, including unit links, photo, rate display, custom no-vacancy graphics, min. night stay display requirement, etc.

If you choose, a button can be activated on this calendar allowing guests to view the availability for all your rooms.

Individual unit availability can also be shown using our Monthly Calendars.

✓ Included in Premium– Not included in Basic
Administrative Tools
FeaturePremium$240/yearBasic$125/year
Easy to use Administration Center

Manage your property on your schedule. Log in to your Availability Online Booking Engine Administration Center 24/7 to update your rates, change minimum night stay requirements, edit unit listings, and check on new reservations.

✓ Included in Premium✓ Included in Basic
Simple Point & Click Calendar Updating

Availability Online is designed to accommodate small to mid-sized properties with our easy point-and-click manual update feature. If you still use paper charts, you can set your manual update vacancy feature to match them, making it easy to update your availability.

If you have a larger property, we recommend using one of our Property Management add-on solutions.

✓ Included in Premium✓ Included in Basic
Adjust Occupancy Settings

Set specific maximum occupancy settings for each unit in your account. Guests will know exactly how many guests, adults and/or children are allowed in each unit.

✓ Included in Premium✓ Included in Basic
Flexible Minimum Night Stay Options

Improve your booking process by displaying and enforcing your minimum night stay requirements. This gives guests the information they need upfront, helping to prevent reservations that don't meet your criteria.

You can also customize how the system handles your stay requirements. Instead of preventing a booking, you can choose to simply warn the guest or add a fee for reservations that don't meet your requirements.

✓ Included in Premium✓ Included in Basic
Easy Interface to Make Reservation Form Edits✓ Included in Premium✓ Included in Basic
Easy Interface to Make Unit Information Edits✓ Included in Premium✓ Included in Basic
Property Management Solutions

Availability Online is a stand-alone, award-winning booking engine. However, if you need a more robust solution, our premium service connects with several Property Management Software (PMS) systems.

This powerful connection helps you streamline your operations by managing everything from check-ins and housekeeping to invoices, guest details, and occupancy reports.

✓ Included in Premium– Not included in Basic
Automatic Vacancy Updating

Updating vacancy info and rates can be made less time consuming with automatic uploads using one of our Property Management add-on solutions. With a click of a button your entire property's vacancy/rates can be updated into your booking engine.

✓ Included in Premium– Not included in Basic
Automatic Reservation Downloads

Automatically download online bookings using one of our Property Management (PMS) add-on solutions. With a click of a button new reservations will automatically be downloaded into your PMS system making reservation and guest management quick and easy.

✓ Included in Premium– Not included in Basic
Taking Reservations
FeaturePremium$240/yearBasic$125/year
Secure Booking from your Website

The Availability Online Booking engine is compatible with all website platforms, including WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, GoDaddy, traditional html sites, and others. Your booking engine link can also easily be added into your email campaigns.

✓ Included in Premium✓ Included in Basic
Calculate Nightly/Seasonal Rates

Choose to display and calculate your nightly rates. Adding nightly rates to your Availability Online Booking Engine gives you the ability to show your guests how much each unit/night is and show a reservation total. Different nightly rates can be applied for each different unit and/or date, so you can easily add seasonal, weekend and/or special holiday rates.

✓ Included in Premium✓ Included in Basic
Reservation Confirmations

You can send guests a reservation confirmation email from your Availability Online Administration Center (if you choose). Your guest's reservation information (e.g. name, check-in date, cost, etc) will automatically generate in the confirmation email. You can also add custom default text.

✓ Included in Premium✓ Included in Basic
Reservation Policy – Guest Agreement

Require guests to Agree to your reservation policy information prior to submitting their online booking.

✓ Included in Premium✓ Included in Basic
Sell/Reservation Add-On Capabilities

Our secure booking form allows your guests to purchase individual à la carte items (e.g. box of chocolates, spa services, theatre tickets, etc).

This is a great way to up-sell items to increase your revenue and give guests a better vacation experience

✓ Included in Premium✓ Included in Basic
Collect Guest Credit Card/Payment Info

The Availability Online Booking Engine securely collects credit cards. Properties are responsible for processing credit card payment as they would a phone reservation.

✓ Included in Premium✓ Included in Basic
Reservation Request Forms

The reservation request form would be used for those who wish to have a more hands-on approach with guests. Guests will expect to hear back from you directly with final confirmation. Guests will automatically receive an emailed copy of their reservation request.

There are no commissions or extra fees to you or your guests when using our secure reservation request form.

The fields and visual settings on the form can be customized to suit your property's needs.

You can securely collect your guest's credit card information (if you choose). Properties are responsible for processing credit card payment.

You instantly receive an email notification (optional text message) when a new reservation request has been submitted. You can choose to block out the reservation request manually from your Administration Center, or you can have our system automatically block out the room/date when the request is submitted.

✓ Included in Premium✓ Included in Basic
Real-Time Booking Forms

The real-time booking form can immediately and automatically block out the unit/date when a reservation is submitted.

Guests will automatically receive an emailed copy of their reservation- this can be used as the confirmation, OR you can manually send a more personal and detailed confirmation from your Administration Center.

There are no commissions or extra fees to you or your guests when using our secure booking form.

The fields and visual settings on the form can be customized to suit your property's needs.

You can securely collect your guest's credit card information (if you choose). Properties are responsible for processing credit card payment.

You instantly receive an email notification (optional text message) when a new reservation request has been submitted.

✓ Included in Premium✓ Included in Basic
Add Custom Questions to Booking Form

Easily create fully custom questions to ask guests during the booking process, such as; How did you hear about us?, or Do you have any special dietary restrictions?.

✓ Included in Premium✓ Included in Basic
Add Taxes to Reservation Total

Choose to calculate your state, local, lodging taxes into your reservation subtotal. Guests will know exactly how much their reservation costs.

Taxes can be applied to the entire reservation or to only specific, individual units.

✓ Included in Premium– Not included in Basic
Add Cleaning & Other Fees to Reservation Total

Choose to calculate fees, such as a cleaning or resort fee, into your reservation subtotal. Your guests will know exactly how much their reservation costs.

Fees can be applied to the entire reservation or to specific, individual units.

✓ Included in Premium– Not included in Basic
Additional Person Fees

Set your reservation form to calculate additional person fees. Add the same fee for all guests, or apply different fees based on if the guest is an adult or child. You can also choose to calculate a total for under occupancy reservations.

✓ Included in Premium– Not included in Basic
Show Reservation Deposit Amount

Have your reservation form automatically create and show guests the deposit due at the time of booking.

✓ Included in Premium– Not included in Basic
Marketing Features
FeaturePremium$240/yearBasic$125/year
Download Past Reservations Function

Easily download guests' email addresses for e-mail marketing blasts, or find your online booking revenue history. Download options include file type, selecting specific fields to be included in your download, and what type of reservation(s) are you looking for, e.g. archived reservations, pending reservations or all reservations.

✓ Included in Premium– Not included in Basic
Discounted Website Design Services

Our partner designer, OnnaWebDesign.com, offers Availability Online Booking Engine users a discount on new design costs. Professionally designed and affordable WordPress sites that are fully responsive and customized to meet your needs. Design Samples / Get Quote

✓ Included in Premium– Not included in Basic
Secure Gift Certificate Order Form

Place a secure Gift Certificate Order form on your website allowing guests to purchase gift certificates from you online.

Colors & visual settings of this form can be customized to match your website.

✓ Included in Premium– Not included in Basic
Special Events Display

Special Events or notices can be shown on the availability display section of your booking engine. Choose to show these events at all times, or only when certain dates are searched.

✓ Included in Premium– Not included in Basic
Google Ads Pay-Per-Click Tracking

Availability Online can work with your Google Ads campaign tracking so you know how many online reservations are derived from your advertising.

*Availability Online does not offer Google Pay Per Click or Google Analytics setup support.

✓ Included in Premium– Not included in Basic
Google Analytics (GA4) Tracking

The Availability Online Booking Engine offers full Google Analytics (GA4) E-commerce tracking capabilities. *Availability Online does not provide Google Pay Per Click or Google Analytics setup support.

✓ Included in Premium– Not included in Basic
iCal Export Feed to Airbnb, VRBO, etc.

Export your vacancy information from Availability Online to 3rd party booking sites such as Airbnb, VRBO, Google Calendar, Yahoo! Calendar and more. This feature could save you time as you will only need to maintain vacancy in one location. Your Availability Online iCal Feed will work with sites who accept .ics/iCal formats.

✓ Included in Premium– Not included in Basic
Support Services
FeaturePremium$240/yearBasic$125/year
Free Booking Engine Setup

Getting started with Availability Online is a hassle-free experience. We'll quickly set up and customize your booking engine for you, all at no extra charge.

✓ Included in Premium✓ Included in Basic
Free Phone and Email Support

Enjoy free, unlimited phone and email support from our friendly and helpful technical staff.

✓ Included in Premium✓ Included in Basic
Free Booking Engine Updates & Maintenance

You're busy! We get it. If using our Premium Plan contact us anytime and we will update any information found in your booking engine such as rates, min. stay requirements, photos, etc.

We offer maintenance services to our Basic Plan users for a cost of $55 per hour.

✓ Included in Premium– Not included in Basic
Discounted Website Design Services

Our partner designer, OnnaWebDesign.com, offers Availability Online Booking Engine Premium users a discount on new design costs. Professionally designed and affordable WordPress sites that are fully responsive and customized to meet your needs. Design Samples / Get Quote

✓ Included in Premium– Not included in Basic