str market mapProfessional vacation rental managers handling dozens to thousands of units need a system that consolidates reservations, trust accounting, owner reporting, and multi-channel distribution without paying per-booking commissions on a primary OTA channel.
Escapia is a vacation rental property management system owned by Expedia Group and built for professional management companies, developed since 2002 and used by 900-plus operators worldwide.
Reservation and calendar management sits at the core, with 30-plus direct channel connections including Vrbo (commission-free) and Expedia Group sites such as Hotels.com, Travelocity, and Orbitz. A built-in channel manager, a Rates Manager for pricing across channels, and a performance dashboard backed by Expedia Group data give managers added market insight. Trust accounting is native, with an automated owner portal, rental-agreement e-signatures, and a communications hub for guest messaging, while housekeeping and maintenance scheduling and 75-plus integration partners round out the platform along with automated revenue-optimization recommendations.
Professional property management companies managing roughly 25 to 2,500-plus vacation rental units, particularly those with significant Vrbo volume who benefit from the commission-free direct connection and Expedia Group data.
Listed on STR Market Map, the short-term-rental software marketplace.