Electronic Booking Services (EBS) - FCS-Solutions (2012) - all rights reserved.
FCS-Solutions.......making sense of a changing world. Sunday, May 20 ,2012.

Pricing

The prices shown in the table below have already been discounted for your benefit. Should you require a calendar
for more than ten properties please add £20 per property. For each additional Email or Online Payments requirement
over ten, add on the minumum payment (£30 or £50) per property. Other prices remain per property as shown.

 
Number of Properties
Features
 
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Booking Calendar
 

£30

£60

£90

£120

£150

£180

£210

£240

£270

£300

SMS Notifications to mobile
 

£20

£40

£60

£80

£100

£120

£140

£160

£180

£200

Email Payment Links
 

£30

£30

£60

£60

£90

£90

£120

£120

£150

£150

Online Payments
 

£50

£50

£100

£100

£150

£150

£200

£200

£250

£250

Web Site with calendar - setup
 *²
 

£100

£100

£100

£100

£100

£100

£100

£100

£100

£100
NOTE
All fees are payable annually unless otherwise stated.
*¹ The Online Payments facility (expected Q2 2009) includes the use of Email Payment Links.
*² A £30 annual maintenance fee is also payable on all calendar web sites. Multiple properties viewable from calendar.
  

Features Required Yes/No Qty (1-10)
Pricing Summary
     

 

Booking Calendar       
     
SMS       
     
Email Payment Links       
     
Online Payments (Q2 2009)       
     
Web Site with calendar - setup       
Open Pricing Calculator         

Making a comparison

The table below sets out how the features and cost of using the EBS booking calendar might compare to other approaches.
The comparison is based on one property being let and the following costs:
a) an average letting charge of £300 and a property achieving 40 weeks occupancy.
b) web advertising costs of £120
c) agency fees of 20%.


Comparative
EBS Calendar
with online
Advertising to
generate traffic
Using an Agency
to generate
Occupancy
Using online
Advertising to
generate web
traffic

Online Booking

YES

Usually

NO

Works with paper based records using SMS

YES

NO

N/A

Possible to vet customers before accepting booking

YES

NO

YES

Real time availability

YES

Sometimes

NO

Simple tools to aid booking administration

YES

Sometimes

NO

Shows pricing & availability together on same screen

YES

NOT usually

N/A

COST

£150



£2,400

£400