FAQs and Troubleshooting | Direct

About Direct

What is Direct?

Direct is the essential enterprise software for vacation and short-term rental management professionals

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Who can use Direct?

Direct was designed to work at scale & can help you grow your business

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How simple is it to switch to Direct?

Switching to Direct is simple with our streamlined, targeted on-boarding process

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How is Direct priced?

Direct's pricing model lets you choose the best option for your business

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Do I need to download software?

Direct is a cloud-based platform that does not require any downloading

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Which types of support do you offer?

Feel free to reach out- our in-house specialists are happy to help

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What if Direct doesn't currently have a feature I'm looking for?

We want your feedback so that we can continue improving our product

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Are you involving your customers in the development process?

We give full visibility into our roadmap and constantly seek feedback & requests

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Are you re-investing in your own technology?

We are investing in our technology every single day

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Is my data and privacy secure?

Direct strives to provide data security & protect your personal information

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Onboarding & Imports

How does the implementation process work?

Direct streamlines the onboarding process so that you can be live in as little as two weeks

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Property Management System

What is the property management system?

Direct's property management system is key for creating, editing / updating properties, building listings, creating portfolios, and more

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What property details can I edit?

For every unit in Direct, you can edit property details, photos, availability, pricing, fees, taxes, discounts, & deposits

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What is the difference between multi-unit and single-unit properties?

We distinguish the two property types in our system to save you time

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Can I set my own cancellation policies?

You can easily set custom cancellation policies for direct bookings and map to each channel's cancellation policies

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Brands, Website Builder & CMS

How does the website builder work?

Direct's website builder lets you create and host websites for your brands

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What aspects of my websites can I customize?

You can customize your websites with our Rich Text and HTML CMS editors

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Will my SEO suffer when I move my website over to Direct?

No! We have a 301 redirect tool that allows you to map your legacy pages / URL slugs to the corresponding pages on your Direct site

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Which currencies are available for my websites?

We support over a dozen of the most common currencies worldwide

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Which languages are available for my websites?

You can select your desired language for base settings

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User Management System

What is the user management system?

Direct's user management system allows you to create user accounts and categorize your payees

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Booking Engine & Payments

Can I accept online payments on my website?

You can easily setup a booking engine on your website powered by Direct to accept online payments

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How do I get paid?

Our system streamlines payments to your bank accounts from reservations

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What is Stripe?

Stripe is our payment processor partner that powers our payments & payouts tools

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What if Stripe doesn’t support my country?

We have a workaround for getting reservation funds over to you on a weekly basis

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Accounting & Payouts

Can I automate my accounting and payouts?

Our trust accounting system lets you automate your accounting & automatically remits payments to your payees

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Channel Management System

What is the channel management system?

Our channel management system helps you automate distribution

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What channels are you integrated with?

We have direct, two-way integrations with Airbnb, the HomeAway / Vrbo network, and Booking.com

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Do you support iCal?

Yes, we support iCal exports

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Reservations Management System

What is the reservation management system?

Our reservation management system lets you manage all of your bookings in one place

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Can I manage all of my reservations on Direct?

You can easily manage your bookings with our proprietary reservations management system

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What aspects of a reservation can I customize?

You can add charges, adjust dates, edit line items, update guest information & change units on reservations within Direct

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Can I accept instant bookings and bookings by request?

You can easily specify if your inventory is instant booking or request to book for any date on the calendar

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Messaging & CRM

What is the unified inbox?

Direct's unified inbox aggregates all of your inbound inquiries & messages to make communication with guests efficient

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Reporting, Analytics & Business Intelligence

What reporting tools do you offer?

Direct's reporting feature was designed to help you quantify your business impact

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Integrations Marketplace

What other software platforms do you integrate with?

Our integrations marketplace provides access to over a dozen connected partners

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