FHLs: anyone use a property booking/management system?

[LooneyTunes]

I think there are a few on here with furnished holiday lets.. so was wondering it anyone has gone as far as using a property management system to handle bookings / contactless check-in (ideally with some form of smart lock integration)?

If so it'd be great to hear what people are using and how they've been finding it.

Would be for direct bookings via a dedicated website (so needs to be capable of integration within this) rather than needing integration with Airbnb and the such and would prefer it to handle a lot of the routine tasks associated with that sort of business..

Any insight really appreciated!

[blueg33]

Thought about it - decided it was too time consuming to set up for one property.

Easier to use booking platforms.

A friend has tried it, they have nothing but issues with the lock integration and guests failing to use it properly or understand it. As a result they normally have to go and let guests in manually!

[LooneyTunes]

For one property I wouldn't bother, but this is for a larger number of units that can't (for a number of reasons) sensibly be marketed or run via a booking platform.

[DonkeyApple]

If it helps, I'm finding more and more places I book have Yale key code locks and they work perfectly well. So much so that I've fitted them to a couple of the back doors at home so that the children don't need keys.

[LooneyTunes]

Thanks DA: we have those already on a couple of doors at home and I agree they work well (family has codes, cleaners have fobs) but they're not what I'm looking for here.

Really after a system that will handle the availability/bookings and access code management. There are some out there that will do it, some even generating new access codes for each booking, which is what I'd prefer...

I need to be able to deal with 10, possibly rising to 30-50 units over the course of a few years, so manually changing codes (which we'd have to do with the Yales) isn't really viable or scalable. I can do rolling code allocation on my Paxton system but obviously that doesn't do the rental booking/admin...