Award points
How to award points for booking your vacation rentals
You can offer vacation rental points to guests who book through your Direct Site, Airbnb, and VRBO. These points can then be redeemed by guests when they make a booking on your dedicated listing page on the48dots site.
This guide walks you through how to set up the process.
BEFORE YOU GET STARTED
To provide points you must have your listing set up the48dots — this is important for points redemption
You will need to capture the guest’s email address via a guestbook in order to issue points through the48dots.
Note: When guests book directly through the48dots, we automatically award points after the booking is complete.
Step 1: Configure your settings to Allow Bookings > Allow Points Redemption
After setting up your listing, visit My Homes to enable bookings on the48dots platform.
Adjust the Redirect Bookings toggle to Yes if you want bookings to go through your preferred site when points are not used.
Only SILVER MEMBERS can redirect first time bookings to increase SEO
Adjust the Allow Points Redemption toggle to Yes so that bookings can occur on the48dots when points are redeemed. Once your Allow Points Redemption is set to Yes, guests will always come to your listing page on the48dots to redeem points on part of their booking. Setting this up is important for the next step.
If you are a SILVER MEMBER and have a direct booking site you can create a wallet widget on your site to redirect points-bookings to your white-labled page on the48dots.
If you are not a SILVER MEMBER you will need to add a link to your direct booking site to redeem the points.
Step 2 (for Silver Members with Direct Sites only): Install the48dots points widget on your site
If you’d like your guests to manage their points from your Direct Site and have a quick link to redeem points on your listings, navigate to My Wallet to grab your unique code for embedding the48dots points wallet. Paste this code on every page in your site that you’d like the wallet to appear on.
Step 3: Award Points
You will need your guest’s email address to reward points.
Navigate to My Wallet. You will be prompted to enter the guest’s email address (make sure you capture this in your guestbook when the guest checks out!). After filling out the form below, your guest will get notified that they received points.
Your guest’s wallet will show up in the bottom right corner, like this, on your site.
Step 4: Your guest gets points!
Your guest will be able to redeem their points on future bookings, while you get paid in dollars for the total amount. Point redemption will occur on the48dots site so you don’t have to worry about complex integration or points management.