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Our mission at Beyond is to help short-term rental hosts and managers find new ways to unlock revenue. As we look back on the past year, it’s clear that 2023 was a year of growth for Beyond – and we couldn’t have done it without you! From unveiling our newest platform features to making big strides in how vacation rental hosts can drive recurring revenue, we've come so far together.
Here’s a look at some of our favorite moments from 2023.
Beyond has officially been around for a decade! It all started in 2013 when Beyond’s Co-founder and CTO David Kelso was renting out a spare bedroom in his San Francisco apartment to help pay the rent. There was no pricing tool for short-term rentals back then, so he'd just look at how other similar rentals were being priced, set a price, and crossed his fingers.
That’s when he decided to build a tool to dynamically price his listing. He rapidly cultivated a customer base of 25 listings, and within 18 months, he was providing dynamic pricing for 600 of the 3,000 short-term rental listings in his area.
In April of 2023, we introduced consumer search data to the short-term rental industry! The data, collected by our Beacon plug-in, provides users with visibility into what real consumers are searching for as well as automatically adjusting pricing based on consumer searches rather than having to wait to see trends based on previous bookings.
Early adopters of search data offering saw 9% higher RevPAN (Revenue per Available Listing) versus those not utilizing our Pro features!
We were so excited to officially partner with Airbnb this year. Read our full announcement here.
It's official: Beyond is a Champion of Data! We are honored to receive this award from Travolution. This year, we empowered vacation rental managers to take their strategies from reactive to proactive by launching Search-Powered Pricing and our search data visualization - the first time search data has been introduced to the vacation rental industry.
2023 was a year filled with ups and downs for vacation rental hosts and managers. From oversaturation to economic conditions and more, vacation rental hosts faced many challenges. However, hosts and managers using Beyond outperformed their markets!
Compared to other operators in their market, Beyond users had an 8.5% higher occupancy rate and earned 8.9% revenue per night.
We were thrilled to partner with leading platforms and technology providers who share our commitment to exceptional service and modern solutions for hosts & property managers. Our new integration partners from this year include:
Our Customer Advisory Board (CAB) is full of industry experts and veterans who are spread out all over the globe. We are grateful for the feedback, conversations, and partnership from our CAB members.
We strive every day to build the best products possible for our customers. Here are a few of our favorite updates from the year:
We launched an online training course to help hosts and revenue managers get more bookings and revenue for their vacation rental business. No matter where you are on your revenue management journey, this course will give you the knowledge and expertise you need to be a true revenue management expert!
We went to 31 events this year across the globe! Our favorites include:
Beyond users ranked us as the leader in the vacation rental software category G2.com, the world’s leading business solutions review website. See how we scored.
Our amazing team is full of talented experts who are passionate about the vacation rental industry. We were so excited to welcome new team members from around the world and grow our team. A few highlights include:
Beyond has an award-winning workplace! We are proud to have earned recognition with these awards:
This year has been quite a ride, thank you to everyone for taking this journey with us. We can’t wait to see what next year has in store for the short-term rental industry.
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