At Beyond, we’re passionate about empowering short-term rental hosts and managers to maximise their potential and grow their businesses. As 2024 comes to a close, we’re taking a moment to celebrate the incredible journey we’ve shared with you this year.
From groundbreaking product launches to game-changing innovations that help hosts unlock new revenue opportunities, this has been a year of remarkable milestones, and none of it would have been possible without your support. Let’s take a look back at some of our favourite moments, accomplishments, and highlights from this transformative year.
📈 Beyond Users Earned More
2024 wasn’t without its challenges. The short-term rental market faced significant headwinds, with many reporting declines in gross booking value (GBV) and broader trends across the United States showing a dip. Yet, Beyond users displayed remarkable resilience and made an impressive recovery as the year drew to a close.
While others struggled, Beyond users thrived. Our European hosts celebrated their best October on record, and our North American customers achieved their highest GBV since 2021—outperforming the market by an extraordinary 16%! 🎉
What’s the secret to this success? It lies in the powerful tools and insights we’ve developed to help hosts adapt and excel. Our refined automations, detailed market reviews, enhanced data accuracy, and expert revenue management team are all designed to capture seasonality and event-driven demand like never before. Together, these innovations empower our hosts to stay ahead of the curve.
🚀 Owner Insights Brings Visibility to Property Managers and Hosts
In October 2024, we launched Owner Insights, powered by Sage AI, designed to help property managers and hosts retain, grow, and impress key stakeholders. This groundbreaking solution enables users to generate summaries and share personalised performance reports—such as occupancy, revenue per available night (RevPAN), and more—with owners and investors, ensuring everyone remains aligned and well-informed.
🔍 Search Powered Pricing Expansion Takes Revenue to New Heights
We’ve expanded Search Powered Pricing to help property managers and hosts optimise their revenue strategies globally. This feature dynamically adjusts pricing to reflect guest preferences and market demand by analysing real-time search trends and booking patterns. As we continue to roll it out across more regions, Search Powered Pricing empowers users to remain competitive and maximise revenue with smarter, data-driven pricing decisions.
Predictive Revenue Solution
We took pricing to the next level with solutions such as Search Powered Insights for real-time guest search data at both the listing and portfolio level, Revenue Goals to track performance against targets, and Auto Booking Review for smarter, faster decision-making. Early adopters have already seen an additional $5 million in revenue over six months.
Advanced Events Pricing
We helped our users save even more time and increase more revenue during peak events with automated pricing updates based on real-time demand. Users have reported up to a 17% revenue increase during high-demand periods like holidays and festivals.
Grid View
Our users now enjoy a clearer view of their portfolio with our enhanced Grid View. They can easily make bulk edits, adjust seasonal prices, and fine-tune settings with the intuitive Grid Sidebar. Plus, powerful features such as performance filtering and year-on-year comparisons enable smarter, faster decision-making.
Comp Sets 2.0
Beyond users can gain a deeper understanding of their position in the market with customisable columns, new filters, and flexible timeframes. They can analyse data such as pricing, occupancy, reviews, and more from Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking.com. These insights help users make informed pricing adjustments and smarter investment decisions.
Market Insights Upgrades
We added seven new metrics to Market Insights, offering even greater visibility into key trends such as Average Cleaning Fees and Service Fees. Plus, Market Insights can now be viewed directly from a listing within the pricing dashboard, making it easier to track performance against the market and adjust settings in a single view.
🚗 We Hit The Road for Our StayTech Tour
We brought the latest tech in the stays industry to cities across the United States. Fifty attendees joined us across four stops to learn, network, and gain invaluable insights from expert speakers.
🤝 We Hosted Our Global Customer Advisory Board
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 Attended 58(!) Events
Our team travelled across the globe to attend 58 events in the holiday rental industry. Here’s a breakdown of our events by region:
39 in Europe
17 in North and South America
2 in Australia
🌟 Our Customers Voted Us #1!
Beyond users ranked us as the leader in the holiday rental software category on G2.com, the world’s leading business solutions review website. See how we scored.
✨ Our Workplace Was Named One of The Best
Beyond has an award-winning workplace! We are proud to have earned recognition with these awards:
2024 Great Place To Work Certified
BuiltIn’s 2024 Best Places to Work
2024 Inc. Regionals: Pacific
🙌 Beyonders Grew Their Careers
We welcomed 45 new Beyonders to the team, and 37 Beyonders received promotions!
We even welcomed a new Beyonder in Australia, expanding our global presence to 17 countries.
This year has been quite a ride—thank you to everyone for taking this journey with us. We can’t wait to see what the short-term rental industry has in store next year.
🎉 Cheers to 2024 🎉
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