Custom app for changeover day planning at holiday homes
Appfront builds apps with which holiday parks and rental organisations plan and carry out changeover day: departures and arrivals from the booking system, cleaning teams per home in the right order, linen and inspection included, faults sent straight to the technical team, and the home reported ready with photos before the guest receives the key. So that on a Saturday with a hundred changeovers, reception knows which home is ready, without phoning around the park.
What is a changeover-day planning app for holiday homes?
Changeover day is the day guests check out and new guests check in, often in the same home, with a few hours in between for cleaning, linen, checks and repairs. A changeover-day planning app pulls departures and arrivals from the booking system, divides the homes across the cleaning teams in an order that takes arrival times into account, gives each team the tasks and linen pack per home, sends faults straight to the technical team, and reports the home ready with photos, so reception and the guest know when the home is ready.
Without such an app, reception prints the departure and arrival list in the morning, the cleaning supervisor divides the homes on paper, a team is phoned because the dishwasher has broken, and the guest is standing at reception at three o'clock while nobody knows whether home 47 is done. One late checkout shifts the whole order, and the last home of the day is checked by whoever happens to still be there.
We build custom development because the planning has to fit your park and your organisation: which booking system you use, whether cleaning is in-house or by a cleaning company, how linen is supplied, which inspection you carry out and what the guest hears from you. A generic task app knows nothing about arrival times, linen packs or a home being ready.
Planning from bookings
Departures and arrivals per home from the booking system, with the time in between and the booking details, such as a cot or a pet.
Teams and order
Homes divided across teams in an order by arrival time and walking route, with the tasks per home, the linen pack and the expected duration, adjusted when a guest checks out later.
Ready with evidence
The team reports the property ready with photos of the main rooms, the inspector checks it, and reception and the guest can see the property is ready.
How we build your holiday home changeover planning app
We start with the busiest changeover day of the past season: how many changeovers there were, how the allocation went, where it got stuck and what the guest noticed. The app is built from that.
Which booking system you use, how cleaning is organised, how linen and inspection work, how faults are reported now, and what the guest currently hears about their property.
Per property the tasks, the standard cleaning time, the linen set and the inspection points, and the integration with bookings.
The schedule per team on the phone, ready reporting with photos, faults sent to the technical department and the status for reception.
The message to the guest when the property is ready, the reporting per changeover day, and then management and the expansion to multiple parks.
What a holiday home changeover planning app actually does
The components below come up at almost every park and every letting organisation. Which ones you need depends on your booking system and on how cleaning is organised.
Changeover day overview
For each day, all departures and arrivals per property, with the status: occupied, vacated, being cleaned, awaiting inspection, ready.
Team scheduling
Properties divided across teams in order of arrival time and walking route, with the expected duration and a reallocation if a guest leaves later.
Tasks per property
For each property, the cleaning tasks, the linen set and the inspection points, ticked off on the phone, with extra tasks taken from the booking.
Breakdowns
A broken dishwasher or a dripping tap, reported with a photo to the technical team, linked to the property, with the status visible to reception.
Ready report with photos
The team reports ready with photos, the inspector approves or sends it back, and the property is released for arrival.
Booking system integration
Bookings, arrival times and special requests from your booking system or channel manager, and the property status back to reception.
Who we build a holiday home changeover planning app for
The app is intended for organisations where on a changeover day tens to hundreds of properties must be ready within a few hours.
Holiday parks
Their own properties with their own cleaning and technical department. The changeover overview, team scheduling and faults are the core.
Letting organisations
Owner-managed homes, rented out through multiple channels. The integration with the booking system and reporting per owner matter most.
Parks with a cleaning company
Cleaning outsourced to a company with its own teams. The schedule the cleaning company sees on its phone and the ready report with photos are what is needed.
Operators of multiple sites
Properties spread across villages or parks. The walking route per team and the overview per location are the core.
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This page is about the changeover day. For the park as a whole, including bookings and guest communication, see our page on software for parks and recreation. For the app guests use, see our page on a recreation app. For the hotel variant with daily changeovers, see our page on hotel software. You can read about how we work at custom software development.
For seasonal planning and settling accounts per changeover at the office, there is our office software for changeover day planning.
If you let properties owned by private individuals, there is also our app for holiday home owners.
For settling accounts with the owner after the letting period, including commission and recharged costs, there is our owner settlement software for holiday homes.
Why choose Appfront for a holiday rental turnover planning app?
A changeover day is a few hours in which everything has to happen at once. We build on that: one overview, one sequence, one ready sign-off.
The order follows arrivals
The property where the guest arrives first is done first. A late departure reshuffles the order, and the crew sees that on their phone.
Ready means proven
Photos at sign-off and an inspection that can send a property back. Reception hands over a key based on fact, not assumption.
Faults don't wait for reception
The crew reports with a photo and the technical team sees it straight away. The dishwasher is fixed before the guest needs it.
Security and privacy in a holiday rental turnover planning app
The app works with guest data from bookings and with photos of properties. Access is set up by role: the crew sees only today's properties and tasks, without guest details they don't need; reception sees the status and the technical team sees the faults. Photos are kept only for as long as they are needed for inspection and any damage claim.
The app runs in a European data centre, with encrypted storage and daily back-ups. Integrations with the booking system and channel manager use their own keys, which can be revoked per integration.
Frequently asked questions about a holiday rental turnover planning app
Questions that parks and rental organisations ask before getting started.
It pulls departures and arrivals from your booking system, assigns properties to cleaning crews in an order based on arrival time, gives each crew the tasks and linen pack per property on their phone, sends faults to the technical team, and signs off properties as ready with photos, so reception and the guest know when the property is ready.
Yes. Bookings, arrival times and notes come from your booking system or channel manager, and the property status flows back to reception. We connect to the system you already use; the app does not become a second booking administration.
Reception or the crew reports it, and the app shifts that property in the order and, if needed, redistributes work across crews, with the next guest's arrival time in mind. The crew sees the new order on their phone and reception sees whether an arrival is at risk.
Yes. The cleaning company gets its own crews and sees only the properties assigned to it, with the tasks and sign-off. Payment per property follows from what has been done, and you see the photos and the inspection just as you would with your own staff.
The crew signs off with photos of the rooms you specify, the inspector approves on their phone or sends the property back with a comment, and only after approval is the property free for arrival. You set yourself which properties are spot-checked and which are always inspected.
They can. As soon as the property is released, the app can send a message that the property is ready, including the access code if you work with code locks. What the guest receives and through which channel matches how you currently communicate with guests.
Ask that first. Some systems come with a cleaning schedule, and that may be enough for a small number of homes. Custom development makes sense when the order has to be planned by arrival time and walking route, when teams need to report ready with photos, when faults must go straight to technical services, or when a cleaning company and in-house staff work from the same schedule.
Every home ready before the guest arrives, without phoning around the park?
Tell us how many homes you have, which booking system you use and how the busiest changeover day of last season went. We'll show you what the overview, team scheduling and ready-status reporting look like.