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Smart Utility Monitoring & Billing


We are excited to introduce our new energy management system, designed to transform how electricity is consumed and managed in your properties. This innovative system is tailored to meet the needs of both property owners and guests, ensuring an enhanced experience through fair billing, effortless monitoring, and sustainable practices. Our aim is to streamline the way you manage energy usage, offering a host of benefits that include increased efficiency, cost savings, and a boost to your property’s appeal.

Here’s how our system can make a difference::

Fair and Transparent Billing:

  • Guests: Enjoy peace of mind knowing they are only paying for the electricity they use. Our system eliminates the guesswork, ensuring fair and transparent billing based on actual usage.
  • Owners: Implement an equitable billing system that accurately reflects each guest's electricity consumption, fostering trust and transparency.
Effortless Monitoring:
  • Guests: Experience a hassle-free stay without the need to manually report electricity usage. Our automated system takes care of everything, letting them focus on enjoying their holiday.
  • Owners: Benefit from the convenience of remote electricity monitoring, eliminating the need for physical checks or relying on guest reporting.
Energy Efficiency and Sustainability:
  • Guests: Play a part in environmental stewardship. Our system encourages energy-efficient usage, contributing to a greener, more sustainable holiday experience.
  • Owners: Promote eco-friendly practices within your properties. By encouraging mindful energy usage, you're contributing to a healthier planet.
Real-Time Usage Insights:
  • Guests: Stay informed with real-time insights into your energy usage, allowing for more conscious consumption and potential cost savings.
  • Owners: Access up-to-date data on energy usage patterns across your properties, enabling better management and forecasting.
Cost Savings:
  • Guests: Take control of the energy consumption and potentially lower costs, thanks to our system's precise monitoring.
  • Owners: Reduce administrative overheads and disputes over energy costs, ensuring a smoother operational process.
Enhanced Property Appeal:
  • Owners: Differentiate your properties with cutting-edge technology. Offering a modern, user-friendly energy management solution can be a compelling feature in your marketing efforts, attracting tech-savvy and environmentally conscious guests.
Security and Privacy Compliance:
  • Guests & Owners: Rest assured, our system prioritises security and privacy. We adhere to strict data protection regulations, ensuring your information is handled with the utmost care.
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Website Developments

 

Since its launch the website has continued to be worked on and improved and we regularly add new features and functionality to it. We now have the independent Feefo ratings for each cottage live on the site that generate a star rating for each cottage based solely on your guests' reviews.

You will start to notice these appearing on the site as we go through and turn on the reviews for each property. Properties that don’t yet have any reviews will not show a rating until they receive their first few reviews. These reviews, particularly as they are independent, reassure people and have been proven time and time again to improve on conversion through to booking.

Following your feedback we have added a calendar into the Availability and Book section to make it much clearer to guests that there may be part availability within a week, thus generating more interest in short breaks (where available). We have removed the reference to booked weeks and added a link through to the full availability calendar when a month is fully booked.

    We have added a 'recently viewed cottages' section on the bottom right of the page that keeps track of the last three properties that the guest has looked at so that they can easily navigate back to them if need be. We are also looking into adding a ‘shortlist’ feature that will allow guests to add their favourites to a shortlist so that they can then review them in further detail.

    We receive a lot of positive feedback from guests on the new site, some examples of which have come in through our Feefo service reviews:

    ‘Very good and easy to use website. Have used Unique Cottages before and will gladly use again.’
    5 June

    ‘The choice of cottages is very good and the website is easy to navigate.’
    21 May

    ‘Good website with clear photos and all the info you need. Good search options too.’
    7 May

    ‘Website layout is inviting - it makes you want to look through what's on offer.’
    7 May

    ‘Good website, easy to navigate and importantly had good pictures.’
    18 April

    We already have an owners section of the website, but this is an area we are looking to improve on for you. We are currently investigating adding an owner login area where you can log in and view your bookings and financials, etc.

    We are very much open to ideas on improvements to the website, so if you have anything you think it would be good for us to add, including items that would be useful to include in the owner login area, then please contact us: