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Project  ·  Digital Transformation  ·  London & Newcastle

NEOCR.

A bricks and mortar property business, letting and developing real buildings with real guests, given a complete digital layer: direct booking, one calendar synced across every channel, automated guest messaging, and AI working quietly in the background.

ClientNEOCR LTD
SectorProperty & Short-Term Lettings
LocationsLondon & Newcastle
DeliveredWeb · Integration · Automation · AI
The story

A traditional business,
ready for a digital engine

NEOCR LTD runs short-term lets across London and a mixed-use development in the North East. The buildings, the guests, and the standards were already there. What was missing was the digital operation to match. Bookings came through third-party platforms that took commission on every stay, availability lived in separate calendars, and every guest message meant a person stopping to reply.

The brief was to change that without changing the business. Guests should be able to book directly, day or night, at the best rate. The calendar should stay accurate everywhere at once. And the routine guest communication should look after itself, so the team’s time goes into the properties, not the inbox.

Part one  ·  The booking-first website

A website built
to take the booking

We designed and built an accessible website where every page moves a guest closer to booking, shaped by research with both the people who book the stays and the people who run the business. Each property has its own page with a full photo gallery, honest availability, and a live booking calendar. The homepage leads with what is bookable right now, and plain language throughout means anyone can find their way, on any device.

The full NEOCR homepage, leading with the two stays open for direct booking
The homepage, booking-led from the first screen
Part two  ·  One calendar, every channel

The integration that ended
double bookings for good

Behind the website, we integrated the platform with Your.Rentals, a short-let management system that connects to multiple booking channels. Availability and pricing now sync automatically between the website’s direct booking calendars and every connected channel. When a guest books anywhere, the dates close everywhere, instantly. The team manages one calendar instead of many, and the risk of two guests holding the same nights is gone.

Diagram showing the NEOCR website connected through Your.Rentals to multiple booking channels with one shared calendar
The website and every booking channel, sharing one live calendar
The full NEOCR booking hub with a live calendar for each property
The direct booking hub, one page with a live calendar per property
Part three  ·  Automation & AI

Messaging that looks after guests
while the team sleeps

Around the booking core we built the automations. Guests receive tailored messages at the right moments, and different guests get different journeys: a weekend visitor, a family on a longer break, and an extended-stay guest each hear from the business in the way that suits their stay, from booking confirmation and check-in guidance through to mid-stay care and check-out.

AI supports the workflow behind the scenes, helping draft guest communications and invoices, keeping listing content fresh, and sharpening the local search signals that bring the next guest in. The whole system is assembled from proven online tools rather than expensive custom software, which keeps it affordable to run and simple to extend. When the company’s North East development comes online, each new unit plugs into the same platform on day one.

The full Chopwell development page on the NEOCR website, ready to onboard new units
The Chopwell development page, the platform’s next arrivals already accounted for
The result

A scalable digital
automation platform

Guests now book directly at any hour, at better rates than the platforms offer. The team runs one calendar, routine guest communication handles itself, and the operation is ready to grow property by property without growing the admin alongside it.

24/7
Direct booking, no commission
1
Calendar synced across every channel
Auto
Guest messaging by guest type
AI
Built into daily workflows
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