Ectosy.com is not a booking platform but a system for advertizing and collecting interest of potential customers. They cannot make one-click or any similar reservations over Ectosy nor make any payments to renters. Renters will receive the information about interest in the Ectosy renter dashboard and by emails and it is up to them after that to communicate with customers and actually close the deals.

Interest period can be created in two ways:

1. renter can create it himself in the renter dashboard

2. potential customer can express/create it in the public promotional modal

Option to register interest periods collected outside Ectosy in renter's calendar can be useful in order to keep track of them and make contacts when the right time comes.

However, the primary engine for collecting interests should be Ectosy promotional capabilities - by using Ectosy snippets and Ectosy articles. Your quality and informative web promotional material should catch your potential guest's eye, attract him to read/click and express his interest to for your tourist accomodation services.

Guests express their interests to renters through public promotional modal (dialogue) that pops up on theis screens after clicking on your snippet and they expect prompt and professional email response. It is up to renter to seize the opportunity and transform their interest into reservation.

Distinction between interests and reservations is implemented in the entire application. There are separate calendars for interests and reservations and they can be presented separately in the Periods tab. Guests can be easily filtered by interests and reservations.

An interest can be transformed into a reservation by clicking on the 'Transfom interest to reservation' or 'Accept interest' buttons in the Views or Periods tab.

After confirming transformation the interest will become unconfirmed reservation (if the position is still available) and you will be prompted to make 'Unconfirmed reservation' email if you have defined it in your email templates.