Barefoot Technology

Barefoot Technologies sells property and resort management software for companies renting property short-term, mid-term, and by the season: vacation rentals, corporate housing, resorts, timeshare, and fractional ownership. The company says the platform was built around accounting rather than around the reservation calendar, and that its origins are in serving real estate companies managing short-term rentals on Nantucket.

The core product, Barefoot Agent, handles reservations, CRM and lead management, guest communication and automated messaging, and separate access portals for owners, guests, and vendors. Trust accounting sits underneath it, covering owner statements, bank reconciliations, commissions charged as flat or percentage fees, split fees, complex payout structures, and multiple trust accounts. Additional modules cover resort management, activities and concierge services, asset management reporting for owners, website integrations, and partner APIs.

Accounting as a Service is an outsourced option. Barefoot staff provide oversight and training on month-end and year-end trust accounting for startups, and take on bank reconciliations, batch management, or full outsourcing of the accounting process for larger operators.

The company says it has been in continuous development for more than 25 years, is independently owned and incorporated in the United States, and is certified by the North Carolina Real Estate Commission for trust accounting. It reports processing approximately 350,000 reservations a year and says its accounting system has been tested with over $400 million in transactions. No prices are published, and the site gives two different client-retention figures on different pages, so ask for the current number.