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Escapia

“Can Expedia's enterprise vacation-rental PMS retain professional property managers by owning trust accounting and Vrbo distribution while remaining neutral on payments and finance?”

Founded2000
HQAustin, Texas, United States
IndustryVertical SaaS / Vacation Rentals
The story

Escapia was founded in 2000 as one of the earliest web-based property-management systems for professional vacation rental operators, differentiating on trust accounting for regulated escrow of guest deposits. It was acquired into the HomeAway/Vrbo family and became part of Expedia Group. Today it serves 900+ property management companies as the enterprise Vrbo-adjacent PMS, and its embedded finance surface is deliberately narrow: it acts as a gateway/orchestrator between property managers and third-party card processors (VacationRentPayment, Authorize.net, SecurePay in ANZ) rather than operating any regulated financial rails itself.

Last 12 months
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Product timeline
2000
Escapia founded as web-based vacation rental management software for professional operators handling trust accounts and multi-unit portfolios.· launch
2010
Escapia, Inc. incorporated (per LinkedIn founding-year record).· launch
2010
Acquired by HomeAway (which was later acquired by Expedia Group in 2015), bringing Escapia into the Vrbo/Expedia ecosystem.· acquisition
2015
Became part of Expedia Group tech stack via HomeAway acquisition; deep Vrbo integration follows.· acquisition
The stack
4 layers disclosed in Escapia’s embedded-finance stack
Payments / PSP
VacationRentPaymentAuthorize.netSecurePayCeleroAscent Payment Solutions
Lending
in the full report
Insurance
in the full report
KYC
in the full report
Accounting gap: none
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