Membership with Intervac
At Intervac we believe we have the best home exchangers in the world. If you'd like to find out for yourself, join us today on a FREE trial membership. You will receive access to our site for 21 days to try out all its features, browse our database and contact our members.
What Intervac offers for all members!
- Access to all listings
- Your listing posted with photos and text
- Possibility to send and receive exchange offer
- Possibility to save your favourite listings
- Receive match alerts when listings meet your wishes
- Personal statistics
- Personal assistance and service from your national representative
- Notification about new messages by e-mail
- Free newsletter
- Second listing free to post your second home
- Instant translation tool
- Pre-filled exchange agreement
Our member reference system
Member reference system
Our member reference system awards badges (Trial, Ready-to-go, Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum) are based on the number of confirmed exchanges a family has made. The badge shows on the member’s listing.
Trial
Ready-to-go
Bronze
Silver
Gold
Platinum
After a member return home from their vacation they may choose to act as a reference for their exchange partner. These references are listed and may display feedback written by previous exchange partners on each member's listing page. This icon on a listing shows when a member have references. If you have questions about a member, you should feel free to contact their references to ask how the exchange worked out and if they were satisfied. Yes, there is trust involved in swapping homes, but with Intervac, you can also verify.
Become the next Intervac Ambassador
We are always looking for experienced members interested in helping us spread the word about Intervac and home exchange. If you are an experienced Intervac member and would like to help us spread the word about Intervac and home exchange, we invite you to become an ambassador.
What is an Intervac Ambassador supposed to do?
We expect each Ambassador to:
- Send exchange stories that we can share on our blog, newsletter, and social media
- Tell their friends about Intervac
- Answer questions from new members
- Be available for interviews by journalists in your country
Are there any benefits?
Yes! First of all, you get 3 months free on your membership when you become an Ambassador. Secondly, you get the special ambassador badge on your listing.
Intervac website features
Features on Intervac website
Your online entry allows you to record a great deal of information about your home and surroundings. To get the most from your membership it is essential to promote your home and its area, indicating where you are, how best to be reached and what's on offer. The more information you can give in the form of photos and text, the more it helps other members to decide that your offer is exactly what they are searching.
Photos and Descriptive Text
Intervac provides facilities for you to post up to twenty photos and write (unlimited!) descriptive text under the headings: your home, family, lifestyle and neighbourhood. Multi-lingual members often post descriptions in their various languages in order to improve the findability of their listing by keyword searches. It is all quite easy to do, there is lots of help text available on the site, and your local organiser is happy to help if you find you have questions that are not already answered.
A map of surroundings
Every listing has an (optional) Google map so that perspective partners can get a good picture of the neighborhood where your home is located. The marker is not by default placed precisely on your home. If you like though, you can place it yourself using latitude and longitude.
Search Facilities
- Country
- Region
- Exchange dates
- Sleeping accommodations
- Guests
- Or, any combination of the above.
Reverse searches
Intervac has the most comprehensive "reverse search" in the industry. We encourage our members to fill in as many regions and cities as they like (it\'s unlimited!) so that you can find all members who are specifically interested in visiting your country, region or nearest city.
Members favorites
Your Favorites list can help you keep track of your dream vacations. With the click of a button, you can add a listing to your favorites. Write notes to yourself in the notes section and keep track of your contacts.
Match alert!
Here is a nifty tool designed for the frequent exchanger with not much time for browsing. Tell our system what sort of offers interest you by saving your search criteria and check the Match Alert box. We\'ll let you know when a listing that matches your search criteria becomes available.
Integrated Messaging System
Yes, that's right, we have an integrated messaging system that allows you to contact other members and without ever leaving our website. You can see that a message has been sent and when it was read. Offers and answers to your messages are waiting for you when you login. You can contact several of your favorites at once and use templates to send your messages. As soon as you have set up your listing, you can start connecting with other members so that you can find your next home exchange!
Last Minute Listings
Look out for the hot listings icon
This is a succinct list of members looking for a partner for an exchange within the next 8 weeks. Adding your listing to the Last Minute List is easy as clicking a button. Your listing will appear on the Hot list for four days, after which you can click to add it again if you are still haven't found a home exchange.
