Weekly product updates

Shared by Alan • December 20, 2024

We've made a lot of improvements over the week, especially around improving the user interface for smart devices and the Inbox message threads.

Properties

Display when your property's listing is unlisted 🏠

Before we'd show when a whole property was marked unlisted but we have not been showing when one of the listings is unlisted
This caused the availability sync to be skipped because we couldn't push it to VRBO
Now we are showing any listing as unlisted on the property page

Prevent hosts from unmuting properties on updated Aribnb connection 🔕

We're no longer allowing users to unmute properties that contain a mix of OPS and PMS-scoped listings
These conditions for restriction are 100% aligned with the recent property merging and linking updates

Better navigation to parent and child properties 🏘

Before you had to search for parent-child properties by copying and pasting
Now you can click the parent and child properties to navigate to their property page within the Related Properties section

Updated text to create task completion urgency 📣

The copy used to make it seem like tasks should be done before check-in, rather than leading them to get them done as soon as possible
The copy has now been updated to encourage guests to complete their tasks as soon as possible (guest vetting and rental agreements)

Allow %guest_portal% in New Reservation messages 🖋

The guest portal short code can now be added allowing guests to access the portal in earlier messages
You will see it visible in the New Reservation messaging rules

Calendar sync to external pushes less frequently 📆

Before we were doing full calendar updates to Airbnb, Booking.com, and Agoda every 4.5-hour calendar sync
At Airbnb's request, we've now started doing less frequent full syncs for all properties containing at least one PMS-connected listing
We will also be doing a full calendar re-sync every 24 hours
No major changes have been made to the existing calendar sync logic⁠

Restricted calendar on non Airbnb updated connection listings 🗓

Properties that contain Airbnb OPS listings and no OPS ones will have their calendar restricted
The only way to not restrict the calendar will be to upgrade the listings to PMS or unlink them

Thermostat integration available to all beta users 🌡

We are currently supporting Ecobee & Honeywell thermostats
Currently it is free to connect thermostats
We’ll introduce pricing on February 1st with the full roll-out
All of the support documentation can be found here as well as a list of supported devices here

Displaying preset types and icons 📊

We’re now showing the correct type and icon for every created thermostat preset
We've added a type column on the preset page since there could be multiple presets with the same type

Validation for editing default thermostat presets 📍

Added Linkbase apps page 📇

Added Strly apps page 🏚

Added Webready apps page 🖥

New Inbox thread user interface for all users 📨

We've removed the ability to switch from the new to the old version of the thread interface
The star, translate, and resolve action buttons are bigger and moved to the top of the guest details tab
The friendly new thread interface has also been released on the mobile app
Here is the changelog update that explains the release in detail

Use of `host.hospitable.com` for email forwarding 📤