Weekly product updates

Welcome to the new year! We are excited for 2025 and to bring you some awesome features in the coming months, including the ones below!

Direct

Guests booking Direct can choose distance units 📏

• Before, hosts would choose whether to display kilometers or miles on their Direct site
• We realized this should be on the guest's side to help them book accordingly
• Now, guests can toggle between kilometers and miles when searching for a property to stay

Pricing and Availability

Specific alterations weren't reflected on calendar 🗓️

• This applies when a guest's stay shortens from a check-out in the future to a check-out during the current day
• The reservation sync was not getting triggered because the booking was being considered in the past
• This is now fixed so that going forward, in similar scenarios, all future dates will be re-opened as expected on the calendar

Day-of-week rules overrode date-specific ones 📆

• Previously, when hosts set the check-in or check-out restrictions using day-of-week, we relied on Airbnb to resolve the calendar state
• It turns out that Airbnb was overriding them with the day-of-week restrictions availability rule if such was set
• We want manual check-in or check-out restrictions to take priority over the day-of-week restrictions
• Now we are projecting the calendar state on our end instead of relying on Airbnb
• For those involved, we've run a calendar re-sync to reflect the changes
• Moving forward, no one should treat Airbnb availability settings as the source of truth as we are no longer keeping them fully in sync

Calendar

Calendar-restricted properties updated rules sync 🛑

• In some instances, we were keeping the availability settings synced among the listings of the same property
• A host on the old connection could change an availability setting on Airbnb and it would be copied to other listings under the same property
• They'd have to change it back, then proceed to "fix" the rules for other listings
• We're no longer syncing availability settings for calendar-restricted properties

Owner Statements

Edit unpublished transactions ✍️

• Hosts can now edit unpublished transactions on the owner's statement
• Now, anything that is possible during creation is also available on edit, such as adding new lines, updating existing lines, removing lines, changing attachments, etc...

Secondary users unable to publish statements 💳

• Secondary users with full access kept seeing an error when trying to publish an owner statement
• Now, as long as the secondary user has access, they will be able to publish owner statements

Integrations

Updated Minut integration page 🔈

• We've released a detailed Minut integration page, including setup help and screenshots

Updated Chekin integration page 🏫

• We've released a detailed Minut integration page, including setup help and screenshots

API and Connect

Added “nights” attribute to reservation response 🌚

• This attribute didn't seem to make it during the transition from API V1 to V2
• It has now been added back in to make the migration easier for users

Our API upgrade guide has been updated 🗺️

• We've collected feedback that it was confusing to follow, especially for less technical users
• The API upgrade guide has now been re-written to be more of a step-by-step guide and includes more detail

General

Victoria, Australia Short Stay Levy Update 🇦🇺

• We've updated how the levy is calculated to be compliant with the latest guidelines and examples from the Victoria State Revenue Office
• The guest service fee will now be included in the taxable amount
• Accordingly, the levy itself should also be included in the taxable amount
• To account for this and ensure the correct 7.5% levy is collected, we'll calculate it as 8.11% of the pre-levy total
• We'll start collecting the tax for new bookings starting January 1st
• You can read more in this detailed help article