Weekly product updates

This week, much of the team's efforts went toward helping fix reported feature improvements. You'll notice some slight improvements in your day-to-day engagement with our features, but please let us know if you have ideas to make it more user-friendly.

Direct

Prevent last-minute bookings from being denied ⏱

• Sometimes bookings could be blocked if they were in time zones behind UTC (like US Pacific or Mountain time)
• The booking widget now will recognize "today's" time and date based on your property's time zone, not UTC
• This means guests can make same-day bookings at any time during the day in the property's local time

AI and Automation

Scoping and Setting Groups with Auto Inbox 📤

• Secondary users couldn't send AI Auto Reply messages from your Airbnb account
• Messages always went out from the primary Airbnb account
• Now, in the Inbox AI Auto Reply settings, you'll see that you can choose between the platform, host, and property scoping settings for a sender
• You can read more about this update here in this detailed help article