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Shared by Alan • June 06, 2025

We're excited to provide security deposits for more of your bookings and make it easy to set up your branding!

We can also file and remit more state taxes for Direct Premium users! Lastly, if you haven't yet, be sure to join the community and introduce yourself!

Security Deposits

Direct Premium in beta and Airbnb in private pilot 💰

  • Set a security deposit for your properties, and we'll automatically collect, hold, and release them for DIrect and Airbnb bookings
  • Quickly request charges when an incident occurs with guests right in the Inbox
  • Guest verification and chargeback protection are included on all security deposits
  • Airbnb bookings are free while in private pilot, which you can sign up for here
  • Direct bookings come with a 2% fee for every security deposit
  • Take an interactive tour of Security Deposits to explore it more
  • Read our detailed help articles to learn more

Direct

Updates states where we file and remit taxes 🗺

  • Direct Premium users now have more states where we take care of their taxes
  • Georgia: State Sales Tax, County and Local Sales Tax, State Hotel-Motel Fee
  • Illinois: Illinois State Hotel Operators Occupation Tax
  • Indiana: State Sales Tax
  • New York: State Sales Tax, Local Sales Tax
  • North Carolina: State Sales Tax, Local Sales Tax
  • Learn more about Direct taxes in our detailed help articles

Settings

Branding is now in your preference 🖌

  • You can go to your preferences to update your logo, icon, and social links
  • You can also manage and add additional website domains

Community

Community added to the main left menu 🏘

  • You can now easily stay up to date with industry discussions, events, product updates, and more by accessing the community in the main menu

Dynamic Pricing

Preview pricing is set to a 90-day limit 🗓

  • We'll now notify you of the pricing preview being set to 90 days when you don't have dynamic pricing enabled on a property
  • You won't see this pop-up when you hover over a date with a reservation