We've made things easier across the board for all users! From purchasing a custom DIrect domain to customizing your domains, we've got you covered!

Also, we will be moving our changelog to the new Hospitable community in the coming weeks! Be sure to join it and introduce yourself!

Direct

Purchasing a domain is more intuitive 🌐

• When buying a custom domain in Hospitable, we now check different top-level domains (.com/.net/.rental/etc.) to ensure it's available

Airbnb

Customize your fee structure 🤌

• You can now charge your fees based on a specific basis, including for pets
• Choose between per stay, per night, per pet per stay, per pet per night

Integrations

Happy Guest 🏡

• We now have a detailed page dedicated to our Happy Guest integration

Dynamic Pricing

Syncing fees happen in real-time 🔁

• Now when you change your fee structure or amount, they will sync in real-time instead of waiting for the sync period

This week, there are many valuable updates that anyone can use! Try a new beta feature, automate your workflows, purchase domains, plus much more!

Security Deposits

Public beta is live for Direct Premium bookings 🏦

• You can automate the collection of security deposits from guests who book through your Direct site
• Go to your property's settings, go to pricing, and set the amount you want to collect under the Hospitable Security Deposit option
• We collect the deposit two days before check-in and release it two days after check-out
• We will notify your guests, automate the collection, and include chargeback protection

Direct

Buy a custom domain within Hospitable 🌐

• You can now buy your very own domain right within Hospitable
• If you're not as tech-savvy, this completely removes the pain of registering your domain and managing your DNS settings
• Soon, you will be able to send emails from your custom domain bought through Hospitable
• You will also soon be able to transfer your external domains into Hospitable

Integrations

Zapier ⚡️

• We now have a detailed page dedicated to our Zapier integration
• Use Zapier to create automated workflows and connect your software stack with their no-code builder
• Soon, we will allow you to create these trigger and action workflows right within Hospitable
• You can learn more about Zapier and creating Zaps with Hospitable in this detailed help article

AI

Push notifications for sentiment analysis labels 🚨

• Mogul users will now be alerted on their mobile devices when we detect an issue with a guest and generate a label for the booking
• When you open the push notification, it will take you straight to the conversation to address the issue with the guest
• Be sure to have our mobile app downloaded to receive these push notifications

Booking.com

Syncing Booking.com listings is more intuitive 🗓

• It's now easier to do a full channel sync when your Booking.com account is the lead channel
• We've updated the time before we sync listing details, making it more in line with Booking.com's supported settings

Guest Experience

Delete pending review replies 🗑

• You can now delete review replies that are sitting in a drafted state
• This will help you clean up old review replies that may not be relevant anymore

Smart Devices

Easier to understand the thermostat settings 🌡

• If there is an active temperature schedule and the guest updates it, we will now display Guest Controlled instead of Manual Setting

Our AI features, including our Inbox and Knowledge Hub, have received many exciting updates. We're also constantly improving our newly released Dynamic Pricing!

Inbox

Delay mode for auto-reply messages ⏱

• Inbox AI Auto Reply can now be set to delay before sending
• Your AI reply message is generated and then waits for a set amount of time before sending
• The prepared message sits in the message input field in the conversation
• You can review and edit the message and optionally cancel or send it immediately

Cancel an active auto-reply message ❌

• You can now cancel a message when it is in the process of being drafted and still visible on the conversation page

Updated settings layout ⚙️

• The settings for Auto Reply templates are more intuitive to navigate
• We've grouped options conceptually under three tabs: settings, timing, and scope
• Auto Reply settings are now also auto-saved on any changes

Inbox AI can recognize photos 🖼

• Photos shared in conversations, whether by guests or hosts, can train the AI to provide better answers
• It'll take into account the last three photos shared when crafting a message

Knowledge Hub

Add missed Knowledge Hub items from the Inbox 🧠

• We now check when you edit AI-generated messages and add any missing information you include to the property's Knowledge Hub
• This could be updates to policies, locations of items, or any updated local knowledge
• This is currently released for Mogul users

Guest Verification

Reviewing suspected status after guest vetting 🧐

• We've replaced the ‘Accept’ button on the booking with a ‘Review’ button, which opens the guest verification dialog for you to review
• You'll now accept or reject the booking there, but also can from the guest verification window

Dynamic Pricing

Secondary users can edit Dynamic Pricing 🧮

• You can now set permissions for secondary users to edit Dynamic Pricing settings
• This is only if the primary user has already enabled Dynamic Pricing for the property

Smart Devices

Add Thermostat buffer settings 🌡

• You can now change the two-hour buffer to any amount of time you want before check-in and after check-out
• This gives you more control over the thermostat's behavior and can result in even more energy savings

Integrations

WelcomeScreen 💬

• We now have a detailed page dedicated to our WelcomeScreen integration

We celebrated our 100th Town Hall on Wednesday with one of Hospitable's most exciting and valuable product announcements!

Dynamic Pricing

Our built-in Dynamic Pricing is now live 🤑

• Optimizing your pricing to maximize your property's revenue and occupancy has never been easier
• Set up and control your Dynamic Pricing strategy right from your Hospitable calendar
• Use millions of data points to set the proper rates to fill your calendar and wallet
• Stay in full control by customizing your strategy and manually overriding prices at any time
• Before turning it on, you can preview how our dynamic pricing tool will affect your rates for up to 24 months
• Dynamic Pricing is available for users on our Host, Professional, and Mogul plans
• Legacy users will need to upgrade their plan to have it enabled on their account
• Explore this interactive tour or read our detailed help articles to learn more

Direct

Updated states where we file and remit taxes 🗃

• We're now retaining and remitting the following taxes for our Direct Premium users:
• Florida state sales tax
• Utah state and local sales tax
• Alabama state lodging tax
• New Jersey state sales tax
• You can see an updated full list of where we file and remit taxes in this help article

Improved booking for Direct Basic guests 📆

• It's easier for Direct Basic guests to fill in and confirm their billing address when booking

My Business

Arbitrage is now an option as a business type 🏘

• Similar to the Owner business type, but now you have a "Building Rent" as an expense category rather than "Mortgage"
• You can read more about the different business types in this detailed help article

Owner Statements

New status for paid statements and invoices ✅

• Keep track of which statements and invoices have been paid out to owners
• You'll see a new Paid status for this on the statements list
• This also allows profit and loss reports to be available for Property Manager and Owner business types
• A more extensive list of transactions is also now available for property managers
• Read this detailed help article to learn more about the new paid status

Booking.com

Creating and listing is now in a public beta 🏡

• You can now create and manage Booking.com listings directly from Hospitable
• Use existing Airbnb listing data to create your Booking.com listing
• It's available to all Hospitable users who have beta features enabled
• Read more about the Booking.com listing management feature in this detailed help article

Rental Agreements

Show rental agreement previews during booking 📑

• Direct guests now see all required agreements with a clickable name that opens a preview

There are a few Direct updates and a private pilot for Security Deposits that we can't wait for you to try!

Security Deposits

Private pilot is live for Direct Premium hosts 🤌

• Collect security deposits from your guests for extra booking protection
• Set the amount you want to collect for your listing's security deposit
• It's free to use during the pilot, but a 2% fee will be applied to all security deposits after the pilot
• This will only apply to new Direct bookings during the pilot
• Sign up for the private pilot here to be invited

Direct

Custom domains are now available for every user 🌐

• All users' custom domains have been imported to the new 'Domains' list
• We're differentiating between external and Hospitable-managed domains
• External: The domain DNS is managed externally, but we're aware of it
• Hospitable-managed: We'll manage the DNS for you by connecting your server's name to us
• We've also revamped the 'Domains' tab in the Sites view to have a better DNS verification
• Custom domains can now be renamed

We have some exciting updates that will help you run your rental company! We've also improved our Airbnb connections now that we are a Preferred+ Partner!

Operations

Create a business and assign properties to it 🗄

• Users on the Mogul plan will now see My Business under Operations
• You can create multiple businesses and assign your properties to them that fall under the same business model
• Choose from these different business models: Owner, Manager, and Renter (soon to come)
• Each of these will customize what you see with certain features, such as Metrics and Owner Statements
• The Owner's business model will also have a Profit and Loss Report feature available
• Learn more about our My Business functionality in this detailed help article

Airbnb

Receive notifications about your account 🔔

• You'll now receive alerts when more information is needed about your Airbnb account
• These alerts will be shown in the Connected Accounts page
• Learn more about these hosting notifications in this detailed help article

Get suggestions to improve listing's performance 📈

• See your listing's quality status and how to improve it with suggestions
• These suggestions are designed to enhance your listing's booking performance
• Learn more about your quality status and improving it in this detailed help article

Review category tags for bad guests 🏷

• When leaving a negative review for a guest (3 stars or below), you will now be able to tag the guest with a category
• We will use AI to try to automatically tag the review based on your conversation with the guest

Invite hosts to your account with a specific scope 📩

• Now, when inviting other hosts to your Hospitable account, you can choose the scope of the connection
• You can choose from the Property Management Scope, which we recommend, or the Operations Scope

Owner Statements

Hide or show reservation fees owed to owners 📄

• You can now see the fee breakdown for both the manager and the owners on your statements
• If the total for the fee column is zero, we will hide the column automatically to make it easier to read

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

Some great visual enhancements to the calendar, a helpful update to owner statements, and more states added for tax remittance on Direct.

Calendar and Availability

Prices sync from Hospitable to your OTAs 💰

• The prices you set in Hospitable will now be pushed to your booking channels
• This is a big update to make us your source of truth, like it is for availability and minimum night stay
• Changes in your OTAs will be overridden by the prices stored in Hospitable
• If you're using a dynamic pricing solution, be sure to connect it to Hospitable to ensure your prices are saved appropriately
• This will lead to more consistency and reliability in your base and weekend rates

Make the calendar's design more intuitive 📆

• Unavailable and manually blocked days are easier to identify on the calendar days
• Restricted check-in and check-out days are shaded on the affected days

Select an 18-month rolling availability window 🗓

• Now you can extend the availability window out to 18 months, even though Airbnb doesn't support it
• This is especially useful for dynamic pricing solutions that extend windows further out

Direct

Tax remittance for more states on Direct Premium 💸

• We are now retaining sales (state and local) and lodging (state only) taxes in Hawaii and Vermont

Victoria searches display the price before tax 🇦🇺

• When guests search for properties in Victoria, we'll now show the price before taxes are added

Owner Statements

Upload multiple attachments to transactions 🧾

• You can now upload multiple attachments, like receipts, to a single attachment

Copilot

Ask questions about user messaging 🔮

• Copilot now has access to how many messages users have sent in a certain time frame

Not a huge amount of releases to announce this week, but that's because we're cooking up some big ones in the coming weeks! Even still, there are some great updates to note down!

Owner Statements

Customize more columns on your statements 📑

• Fee columns can now be shown or hidden on the reservation breakdown for the Owner Statements and Invoices
• If there is a large number of columns, we'll automatically create the PDF in landscape mode, instead of the normal portrait mode

Inbox

Identify messages sent by AI 💌

• Messages sent automatically will state "Sent by AI Auto Reply" under the message
• This is limited to Auto Reply only for now, but soon it will be for Suggest with AI as well

Direct

New design for Guest Portal tasks 📋

• Hosts with Direct Premium reservations will see an updated sidebar in the Inbox showing the status of the tasks
• The task modal is also more intuitive for hosts to know where the guests are in completing their ID verification and rental agreements

Mobile App

You can now refer hosts and earn within the app 📲

• Refer a family member or friend, and each of you will get $30 off your next invoice

There are lots of updates for users of Owner Statements, iCal imports, and Airbnb. We also have an exciting integration private pilot to join!

Integrations

Join our Zapier private pilot today ⚡️

• Use triggers and actions to connect your different software and automate workflows
• Sign up for the private pilot here
• Learn more about Zapier here

Owner Statements

Customize your unpublished statements 🖌

• You can change the headline and reservation-specific columns on unpublished statements
• Once customized, the changes will reflect on all statements and invoices related to the property

Redirect to conversations from the details page 📩

• You can now jump to the booking conversation directly from the statement's details page

Calendar and Availability

iCal imports can be renamed ✏️

• You can give a nickname to your different properties' iCal imports
• The iCal's host name can also be changed to align expectations when messaging guests

Direct

Automatically add a payout method 💰

• Now when you create a site as a Direct Premium user, we'll automatically add a payout method from your subscription billing information
• This allows you to start accepting reservations as soon as you publish your site

Airbnb

List and unlist from the property details page 🏚

• Listings from Airbnb can now be unlisted from the property's merge-match page
• You must give a reason to Airbnb as to why you are unlisting your property

Alteration payout improvements 🧾

• We've updated the way you make alterations to see the calculated payout difference easily
• This change brings the alteration flow closer to how it looks on Airbnb

Calculation types added for fees 🗃

• You can now add a calculation type (per stay, per person, etc.) to align better how Airbnb structures its fees

Rental Agreements

Toggle your agreements on and off 🔘

• You'll notice a toggle on the overview and details pages allowing you to enable or disable your rental agreements

API

We've added a webhook for reviews 🔗

• You can now trigger a webhook whenever you receive a new review