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[New Feature] Introducing: User Management

We’re delighted to announce the launch of our latest feature, and this one is one many of you have been looking forward to: User Management.
User Management has been carefully designed and built to give you the maximum flexibility in involving your team and colleagues in the running of your listings.

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Airbnb Auto Team Reminders—A Guide to Operations on Hospitable

Do you get tired of sending the same old reminders to your cleaners? How about the ones to your maintenance team, laundry team, manager, co-hosts…?
In fact, there’s a way to automate this process entirely, and it’s actually pretty easy to set up.

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Case Study: Casa de Anny—A Timeless Destination in the Heart of Colombia

“My mom lives in an area of Colombia that I like to call ‘the real Colombia.’ It is stuck in time in a simpler era, with nature at heart, with people who still work the land for a living.”

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Lessons Learned from a Season of Events in the Short-Term Rental Industry

October’s been a busy month for us at hospitable, as we attended our first ever batch of events as sponsors! The first was the Vacation Rental World Summit in Lake Como, and the second was the VRMA International Conference.

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9 Simple Ways to Scale-up your Airbnb Operations, from Check-in to Review

The more bookings you get, the less free time you have.
You’re stuck in the old ‘time-for-money’ paradigm…
…and it sucks.
Luckily, however, there are ways (many in fact) that you can run a successful Airbnb business and even scale it up to multiple listings in a way that doesn’t impact your free time.
Intrigued?

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Airbnb Messaging Shortcodes—Guest Personalization (the right way)

Never heard of a shortcode before?
Don’t worry, this article has got you covered.
Shortcodes are little snippets of code (unique to hospitable) that allow you to do some pretty nifty little things with your guest messaging on Airbnb.

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Hosting Fatigue: Remedies and Prevention

When I started out, I felt honored that a group of strangers took a leap of faith in me by booking my home. I felt privileged to have the opportunity to host people in my home and get paid for it, on top!
Two years later, my attitude had changed. In short, I was experiencing a severe case of what is now commonly known as “Airbnb hosting fatigue” or an “Airbnb burnout.” And it’s totally normal.

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Seasonal Change Hacks for Improved Airbnb Occupancy

In the summer we want summery things. In winter we want wintery things.
Department stores have long been taking advantage of this fact as they change the entire look and feel of their stores to position themselves inline with their customers purchasing decisions.
We can learn a thing or two from these high street stores and implement them into the way we compose our Airbnb listings to further resonate with potential guests looking to book.

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How to Communicate with Short Term Rental Guests

Communicating effectively with guests improves the guest experience. This leads to better ratings and reviews, which are crucial to be successful as a short term rental host.
Bear with us for an actionable portion of advice to master your communication skills with guests.

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How We Engineered the New Hospitable

Saying that engineering the new hospitable was intimidating would be an understatement. The original hospitable is loved by hosts all over the world, so threatening that stability is always a risk.
But, to improve the experience for our customers—as well as to ensure our ability to build the next generation of short-term rental management software—we had to bite the bullet and upgrade. All the things.

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Designing the Next Generation of Property Management Systems

When I joined hospitable, I was quite thrilled. It’s not often one gets to work with a platform that’s so loved by its users.
From a technical point of view, the ultimate goal was to design a modular, consistent platform that can grow in time.

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Hospitable Tip: Automatically Notify Your Cleaners About Same-Day Turnover

When you have back-to-back guests at your short-term rentals, it can be stressful to make sure your cleaners are at the ready at the right time. With hospitable, you can automatically notify your cleaners and avoid that stress altogether.

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Hospitable Tip: How to Automatically Upsell Late Check-outs and Extra Nights

One of the ways short-term rental owners make extra income is by upselling. A host in Miami recently shared with us that they make at least $100 per month extra with almost no effort.
A useful feature of hospitable that might not be immediately obvious is that you can automatically ask your guests if they’d like to stay an extra night, or you can offer them a late check-out for a fee.

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Why We Made the New Hospitable

In the world of software, businesses can only make one fundamental mistake: you never, ever, ever rebuild the product and the code from scratch.

Wait!
You are missing out!

Hospitable.com helps you automate messaging, team, and operations management, and run all your Airbnb, Booking.com, and Vrbo properties from one convenient dashboard.

Best thing?

You can start totally free!

14 days trial. No credit card needed