How Do I Set Up My Property?
After your Airbnb or Vrbo/HomeAway or booking.com account has been fully integrated with Hostex, one of the things that will help you to enhance your rental management is setting up your properties.
What Is A Property?
A “property” is a room that you rent in real life. It is the basic unit in Hostex for managing listings from multiple channels.
How to create a property?
- Go to the Properties page.
- Click [＋] button to create a new property.
- Link listings to a property.
How to delete a property?
- Go to the Properties page.
- Click on the property you want to delete.
- Click on the “Edit” or “More” button on the right side.
- Click to Delete this property.
Notes. Once a property is deleted, reservations that previously belonged to this property will be affected by.
① These reservations will no longer be displayed in the Calendar page.
② These reservations will still be displayed in Reservations page, but they will not belong to any particular room.
③ If you delete a property by mistake, you can manually change rooms to re-allocate these reservations.
④ Deleting rooms will not affect revenue statistics.
What Is A Room Type?
A “Room Type” can contain more than one property; the number of properties it contains is the inventory for that room type.
If you are selling a listing that has more than 1 inventory, then you can use the room type to manage the listings from muti-channels.
How to create a room type?
- Go to the Properties page and switch to the Room Types list.
- Click [＋] button to create a new room type.
- Link listings to a room type.
Enter a room type and click the Edit button, then you can add or remove properties in it to suit your business.
How to delete a room type?
- Go to the Properties page and switch to the Room Types list.
- Click on the room type you want to delete.
- Click on the “Edit” or “More” button on the right side.
- Click to Delete this room type.
Notes. Deleting a room type does not delete the properties it contains.
What Is A Room Group?
A “Room group” is a way to categorize and manage rooms.
After grouping, you can manage the settings of different groups of properties, such as modifying price, autoresponder, cleaning tasks, etc.
How to add a property to a group?
- Go to the Properties page.
- Click the [More] button.
- Select or Add a group and Save.
