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?

  1. Go to the Properties page.
  2. Click [+] button to create a new property.
  3. Link listings to a property.
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How to delete a property?

  1. Go to the Properties page.
  2. Click on the property you want to delete.
  3. Click on the “Edit” or “More” button on the right side.
  4. Click to Delete this property.
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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?

  1. Go to the Properties page and switch to the Room Types list.
  2. Click [+] button to create a new room type.
  3. Link listings to a room type.
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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?

  1. Go to the Properties page and switch to the Room Types list.
  2. Click on the room type you want to delete.
  3. Click on the “Edit” or “More” button on the right side.
  4. Click to Delete this room type.
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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?

  1. Go to the Properties page.
  2. Click the [More] button.
  3. Select or Add a group and Save.