{"id":1446,"date":"2025-05-27T01:11:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T08:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2025-05-27T01:18:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T08:18:54","slug":"allow-external-links-on-booking-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/allow-external-links-on-booking-com\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Allow External Links in Booking.com Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By default, <strong>Booking.com blocks external links<\/strong> in messages exchanged between hosts and guests. This can prevent important links, like your Hostex check-in guide, from being delivered properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To make sure your guests can receive these links, follow the steps below to <strong>whitelist Hostex\u2019s domain<\/strong> in your Booking.com account settings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. <strong>Log in<\/strong> to your Booking.com extranet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Click the <strong>\u201cProperty\u201d<\/strong> tab in the top menu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Select <strong>\u201cMessaging Preferences\u201d<\/strong> from the dropdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-1536x768.png 1536w, https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-2048x1024.png 2048w, https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2-18x9.png 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. Choose the <strong>\u201cSecurity Settings\u201d<\/strong> section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. Click <strong>\u201cAdd a link\u201d<\/strong> in the <strong>\u201cYour approved links\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"599\" src=\"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1024x599.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1024x599.png 1024w, https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-768x449.png 768w, https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1536x899.png 1536w, https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-2048x1198.png 2048w, https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-18x12.png 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">6. Enter the domain: <strong>hostex.io<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"541\" src=\"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1-1024x541.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1-1024x541.png 1024w, https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1-768x406.png 768w, https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1-1536x811.png 1536w, https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1-2048x1082.png 2048w, https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-1-18x10.png 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once you\u2019ve added the domain, any links from Hostex (such as the check-in guide) will be delivered without being blocked by Booking.com\u2019s messaging filters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By default, Booking.com blocks external links in messages exchanged between hosts and guests. This can prevent important links, like your Hostex check-in guide, from being delivered properly. To make sure your guests can receive these links, follow the steps below to whitelist Hostex\u2019s domain in your Booking.com account settings: 1. Log in to your Booking.com [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,32],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messages","category-automations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450,"href":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1446\/revisions\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1446"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hostex.io\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}