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Separate Inbox thread per booking for guests with multiple bookings
At the moment, Hostfully Inbox doesn't separate the guest thread per booking: it remains a continuous history of messages between guest and agency no matter how many bookings the guest has with your properties.
I want only corresponding messages associated with a booking to show up when selecting a booking on the right "booking selector" of Inbox.
125 votesThis feature has now been released.
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Import Airbnb co-host messages to Inbox
As PM with no access to the main host account but only the co-host account to send messages from the Airbnb app, I'd like these messages to show up in Hostfully Inbox as well
It occurs that many PMs don't have access to the main host account (it belongs to the owner for example). So they communicate and manage reservations as a co-host.
If Hostfully Inbox doesn't import co-host's messages, I'll need to go back and forth between Hostfully Inbox and Airbnb messages which is time-consuming.
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Opt-out of lead assignment
As an agency, you can choose to opt-out of lead assignments.
With this option, leads will never be assigned to anyone, and any PM (with the right property permission) will be able to manage leads at any time.79 votesHere is a demo video explaining this new feature: https://www.loom.com/share/5797a67034c74273b43408f0d363f0b5
or the Help topic about it:
https://help.hostfully.com/en/articles/7206454-activate-deactivate-lead-assignment
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Receive Vrbo guest inquiries and guest portal messages in the Hostfully Inbox
Currently I can communicate with Vrbo guests via email in the Hostfully Inbox. Here's how I do that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzrIBhiitBY&t=4s.
Also, it's great that when the guest sends me a message in a booking request through Vrbo, then that message appears in the Hostfully Lead/Stay Details.
There are a couple of scenarios where I would appreciate a deeper integration with Vrbo's messaging. For example, if the guest sends me a message through the Vrbo guest portal, then it doesn't come into the Hostfully inbox and I can only reply through my email. Another example is if the guest sends me…
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Mobile app for Hostfully
I looked for phone apps to help me and there are absolutely none that are simple and clear like yours.
And since i use yours on my desktop i would love t to continue with you. Have it all sinked. Especially that I am not often
in front of my desktop. But more with my phone. Definitely looking forward to having it!!!75 votes -
Allow for unlimited number of pricing rules
Currently there are a fixed number of pricing rules. 1 increase and 2 decrease. I would like the ability to add more rules.
73 votesHi everyone! Good news: now you can add unlimited pricing rules (specifically, length-of-stay discounts).
You can refer to this article for more details: https://help.hostfully.com/en/articles/1844391-configure-pricing#h_fd8b27ed9c
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Improve how photos can be organized and re-ordered
The drag and re-order is too tedious, especially when you just got all new photos for your listing and need to delete all these old ones and reorder 50 new ones.
I think that there should be a toggle between the current view and a thumbnail view that puts the photos in a grid (maybe 4-5 across and then they are in rows going down) without the photo comments in this thumbnail view. That way we can reorder the photos quickly and see better what overall the order looks like to guests, and then when we are ready to add…
71 votesHi everyone! We're excited to inform you that with the redesign of the property settings, now it's easier than ever to organize and re-order your property's photos.
For more details, please refer to this article: https://help.hostfully.com/en/articles/9770745-add-property-photos-in-hostfully
Thanks for your patience while we worked on improving this feature!
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Show character count in all fields with a character limit in Property Description Tab
Now that Airbnb and VRBO both have restrictions on the number of characters for Public Name and Long Description, it would be extremely helpful and more streamline to make those adjustments. Instead I'll have to copy and past into a word doc and the paste back into. It's kinda clumsy and time consuming as I have 20+ properties to adjust. Unless I am missing it somewhere. :)
70 votesGreat news! With the redesign of the Property Settings, now you'll see the character count LIVE in all fields with a character limit in the property's descriptions.
For more details, you can refer to this article: https://help.hostfully.com/en/articles/8017235-update-your-property-s-description
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Improve booking financials in Owners Portal
Owners often want to know financial information about bookings on demand. I am requesting an additional toggle on/off setting in the Owner tab of the Property page so agencies can choose whether this information shows on the Owners Portal calendar or not.
66 votesThis feature is now live.
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Import Airbnb messages from secondary guest to Hostfully Inbox
At the moment, only messages from the primary guest on Airbnb appear in Hostfully Inbox. I want messages from the secondary guest to appear as well.
65 votesThis feature is now released to production.
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Preserve pricing when modifying existing bookings (i.e. adding guests or additional nights)
We're noticed a flaw in the way Hostfully handles modification of an existing booking that we'd like to see corrected as it has the potential to overcharge guests.
Essentially, when you make a change to an existing booking (adding guests, or adding nights), if the price of the lodging has changed since the guest booked, Hostfully applies the new price to their entire stay, rather than simply applying any new charges.
For example:
Let's say a party of four books three nights in on of our lodgings at a rate of $100/night.
The lodging is capable of housing six, but…
65 votesThis fixed is not live in production. Thank you for your patience.
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Let Cleaners View Booking Calendar in Service Hub
We’d love to see a feature added to the new Service Provider Hub that allows service providers (like cleaners, handymen, etc.) to view a read-only booking calendar showing check-in/check-out dates and guest count, without revealing guest names, contact info, or pricing. With the new app they are only able to view dots for assigned jobs and can no longer see all bookings. ( I put new view and old view screenshots below)
Previously, this was possible in the web-based version of the service provider portal, and it helped cleaners better plan around guest stays, even if they weren’t assigned a…
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Import Airbnb messages only when a property is turned "on" in Airbnb Channel
Right now Airbnb messages are coming in sometimes when a property manager imports a property from Airbnb, even if they have not turned that property to “on” in the Airbnb channel.
Another case is that, when a PM connects to an Airbnb account but only imports and manages one, not all, listings in that account. Nevertheless, Airbnb messages from other listings not managed by them show up in Inbox without property and reservation details.
We would like for Airbnb messages to only start appearing in the Inbox when the property managers goes to Channels / Airbnb and turns “on” that…
62 votesThis has been completed. Now Airbnb messages only come in to the Hostfully inbox once the property is live and connected through Hostfully. Not during the initial property data import.
Thanks everyone for your feedback!
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Support Booking.com multiple-room reservations within the PMP
At the moment, for BDC channel, Hostfully does not yet support multiple transactions on a single order and only receive the first reservation via API.
We enquire Hostfully to work with booking.com to resolve the tech issue moving forwards. You note that it’s rare but we’ve already had about 3 of these bookings in a short period of time. If 2 suites are booked with booking - then it should automatically show on the calendar, without having to manually blocking out the calendar or raising separate cleaning jobs.
60 votesNow you can manage group reservations from Booking.com in Hostfully, in both the web platform and the mobile app 🤩
When a Booking.com guest books multiple rooms in one reservation, you'll receive a group booking in Hostfully. Each selected room within the group reservation becomes a "sub-booking" with its own details. More details here: https://help.hostfully.com/en/articles/11509339-manage-group-bookings-from-booking-com
We are working on adding more Pipeline actions for group bookings. Currently, if you want to make changes or cancel a group booking, you'll need to do that directly in the Booking.com Extranet.
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Ability to cancel a booking directly from Calendar
When you are in the calendar you could cancel a booking rather than having to leave the calendar and go find the listing in the pipeline- which is an unnecessary extra step; this would streamline workflow.
And it would be so much faster and easier, less opportunities for mistakes.
59 votesGreat news: Pipeline actions are now available in the reservation modal!
This means, whether you're on the Dashboard, Calendar, Inbox, or elsewhere, if the reservation modal is open, your Pipeline actions (e.g., record payments, send payment request, cancel a booking, etc.) are right there with you.
For more details on Pipeline actions, please refer to this article: https://help.hostfully.com/en/articles/2043714-manage-a-booking-on-the-pipeline#h_e94327ec2a
To learn how to take action on a booking from your Calendar, check this article: https://help.hostfully.com/en/articles/2627154-utilize-the-hostfully-central-calendar#h_ac709126ca
To learn how to take action on a booking from your Dashboard, check this article: https://help.hostfully.com/en/articles/9034218-navigate-the-hostfully-dashboard#h_6ca8ff5596
To learn how to take action on a booking from your Inbox, check this article: https://help.hostfully.com/en/articles/5412369-communicate-with-guests-through-the-inbox#h_f0510b94fa
Thanks everyone for your patience while we worked on this. Happy hosting!
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Stacked calendar with editable nightly rate and minimum stay
I would LOVE a stacked calendar that shows not only the availability, but also the rate and minimum stay. It would be so useful and time efficient for me to have all my properties in one screen with availability, rate and minimum stay. If I could also edit the rate and minimum stay from there it would be wonderful. If not, at least I would like to be able to see all this info in one screen.
56 votesYou can now view price and min stay per night for all your properties in the new central calendar.
Bulk edit will come in our second phase - follow it here https://hostfully.uservoice.com/forums/271343/suggestions/45988450
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Allow control over system template automation
System templates are sent automatically to our Booking.com guests but some of them are irrelevant to our business or sent when they are not needed.
When a guest has paid via Booking.com virtual card, Hostfully has seen this as unpaid and sent the guest a payment link. The guest then paid twice. We then lost money refunding him.
Its also wasting our time trying to reassure people that they don't owe money or that we aren't trying to con them.We need to have more control over these and should be able to turn off the automatic feature.
51 votesThis feature has now be deployed to production. Users can now turn off the messages automatically sent by the systems using a toggle control on the System Templates page.
Note that templates which do not show a toggle button do not get sent automatically, but are templates for messages sent by property managers.
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Set fees globally in bulk
Many fees are the same for every property, or for large groups of properties. It's a huge pain to have to add every fee to each property individually. There should be an option to set defaults globally and then override them at the property level.
50 votesHi everyone! Thanks for upvoting this idea.
With the new Property Settings, you now can create fees/taxes for multiple properties at the same time! For more details, you can refer to this help article: https://help.hostfully.com/en/articles/3586061-set-up-your-listing-fees-taxes-and-policies#setting-up-fees
Thanks for your patience while we worked on this feature!
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Assigning multiple Service Providers per property
Sometimes Cleaner 1 is not available to clean Unit A. When I look at Unit A's calendar for "June", I want to be able to assign some of the cleans to Cleaner 1 and some assigned to Cleaner 2. I don't believe this is possible.
49 votesYou are now able to add multiple of the same type of service provider to a single property!
More info here :)
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Change Inbox to separate messages by lead/reservation rather than email address
Currently, the inbox lumps together messages sent to the same email address. For guests with multiple bookings, particularly multiple bookings on different dates, this causes variable information to be unpredictable when the guests name is selected from the left hand sidebar in the inbox.
For instance:
John Smith made an inquiry on property A, and a quote is opened. He receives some automated communication about Property A that pulls in variables from Property A's listing .
John Smith then changes his mind and books property B.
John Smith receives our automated confirmation email for property B, which pulls in variables…
48 votesThis will get released shortly. Currently in beta.
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