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How do you publish and make an accommodation visible?
How do you publish and make an accommodation visible?
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Written by Ilaria Meton
Updated over a week ago

At AvaiBook, we understand the importance of having your accommodations perfectly configured before publishing them. For this reason, we have developed a feature that allows you to create each new accommodation in an unpublished state. This ensures that the accommodation is not visible in the booking engine or on our website and does not connect to the portals until it is completely ready.

Advantages of creating housing in an unpublished state

Quiet and complete setup

Creating an accommodation in an unpublished state allows you to configure all the important aspects without haste.

You can add:

  • Contents and detailed descriptions

  • High-quality photographs

  • Updated rates and availability

Improving the guest experience

Avoid your future guests finding accommodations with incomplete information or outdated calendars, which could cause a bad impression and affect your bookings.

Internal use of the calendar

Unpublished accommodations appear in your calendar. This allows you to:

  • Easily move reservations between accommodations.

  • Optimize the availability of your properties.

Previously, to manage availability in this way, you had to create a dummy accommodation and customize your engine to exclude this accommodation. Now, you can make an unpublished accommodation and use it immediately without any problems.

Additionally, if a listing is in unpublished status, it will be indicated with an icon in your calendar like this:

No pubblished

Publish your accommodation

Once you've completed setting up your listing, you can easily publish it. This will make it visible in your booking engine, and on the website, and will allow connection with portals such as Airbnb or Booking.com.

Steps to publish an accommodation

  1. Set up your accommodation: Make sure all information is complete and up to date.

  2. Verification2. : Check that rates, availability and photos are correct

  3. Publish: Change the status of the published accommodation from the accommodation tab.

If you have partial accommodations

It is necessary to publish at least 1 housing unit; if it has not been published, you will see this message:

To publish your units, you need to click Pencil > Published > Save:

💾 Is necessary published the units one for one, but remember to click always SAVE

How can I see if my accommodations are published

From the accommodation section > my accommodations.

Remember

  • You will always have the option to change a listing to unpublished if you need to make adjustments without it being visible to your guests.

  • Travelers will not be able to book accommodation that is not published by your booking engine or website.

  • An accommodation that is not published, you will still be able to connect it to the portals. It is recommended to put it in published state to connect it.

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