When you create your Booking Engine (Booking Website for Lite users), you select which properties will be included in the Booking Engine. These properties will appear in the search results of the Engine and can be booked by guests. You can always take properties on and off the Booking Engine as your business needs change. Follow the instructions below to configure which properties to include in the Booking Engine.
Prerequisites and limitations
- Only active and listed properties can be included in the Booking Engine.
- Listings that have been unlisted from booking channels will not appear on the Booking Website. A property must be to be displayed.
- The Booking Engine supports bookable listings for multi-units (Pro users) and single-units. Complex listings can be added but are not available for direct booking. In the case of a multi-unit, you can only add the main unit to the Engine, and your guests can only book the main unit (meaning, they cannot book a specific sub-unit). When a reservation for the multi-unit is received, it will be assigned to one of the multi-unit's available sub-units.
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If you set your booking Engine/Website to include "All" properties, any properties you create will automatically be added to the list of properties included in the Booking Engine. You can always change these settings.
Select which properties to include in the Booking Engine
Step by step:
- Sign in to your Guesty account.
- In the top navigation bar, click the mode selector and select Growth mode.
- Click Distribution.
- Click the Guesty Booking Engine thumbnail.
- In the relevant Booking Engine row, click the pencil icon under Assigned properties. In the pop-up, select the relevant option:
- Specific properties: Manually select which properties to include in the Booking Engine. The selected properties will appear under "Assigned". To add more properties to the Engine, click Unassigned, and tick the checkboxes of the properties you want to add.
- Assign by rule: Customize how current and future properties will be added to the Booking Engine using filters. You can exclude properties from this selection.
- All: include all the properties you currently have. New properties you created will be added automatically to the list. You can exclude properties from this selection.
- After you applied your changes, click Done.
Step by step:
- Sign in to your Guesty account.
- In the top navigation bar, click Channels, then select Booking website.
- In the relevant Booking Website row, click the pencil icon under Assigned properties. In the pop-up, select the relevant option:
- Specific properties: Manually select which properties to include in the Booking Engine. The selected properties will appear under "Assigned". To add more properties to the Engine, click Unassigned, and tick the checkboxes of the properties you want to add.
- Assign by rule: Customize how current and future properties will be added to the Booking Engine using filters. You can exclude properties from this selection.
- All: include all the properties you currently have. New properties you created will be added automatically to the list. You can exclude properties from this selection.
- After you applied your changes, click Done.
The destination dropdown in the Booking Engine search widget is automatically synced with the cities assigned to your Booking Engine listings.
Featured properties
Showcase your best listings on your booking website homepage using the Featured Properties section. This optional feature helps increase visibility for your selected properties.
Step by step:
- Sign in to your Guesty account.
- In the top navigation bar, click the mode selector and select Growth mode.
- Click Distribution.
- Click the Guesty Booking Engine thumbnail.
- In the relevant Booking Engine row, click the three dots and select Edit Booking Engine.
- In the left side menu, click Select properties.
- Toggle "Show featured properties section".
- Select up to 30 properties from your active listings:
- Specific properties: Manually select which properties to include in the Booking Engine. The selected properties will appear under "Assigned". To add more properties to the Engine, click Unassigned, and tick the checkboxes of the properties you want to add.
- Assign by rule: Customize how current and future properties will be added to the Booking Engine using filters. You can exclude properties from this selection.
- All: include all the properties you currently have. New properties you created will be added automatically to the list. You can exclude properties from this selection.
- Add a custom title (up to 50 characters) and a description (up to 300 characters)
- Click Next multiple times, and then click Save Booking Engine.
Step by step:
- Sign in to your Guesty account.
- In the top navigation bar, click Channels and select Booking website.
- In the relevant Booking Engine row, click the three dots and select Edit Booking Website.
- In the left side menu, click Select properties.
- Toggle "Show featured properties section".
- Select up to 30 properties from your active listings:
- Specific properties: Manually select which properties to include in the Booking Engine. The selected properties will appear under "Assigned". To add more properties to the Engine, click Unassigned, and tick the checkboxes of the properties you want to add.
- Assign by rule: Customize how current and future properties will be added to the Booking Engine using filters. You can exclude properties from this selection.
- All: include all the properties you currently have. New properties you created will be added automatically to the list. You can exclude properties from this selection.
- Add a custom title (up to 50 characters) and a description (up to 300 characters)
- Click Next multiple times, and then click Save Booking Website.
