New releases 2023

• Guesty PriceOptimizer - additional features
  • PriceOptimizer is now available for listings in Spain. See all eligible markets.
  • Based on a combination of several data points, Ideal occupancy is compared to your listing's current occupancy, giving you the opportunity to adjust your pricing accordingly and maximize occupancy. Learn more
• [BETA] Accounting -  Deposit report

Our new "Deposit" accounting report streamlines the process of tracking advanced deposits, providing users and auditors clear insights into the ownership of funds in the advanced deposit account at any point in time. Learn more. NOTE: Accounting is a premium feature

• Guesty Locks Manager - Replacing a guest code

Refresh guest codes on the spot. Now, you can quickly react to any issue by deactivating a guest code and replacing it automatically with a new randomized code. Learn more

• Owners Portal - additional features

The Owners Portal empowers the owners to have more control and perform actions on their own, allowing you to focus on growing your business with ease.

• • New Analytics "Properties" filter: The owner can now select the property(ies) they wants to see performance data for, with those properties displayed in a hierarchical way. For example, those belonging to the same parent (multi-unit or complex) will be grouped and displayed altogether, for the owner to select as a whole if desired.
  • Booking source in reservations report: In addition to being displayed in the reservations' tooltip, the booking source is now also displayed in the owner's reservation report for improved visibility. 

• New Guesty home page with overview

Guesty's all-new home page is tailored specifically for Operation-level users. This intuitive platform serves as the hub where you can seamlessly anticipate and manage day-to-day activities, not just for today but for the entire upcoming week, helping put your priorities first. Learn more.

• Accounting -  new features
  • NOTE: Accounting is a premium feature
  • Accounting method: You can now choose between the accrual basis or cash basis based on your regulations requirements or personal preferences. Previously only accrual basis was available. Both methods will recognize revenue based on your business model settings.Learn more
  • The ability to add an owner charge and add an expense are now available through Guesty's Open API and partners API, replacing a manual process for users who want to connect their own products or add expenses via our 3rd party partners. Learn more in our Open API documentation: Create owner charge and Create expense.
  • [BETA] Block owner transactions: If an owner does not have a positive balance high enough to cover an expense, your team will be blocked from manually charging owners for expenses and Guesty will not recognize recurring owner charges from the business model that month. Learn more
  • [BETA] Streamline your Accounting payout process by using the Seamlesschex integration to payout owners, vendors, and PMCs directly from your Accounting reports. Seamlesschex provides a full-service payment processing system that allows you to send digital payments via ACH and checks without needing to leave the Guesty platform. Learn more.
    
  • [NEW BETA] Reverse journal entries indication: To increase accuracy and flexibility, we’ve added new filters & columns to the posting journal report to track which entries have been reversed and when.
  • [NEW BETA] Journal report: To facilitate North Carolina compliance, we've added a new Pre-Configured Accounting Report that captures all transactions (deposits and disbursements) within the cash ledger to track the money entering and leaving the trust account. Learn more

• Guesty PriceOptimizer - additional features
  • Occupancy pricing rules: Fine-tune your occupancy-based pricing with flexible adjustment capabilities relating to the number of days before check-in. This gives you the flexibility to adjust nightly rates based on occupancy and lead time. Learn more
  • [NEW] Maximize occupancy: Don’t leave money on the table. Automatically override minimum night rules to fill gaps between reservations. Learn more
  • [NEW] Previously available in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand markets, PriceOptimizer is now also available for listings in Mexico.

• Guesty Locks Manager - Supported lock brands

You can now view a complete list of supported lock brands and models in the platform before starting the sign up process. Click here for the full list of supported brands and models. (You must be signed in to your Guesty account to view.)

• Airbnb - notifications

Airbnb notifications are now enabled directly in Guesty. Receive notifications about financials, listings, host accounts, and more, without the need to log in to your Airbnb account. 

• Financials - additional features
  • Until now, channel commission could only be applied on accommodation fare and cleaning fee. You now have the option to apply channel commission on all additional line items and total payout, based on agreements with OTAs and other 3rd parties.
  • [NEW] Security deposits: Manually add a security deposit to reservations, to be held and only charged if a guest damages your property. Security deposits are automatically released on a predetermined date, however,  you have the flexibility to manually intervene and release the deposit earlier. Learn more
• Unified login

Our new unified login system offers a more seamless experience, with intuitive design and clear instructions, making it easier and faster for you and your team to access Guesty services. Learn more

• [BETA] Reservations - early check-in/out blocks

Blocks for early check-in and late check-out can save time, ensure a better guest experience, and reduce the occurrence of double bookings. Easily manage blocks for early check-ins and late check-outs manually or by default. Learn more

• Distribution - Hopper

Connect to our distribution partner Hopper through a newly streamlined process. The token required for connection is now provided in the onboarding page in Guesty, allowing for a complete self-service process in Hopper. 

• Guesty Locks Manager - additional features
  
  • In addition to the automatic default code generation, Locks Manager offers the option to use the last digits of the guest phone number. Learn more
  • Open and Partner API documentation for viewing guest codes, guest backup codes, and lock information per reservation are now provided here.
  • For each newly linked locked, Guesty will import existing, permanent codes that are set on the lock and save them as backup codes. Learn more
  • You can now link a lock to more than one property for maximum flexibility across different types of units. Learn more
  • In the instance of an offline lock or a disconnected lock account, an error message is prominently displayed across the Guesty platform, allowing you to efficiently address lock issues. Learn more
    

• Airbnb - direct cancellation

An Airbnb reservation can now be cancelled directly in Guesty, eliminating the extra step of having to cancel a reservation in the Airbnb dashboard. Learn more

• Guesty Accounting - additional feature

Navigate the complexities of hospitality accounting with Guesty Accounting - a modern, automated solution that fosters owner trust and ensures top-tier compliance.

• Safeguard your financial records, preventing any modifications beyond a predefined timeline
  by locking transactions once an accounting period ends. Learn more.
• GuestyPay - available in additional markets

GuestyPay is now available in the EU and the UK, in addition to the US. Process payments with our embedded payment processing solution, without the hassle of working with 3rd party payment providers. Learn more.

• Guesty PriceOptimizer - additional features

Take the guesswork out of pricing with a fully embedded revenue management tool that pushes optimized pricing to all your channels so you can maximize revenue, save time, and grow your business.

• • The ability to set minimum/maximum rate limits by date range offers more granular control over pricing, empowering you to define pricing limits according to your specific needs.
  • A new analytics dashboard provides in-depth analytical data of your PriceOptimizer listings so you can easily track reservation metrics and support your pricing decisions.
  • Set discounts to help avoid "lost nights" and increase bookings for the immediate short term with the new last minute pricing strategy.
  • [NEW] Occupancy pricing rules allow you to fully control the impact pricing has based on occupancy relating to the number of days before check-in, giving you the flexibility to adjust nightly rates based on occupancy and lead time. Learn more

• Owners Portal - additional features

The Owners Portal empowers the owners to have more control and perform actions on their own, allowing you to focus on growing your business with ease.

• Additional ability to control the visibility of specific data to owners. Learn more about enabling and disabling Owners Portal features here. You can now choose to hide or share:
  
  • Guest name in the Reservation Tooltips
  • Guest name, phone number, and email in Guest Reports
• [NEW] The capability to download a report of owners details and data directly from the owner's list page has eliminated the need to contact Guesty for this information. Learn more
• [NEW] While the functionality remains the same, the pop-up to create, edit, and cancel owner reservations has been updated for a better user experience. Learn more

• Booking.com - additional features

Effortlessly disconnect a listing directly from Guesty to make it to make it not bookable nor appear on guests’ search results, including for a specific room within a complex, without navigating the manual work and complexities of Booking.com's extranet.

• [BETA] Financials - channel commission

Until now, channel commission could only be applied on accommodation fare and cleaning fee. You will soon have the option to apply channel commission on all additional line items and total payout, based on agreements with OTAs and other 3rd parties.

• Distribution 

The following partners have been added as new direct integrations: 

• • Whimstay
  • TravelStaytion
  • Plum Guide
  • HomeToGo

• Accounting - automatic journal entries for GuestyPay

You now have the option to create an automatic journal entry for reservations paid through GuestyPay, replacing the need to add manual entries. Learn more about GuestyPay, and about creating an Accounting business model including recurring transactions. NOTE: Accounting is a premium feature.

• Booking.com - additional features
  • The new Booking.com messaging API functionality reduces friction by providing more visibility and control over communication with Booking.com guests. Learn more.
  • [BETA] Effortlessly disconnect a listing directly from Guesty to make it to make it not bookable nor appear on guests’ search results, including for a specific room within a complex, without navigating the manual work and complexities of Booking.com's extranet.
• Disbursements

The new disbursements flow allows you to systematically dispatch funds while linking transactions for precise auditing. This is critical for North Carolina compliance, but provides more precise tracking and reporting for all users. Learn more.

• [BETA] Guesty dashboard new navigation

A fresh and improved set of menus in the Guesty dashboard is designed to enhance your user experience and streamline the navigation process for team members in various user roles. Learn more.

• [BETA] Accounting - additional feature

Develop a strong compliance strategy by locking transactions once an accounting period ends. The new smart locking mechanism disables changes such as adding a transaction, reversing a transaction, or reprocessing reservations once the accounting period is over. Learn more.

• Google Vacation Rentals

Google Vacation Rentals is a metasearch integration that works on top of the Guesty’s Booking Engine/ Booking Engine API. Once a Booking Engine is published to Google, it is searchable via Google products such as Google Maps, Google Travel, and Google Search and allows you to gain more visibility to your listings and more direct bookings via online booking solutions. Learn more.

• Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy

Marriott is a curated collection of vacation rentals that provides travelers access to thousands of private homes. Each property is hand-picked to meet Marriott’s standards in design, comfort, and safety. Marriott further incentivizes potential guests by offering a loyalty program and awarding points for every stay booked through their platform. Once your Guesty account is connected to Marriott, you can publish listings at any time, and all content will be synced across the platforms. Learn more.

• Advanced Analytics - Lead Management dashboard

Advanced Analytics users can now enjoy the new Lead Management dashboard which gives a high-level overview of data based on the reservation opportunities in the sales pipeline. Track sales performance by several metrics to see where the sales team currently stands and how they can improve, optimizing the ability to convert reservation requests to confirmations. NOTE: Advanced Analytics is a premium feature. Learn more.

• Owners Portal - additional features

The Owners Portal empowers the owners to have more control and perform actions on their own allowing you to focus on growing your business with ease.

• • Owners will be able to view calendar block notes to understand why dates were blocked by property managers. Learn more.
  • Additional ability to control the visibility of specific data to owners. Learn more about enabling and disabling Owners Portal features here. You can now choose to hide or share:
    • Reserved reservations (requested reservations) in the owner's calendar
    • [BETA] Guest name in the Reservation Tooltips
    • [BETA] Guest name, phone number, and email in Guest Reports
  • Changes to the owner's registration flow now allow you to easily see if an owner has registered or not, and to share the Owners Portal link once they have registered. Learn more.
  • The portal is now available translated to Polish.
• Guesty PriceOptimizer - additional features
  • Previously only available in the US, Guesty PriceOptimizer is now available in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand markets.
  • Dynamic factor split gives you a higher level of control over your pricing strategy with the ability to define the strategy more aggressively or conservatively by days of the week, seasonality, and holidays. Learn more.
  • In addition to editing one date at a time, you can now edit multiple dates at once at the listing level, by a fixed value or by a percentage. Learn more.
• [BETA] Accounting
  • [BETA] Guest Folio Breakdown: Accurately track how much each guest will pay per night to effectively operate reservation fees, manage longer term reservations and produce world class invoices for your guests. You will also be able to adjust any fee in a reservation for full control of your rates. Learn more.
  • [BETA] Nightly revenue recognition: Benefit from enhanced financial visibility and forecasting for accurate accounting, increase trust with your owners and gain complete financial view. Learn more.

• Opportunity Pipeline

Convert more opportunities into confirmed reservations by quickly identifying which leads need your attention. The new embedded Opportunity Pipeline let’s you create, track, and follow up on all leads through your sales funnel. Learn more.

• Multi-Calendar - additional features
  • We have implemented an empty state that appears every time you navigate to the “Availability and quote” section from the multi-calendar, making clear what actions you need to take on this page.
  • To provide a clear understanding of the total number of nights related to a reservation, this is now displayed in addition to check-in and check-out dates throughout the multi-calendar.
  • The previous "Settings" button has been updated to "Customize view." This enhancement allows you to personalize the appearance of the multi-calendar. You can decide whether to show the price or minimum nights, present the listing’s title, and choose whether the block information hovers when using the multi-calendar.
  • We have introduced a new section that includes a static legend to help all you better identify the different block types (e.g. manual block, owner reservation, etc.) and to easily understand the information available on the multi-calendar.
• Owners Portal - additional features

The Owners Portal empowers the owners to have more control and perform actions on their own allowing you to focus on growing your business with ease.

• • New design for the Owners list page and Owners profile page including improved search; ability to sort owners alphabetically; ability to filter results by property(ies) assigned to owners; ability to filter owners with an active portal or with payout method. Learn more here. (This feature was in Beta in June and is now available to all users.)
  • [BETA] Owners will be able to view calendar block notes to understand why dates were blocked by property managers. Learn more.
• Guesty PriceOptimizer - additional features
  • A new Guesty PriceOptimizer full screen interface allows for better visibility and navigation. Learn more.

  • Upcoming availability rules: You can now set a minimum nights rule for pre-defined dates. The new section "Upcoming availability rules" can be found in the "Minimum nights rules" tab. Learn more.

• Syncing a non-exclusive inventory listing's calendar

Any property that is shared between different external services, such as PMCs and advertising services, is referred to as "non-exclusive inventory". You can use iCal to sync the calendars with Guesty to avoid double bookings and reflect the listing's current availability. Learn more.

• [BETA] Property page - updates
  • A new and improved UI to update your property address includes the ability to: pin your property on a map; use the property latitude and longitude coordinates to insert location; set property location on the Complex level; add more details on their property address.
  • Custom fields, Ownership & Licensing, and Details now have their own tabs on the Property page.
  • Multi-unit settings: This new tab with improved UI allows you to add and remove assigned units, and set reservation assignment rules.

• Guesty Locks Manager - additional features
  • Update your lock code settings by changing the code activation and deactivation time. For example, activate the code 30 minutes before ETA to seamlessly accommodate guests who may arrive a bit early. Learn more.
  • Conveniently view a guest's lock code information in their reservation. The new Guesty Locks Manager card displays the guest code, back-up code, and status of all related locks. Learn more.
• Owners Portal - additional features

The Owners Portal empowers owners to have more control and perform actions on their own allowing you to focus on growing your business with ease.

• • Owners can now see the booking source that the booking originated from, simply by hovering over the reservations tooltip. Learn more.
  • Enable owner to book listings with smart calendar rules. The owners of listings with a "Smart calendar rule" defined were not able to book their own listing through the owner portal. This new feature will allow owner reservations through the portal while ensuring the smart calendar rule defined applies. Learn more.
  • [BETA] New design for the owners list page and owners profile page including improved search; ability to sort owners alphabetically; ability to filter results by property(ies) assigned to owners; ability to filter owners with an active portal or with payout method. Learn more.
• [BETA] Company email integration

You now have the option to connect your company email inbox directly to the Guesty Inbox, so you can manage your entire lead cycle without leaving the Guesty platform.

• Accounting - additional features
  • Audit logs: Now you can see which user added a manual transaction and when, enabling you to keep track of changes and manual actions. Learn more.
  • Upgraded Accounting Folio: Track deposits, payments to vendors, and the owner's income and expenses (generated from the business model) for every reservation. The Accounting Folio provides an updated overview of your accounting information and automatically synchronizes this information with the reservation. Learn more.

• Mobile app: Create a reservation

You can now create a new reservation on-the-go directly in the Guesty mobile app, for easy availability and responsiveness to enable you to close deals faster. Learn more.

• Guesty Locks Manager

With Guesty Locks Manager you can manage every smart lock you use remotely – all from one dashboard – with an automatic, unique code generator and full visibility into lock data. You can proactively react to any issues that arise before they interfere with the guest's stay. Learn more.

• Owners Portal - additional features

The Owners Portal empower the owners to have more control and perform actions on their own allowing you to focus on growing your business with ease. 

• • Reserved reservations are displayed in the Owners Portal calendar to all users.
  • When setting up what data an owner can view and the accommodation fare is toggled on, the accommodation fare for a given reservation is displayed to that owner.
  • Learn more about the Owners Portal.

• Guesty Capital

Guesty Capital helps you grow your business through tailor-made financing options tied to your revenue. Renovate or upgrade your properties, invest in new listings, grow your team, or improve guest experience with quick and easy access to funds. The entire experience will take place within the Guesty dashboard. Learn more.

• [BETA] Google Vacation Rentals

Google Vacation Rentals is a metasearch integration that works on top of the Guesty’s Booking Engine/ Booking Engine API.  Once a Booking Engine is published to Google, it is searchable via Google products such as Google Maps, Google Travel, and Google Search and allows you to gain more visibility to your listings and more direct bookings via online booking solutions. Learn more.

• [BETA] Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy

Marriott is a curated collection of vacation rentals that provides travelers access to thousands of private homes. Each property is hand-picked to meet Marriott’s standards in design, comfort, and safety. Marriott further incentivizes potential guests by offering a loyalty program and awarding points for every stay booked through their platform. Once your Guesty account is connected to Marriott, you can publish listings at any time, and all content will be synced across the platforms. Learn more.

• [BETA] Accounting audit logs

Now you can keep track of all manual actions such as new transactions or changes made to any transactions in the posting journal. Our audit columns and filters allow you to keep an audit log for your transactions and see at a glance who has made changes within your journal. Learn more.

• Hopper integration

You can now publish your listings on Hopper directly from the Guesty platform through our new direct integration, making it easier to reach a wider audience and increase bookings. Learn more.

• Check-in form

The check-in form will no longer allow a guest to enter their ETA before the listing's check-in time, or ETD after check-out time. If they try to enter an earlier or later time, they will get a message to "contact us" to request early check-in or late check-out. Learn more.

• Expedia promotions sync

With the Expedia promotion sync, you can now easily apply Guesty promotions to your Expedia integration, ensuring that guests can see and enjoy lower prices. In addition, reservation managers will be able to see which promotions were applied in the reservation details within the Guesty platform. Learn more.

• Owners Portal updates:
  • The calendar now displays a line between consecutive reservations, clearly delineating when a reservation ends from when the next reservation begins. 
  • When logging out from the Owners Portal, some owners were automatically logged back in the next time they opened the Owners Portal. A fix has been made to prevent this; if the owner logs out they will need to log back in again. 
  • [BETA]: Reserved reservations are displayed in the Owners Portal calendar to all users.
  • [BETA]: When setting up what data an owner can view and the accommodation fare is toggled on, the accommodation fare for a given reservation is displayed to that owner.
  • Learn more.

• Guesty PriceOptimizer

Guesty PriceOptimizer is a machine-learning dynamic pricing tool, which provides pricing recommendations based on market data, guest demand, and listing details. With a fully embedded revenue management tool that pushes optimized pricing to all your channels so you can maximize revenue, save time, and grow your business. Learn more.

• [BETA] Guesty Locks Manager

With Guesty Locks Manager you can manage every smart lock you use remotely – all from one dashboard – with an automatic, unique code generator and full visibility into lock data. You can proactively react to any issues that arise before they interfere with the guest's stay. Learn more.

• Fixed price coupons

Guesty now offers the ability to create fixed-price coupons in addition to percentage-based, providing more flexibility and control when it comes to offering discounts to your guests.  For example, use fixed-price coupons to create gift cards, encourage returning guests, or create “stored credit” for guests who canceled their booking instead of giving a refund. The coupons can be applied on manual bookings and via the booking engine & Booking engine API. Learn more.

• [BETA] Accounting new disbursements flow

In the first phase for Guesty's future payout solution and bank reconciliation, the new disbursements flow in Guesty will allow for payment recording for all entities; payout recordings to be completed in bulk; partial payment to made based on transactions. Learn more.

• [BETA] Manage Multi-unit reservations with consecutive nights

Guesty has developed an algorithm-based solution that calculates the maximum number of nights for each unit on every change and update of the calendar, and then matches this information with the number of nights requested on a per-day basis. This new capability reduces the need to move guests from one property to another during their stay, and it also helps to prevent overbookings by ensuring that the availability shown to guests accurately reflects the availability of individual properties. Learn more.

• New direct reservations infrastructure

• Control maximum night stays within rate plans

• Same-day bookings available on even more channels

• Property assignment component 

• Add-ons center

• Mobile app updates:
  • Sort tasks by name and priority
  • Add tasks to your calendar
  • Add pictures to task comments
  • Infinity scrolling to easily view multiple listings in the multi-calendar
  • Edit a property’s cleaning status from the property page
  • Multi-Calendar date range expanded from one month to two months
  • Channel logo displayed in the Inbox for each conversation’s source

• GuestyPay

• Advanced Analytics: Booking Engine dashboard

• Advanced Analytics: Commission based on business models

• New reservation payments management section

• Expedia promotions sync 

• Accounting: Owner statements transaction filtering

• Changing account email in Airbnb no longer mandatory to connect with Guesty

• Mobile App Updates:
  • Edit custom fields and marketing info within the property page
  • New monthly calendar view added to each property
  • End date now displayed in a task