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New releases 2023

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We aim to keep you informed about updates and new releases in Guesty on a monthly basis. See the updates below, along with relevant information from our Help Center.
September
  • 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
  • [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] Booking.com - additional feature

Receive messages between Guesty and booking.com with full certainty and a seamless experience, using the Booking.com messaging API. This new functionality reduced friction by providing more visibility and control over communication with Booking.com guests.

  • [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.

August
  • 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.
July
  • 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.
June
  • 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.
    • Tooltips added to the metrics displayed in the "My properties" and "Reports" tabs, giving owners a full understanding of what each metric means. Additionally, the same explanations are provided on the owner's profile page, allowing the PM to decide if they would like to make the metric visible for the owners. 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. Learn more.

  • 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.
May
  • 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.

 

April
  • 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.

 

March
  • 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.

 

February
  • New direct reservations infrastructure
Attract new business, control the guest experience, and increase your profits with Guesty’s one-stop-shop for direct reservations. Learn more.
  • Control maximum night stays within rate plans
Limit the maximum number of nights that a guest can book with your rate plans. This provides the freedom and flexibility to manage your occupancy and allows you to limit guest stays to fit your business needs.  
  • Same-day bookings available on even more channels
You can now accept same-day bookings from a host of new channels including Booking.com, Expedia, and from Direct Bookings.
  • Property assignment component 
Assign your listings to various roles in your company by using advanced property search functionality and filters. Assign listings to roles in bulk, filtering them as you like (by location, type of unit), and access all this from within the Roles & Permissions page. 
  • Add-ons center
Tools and services to help boost your performance are now provided in the Guesty add-ons center, found under the diamond icon at the top right of the Guesty app. Easily view your active add-ons and newly available tools all in one place.
January
  • GuestyPay
Introducing the first payment processing system created by the hospitality industry, for the hospitality industry. Fully embedded into the Guesty platform, this payment processing solution provides industry-specific payment capabilities to enable a seamless and secure payment experience. Currently, GuestyPay is supported in the United States.
  • Advanced Analytics: Booking Engine dashboard
The Guesty Booking Engine dashboard in Advanced Analytics gives insight into the most important data concerning your Guesty Booking Engine listings. Adaptable widgets showcase various analytics such as unique visitors to the site, click-through rate (CTR), conversion metrics, mobile stats, top search results, and more.
  • Advanced Analytics: Commission based on business models
Advanced Analytics dashboards that displays commission are now aligned with your Accounting Business Models.
  • New reservation payments management section
The payment section on the reservation page has been updated to provides an intuitive and easy-to-use experience by removing the main friction points in the previous design, and providing enriched data for more effective payment management. The new UI is reflected in the relevant Help Center articles.
  • Expedia promotions 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. The promotions setup is available on Guesty's Revenue Management tab and includes all the Expedia promotion types.
  • Accounting: Owner statements transaction filtering
You can now exclude transactions with zero amount from the Owner statement. This eliminates a friction point and is a step forward in owner statement customization options. Learn more.
  • Changing account email in Airbnb no longer mandatory to connect with Guesty
Previously, to integrate an Airbnb account with Guesty, a user was required to change their Airbnb account email to an email address generated by Guesty. This flow has been updated to enable a user to skip this step for later while still completing the integration.
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