Beds24 feature announcements and updates from 2022, newest first. For the latest news, see New Features and Updates.
Live webinar: What's new and what's cooking
Date & Time: May 30th 11:00 a.m. (Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna)
In this webinar we will show you the latest feature releases plus new features in development and you will also have the option to ask questions.
29th May 2022
New integrations
Webready is a website builder website builder for vacation rentals whichh creates a beautiful website for your short-term rentals lets you have direct bookings from the Webready Booking Engine.
Those who want to monitor noise levels can use Minut to automate processes.
14th December 2022
Changes made in Airbnb
Airbnb now allows software-connected hosts to edit their listing content and some pricing settings in the Airbnb extranet. To avoid confusion we strongly recommend you do not use this option for any data sent from Beds24, make all edits to this data directly in Beds24 and then send it to Airbnb.
We will not import any changes made in Airbnb so depending on the sync type you have chosen any changes you make there will get overridden with the next update from Beds24:
If your sync type is 'Prices and Availability'
If you make changes in Airbnb to price data including number of guests, extra person price, base price, taxes and fees, max stay, minimum stay, max days in advance, advance notice/same day booking cut off, last-minute discount, early-bird discount, weekly discount or monthly discount, Beds24 will override them with the data in Beds24.
If your sync type is 'Everything'
If you have selected to update everything from Beds24, we will overwrite changes made in the Airbnb Extranet.
November 29th 2022
Webinar with Airbnb: Optimize Your Listings and Improve Your Performance
Airbnb and Beds24 are collaborating to share with you the latest tips around performance optimization and hosting on Airbnb.
Learn directly from the Airbnb team how to identify opportunities to grow your business.
- Airbnb Platform Updates: Categories + Split Stays
- Airbnb search: How it works
- Guest expectation management: How to improve listing content and hosting quality
- Competitive pricing: Discounts, Promotions, and Cancellation Policies
- Communication is key: Why response rate and reviews matter
Watch the recording in Webinars.
November 14th 2022
New Lock System integrations
Jervis Systems and Yacan have set up integrations between their lock systems and Beds24.
For a link to the dedicated help pages and complete list of available integrations please see Marketplace.
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Update: Information in the "Logs" tab of the booking available until three month after check-out
For performance and data protection reasons information in the "Logs" tab of the booking will be available until three month after check-out instead of for a fixed period.
November 4th 2022
Capture mobile bookers
Did you know that properties offering a Mobile Rate on Booking.com get 3% more visits on average from customers viewing search results – and 22% more bookings from mobile users?
You can conveniently create and update Mobile Rates for Booking.com and Exedia from PRICES > PROMOTIONS to take full advantage of this important customer segment.
Read more on our Beds24 blog post and on this help page.
14th October 2022
Guest Guide for your guests
Do you want to provide a guest guide with important information about their stay, the location, tips etc?
This turorial explains how to set a guest guide up. Find more tips and tricks.
August 19th 2022
Airbnb features updated
We have updated the Airbnb amenities to support all which are currently available via API. You will find a list on the Airbnb help page.
16th August 2022
Expedia property status directly from Beds24
You do not need to log in to Expedia to check the status of your accommodation.
Go to (SETTINGS) CHANNEL MANAGER > EXPEDIA. Click on "View Status at Expedia" to check the status of your property at Expedias end. If you see an error and do not understand what it means contact Expedia support.
28th May 2022
Stripe local payment options and choice of Check-out version
In (SETTINGS) PAYMENTS > PAYMENT GATEWAYS > STRIPE you can now choose whether the payment process is embedded in the booking page ("Embedded") or b hosted by Stripe and the booker is redirected to Stripe for payment ("Hosted").
If you use "Hosted" you can also offer Stripe local payment options including Ideal, Giropay, EPS, Bancontact, Przelewy24
23rd May 2022
On-demand webinar with Expedia Group: Another secret to success with Expedia Group
Watch our joint webinar with Expedia Group to find out how you can reach high value frequent travellers travellers who book early and spend 2x more.
Previous and upcoming webinars.
May 6th 2022
Booking.com: Commission Discount of 20%
If you join Genius before the end of June Booking.com will give you an introductory 20% commission discount on all Genius-rate stays completed before the end of September.
Booking.com's Genius partners increase bookings by an average of 45% and revenue by an average of 40%.
Try it out. You can always opt out later if you change your mind.
May 3rd 2022
Live webinar: What's new and what's cooking
Date & Time: April 20th, 11:00 a.m. (Amsterdam, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna)
In this webinar we will show you the latest feature releases plus new features in development and you will also have the option to ask questions.
18th April 2022
New Status "Inquiry"
We have added a new status "Inquiry" for bookings. You can manually set this status or use an Auto Action to do so. Bookings with the status "Inquiry" will not block the room.
This new status will eventually replace the "Do not block the room" setting for "Request bookings. We will publish news once this is done.
March 19th 2022
Expedia Reconciliation
You can now reconcile Expedia bookings directly in Beds24.
For all Expedia bookings you will see have a "Reconcile" button in the "Details" tab. When you click on the button you can report changed stay dates, cancellations by guest, no shows, changed cancellation penalties and changed stay prices to Expedia.
Integration with Beyond
We an not offer a full integration with Beyond, a Revenue Management Platform for short-term rental owners. Through this integration Beyond can send dynamic prices to Beds24.
For more information please go to (SETTINGS) APPS & INTEGRATIONS > BEYOND and click on HELP in the top right.
March 11th 2022
New options to change daily prices in the new Calendar
- Change prices relative to current prices. For example, if the current price is 100 a relative change of 25 would increase the price to 125.
- Makes changes only affect dates that currently have the selected value.
2nd March 2022
Airbnb confirmed Beds24 as preferred partner
We are proud that Airbnb confirmed Beds24 as one of their top performing partners.
28th February 2022
Airbnb rate plans
We are super excited that we can now open the option to use Airbnb rate plans for all customers.
With rate plans you can offer a refundable and a non-refundable option on Airbnb and control the availability and cancellation policy for both the refundable and non-refundable pricing option.
See Airbnb Rate Plans for more information on how to use Airbnb rate plans.
16th February 2022
Stripe local payment options - Beta testers wanted
We are adding Stripe local payment options including Ideal, Giropay, EPS, Bancontact, Przelewy24
If you want to participate in the beta testing please send us a support ticket.
8th February 2022
Tiket added to the Channel Manager
Tiket is an Indonesian OTA for which we can now offer a 2-way API connection. For more information please go to (SETTINGS) CHANNEL MANAGER > TIKET and click on HELP in the top right.
8th February 2022
Booking.com virtual cards: Auto adjust to charge the actual amount on the card
You can now auto adjust to charge the actual amount on Booking.com virtual cards via Stripe. This is how you do this:
- Connect Stripe as payment processor in (SETTINGS) PAYMENTS > PAYMENT GATEWAYS
- Create a rule in (SETTINGS) PAYMENTS > RULES with following settings
- Funds Source: Virtual Card
- Payment value adjustment = choose any except for "None"
- Go to (SETTINGS) CHANNEL MANAGER > BOOKING.COM set "Auto Process Virtual Cards" = Yes and select the rule you have created.
20th January 2022
Airbnb "Accessability'" amenities now require pictures
If you want to send "Accessability" amenities to Airbnb you now need to add a picture. For more information see Specific content for Airbnb
14th January 2022