Hosthub’s Preparation Time allows you to automatically block the nights before and after a booking, on all your active channels, allowing you extra time to prepare your rental for the next guest.
To set up a Preparation Time for each rental:
1. Go to Rentals
2. Choose the rental of your preference
3. Click ‘’Edit’’
4. Choose a preparation time for this rental
Your options include either:
No preparation time
From 1 to 5 days before and after each booking
5. Click ‘’Save Changes’’
6. Our system will automatically block the dates on all your active channels associated with this rental
For example, if you have a booking from 16/6 to 19/6 and you set a 2 days preparation time, the dates 14/6, 15/6, 20/6 & 21/6 will be blocked.
As soon as you set a Preparation Time in Hosthub for a rental:
the appropriate nights before and after each booking will be blocked on all your existing bookings
every future booking (either via a channel or manually entered in Hosthub) will have X days before and after blocked
Preparation Time does not affect blocks, only bookings
Please note that:
The Preparation Time that you set will automatically adjust your rental’s availability on all your bookings. If you need exceptions, let us know so we can give you a workaround.
If a guest wants to expand his booking and either arrive earlier or leave later than booked, he cannot do it via the platforms since the platforms will see these days as blocked. The only way to expand the booking is via direct communication with you.
There some cases where setting preparation days may create some conflicts. This may be the case when you increase the number of preparation days but there are bookings in the future that have a gap between them that is less than the new preparation time.
E.g.
You initially set preparation days to 1
You get two bookings with a gap of two days between them
You change preparation days to 4
In that case the bookings with a gap of two days may have preparations issues given your new preparation policy.
In order to minimize the risk of those cases, every time you change the preparation time, we try to identify conflict cases where the booking gaps are shorter than the preparation policy and we notify you with an email containing all the necessary info to fix the issue.
