💡 Note: This article includes the House Rules feature, which is currently in beta. If you don’t see House Rules in your overview, please follow this article using the classic instructions instead.
To set up your rental's general information, you need to create your rental description and provide information about size, distribution, and amenities. This information will appear on your website, your checkout page, and some OTAs.
⚠️ As the feature to have multiple room types is no longer available, new rentals cannot be created with multiple rooms types anymore. They can nevertheless be modified, and it is possible to create new room types within an existing rental.
The setup of your rental overview changes depending width: 200pxon if you have configured room types or not.
Read about:
- Set up rental overview without room types
- Set up rental overview with room types (legacy feature)
- Distribution of house rules to booking channels
- Home highlights on the website
- Linked resources
Set up rental overview without room types
To set up your rental's general information and amenities in case you don't have any room types configured:
- Go to your left-hand menu and select Rentals. Then click on the rental you want to edit, and go to Overview.
- Click the pencil to make changes.
- Click Save when you're done.
You can edit the following sections:
| Section | Notes |
|---|---|
| Rental name & description |
Enter a rental name, and create a description of the rental. Additionally, you can give your rental an Internal Name. When changing the name, you might see a warning about the URL changing. This only applies if you shared a direct link to the rental’s page externally, for example with a potential guest. In that case, you will need to share the new link. Otherwise, you can safely ignore this warning. You can also add some HTML to the rental description, though advanced HTML customization is not supported in that section. For example, it won’t be possible to embed videos or iframes. |
| Rental info |
Let the guest know about the size of the rental and how many units you have (don't confuse Units with the number of rooms your apartment might have). 💡 Note: If your Bookable Units App is not activated yet, you will see a warning, that even though you fill in more units, only one unit will be made available in your calendar. Find out more about the Bookable Units App. |
| House rules | Manage the rules guests must follow during their stay, including guest limits, pet policies, event permissions, smoking rules, and quiet hours. |
| Rental amenities |
Manage which amenities are available in your rental. Click on Show to the far right to see the options per category. Alternatively, you can use the search bar. Some amenities may display the OTAs logos for rentals that are connected to those channels. These logos inform you that the amenity can be synchronized. Furthermore, if you hover over the logo, you can see the name of the amenity on the external channel.
Accept children/infants: To accept children and infants, select Children welcome.
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đź’ˇ Note: The rental details displayed on the website can only be edited from the Rentals section, not from the website builder.
Set up a rental overview with room types (legacy feature)
To modify your rental's general information in case you have multiple room types configured:
- Go to your left-hand menu and select Rentals. Then choose the rental you want to edit and go to Overview.
- Click the pencil to make changes.
- Click Save when you're done.
You can edit the following sections:
| Section | Notes |
|---|---|
| Rental name & description |
Enter a name for the entire rental, and create a description of the rental. Additionally, you can give your room type an Internal Name. When changing the name, you might see a warning about the URL changing. This only applies if you shared a direct link to the rental’s page externally, for example with a potential guest. In that case, you will need to share the new link. Otherwise, you can safely ignore this warning. |
| Rental type | Select a Rental type from the drop-down list. |
| Rental amenities |
Manage which amenities are available in your rental. Click on Show to the far right to see the options per category. Alternatively, you can use the search bar. đź’ˇ Note: The amenities in this section should be available to all room types. Some amenities may display the OTAs logos for rentals that are connected to those channels. These logos inform you that the amenity can be synchronized. Furthermore, if you hover over the logo, you can see the name of the amenity on the external channel.
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To edit your room types overview:
- Go to your left-hand menu and select Rentals. Then choose the rental you want to edit and go to Room types.
- Click the room type, and then the pencil to make changes.
- Click Save when you're done.
You can edit the following sections:
| Section | Notes |
| Room type Name & description |
Enter a name and create a description specifically for this room type. 💡 Note: You can automatically translate your rental description. |
| Room type Rental info |
Let the guest know about the size of the room type and how many units you have (don't confuse Units with the number of rooms your apartment might have). 💡 Note: If your Bookable Units App is not activated yet, you will see a warning, that even though you fill in more units, only one unit will be made available in your calendar. Find out more about the Bookable Units App. |
| House rules | Manage the rules guests must follow during their stay, including guest limits, pet policies, event permissions, smoking rules, and quiet hours. |
| Room type Amenities |
Manage which amenities are available in your rental. Click on Show to the far right to see the options per category. Alternatively, you can use the search bar. đź’ˇ Note: These amenities are specifically for this room type. Please set up amenities available to the entire rental (e.g. outdoor pool) in the Rental amenities. |
| Rooms | Find more about rooms here. |
đź’ˇ Note: The rental details displayed on the website can only be edited from the Rentals section, not from the website builder.
Distribution of house rules to booking channels
Here is a table summarizing the distribution of house rules across channels:
| House rule | Website | Airbnb | Vrbo | Booking.com |
| Maximum number of guests | âś… | âś… | âś… | âś… |
| Pets allowed (or not) | âś… | âś… | âś… | âś… |
| Maximum number of pets number | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ (not supported on Vrbo side) | ❌ (not supported on Booking.com side) |
| Pets type, size unit and limit | ❌ | ❌ (not supported on Airbnb side) | ❌ | ❌ (not supported on Booking.com side) |
| Events allowed (or not) | âś… | âś… | âś… | âś… |
| Smoking, vaping, and e-cigarettes allowed (or not) | âś… | âś… | âś… | âś… |
| Quiet hours (start and end time) | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ (not supported on Vrbo side) | ❌ |
Home highlights on the website
As long as you have activated at least one home highlight in the rental overview, all the website templates will display a Home Highlights section. There are four possible home highlights:
- Pets welcome
- Parking (includes: Parking garage, Parking, Parking lot, On-street parking, Parking Included, Parking Optional)
- All-inclusive (includes: All inclusive meal-plan, Parking Included, Breakfast included, Housekeeper Included, Laundry service Included)
- Broadband Internet (includes: Broadband internet, Dial-up internet, Wireless internet)
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📚 Linked Resources
- Blog article: How to Write Killer Vacation Rental Listing Descriptions