We’re excited to announce that we finally calculate and remit taxes across America in all 50 states when you use Hospitable as your merchant of record and for your Direct Premium bookings! We have also cleaned up the mobile app and added more functionality to the Hospitable MCP.
Taxes
Calculate and remit taxes in all 50 states 🏦
- We can now calculate and remit all necessary taxes in all 50 states with Hospitable as your merchant of record
- New taxes have been added in California and other states over the past few weeks
- See the full list of taxes we can calculate and remit in these detailed help articles
Mobile App
Clearer avatars and sleeker layout 📱
- Guests without profile photos now have recognizable initials as their avatars
- The booking platform badge now displays on guest avatars, freeing up more space
- The Inbox list now reaches the screen edges and the header spacing has been tightened up
Redesigned chat for communicating with guests and teammates 💬
- You’ll now see sender colors, grouped messages, and day dividers between messages
- Easily send messages with the new rounded input and circular send button
- You can now in open links in messages by clicking on them and personalize the chat with the your brand color throughout
MCP
All upsell products accessible in the MCP and API 🛍
- You can now access all of your created upsell products, not just the ones guests purchase
- This gives you the ability to easily enable and set up upsells for your properties
Guest experience features accessible in the MCP and API 💌
- You can now access and manage messaging rules, canned responses, review rules, custom codes, and short codes
- This let’s you streamline communication with guests and simplify their booking experience
Guest Experience
Access and pay installments 💳
- Guests can access and pay installments upfront in their portal for Direct Premium and Vrbo reservations
Short code tooltips 💭
- You can now hover over codes on desktop or tap on mobile to see its tooltip
- There is a description and examples of how the codes will look in your template
Owner Payouts
Retry failed payout runs ♻️
- If a payout run fails to charge, a retry button will appear to let you retry the payout
- This button will attempt to top up the marketplace balance account for all failed tasks within the payout run
- Once the funds are received, your account will be charged
Filters for your payout history 🔽
- You can now filter your payout history by query, status, date, and payout method
Upsells
Check-in and checkout upsells respect the linked parent-child listings 🗓
- Linked parent-child listings now properly block checkin and checkout upsells if there is a same-day check-in or checkout for either unit
- Multi-room reservations and active booking requests are now included in check-in and checkout availability
Search
Search functionality for all users 🔍
- The advanced Search is accessible for all users to easily find what you need
- You can learn more about using Search in this detailed help article
Integrations
App pages for AI Agents 🤖