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Help teammates be more efficient and stay on top of your business metrics! May 15, 2026

  • May 15, 2026
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Alan Sincich
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We have some great product updates that cover many different areas of the product, including the Tasks App, Auto Reply, MCP, and more! We’ve also made it easier for you to set up your business for your property management operations.

 

Task App

Purchases tied to reservations in the Tasks App 🛍

  • Your team can now clearly see purchases, like early check-ins, late checkouts, welcome baskets, and custom bed configurations
  • We’ve also made upsells translatable for Spanish-speaking teammates

Customized tasks list view 📋

  • You teammates can now choose between a list view or calendar view for tasks
  • We will save the view for easier access when they login next

AI

Configure your Auto Reply with a header 💬

  • You can now add a header to your Auto Reply messages for a more personalized touch
  • Choose to have a header or footer, letting guests know it is an automated AI reply

Inbox

Easily share custom quote booking links with guests 🔗

  • There’s a new button in the Inbox allowing you to access and copy the custom quote booking link
  • This saves you time by providing an alternate way to send the link to the guest
  • The link leads to the same place as the emailed link to the guest

Hospitable MCP

Access to scheduled booking messages 🤖

  • You can now access scheduled messages in the Hospitable MCP:
    • get-reservation-scheduled-messages: Keep track of all your automated messages for a reservation
    • update-scheduled-message: Easily make changes to message content and schedule
    • cancel-scheduled-message: Avoid sending unwanted messages by canceling them
    • restore-scheduled-message: Bring back a canceled message

Operations

Clearer setup under Your Business 🏦

  • You’ll now see setup badges have clearer, more understandable labels when setting up your business
  • Each setup badge also has its own tooltip explaining what to do next

Metrics

New dashboard widgets in Metrics 📊

  • You can now add new widgets to your custom dashboards:
    • Easily track gross revenue by property
    • View detailed reservation information in one place
    • Monitor upsell purchases across all properties
    • Analyze upsell purchases by specific products
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  • user3452
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  • May 15, 2026

Hello, it would be convenient if there was a sandbox or playground to try and test the MCP, I want to test specific replies workflows with MCP but I can’t do that with real guests.

Some sort of virtual guest where we can customize the messages, in my specific case is an automated guest access pass generation, I request them a photo ID and they send it, then I create their access pass that they show at the entrance.

Petra Podobnik
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  • Petra PodobnikHospitable Team Member
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  • May 18, 2026

Hello, it would be convenient if there was a sandbox or playground to try and test the MCP, I want to test specific replies workflows with MCP but I can’t do that with real guests.

Some sort of virtual guest where we can customize the messages, in my specific case is an automated guest access pass generation, I request them a photo ID and they send it, then I create their access pass that they show at the entrance.

Hi ​@user3452, thanks for the suggestion. I do not think the team is planning to create a sandbox environment for testing, but one option could be testing it through a manual booking instead.

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  • user3452
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  • May 19, 2026

Thanks for the response, can you please elaborate more on the manual booking option?

Petra Podobnik
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  • Petra PodobnikHospitable Team Member
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  • May 20, 2026

Hi @user3452,

Happy to elaborate. A manual booking is a reservation you create yourself directly in Hospitable; it isn't tied to Airbnb, Vrbo or Booking.com, so no real guest is involved and nothing gets pushed to a channel. That makes it a safe way to simulate a reservation and exercise your MCP workflows end-to-end.

Here's how you can use it for testing:

  1. Block off a test property (or a test date range). If you can, dedicate one listing (or just pick a far-future date range on an existing one) so you don't accidentally collide with real bookings.
  2. Create a manual booking on that property: Calendar → click the dates → Add manual booking. Enter a fake guest name and email (use an inbox you control so you can see the guest-side messages), set the dates, and save. Full steps here: How to Create & Alter a Manual Booking.
  3. Trigger your MCP workflow against it. The manual booking shows up in the inbox and reservation list just like a real one, so any MCP tool that reads reservations, sends messages, updates the guest thread, etc. will work against it. You can send messages back and forth from the guest email to test reply flows.
  4. Clean up when you're done by cancelling the manual booking (manual bookings in the future can be cancelled from the reservation page).

A few caveats to be aware of:

  • Manual bookings don't simulate channel-specific behavior (Airbnb/Vrbo/BDC quirks, channel-side messages, payouts via the OTA, etc.), so they behave like a Direct-style reservation inside Hospitable.
  • Automated messages and rules will fire on a manual booking, so if you don't want your real automations to message your test "guest," either pause those rules or use a property with no automations attached.
  • Any financials/payouts on the manual booking are just internal records; no real charges occur unless you explicitly set up a payment.

I hope this helps. 💜

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