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I’m looking to set up my direct booking site exclusively for mid-term rentals (30-day minimum stays), while keeping my Airbnb calendar settings at a 3-night minimum.

The last time I tried to configure this, the 30-day minimum setting on the direct site also applied to my Airbnb listings through calendar sync. Can you confirm if there’s a way to separate these settings so that:
    •    The direct booking site enforces a 30-day minimum stay, and
    •    My Airbnb calendar remains at a 3-night minimum?

I’d like to use the direct site for corporate housing and longer stays while continuing to host short stays on Airbnb.

Thanks in advance for your guidance on how to make this work.

Hi ​@Host 

Yes, you can technically achieve this setup in Hospitable, but it requires a workaround using the parent-child property setup, with two separate properties in Hospitable, each having different minimum night settings.

Here’s how you can do it step by step:

  1. Create a new Airbnb listing and set its minimum stay to 30 nights.

  2. Unlist this Airbnb property so that it’s no longer bookable on Airbnb — this way, you won’t receive bookings through Airbnb on this listing.

  3. In Hospitable, publish your Direct Booking site using this unlisted Airbnb listing. This will enforce the 30-night minimum on your direct site.

  4. Then, set up a parent-child relationship between your original 3-night Airbnb listing (for short stays) and this new 30-night listing (for mid-term stays). This keeps calendars synced while allowing different stay rules per channel.

Unfortunately, Hospitable currently doesn't support creating a direct booking property unless it's first imported from an OTA like Airbnb or Booking.com. If this limitation affects your workflow, I’d encourage you to upvote this feature request:
👉 Add properties directly in Hospitable without importing from booking channels

Hope this helps clarify things! Let me know if you need more detail.

Here’s my concern:
Once I unlist that second Airbnb listing, Airbnb will remove it from my active listings. So how will it remain active and usable inside Hospitable to power my Direct Booking site?

I want to make sure that unlisting the Airbnb property won’t break the connection or cause it to disappear from Hospitable. Can you confirm whether this method still works and if so, how the listing remains usable for Direct Bookings after being unlisted on Airbnb?

Thanks in advance for your help

Here’s my concern:
Once I unlist that second Airbnb listing, Airbnb will remove it from my active listings. So how will it remain active and usable inside Hospitable to power my Direct Booking site?

I want to make sure that unlisting the Airbnb property won’t break the connection or cause it to disappear from Hospitable. Can you confirm whether this method still works and if so, how the listing remains usable for Direct Bookings after being unlisted on Airbnb?

Thanks in advance for your help

I can confirm that the direct listing will stay usable. Unlisting on Airbnb does nothing to your direct listing. I personally do not use this method, but we had properties live with only direct listing. Just make sure you have the availability window set. And of course, Hospitable will have an additional cost for having another property. 

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