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VRBO dropoff after changing to management through Hospitable

  • October 2, 2026
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ali
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Has anyone else experienced this? I was getting most my volume from VRBO. As soon as I moved it to be managed through Hospitable, I’ve gotten zero bookings through VRBO and only coming from Airbnb. 
 

at first, the connection was the issue and I figured that out but I’ve confirmed I’m live on VRBO. 
 

I'm in South Florida so I am in SLOW season. But last year I definitely had more bookings than I do right now. 

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Tom Beerley
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  • October 2, 2026

If I were in your shoes I would navigate through the Vrbo UI looking for differences of things that may have gotten changed in your availability settings, discounts, or fee settings over the course of your transition. And especially if you've played with the channel markups... The most obvious reason you would be getting fewer bookings is if your pricing used to be lower and now has a markup being applied to it. There's no inherent reason that being PMS-managed would cause people not to book with you. There must be some explanation in your pricing or your settings.


kamara
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  • October 2, 2026

I’m new to hospitable but having a hard time linking. I’m not sure if it’s something conenected to your issue 


ali
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  • October 2, 2026

If I were in your shoes I would navigate through the Vrbo UI looking for differences of things that may have gotten changed in your availability settings, discounts, or fee settings over the course of your transition. And especially if you've played with the channel markups... The most obvious reason you would be getting fewer bookings is if your pricing used to be lower and now has a markup being applied to it. There's no inherent reason that being PMS-managed would cause people not to book with you. There must be some explanation in your pricing or your settings.

I’ve don’t all this. Maybe it’s just the seasonality and was a coincidence on timing.