Airbnb and channel sync
Airbnb and five more channels, synced deep. Money still waits for a human.
Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, Vrbo and Google Vacation Rentals, through one channel manager: two-way sync across availability, pricing, bookings, guest messages, and reviews. Routine events flow straight through; anything that changes money, conflicts, or cancels is held for a person to review.
Six surfaces, both directions
Everything syncs, not just the calendar.
Most "Airbnb integrations" mean availability and little else. This one is two-way on six surfaces: availability, pricing, content, bookings, guest messages, and reviews. Reply to a guest from the shared inbox and it lands in their Airbnb thread; change a listing's content once and both sides agree on it.
Enablement is opt-in per property, with explicit unit mapping, so you migrate on your own schedule instead of flipping one terrifying switch.
Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, Vrbo and Google Vacation Rentals connect the same way, from the same Channels page, each with who collects its money, a markup if you want one, and its fees booked as bills.
The connection guide →
The oversell guard
One night sells once. That is a rule of the database, not a hope of the sync.
A booking made anywhere blocks the unit everywhere. Underneath, the guard is structural: the system cannot record the same night for the same unit twice, so even a photo-finish race between a channel booking and a direct booking cannot produce a double sell.
The production portfolio has run every reservation through this guard and recorded 0 oversold nights as of August 2026.
Direct and channel bookings on one calendar →
The human gate
Routine flows. Risk waits for you.
Channel events are sorted by consequence. The harmless majority applies itself; the consequential few park on Bookings to Review until a person accepts them.
Money changes: held
An alteration that changes what a booking is worth waits for a person. No amount moves on the books untouched by human eyes.
Conflicts: held
An event that collides with an existing reservation parks with the conflict laid out, instead of silently picking a winner.
Cancellations: held
A cancellation frees a night and moves money, so it waits for review before either happens.
Everything else: flows
New bookings, messages, content, and calendar updates apply automatically, with every action written to the audit trail.
"Six channels synced deep beat sixty synced thin."
The honest part
Six channels, not sixty. On purpose, and out loud.
Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, Vrbo and Google Vacation Rentals are the channels that connect today, and our comparison table gives Guesty the channel-count row without flinching. We made Airbnb genuinely two-way, gated its risky events, and made overselling structurally impossible before adding the next five, and they meet the same standard. Any other channel's bookings come in by spreadsheet import or by hand.
Channels and direct booking, in the docs →FAQ
Airbnb sync questions
Which OTAs does Stay n Host support?
Six, through one channel manager: Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, Vrbo and Google Vacation Rentals. Each syncs availability, prices and bookings two ways, with guest messages and reviews from the channels that carry them. If you need sixty channels, a classic channel manager serves you better, and we say so on our own comparison table.
How does oversell protection actually work?
Structurally, not hopefully. A booking made anywhere, on a channel or direct, blocks the unit everywhere, and the calendar itself cannot record the same night for the same unit twice. One night sells once; a race between two bookings loses to the database, not to a sync job that got there late.
What is the Bookings to Review screen?
The human gate. Channel events that change money, create a conflict, or cancel a stay are held there for a person to accept, while routine events flow straight through. Automation handles the volume; a human signs off on the risk.
Do I have to connect every property?
No. Enablement is opt-in per property. You choose which properties sync and map each channel listing to the exact unit it sells, so a half-migrated portfolio is a supported state, not an accident.
Who gets the money from a Booking.com or Expedia booking?
You choose per channel: the channel collects and pays you out, or you collect at the property. A channel-collected booking is booked as money the channel owes you until the payout lands, the channel’s fees become bills, and the booking shows what you actually earned. A channel markup (a percentage, a flat amount per night, or both) can lift the price on a channel; Airbnb always sells your standard price.
Can my pricing tool keep setting the rates?
Yes. Mark a listing’s rate as owned by your pricing tool, such as PriceLabs, and Stay n Host stops sending its own price for it. Or use price rules, which move the rate by conditions you set. You can also pause selling a property for the off-season and send changes to the channels right away.
What happens when a sync fails?
It retries by itself, and you can see it. Every connection shows a live sync status, and failed operations retry automatically, so a wobbly night at the API does not become a stale calendar you discover from an angry guest.
Does it draft Airbnb guest replies with AI?
With the AI guest replies add-on, yes: Draft reply writes an answer in the inbox for your team to edit and send. The autopilot does not answer channel threads on its own; those always wait for a person. Without the add-on, your team answers in its own words.
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