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Offer2Stay is a UK booking platform: guests book your home at your price, make you an offer, or post what they need for you to answer. Connect Hostex once with your own API token and Offer2Stay works like another of your channels: your availability, prices and minimum stays come from Hostex, and Offer2Stay bookings go back into Hostex.
Connect HostexFree to list. 10% only when you get a booking. No guest fees. Works alongside Airbnb and Booking.com.
| What | Direction | When |
|---|---|---|
| Properties | Hostex to Offer2Stay | When you connect, and when you press Import properties |
| Availability | Hostex to Offer2Stay | When Hostex tells us something changed, every 30 minutes, or press Sync now |
| Nightly prices, minimum stays | Hostex to Offer2Stay | Every 30 minutes, from the property's Airbnb listing (else Vrbo, else Booking.com) |
| New bookings | Offer2Stay to Hostex | Within about 10 minutes of the guest paying: a direct booking under your Offer2Stay channel with the guest's name, dates, the amount paid, our commission and a note with the Offer2Stay reference and when you are paid |
| Date changes and cancellations | Offer2Stay to Hostex | When they happen on Offer2Stay; cancelled dates reopen |
Hostex is in charge: its prices and minimum stays replace any you set on Offer2Stay for the synced dates. Because each Offer2Stay booking goes into Hostex, Hostex closes those dates on your other channels.
Hostex Pro (the Hostex API is not available on Basic) and a writable API token, created under Workplace > Tools > API. You also add a custom channel called Offer2Stay so our bookings show up properly.
Your calendar still syncs, but Offer2Stay bookings cannot be added to Hostex and the Hostex card on your Integrations page shows a red warning. Create a writable token in Hostex, then disconnect on Offer2Stay and paste the new one.
Offer2Stay bookings go into Hostex as direct bookings under that channel, so you can see where each one came from and Hostex closes the dates on your other channels. If the channel is missing, the card tells you, our team is alerted, and we retry automatically. Hostex also needs an income method set up to record a booking (Settings > General Settings > Income & Expense Categories > Payment method for income).
No. Hostex stays in charge of your prices, minimum stays and availability, and Offer2Stay never changes your Airbnb, Vrbo or Booking.com listings. The only thing Offer2Stay adds to Hostex is a booking made on Offer2Stay, and it updates or cancels that booking if the dates change or the booking is cancelled on Offer2Stay.
Nightly prices and minimum stays are read from the property’s Airbnb listing in Hostex, or its Vrbo listing, or its Booking.com listing, in that order. Prices are synced for listings priced in pounds.
Not yet. Instant booking for Hostex-linked listings stays off for now. Guests can ask to book at your price or make you an offer, and you confirm. Once the guest has paid, the booking is added to Hostex automatically.
Offer2Stay re-reads your Hostex calendar when Hostex tells us something has changed, and every 30 minutes as well. It checks the dates with Hostex again just before a guest is charged. If the dates were taken in between, the booking is not added and our team is alerted so we can contact you.
Make the change on Offer2Stay, not in Hostex, so the guest is refunded correctly. For new dates Offer2Stay adds a new reservation in Hostex and cancels the old one; for a cancellation it cancels the reservation and the dates reopen.
Yes. On the Integrations page you can show your Hostex prices a set percentage higher or lower on Offer2Stay, for every property or one at a time, and add weekly or monthly discounts.
Guests pay Offer2Stay by card through Stripe. You are paid the booking total less our 10% commission, 24 hours after the guest checks in. Set up payouts once under Host > Payouts; Stripe checks your identity and bank details.
Free to connect and list. We take 10% of the booking total, all-in, only when you get a booking. There are no guest fees.
Host > Integrations > Hostex > Disconnect. You can also delete the token in Hostex. Your Hostex account is untouched.
enquiries@offer2stay.co.uk.