Collections and destination hubs

Screen /site · Roles: Admin

Two kinds of landing page sit between your home page and a property. Both are real, indexed pages with their own title and description, and both carry the guest’s dates onward.

Destination hubs, which you do not create

Your site generates a page per city and a page per area from the addresses on your properties. Nothing to configure: fill in a property’s city and area and it appears on its hub.

Area comes from the property, not the listing

A property with its Area field empty appears on its city hub but on no area hub. Set it on the property - see Add a property.

Collections, which you curate

A collection is a saved filter with a URL and a name: “Infinity pool”, “Dog friendly”, “Room for a family”. It exists for the thing a guest wants that a search box does not ask about.

1. Open /site and go to the Collections tab.

2. Add a collection and give it a title. The slug is derived from the title and becomes its address, /c/your-slug.

3. Build the filter: amenities, a minimum number of bedrooms, a minimum number of guests, and optionally a city.

4. Read the match count. It comes back with every save and it is the point of the screen - see the caution below.

5. Order them. Collections appear on the home page in the order you set here.

A collection that matches nothing is invisible, not empty

A published collection matching no unit is hidden from guests rather than shown as an empty page - so a mistyped filter fails silently, and the match count on this tab is your only warning. If a collection you built is not on your home page, its count is zero.

There is a ceiling on amenities per collection

A collection narrows to a handful of amenities on purpose. A filter with a dozen conditions matches one unit on a good day and nothing after you retire it, which is the same silent failure above with more ways to trigger it.

Which to use

You want…	Use
Every property in a city, kept current by itself	A destination hub. Nothing to do.
“Places with a pool”, spanning cities	A collection.
A page with your own writing on it, not a list	A custom page.

What’s next

• Search, filters and the map.
• Add pages to your website.