Organise photos into categories
A gallery of forty photographs in upload order is not a gallery, it is a folder. Categories give it the structure you already keep on disk, and your booking site renders them the same way.
The eight built-in categories
Section titled “The eight built-in categories”Main Hero Shots · Living Room · Sitting Room · Kitchen & Dining · Bedroom · Bathroom · Terrace Sitting · Utilities & Comfort
Your own categories
Section titled “Your own categories”Add your own where the built-ins do not fit - “Rooftop”, “Gym”, “Prayer Room”. They are yours alone, and a category you remove can be added again later.
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Open the listing’s Photos tab.
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Pick a category as you upload, or set it on a photo already there.
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Add a bucket of your own if none fits. It cannot take the name of a built-in.
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Set the lead photo. It is the one card and search results use.
Photos at the listing-type grain
Section titled “Photos at the listing-type grain”A listing type has its own Photos, filed into the same sections its units use. Where every “One Bed Giga View” looks the same, photograph one and file the photos on the type.
Type photos are not shown on the units until you press Push to units. That copies the photos, and the sections they are filed under, onto every unit of the type, replacing any photos those units already have. Each unit keeps its own copy afterwards, so a later change on the type reaches the units only when you push again. There is no undo, so check the unit count before you press it.
What happens after you upload
Section titled “What happens after you upload”| Step | What it means for you |
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| The bytes are screened | Your browser reads each image’s actual contents before sending it, so a file that is not really a supported image is refused at the picker, with a reason, rather than becoming a broken tile later. Video is accepted on its declared type. |
| iPhone HEIC is converted in your browser | You can upload straight from a phone; no export step. |
| Resized copies are made | A thumbnail is served as a thumbnail. A 5 MB photograph is never sent into a 74-pixel box. |
| Copies are served from the CDN | Your booking site’s galleries stay fast. |
Where they show up
Section titled “Where they show up”- The listing and its type, in the app.
- Your booking site: property hero, room galleries, search cards, map cards.
- A property with no photographs of its own falls back to its rooms’ photos on the site, so a card is rarely bare - but the fallback is not a substitute for a hero shot.
What’s next
Section titled “What’s next”- Photos - uploading and ordering.
- Listing types.
- What a guest sees, end to end.