Add your first property

Chapter 03 · 5 min

Inventory in Stay N Host has three layers, and getting them right once means never fighting them again:

• A property is a building or site - an address with photos, policies, and house content.
• A listing type is a category of unit inside it - Studio, One-bed Deluxe - with shared photos, amenities, and base pricing.
• A listing is one sellable unit - the actual apartment a guest sleeps in, with its own calendar and door codes.

If you manage single homes, you’ll simply have one listing type with one listing per property - the layers are still there, they just stay thin.

1. Open Properties in the sidebar and click Add property. Give it a name and address. (Today’s setup checklist takes you to the same place.)

   

2. Create a listing type on the property’s Listing types tab. Set the sleeping capacity, amenities, and photos that all units of this type share.

3. Add a listing on the Listings tab - the sellable unit itself. Name it the way your team talks (“A-302”), pick its listing type, and it’s on the calendar immediately.

4. Fill in Content & policies. House rules, check-in/out times, arrival instructions, Wi-Fi - content set at the property level flows down to every listing unless a listing overrides it, so write it once, high up.

5. Set the Policies and Quotations tabs. The refund ladder (how much a guest gets back at each notice period) and the quotation footer (terms printed on every quote) live per property.

Linked units

If a big apartment can also sell as two smaller ones (or vice versa), link them on the Linked units tab. Booking either side automatically blocks the other - no double-sell, no manual calendar juggling. Details in Properties & listings.

What’s next

A unit you can sell needs a way to get paid for it: Set up how you get paid.