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🚀 Advanced Travel Onboarding Improvements
A wave of fixes & enhancements released over the last few days — powered by your beta feedback!
Over the last few days, we’ve rolled out a series of improvements to the Advanced Travel Onboarding experience. These updates address early beta feedback, fix several onboarding issues, and add more clarity and stability to the new calendar system.
Below is everything that’s been released recently 👇
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🗓️ Calendar Fixes & Enhancements
- Fixed: A major bug where calendar dates appeared on the wrong days of the week (e.g., Dec 1, 2025 showing as Sunday instead of Monday). This fix also resolves strange bookability score issues users noticed.
- Crash resolved: Fixed an issue causing the app to crash when selecting dates on calendars with more blockouts than allocated.
- “Today” highlight fixed: Corrected a red-cell issue caused by UTC conversion.
- Clear Blockouts works correctly: Now clears all blockouts, including AI suggestions and manual edits.
- New Calendar Legend: Added a clearly labeled legend showing blockouts, available dates, buffer times, and more.

- Year navigation: Added year-jump buttons at the bottom of the calendar for faster browsing.
- Improved messaging: Updated helper text to better explain blockouts, share nights, and how the system works.
- External calendars link: New quick link for users needing to upload additional external calendars.
- Proration improvements: Blockout proration logic updated — towards the end of the year, listings now auto-receive additional blockouts if they have many open dates with high (>70) bookability scores.
- Updated badge styling: Last-minute booking badge restyled to white.

- Advanced Travel tab visible (but locked): Now shows a tooltip explaining that Advanced Travel booking is coming soon.
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📱 Mobile UI Improvements
- Floating Blockout Summary Widget: On mobile, users now see a floating widget with: Blockout totals, Proration details, Share nights info, Bookability scores, And more... Making the entire onboarding process much easier on smaller screens.

- Fixed several layout issues on mobile involving modals, bullets, spacing, and overlapping UI.
- Listing dropdown now pins to the top when scrolling, giving more room to adjust blockouts.
- Added a loader to the AI blockout suggestion button so users know when suggestions are still processing.
- Fixed mobile tooltips that failed to show correctly.
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🧭 Onboarding Flow & UI Enhancements
- Updated Review Setup Page: The Hostshare Agreement page now clearly shows benefits and displays a beta notice for transparency.
- Added a CTA banner for users without a listing to help guide them into the Advanced Travel experience.
- Fixed Share Pledge link (now correctly opens the help article).
- Misc improvements to text content, sizing, spacing, font weights, and background color on the summary page.
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These updates all came directly from the Hostshare community testing during our beta release.
Thank you to everyone who has opted in, tested early, and shared your feedback — it’s shaping Advanced Travel into something truly powerful. 🙌
More refinements are coming soon as we get closer to
Advanced Travel Booking
— stay tuned!We’re excited to announce that
Phase 1 of Advanced Travel
has officially launched on Hostshare! This release introduces the brand-new
Advanced Travel Onboarding Flow
, giving hosts the ability to prepare their listings, configure availability, and get fully set up ahead of the full Advanced Travel booking release arriving in the next couple of weeks.This is a foundational milestone — unlocking the systems needed to offer future-dated bookings and a more flexible travel experience.
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🌙 What’s New in Advanced Travel Onboarding
🚀 A New In-App Call to Action
Eligible hosts (Live + Subscribed) will now see a banner in the app inviting them to activate Advanced Travel.
Once selected, hosts move through a new guided onboarding experience.

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🤖 AI-Optimized Yearly Blockouts
To prepare listings for advanced bookings, hosts now review and confirm an AI-powered blockout plan.
Here’s what’s included:
- Smart blockout recommendations based on live market data + your listing data
- Up to 270 blockouts per year, determined by average nightly rate
- Ability to review and edit the proposed schedule before confirming
- Once submitted, blockouts are locked — editing for 90+ day windows will be coming shortly
This ensures host calendars are prepared for future-dated booking long before the feature goes live.


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🤝 Updated Share Pledge for Advanced Travel
Before completing onboarding, hosts review and accept the updated Advanced Travel Share Pledge, which reflects the new expectations around availability for future bookings.
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⏳ 7-Day Grace Period
After activating Advanced Travel:
- Hosts get 7 days to freely adjust their full year of blockouts
- They may opt out of Advanced Travel during this window
- After 7 days, editing is restricted to dates 90+ days out, and opting out requires contacting support
This grace period protects to try it out. During beta release of booking in the next couple weeks, opting-out will be paused during the beta period to ensure a we launch smoothly.
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🛠️ New Availability Controls & Settings
Host-facing updates:
- New Travel & Sharing settings page added to Account Settings
- Updated availability settings for Last-Minute and Advanced Travel modes now appear on each listing

Behind the scenes:
- Improved systems ensure availability, blockouts, and buffers all work seamlessly across travel modes as we prepare for future-dated bookings
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🗓️ Updated Host Buffer Rules
This update also includes a more flexible buffer system:
- Last-Minute booking buffer is now 7 days (formerly 10)
- Buffers can be toggled on or off per listing
- Buffers now block both before and after bookings for cleaner calendar logic

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🔍 Additional Improvements
To support Advanced Travel onboarding, we made several supporting enhancements:
- Improved handoff between date selection, listing pages, and view status
- More stable calendar logic across flexible and exact date views
- A foundation of new logic that prepares the system for full Advanced Travel booking
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⏭️ What’s Coming Next
🌟
Advanced Travel Booking
— the ability for users to actually book
future dates — is coming in the next couple of weeks.With onboarding now live, hosts who prepare today will be first in line when the full feature drops.
Stay tuned — the best version of Hostshare travel is just getting started. ✨
We just released an update to support new types of special offers for users who join Hostshare through partner programs or referral links.
⭐ What’s New
Certain users who sign up through approved partner or referral programs will now automatically receive exclusive membership offers tailored to their signup path.
These offers:
- Apply automatically based on how a user joins
- Override standard listing offers
- Have differing expiration dates, giving users the flexibility to activate when ready
- Help us better support property managers, partnerships, and community referrals
🚀 Why This Matters
This upgrade allows us to:
- Better support property managers and partner ecosystems
- Reward host-to-host referrals
- Simplify onboarding with auto-applied incentives
- And—most importantly—bring more great hosts and more high-quality listings onto the platform, strengthening the entire Hostshare community
If you’re joining Hostshare through a referral or partner program, your special offer will automatically appear on your account—no codes, no steps, no hassle.
We’ve released a major update to improve the accuracy and reliability of Free Nights and Share Night Contract data across Hostshare.
These upgrades were focused on strengthening our internal tools so our Support Team can resolve issues faster and ensure your nights are always tracked correctly.
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✅ More Accurate Free Nights Balances
We completed a large system cleanup and refinement to ensure Free Nights and Share Nights are calculated correctly for nearly all users. Moving forward, all new activity will be tracked with even greater accuracy and consistency.
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🛠️ Better Tools for Customer Support
To help hosts and travelers get quick, accurate help when something looks off, our support team now has improved visibility and control, including:
- Clearer membership and renewal details
- Improved handling of cancellations and status changes
- Fixes to date and timezone inconsistencies
- Better tracking of expiring or limited-time Free Nights
- More reliable payout account status and resets
These updates ensure that when you contact support about your account, listing, bookings, or Free Nights, our team can diagnose issues faster and resolve them on the spot.
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🚀 What This Means for You
- More reliable Free Nights tracking
- Fewer discrepancies or missing nights
- Faster support responses when something needs adjusting
- A cleaner foundation as we roll out Advanced Travel
This update clears out a huge amount of technical debt and strengthens the system that powers Free Nights, Share Pledges, and renewals—core parts of what makes Hostshare work.
If you ever notice anything unusual with your Free Nights or listing’s nights to share, reach out to support and we’ll take care of it right away.
We’ve released a small update that helps our support team better understand and resolve cancellation-related questions:
✔️ What’s New
- Clear Cancellation Reasons:Bookings and free night transaction records now include a tooltip showing the specific reason a booking was canceled. This helps our support team quickly diagnose issues and assist users more effectively.
- Updated Guest Refund Handling:For guest-initiated cancellations, refunds now exclude the standard processing fee. This ensures consistent handling across all cancellations.
These updates help us respond faster, provide clearer answers, and create a smoother experience for both hosts and guests.
We’ve rolled out a
brand-new Free Nights Transaction system
— one of our biggest infrastructure updates yet! We’ve rebuilt and migrated data from the ground up to support the exciting changes coming with Advanced Travel
. This new Free Nights Transaction system is one of the most significant updates to Hostshare yet — ensuring every night is tracked, renewed, and credited correctly. 💡 Why This Matters
- Fixes previous issues where listings weren’t renewing nights after a year of sharing.
- Resolves inaccurate free night and share night balances.
- Properly prevents bookings when listings have reached their shared night quota.
- Gives hosts and admins better visibility into how nights are earned, used, and renewed.
🆕 What’s New
- Each listing now includes a “Shared Nights” tabshowing your share pledge contract details, shared nights, and remaining nights.
- Contracts now auto-renew or cancelbased on listing status and membership.
- You can clearly see how many nights have been pledged, shared, and remain for your listing.
- Admin tools were upgraded behind the scenes to help ensure everything stays accurate and is easily adjustable for admins.

This system lays the groundwork for
Advanced Travel
— coming soon — and ensures every Hostshare night counts exactly as it should.🔧 Hotfixes
- Mobile Scroll Fix:Prevents accidental clicks on listings when scrolling the search results.
- Map Filter Fix:Filters and selected dates now stay applied when navigating between listings and th
We’ve started rolling out
Advanced Travel
previews across the app — giving you a glimpse of what’s coming soon with the ability to book further out than 5 days.🧭 What’s New
- Date Picker Teasers:Every listing now shows an“Advanced” tabin the date selector, teasing upcoming advanced travel booking options.

- Host Calendar Preview:Hosts can now see theAdvanced tabon their calendar and listing calendar pages — a preview of what’s to come for expanded booking management.

- Travel Home Teaser:A new,dismissible floating teaserappears on the travel home page for users who haven’t yet joined the Advanced Travel waitlist.

✅ Be the First to Know
You can make sure you’re on the list and
opt-in as a user with a live listing
. You’ll be notified soon once Advanced Travel officially launches
! 🚀 We’ve added more important details to listings and booking pages to make hosting and traveling even clearer — especially as we prepare for advanced travel.
📋 House Rules
- New House Rulessection now appears on listing pages and booking confirmation/my trips pages.
- Shows key info like check-in/out times, max guests, pets allowed, and any custom rules added by the host.
- Fully editable by hosts and admins.

❌ Cancellation Policy Modal
- New Cancellation Policy modalon listing pages and booking confirmations.
- Designed to be clearer and easier to find.
- Sets the foundation for multiple cancellation policiesin the future with advanced travel.
✅ Works seamlessly on mobile too, so guests and hosts have the info they need no matter how they access Hostshare.
We’ve rolled out two big improvements to make booking and browsing listings on mobile smoother and more informative.
🛎️ Mobile Booking Summary
- On mobile, you can now clearly see your selected dates, full price, and savingsbefore booking.
- Quickly adjust your dates without refreshing the page or going through the full “Book Now” flow.
- This makes booking on mobile faster, clearer, and more reliable.

ℹ️ Generic Listing Info Modal
- Listings now include a “Show More” buttonthat opens a modal with the full description and all amenities.
- This new modal is reusable and will soon include house rules, cancellation policies, and more detailsto help you make better booking decisions.

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These updates are designed to make mobile booking
simpler and more transparent
, while giving you more insight into the listings you’re interested in. We just rolled out a
major update
with big improvements to our search, listings, and booking foundation — setting us up for Advanced Travel
in the near future. ✨ New Features & Improvements
- Future date support→ Dates selected in search now pass properly to listing pages (works with both flexible and exact dates).
- Brand new date pickers→ Updated components on both search and listing pages now show future dates (currently marked “Not bookable yet”) — laying the groundwork for full advanced travel booking.
- Rebuilt search API & map functionality→ Faster, cleaner, and less redundant loading. URL query parameters were also rebuilt for more consistent results across the app.
- Smarter location handling→ The “Where” section now correctly shows whether you searched for a location or moved the map.

🐞 Bug Fixes
- Fixed filters not retaining selections when reopening the modal.
- Fixed map double-loading and unnecessary extra API calls.
- Fixed searches snapping back to the original query instead of staying on current results.
- Fixed crash when zooming the map out too far (beyond -90° to 90°).
- Fixed double-load when changing filters mid-search.
- Fixed listings preview showing “5-day bubbles” again after moving the map with dates selected.
- Fixed map bug showing alllistings on first load or when switching to traveling.
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⚡ This release is a huge step forward in speed, stability, and flexibility — and gets us much closer to
Advanced Travel
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