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Add Facebook or Meta pixel to Houfy

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How to add Facebook or Meta pixel to your Houfy account

Finding the Facebook/Meta pixel ID:

  1. Go to Facebook/Meta event manager.
  2. Go to the Data source or create a new.
  3. Go to Settings -> Pixel ID -> Copy pixel ID

Adding it to Houfy

  1. Edit profile -> Settings
  2. Facebook pixel -> put the copied pixel ID.

Dynamic pricing

Pricelabs & Houfy

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Increase revenue with data-driven pricing from Pricelabs

With great pleasure we like to inform Houfy is now connected to Pricelabs.

Pricelabs & Houfy

When syncing with Houfy, PriceLabs can update daily rates and minimum stay requirements for dates up to one year from today (for more information on extending the pricing calendar for your listings, see PriceLabs article here), along with check-in and check-out restrictions. Existing last minute, and weekly and monthly discounts set in Houfy will continue to apply once PriceLabs is connected, but all seasonal and calendar rates will be overwritten by PriceLabs each time an update happens. 

Connecting to Houfy

Step 1.

To import your Houfy listings into PriceLabs, simply fetch your API key from your Houfy settings by clicking "Show" and copying the key (Menu > Privacy & Settings)

Pricelabs & Houfy


Step 2.

Head over to your PriceLabs account and click the "Add your listings" button, select Houfy from the drop down, paste in your API key, then click "Connect."

Pricelabs & Houfy

That's it! You should now see your Houfy listings on your PriceLabs dashboard. Head over to the Pricelabs onboarding guide or join one of our PriceLabs 101 webinars to get an overview of the system and all available customizations. When you're ready to sync, toggle on the sync switch for your listing and wait for our regular nightly sync, or click the "Sync now!" button to update rates on Houfy immediately.

Once a successful sync has happened, you can find your PriceLabs rates and minimum stay settings in two places on Houfy. First by going to the calendar on the pubic listing page and hovering over a date to see the rate and min-stay 

Pricelabs & Houfy

Or, you can see the rate and min-stay for each date by going to the individual listing calendar by clicking "Manage Listings" from the main Houfy menu when logged in as a host. 

Pricelabs & Houfy
Notes for syncing to Houfy and other channels from PriceLabs

Please note that if you are syncing to Houfy and other channels, like Vrbo and Airbnb, from PriceLabs, PriceLabs will not coordinate calendars between listings. You must create an iCal connection between each channel in order to make sure reservations booked on one platform appear as blocked dates on the other.

You can also map your listings together so that you are not double invoiced for the same property, please read through our guide to mapping listings between channels for instructions on how to do that. Once listings are mapped, you can use the pricing offset customization to account for the difference in commissions between channels. Please remember to set a base price for the parent listing if you are still using the PriceLabs estimated base price.

Estimated base prices do not copy from parent to child listing. 
When syncing to multiple channels from PriceLabs, set your pricing offset customization
at the account level from the Customizations Page so your customization settings will apply to all listings at once! 

Where do I find API Access Token?

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To get API access token follow below procedure:

  • Right menu/Profile Picture > Settings & Privacy
  • Go to the section "API access token"
  • Generate a new token or view existing token
  • Copy API access token

When I add a Houfy listing to Pricelabs it's independent to my Airbnb listing. Is there a quick way to link the 2 prices?

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Did you map your child listing to the parent listing in PriceLabs?

You'll want to do that for billing, especially. Then there is a setting that says to copy everything from the parent to the child. (Aside: You can make adjustments on the child or parent as a pricing offset if you like as well.) PriceLabs should have some good help articles as well once you are in your account. Love having my prices syncing and dynamic with PriceLab's service!

For more information, please review this url.


Channel managers

How to remove your OwnerRez connection

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To remove your OwnerRez connection on Houfy, please follow the steps below:

1. Disconnect or remove OwnerRez

  • Right menu > Manage listings > API connections
How to remove your OwnerRez connection

2. Clear pricing:

  • Edit listing > calendar > Clear pricing
How to remove your OwnerRez connection

3. Remove listing(optional)

  • Edit listing > overview
  • Click Remove


Connecting OwnerRez to Houfy

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Firstly you will need to complete the setup steps at OwnerRez and then perform few steps on Houfy.

Visit our channel Manager page which you can find here: Right menu -> Manage Listings -> Connections. Click on connect with OwnerRez to continue.

You will need to enter an OwnerRez account id to continue. Enter a valid OwnerRez account id and click to continue.

Connecting OwnerRez to Houfy

Select your settings for sync for each listing.

  • Listing basic information: Overview about property, room details, location, amenities, suitability, activities, etc.
  • Listing rates: Pricing import from OwnerRez to Houfy
  • Listing availability: Listing availability import from OwnerRez to Houfy
Connecting OwnerRez to Houfy

Once all settings are completed, click on pull data to import data for the first time.

We are very much still working on a perfect integration with OwnerRez which will take some time.. (Discounts etc)

Important notes:

  • Payment options will be hidden for OwnerRez connected listings on Houfy and the guest can send you an inquiry message through Houfy.
  • OwnerRez connected owners can communicate with the guest and handle the booking.
  • On connecting or importing the listings from ownerrez, listing data, rates and availability will be imported based on selected options.
  • Listing data(except photos), rates, and availability will be imported every 3 hours from OwnerRez API.

How to import a newly added listing from Ownerrez into Houfy

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This post explains how to import a newly added listing from ownerrez channel manager into Houfy:

If you add new listing at OR and want it to be imported also at Houfy, please follow these steps below.

1. Right menu -> Manage Listings -> Connections

2. Click on "Did you add more listings at the channel manager? Pull into Houfy".

Once you click pull into Houfy, you can see you Ownerrez account id, click continue.

3. Once you continue, you newly added listings gets imported, but you still need to do mapping of listings for them, by creating a new listing.

Select create a new listing option and click Create a new listing

4. Select your sync settings for each listing.

  • a. Listing basic information: Overview about property, room details, location, amenities, suitability, activities, etc.
  • b. Listing rates: Pricing import from OwnerRez to Houfy
  • c. Listing availability: Listing availability import from OwnerRez to Houfy

If you have more questions, please join our facebook member group

How can I disconnect from OwnerRez?

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  1. Log in and click on right menu
  2. Select Manage Listings
  3. Select Connections
  4. Remove this connection.


What is happening with Houfy connections to Channel Managers, Property Management Systems and Price optimization tools?

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We are currently preparing Houfy for rapid growth before we can integrate with more channel managers or price optimization companies.

Houfy is NOT directly API connected to Airbnb or VRBO. Members can import listings data excluding pricing from Airbnb and pull in reviews from both Airbnb and VRBO.

Houfy is currently connected with:

  • Hosttools.com
  • Ownerrez.com
  • Pricelabs.com

We have received numerous requests to connect Houfy to different channel managers the last few months and unfortuately we do not have enough programmers to take care of this at this time.

Each API connection between Houfy and a channel manager or price optimization tool can take between 1 and 2 weeks for a programmer to program.

Houfy promotions

Where can I find a receipt for my Houfy promotion?

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You can find and download your receipt(s) at: https://www.houfy.com/houfypay

  1. Click on Menu
  2. Privacy an Settings
  3. Select Houfy Pay

Is there a way to promote all 5 of my properties at the same time versus doing them individually?

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We are still working at promtions and this is currently only available for individual listings. Once we programmed for more than one listing we will inform in our facebook group.

For more information about promotions click on the link below:

Is there a way to promote all 5 of my properties at the same time versus doing them individually?
Is there a way to promote all 5 of my properties at the same time versus doing them individually?
Introducing HOUFY Promotions
We created a program to showcase your listing at multiple areas on our site in the form of a promotion. Currently this is only available for Last Minute Specials & Featured Listings. You will need to have verified and completed listings to proceed.
https://www.houfy.com


Introducing HOUFY Promotions

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We created a program to showcase your listing at multiple areas on our site in the form of a promotion. Currently this is only available for Last Minute Specials & Featured Listings. You will need to have verified and completed listings to proceed.

Ads give your listing a greater visibility and higher chances to get last minute bookings.

Log in > Click on + > Select Ad Creator > Last minute Special

Where will my promotion be visible?
  • Your promotion will show on our homepage: https://www.houfy.com
Introducing HOUFY Promotions
  • Your ad will show as one of the first listings at your state search: https://www.houfy.com/vacation-rentals/South-Carolina--United-States
Introducing HOUFY Promotions
  • Your ad will show as one of the first listings at your city search: https://www.houfy.com/vacation-rentals/Hilton-Head-Island--SC--United-States
Introducing HOUFY Promotions
  • Your ad will show as one of the first listings at "nearby listings" on all listings from your city:
Introducing HOUFY Promotions
  • Your ad will show as in howfeed for all members
Introducing HOUFY Promotions
Pricing:

Depending on city/location and demand we will increase/decrease pricing in the future(programmatically). Currently the price is set for 1.29$ a day with a minimum duration of 30 days.

We are always open for any suggestions you might have - please let us know in our Say Yes to Houfy Facebook Group

Houfy website builder

How to delete a website created using website builder?

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  • Go to website builder and click Manage on the website you wanted to delete.
  • Select Preferences from the left menu and scroll down to Remove this website
  • Click Remove this website and confirm to remove the website.

How to create a dropdown menu on my website?

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  • Go to website builder and click Manage on the website you wanted to add a dropdown menu
  • Select Navigation from the left menu and click Main menu to add a dropdown to main menu list
  • Edit existing menu item or Add menu item, select dropdown to Yes
  • Add child menu to the dropdown, enter name of child menu, select page, and select link target. Click Save to save the changes.
How to create a dropdown menu on my website?


Create a website with Houfy's website builder

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To create a website powered by Houfy please follow the below instructions:

  1. Click plus menu > Website builder
  2. Click on single/multi vacation rental website based on your need.
Create a website with Houfy's website builder

3. Enter the business name or website name and click continue.

Create a website with Houfy's website builder

4. Select listing(s) associated with the website and click continue.

Create a website with Houfy's website builder
Done. Your website will be created within a few seconds.

Now you can do below things:

  • Select the template for the website
  • Connect your domain to the website
  • Edit pages or sections
  • Edit colors or font



Houfy website builder templates

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This post explains about website builder's template feature.

Website builder provides different layout changes to start building your website.

Currently, there are 5 templates:

Houfy template (Default template): This template has a similar view as a single page view listing.

Template 1: Search in the middle of the slider or mage image. This is a multi-page template.

Template 2: Search at the bottom of the slider or mage image. This is a multi-page template.

Template 3: Menus below the logo on the separate line. Search at the bottom of the slide or main image. This is a multi-page template.

Template 4: Slider or main image is full screen with search in the middle. This is a multi-page template.

To choose a different template:

  1. Go to website builder -> Manage
  2. On the left, you can see a list of the available templates. Click "Install" to choose the template.


Edit listing related data on my website

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To edit overview(listing summary)

  • Go to website builder and select the website to manage.
  • Select pages from the left menu
Edit listing related data on my website
  • Select the page you want to edit and click Edit
  • Click on the section to edit


Edit listing related data on my website
  • Click the edit button and edit the content of the section.


Edit listing related data on my website


Change the default listing of my website

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To change the default listing on your website please follow below steps.

  • Plus menu > Manage website
  • Go to pages > Click on settings of any page
  • Go to listing data > Change default listing
Change the default listing of my website



Changing the color of your website business name

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You can easily change the colors on your Houfy website by following the instructions below.

To change the color of your website business name:

  • Manage website > Pages
  • Edit any page
  • Click on design settings > Colors > Business name
  • Change color > Save
Changing the color of your website business name


How to edit colors and font on Houfy website builder

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Start creating a website by logging in and clicking on the + icon.
How to edit colors and font on Houfy website builder

Once a template has been selected click on "Pages" on the left menu

How to edit colors and font on Houfy website builder

Click on Home and edit

How to edit colors and font on Houfy website builder

Click on Header

How to edit colors and font on Houfy website builder

Scroll down and click on Design Settings

How to edit colors and font on Houfy website builder

Click on Font or Colors and save changes..

How to edit colors and font on Houfy website builder

How to delete image from slideshow at website?

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  • Go to website builder and select the website you want to edit.
  • Click on pages from left navigation and Click on Edit for the page which has slideshow in it.
  • Click on slideshow to open slides.
  • Select slideshow image which you want to delete, click Remove this slide to remove the slideshow image.




Are you looking for an easy and reliable way to build a top-notch website for your vacation rental business? Say hello to Houfy, the world’s simplest website builder for vacation rentals!

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Having your own professional website will give you a competitive edge over other vacation-rental businesses, helping you attract more potential guests and instill confidence in their booking decisions. Show them that you’re serious about your business with a Houfy website! Get started today and see just how easy building a lasting online presence can be.

No coding skills or prior experience are needed with our user-friendly interface. Houfy makes building a website easier than ever; you can get up and running in mere minutes. Our professionally designed templates offer an array of customizable options, allowing you to create a unique website tailored to reflect your rental brand’s style and flair. With Houfy, you get all the features necessary to design the perfect website.

How does this work?

Log in > Click on + > Select Website Builder (For completed and verified Houfy listings only!)

We have created a system where any update you make on your Houfy listing(s), including pricing/calendar/pictures/text/guides, will instantly update your Houfy connected website XYZ-rentals.com.

Sample for one property: https://www.tinytikiretrohideaway.com

Are you looking for an easy and reliable way to build a top-notch website for your vacation rental business? Say hello to Houfy, the world’s simplest website builder for vacation rentals!
Are you looking for an easy and reliable way to build a top-notch website for your vacation rental business? Say hello to Houfy, the world’s simplest website builder for vacation rentals!
TINY TIKI RETRO HIDEAWAY
With a combination of spectacular view and luxury camping, the "Tiny Tiki Retro Hideaway" is a unique glamping experience. Relax and retreat on a sandstone mesa, where nobody will find you at this extraordinary get away. Our 1954 vintage retro-tiny-house-on-wheels, furnished patio, and a shady gazebo offer an unforgettable highlight of your travels.
https://www.tinytikiretrohideaway.com

Sample for Multiple properties: https://www.bed.ninja

Are you looking for an easy and reliable way to build a top-notch website for your vacation rental business? Say hello to Houfy, the world’s simplest website builder for vacation rentals!
Are you looking for an easy and reliable way to build a top-notch website for your vacation rental business? Say hello to Houfy, the world’s simplest website builder for vacation rentals!
bed.ninja
Home
https://www.bed.ninja

You have the option to stay the owner of the domain if you chose so and we can link our program to your domain. - for more info.

Pricing: this will be reasonable and decided sometime in 2023.

Thanks T & S

Add Google tag or any other analytics to Houfy website

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This post explains how to add script and HTML provided by analytics, tag manager, etc. to your Houfy website

We are taking an example of Google tag manager here.

Add Google tag or any other analytics to Houfy website

1. Insert script:

  • Copy the script code(section 1) snippet as instructed in the install Tag Manager box.
  • Go to website preferences > Javsascript code
  • Click "Add Javascript"
  • Past the code as "Inline javascript"
  • Remove script tags at the start and end as it's inline script. The final code should be something like the below screenshot.
Add Google tag or any other analytics to Houfy website


2. Insert the NoScript tag into the body:

  • Copy the script code(section 2) snippet as instructed in the install Tag Manager box.
  • Go to website preferences > Custom HTML
  • Past the code
Add Google tag or any other analytics to Houfy website

Congratulations, you have added Google Tag Manager to your website.

How to remove a connected domain from the website?

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  • Go to website builder and select the website you want to edit.
  • Click on domains from the left navigation and Click on the Trash icon for the domain that you want to remove.
  • Click on "Remove" to confirm the removal of the domain.

Additionally, you can remove/change the A record of your domain at your domain provider to remove it completely.

Submit your website to google search console

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To submit your website created by Houfy website builder, please follow the below steps:

  1. Go to Google search console and click add property
  2. Choose the URL prefix method and enter the www version of your website. For ex. www.test.com
Submit your website to google search console

3. Choose the HTML tag method and copy the HTML tag.

Submit your website to google search console

4. Go to website builder on Houfy, select your website, and go to website preferences. Enter copied meta tag in the meta tags section.

Submit your website to google search console

5. Once done click on verify in the Google search console. This property gets added to your Google account and submitted to Google.

Houfy generates robots.txt and sitemaps for all connected domains automatically.

You can find it at www.yourdomainname.com/robots.txt



Add a page to my website menu

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To add created page to the website menu, please follow the below steps:

  • Manage website > Navigation
  • Select navigation from the left menu
  • Click add a new item, type the menu name, select the associated page, and click save.
Add a page to my website menu




I want to add a newly listed property to my website domain page and delete an older one.

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Go the website builder section at by clicking on the + on the menu bar. Select > Website Builder

  1. Select your website you want to edit
  2. Select preferences on the left menu
  3. Go to listings associated with this website and add or remove the listings

If you have more questions, please join our facebook member group


How to add posts or collections to my website

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You can create posts and collections on Houfy and add them to your website's page.

To add a post or collection to the "Blog post" section

  • Manage website > Edit the page you have added a section "Blog posts"
  • Click add story/Collection
  • Select the story or collection and click add


How to add posts or collections to my website


How to remove the read more button on my website

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To remove the read more button at a text section on your website, please follow the below steps:

  • Manage website > Pages
  • Edit the page
  • Click on the section > Change setting to hide long text with read more button
How to remove the read more button on my website


How do I remove or add sections from website builder?

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Log in and click on the +, select website builder

Select the website you would like to edit

How do I remove or add sections from website builder?

Select pages in the menu and select the page you want to change

How do I remove or add sections from website builder?

Select one of the items on the left menu you would like to remove

How do I remove or add sections from website builder?

Click remove

How do I remove or add sections from website builder?

Or: to add a section: Scroll down in the left menu and select "add section"

How do I remove or add sections from website builder?

Select a section you would like to add:

How do I remove or add sections from website builder?

Click add:

How do I remove or add sections from website builder?


Remove a section from my website

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  • Click on plus on desktop(Right menu > Plus on mobile) and select website builder
  • Go to Pages and select the page to edit
  • Select the section
  • Click "Delete section" and confirm delete
Remove a section from my website



Website domain setup guide

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Connecting your own domain to Houfy website builder

To connect your domain to Houfy website builder you will need to follow the guide below. In the example below, we are taking your-domain.com as a test domain you wanted to connect. You need to make changes as per your domain name

Before you begin

You need to have the following information

  • Your login information for your third-party domain provider account(e.g Godaddy, Google domains, Amazon Route53, etc)
  • The Houfy IP address 52.38.84.108

Step 1: Change your DNS records in your third-party domain provider account

  1. On your domain provider’s website, log in to your account.
  2. Find the DNS settings or domain management area.
  3. Change the following records:
    1. Point the A record to the Houfy IP address 52.38.84.108
    2. Point the CNAME record with the name www to your-domain.com
  4. Save your changes

You can have only one A record associated with a domain. If your domain is already associated with an A record, make changes to it and point to Houfy IP address 52.38.84.108

Note: Domain changes may take time from few minutes to 24hours depending on your registar. Lowering the Time to Live (TTL) value of your domain can help your domain update faster. Contact your third-party domain provider for suggestions and instructions on how to change your TTL.

Step 2: Connect your domain to Houfy on the website builder

  1. Edit your website and select domains from the left navigation
  2. Click Connect existing domain.
  3. Enter your domain, such as your-domain.com, and then click Next
  4. To confirm that your domain is connected to your Houfy website, click Verify connection.

Your domain connection will get verified if your domain DNS changes are correct. Once all is done it will show as connected and your domain is live and ready to use.

Example DNS record modification at your domain provider:

Below are the example DNS records that you need to modify at your DNS provider. In this example we have made DNS record for the domain hou4y.com, you should use your own domain instead.

1. A record:

Name - hou4y.com

Value - 52.38.84.108

Website domain setup guide

2. CNAME record:

Name - www.hou4y.com

Value - hou4y.com

Website domain setup guide

Note: Please use your own domain name.

Domain verification at Google Search Console with Houfy website builder

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How to verify domain ownership at Google search console with Houfy website builder

To make your website searchable on google you need to submit it to Google search console. Please review the steps below explaining the process to submit your website to Google search console.

  1. Visit Google Search Console - https://search.google.com/search-console and click on the add property button.
Domain verification at Google Search Console with Houfy website builder

Once you click on Add property, it will show the popup in the picture below.

2. Choose the URL prefix method for the domain verification. Enter the complete URL of your Houfy website or the custom domain. (incl. https)

Domain verification at Google Search Console with Houfy website builder

3. Click the continue button to proceed to verify ownership(see pic below). Choose first method HTML tag as the method for the verification.

Domain verification at Google Search Console with Houfy website builder

4. Copy the meta tags for the popup. Go to website builder on Houfy. Preferences -> Meta tags -> Enter the copied tag.

Domain verification at Google Search Console with Houfy website builder

5. Once meta tags are saved, click on verify at Google Search Console.

Domain verification at Google Search Console with Houfy website builder



Add javascript code to Houfy website

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This article explains how to add javascript code to your Houfy website

  1. Click plus -> Manage website
  2. Preferences
  3. Javascript code
  4. Add your javascript code along with script tags.

Example:

Add javascript code to Houfy website


Add javascript code to Houfy website


Embed youtube video to website

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This post explains how to embed a youtube video into your Houfy website

  1. Select the page you want to add a youtube video.
  2. Click add section -> Select custom html
  3. In the custom HTML add the code of your youtube embed
Embed youtube video to website

Note: Your youtube embed source(src) is different from your youtube video url

To get a youtube embed source: https://www.youtube.com/embed/ + "video id"

Rental agreement creator

Create a rental agreement online with Houfy

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How to create a rental agreement for your listing on Houfy by using Houfy's tool for creation of the rental agreement

  1. Click on plus to open the menu. Scroll down and select Rental Agreement.
  2. Choose Houfy's default template or create your own. With Houfy's default template it will bring some predefined sections for you to start with your rental agreement. You can always edit all those sections.
  3. Choose the listing for which you want to create a rental agreement.
  4. On clicking "Get Started" it will create a rental agreement.
  5. You can re-arrange or modify the agreement sections.


Submit rental agreement on Houfy

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This article explains about how the created rental agreement at Houfy can be sent by the guest to the host.

Guest can send the rental agreement at 2 different steps:

A) While sending the booking request.

1. When the guest sends you the booking request, they have an option to view the rental agreement and send it to you.

Submit rental agreement on Houfy

2. On clicking rental agreement they can view it, print or submit to you.

Submit rental agreement on Houfy

3. On clicking submit, it will send you and the guest an email with the pdf of the signed rental agreement.

Submit rental agreement on Houfy

B) After sending the inquiry or the booking.

1) Once the guest sends the inquiry or the booking request. They will see an option at the message page to submit the rental agreement.

Submit rental agreement on Houfy

2) On clicking the rental agreement, the guest can view, download or submit the rental agreement to you.

Submit rental agreement on Houfy



Quotes & special offers

How do I send a quote on Houfy?

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How to send a quote to my guests on Houfy

  1. Go to Create a quote
  2. Select the dates and pricing will show up. You can edit pricing, add or remove discounts and fees.
How do I send a quote on Houfy?
Quote screen

3. Click on create request to create a quote and send out email to them.

4. Quote email is is sent to their email address. Your guest has received an email in below format.

How do I send a quote on Houfy?

5. Host sees quote page as below. You can also copy the link from the Houfy message and share it with your guest on Facebook, etc.

How do I send a quote on Houfy?

6. Once the guest clicks the link, they will see the quote displayed below.

How do I send a quote on Houfy?

7. Once your guest completes this basic information, they will be directed to the booking page.

How do I send a quote on Houfy?

If you see 'Not registered' on the quote page, your guest has not filled in the basic details required to continue booking or making an inquiry.


Special discounts in the calendar

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How to add or edit special discounts in the calendar?

Edit listing > Calendar

  • Click on a date
  • Select the date range
  • Add discount percentage.
  • Click save.
Special discounts in the calendar


Instructions for sending a quote with a payment link to a guest through Houfy

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Step 1: Add a booking at your calendar. Menu > Manage Listings > Calendar > click on add Booking - select the dates your guest wishes to reserve.

Click on take payments through Houfy & assign Guest.

Instructions for sending a quote with a payment link to a guest through Houfy

Step 2: Edit the quote or scroll down.. (You can add discounts/remove fees etc)

Instructions for sending a quote with a payment link to a guest through Houfy

Step 3: Enter the e-mail address of your guest and click continue.

Instructions for sending a quote with a payment link to a guest through Houfy

Houfy will search for the e-mail and check if the guest is already in the database.

The guest will be required to log in or sign up and will be forwarded to a url where the guest can pay for the reservation.

Thanks T & S

Where can I find a history of quotes sent to guests?

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  1. Log in and click on menu
  2. Select Reservations
  3. Select Quotes in the first dropdown - Change Houfy to Quotes.

Is there a way to send my guests a quote?

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  1. Click on the +
  2. Select "Create a quote"
  3. Select dates and edit your rates.
  4. Add a message, e-mail and name
  5. Click create request.


How to delete the created quote

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This post explains how to delete the created quote.

  • Select the Quote you want to delete -> Click plus -> Quote -> View quotes -> Click on the quote to delete
  • Go to the reservation details section. Click "Delete this quote"
  • Confirm to delete the quote

How to send a quote or change the rates on a quote

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This post explains how to change the quote before sending it to your guest

  • Create a new quote (Plus menu -> Quote)
  • Select the dates you want to send a quote.
  • Click Edit to modify prices, discounts, fees, security deposit etc.


How to send a quote or change the rates on a quote
Quote - Edit mode before sending


  • Once modified, click Continue
  • Fill the guest name, email address and message.
  • Click create request to send the quote to your guest

Do quotes expire after sending using Houfy?

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No, however: you do have an option to delete the quote sent.

  • Select the Quote you want to delete -> Click plus -> Quote -> View quotes -> Click on the quote to delete
  • Go to the reservation details section. Click "Delete this quote"
  • Confirm to delete the quote


Embed tools

How do I create a multi property quote tool?

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To find the code for the multiple properties quote widget go to:

  1. Log in and select manage listings
  2. Select one of your live listings and click on edit
  3. Go to Pricing > Rates & Fees
  4. Click on quote tool on the right side of your screen.
  5. A pop up will appear and scroll down to "More Settings".
  6. Check show all my listings.

Adding Houfy widgets into your website

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How to use Houfy widgets on your website.

  1. Pricing/Quote/Booking widget
  2. All listings widget
  3. Multicalendar widget
  4. Calendar widget
  5. Photos widget
  6. Reviews widget
  7. Room details widget
  8. Amenities widget
  9. Activities widget
  10. Overview widget
  11. Listing short info widget
  12. Seasonal pricing widget
  13. Policies widget

To use the Houfy widget you just need to include 2 lines of code in your website.

a. HTML code:

Insert this HTML code into your website where you want to add the widget.

b. Script code:

The script tag should be inserted before the body close or at the bottom of the website page. Insert this code only once per page.

Adding Houfy widgets into your website

Pricing/Quote/Booking widget:

Adding Houfy widgets into your website


Embed Houfy Search for other Houfy properties near you or in your state/country

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Menu > Settings > Embed Houfy Search

Embed Houfy Search for other Houfy properties near you or in your state/country


Embed Houfy Search for other Houfy properties near you or in your state/country

Houfy and widgets/embed codes: for Pictures/Calendar/Reviews/Pricing and Guides

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We have added some easy widgets for you to embed Houfy data to your own site.

Houfy and widgets/embed codes: for Pictures/Calendar/Reviews/Pricing and Guides

Pictures:

  • code <iframe style="overflow:hidden;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:100%;min-height:442px;border:none" src="https://www.houfy.com/embed/Listing Number/photos" frameborder="0"></iframe>


Houfy and widgets/embed codes: for Pictures/Calendar/Reviews/Pricing and Guides


Calendar:

  • 3 Month: <iframe style="overflow:hidden;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:100%;min-height:442px;border:none" src="https://www.houfy.com/embed/Listing Number/calendar" frameborder="0"></iframe>


Houfy and widgets/embed codes: for Pictures/Calendar/Reviews/Pricing and Guides


  • 12 Month: <iframe style="overflow:hidden;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:100%;min-height:1321px;border:none" src="https://www.houfy.com/embed/Listing Number/calendar?view=year" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Option: Select Current month

Houfy and widgets/embed codes: for Pictures/Calendar/Reviews/Pricing and Guides


Pricing:

  • Rate calculator

<iframe style="overflow:hidden;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:100%;max-width:400px;min-height:600px;border:none" src="https://www.houfy.com/embed/Listing Number/pricing" frameborder="0"></iframe>


Houfy and widgets/embed codes: for Pictures/Calendar/Reviews/Pricing and Guides
  • Multiple Properties Rate calculator

<iframe style="overflow:hidden;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:100%;max-width:400px;min-height:600px;border:none" src="https://www.houfy.com/embed/Listing Number/pricing?type=alllistings" frameborder="0"></iframe>


Houfy and widgets/embed codes: for Pictures/Calendar/Reviews/Pricing and Guides


  • Seasonal Pricing

<iframe style="overflow:hidden;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:100%;min-height:600px;border:none" src="https://www.houfy.com/embed/Listing Number/seasonalpricing" frameborder="0"></iframe>


Houfy and widgets/embed codes: for Pictures/Calendar/Reviews/Pricing and Guides


Reviews:

<iframe style="overflow:hidden;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:100%;max-width:400px;min-height:600px;border:none" src="https://www.houfy.com/embed/Listing Number/reviews" frameborder="0"></iframe>


Houfy and widgets/embed codes: for Pictures/Calendar/Reviews/Pricing and Guides


Guidebooks:

Click on the Share (Top right) > Embed Icon

Houfy and widgets/embed codes: for Pictures/Calendar/Reviews/Pricing and Guides
Houfy and widgets/embed codes: for Pictures/Calendar/Reviews/Pricing and Guides

<iframe style="overflow:hidden;display:block;margin:0 auto;width:100%;min-height:600px;border:none" src="https://www.houfy.com/houfyinc/home/all-about-houfy-guidebooks?catid=XXXX&isembed=yes" frameborder="0"></iframe>

For all Guidebooks: Click on the "embed Icon" at the bottom of all guidebooks:

Profile > View Profile > Guidebooks

Houfy and widgets/embed codes: for Pictures/Calendar/Reviews/Pricing and Guides

<iframe width="100%" style="overflow:hidden;min-width:100%;min-height:1808px" src="https://www.houfy.com/XXXXUSER/guides" frameborder="0"></iframe>

We embedded some of the Houfy widgets to our own Wordpress website and received a direct booking including payment!

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We really do not know what these Houfy guys are doing, but this is just fantastic! We're starting to understand what they mean with a "market-network".

We embedded some of the Houfy widgets to our own Wordpress website and received a direct booking including payment!

To find the code for the quote widget go to:

  1. Log in and select Manage listings
  2. Select the listing you wish to use and click on edit
  3. Go to Pricing > Rates & Fees
  4. Scroll down to the Widgets section and click on the Quote tool.
  5. The following screen will open. Copy the code to your website as mentioned,
We embedded some of the Houfy widgets to our own Wordpress website and received a direct booking including payment!


Add payment through Stripe and Square and get paid instantly!

Other Embed tools:

We embedded some of the Houfy widgets to our own Wordpress website and received a direct booking including payment!
We embedded some of the Houfy widgets to our own Wordpress website and received a direct booking including payment!
Houfy and embed codes: for Calendar/Reviews/Pricing and Guides
We have added some easy codes for you to embed Houfy data to your own site.
https://www.houfy.com



How to Integrate Your Entire Houfy Listing in Your Website?

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Although my wife Elizabeth and I are fairly new to Houfy, we are neither new to property ownership, management or technology. My wife initially created Houfy listings for each of our properties and when I saw that she had completed it, including photos, synchronized calendars and reviews without asking me for assistance I wondered, "what is this remarkable solution that turned my wife into a technology guru?"

Since the property listings were online, my wife wanted me to see about the capabilities of writing stories since we had already been blogging on our own website and sharing those posts on LinkedIn, Facebook property pages, and others.

How to Integrate Your Entire Houfy Listing in Your Website?
Full Houfy Listing Embedded Under Website Header

Embed Codes: This is when I discovered embed code snippets that allows you to integrate Houfy features into your own website (i.e. calendar, reviews, pricing, seasonal pricing, and guides). I initially embedded each of these features into my website to get familiar with the capabilities.

However, I'm a little tired of maintaining a lot of different widgets and pieces for all of my different properties. I really liked the look of the Houfy listing in its entirety, so I decided what if I just embedded the whole thing into my website?

Why Embed the Full Houfy Listing?: I saw many advantages to integrating the entire Houfy listing I want to share with you:

  1. The listing looks nice on desktop and mobile devices. - This is no small issue since many property management systems look dated and don't function well on mobile devices. Over 40% of my visitors are on mobile devices.
  2. Simplification of website page management. - Embedding the whole listing means that I only need one page per property on my website instead of managing multiple calendars, maps, review pages, seasonal pricing, photo galleries, or many embed code snippets.

No need for a web guru. - If you presently rely on a website designer, embedding your whole Houfy listing means that making a change to your content can be done within editing your listing Houfy.

Stop & Think: If you add a review, change a photo, update pricing, all you have to do is change it in your listing and the changes are visible within your website. So you can save money from having to request changes that can cost you.
  1. Saves You Money. - I have discontinued my property management system because of Houfy. The cloud-based solution was quickly becoming dated and it was costing me over $49.99 per month. I canceled my Authorize.NET payment gateway for another $35 per month in savings. I'm using Square with Houfy. Some solutions are even more costly. You may be able to realize even more savings.

Enough Talk Already...What does it look like? You should see it in action, so I'm embedding a link to an example property listing. You should also take a look at it on a smartphone. There is room for refinement with the look on some devices, but these things are a continual work in progress.

Desktop View: Everything below "PROPERTY LISTING DETAILS" is the Houfy listing displaying content that can be edited within My Listings in Houfy. Everything above it is content driven part of my website such as the logo, navigation, and header graphics.

Mobile View: I've chosen to hide some page elements in order to show listing content sooner.

How to Integrate Your Entire Houfy Listing in Your Website?
How to Integrate Your Entire Houfy Listing in Your Website?
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Full Listing Embed Code Instructions:

Here is a simple two-step process to follow if you have a website with Wix. If you are using WordPress, hopefully you can follow along.

Step 1: Add > More > Embed a Site

How to Integrate Your Entire Houfy Listing in Your Website?


Step 2:
You will draw a box representing the listing that will be displayed on your site. You can adjust the size later. Click on "Enter Website Address" button. Enter your listing address in the provided box as follows:

https://www.houfy.com/embed/xxxx/listing
(Note: 'xxxx' should be replaced with your Houfy listing number.)

How to Integrate Your Entire Houfy Listing in Your Website?

Click on Apply.

"Powered by Houfy" Considerations:

There are Houfy features that I feared could cause confusion on the part of my users as well as navigate them away from my website. So additional adjustments I made are made in the spirit of helping visitors and not any effort to hide the fact I'm using Houfy. See my story on "How to Promote Houfy with a Moving Slideshow."

Houfy Header: The Houfy header has a property search box when I want my user to focus on my property listing already being shown. I have simply hidden the header behind the page graphic that appears in front over it.

More Places to Stay: There is another element under the property map that users can click on that will take them away from your listing ; "More places to stay...". In this particular case, I created a rectangular shape that has a white color fill that is placed over this line hiding it from selection.

Houfy Page Footer: The last block of material that can send visitors away from the listing is the Houfy page footer content. Once again, I created rectangular shape with a white fill to cover this part and to display my own website footer.

Property Listing Sizing: Property listings are quite long. The window that displays the listing we have dragged vertically until there is no vertical slider visible. This ensures the listing displays properly.

Mobile Page Design: It is important to ensure you are designing for mobile devices. We have spent a great deal of time ensuring the listing pages look good on desktop as well as mobile. You cannot assume that if it looks good on a desktop it will look correct on a mobile device. We can assure you it most definitely will not without making adjustments.

Book Now Buttons: We wanted to ensure that visitors were encouraged to take action. So we dragged "Book Now" buttons to the top and bottom of the property listing. Clicking on these buttons take visitors to a page with the Houfy Rate Calculator. Each listing has its own Book Now button that navigates to a Houfy Rate Calculator page for the respective property.

If you liked this "How To" story drop us a note in Comments below. And if you would like to view more "How To" stories we have written about marketing property with Houfy, please see the guide below:

How to Integrate Your Entire Houfy Listing in Your Website?
How to Integrate Your Entire Houfy Listing in Your Website?
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Houfy map builder

Preview to Houfy Maps

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Houfy is a network, connecting everyone directly.

Preview to Houfy Maps


In the very near future, we will be able to offer you options to create your own map. This could be interesting for Facebook Group administrators or just for your property management company.


Preview to Houfy Maps


Preview to Houfy Maps

Houfy Maps

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We are in the process of creating a system for members to create their own maps. The system will work quite similar as to Google maps.

All completed & verified Houfy listings will show on our main Houfy map:

Houfy Maps
Houfy Maps
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https://www.maps.houfy.com

Houfy Partners:

In order to grow the Houfy inventory we are/will be partnering with "niche" sites/"destination" sites and with anyone who wishes to promote the direct booking movement. (Facebook admins or others)

Other Maps created by our members:

Eric Karla has created a Google Map: The free #BookDirect Map is growing rapidly. The map has close to 600 properties listed around the world and the pins appearing on the Map will direct the traveler to your site OR your Houfy listing. The map has more than 10,000 views and is just a few months old!. Some direct bookings were made as a result of the Map.

For more information: Please join Eric's Facebook Group:

How do Houfy maps work?

Any updates (pictures/pricing/calendar etc) you make on your Houfy listing will show up on the maps or partner marketplaces as the data comes from the Houfy database. (Listings will need to be fully completed in the future to show on the maps)


FREE versus PAID?

All Houfy tools are free. The partner sites have their own pricing schedules. Houfy does not receive any funds for providing services to the partners. The reason is quite simple as we are testing and developing. The partners are/will be marketing their sites and your properties. We will do our best to find the right partners who truly believe in their missions and who are aligned with Houfy and our plans.

We are very aware some owners might not choose to join some or any of our partners. All will have different models, niches, destinations etc. and all with have their own pricing schedules.

These sites are starting out and need your help just like Houfy needs your help. We suggest you ask clearly how they plan to market their sites and what stats they can provide you if any.


Can I create my own map for my Facebook Group?

Yes! Please request a map at the menu of the Houfy Map:

Keep in mind, we are testing!!

Houfy Maps

Once approved you will receive an e-mail from Houfy and see "My Maps" at your settings.

Houfy Maps

In Map edit mode you will be able to:

  • Add title
  • Add description
  • Add Logo
  • Choose color
  • Zoom in/out to certain area
Houfy Maps

Test case: Mike Hailston - Isle of Wight -

https://www.maps.houfy.com/b&b-association-in-shanklin

Houfy Maps
Houfy Maps
Houfy Maps
Houfy Maps

We are sure you will have many questions and we'll edit this article as we go forward.


Thanks T & S

Houfy API

Houfy Open API

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Here you can access the Houfy API

Documentation: https://docs.houfy.com/ has option to select Houfy production API

Accounts: You can sign up to https://www.houfy.com/ with email address & password and import your airbnb listing to start working with our API.

Token: Menu > Privacy & Settings > API Access Token

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