Your property photos are a key part of your listing. Hospitable allows you to manage photos in one place and push updates to supported platforms.

This article explains:

Hospitable manages photos for:

When you connect listings to Hospitable, photos are imported from the booking platform.

When you merge listings from different platforms into the same property, Hospitable creates a combined gallery containing all unique photos from those listings.

Hospitable automatically de-duplicates photos:

For example, if a property has both an Airbnb and Booking.com listing, Hospitable imports all unique photos from both listings. Duplicate photos are merged automatically and assigned to both channels.

After the initial import, Hospitable continues syncing photo updates from Airbnb, Booking.com, and Vrbo Partner approximately every six hours until Hospitable becomes the source of truth for that property.

After photos are imported, Hospitable continues syncing updates from Airbnb, Booking.com, and Vrbo Partner until you make your first photo change in Hospitable.

The first time you edit, reorder, replace, add, delete, or otherwise modify photos for a property, you will see a one-time confirmation banner explaining that Hospitable will begin managing photos for that property.

Once you confirm:

Hospitable pushes photo updates to Booking.com.

Important behaviours:

If you need different photos for individual rooms, manage those photos directly in Booking.com.

See more here: Booking.com Listings With Multiple Rooms and Multi-Room Reservations

Photos displayed on your Direct booking website come from Hospitable.

Any photo added or edited in Hospitable appears on your Direct site, provided Direct is selected as a publishing channel for that photo.

For Vrbo Partner Connection listings, Hospitable can manage and sync photos.

Once Hospitable becomes the source of truth for a property, photo changes made in Hospitable can be published to connected Vrbo Partner Connection listings alongside other supported channels.

Photo management is not supported for Vrbo Legacy listings.

When a Vrbo Legacy listing is connected, Hospitable performs a one-time import of photos and de-duplicates them alongside photos from other connected channels.

After the initial import:

To manage photos:

You can filter photos by channel using the dropdown menu and select either All photos or a specific platform.

Hosts have full control over their property photos in Hospitable.

To reorder photos:

To discard your changes, click Cancel.

Photos imported from booking channels may not always be the highest-resolution version available.

To replace photos:

You can upload an entire folder at once.

Hospitable will:

Hospitable preserves:

To add or edit a description:

Descriptions can be published to supported channels.

When Booking.com is selected as a channel for a photo, you can assign Booking.com-specific tags such as:

These tags help Booking.com categorize and display photos correctly.

To add or edit tags:

You can use the same cover photo across all channels or set different cover photos per channel.

To set a cover photo:

To add photos:

Or:

Then:

If you want the same photo gallery across all supported channels:

If you need different photo galleries on different channels, manage photo assignments individually.