What A Lead Listing Does
The lead listing is the listing on a property that Hospitable treats as the reference for a small number of property-level behaviours. Most calendar and listing data now flows from Hospitable to your connected platforms, so the lead listing has a limited role.
Currently, the lead listing controls the following:
Property details and fee information — when the lead listing is an Airbnb listing, the property's details and fees are populated from that listing.
This only happens when the listing is first connected to Hospitable, or when you change the Airbnb lead listing on a property to a different one.
This is not a continual, regular sync.
Calendar sync from Vrbo Legacy — when the lead listing is a Vrbo Legacy listing, Hospitable pulls availability, pricing, and minimum night stay from Vrbo Legacy on a rolling 4.5-hourly basis and pushes those values to the other listings on the property, subject to your sync settings.
The same does not apply for listings on the Vrbo Partner connection!
⚠️ Note: A listing cannot be set as the lead listing if it is unlisted. Re-list the listing on its platform first, then set it as the lead listing in Hospitable.
Vrbo Legacy As The Lead Listing
When a Vrbo Legacy listing is the lead listing on a property, Sync settings apply. Hospitable checks the Vrbo Legacy calendar every 4.5 hours; if it detects availability, pricing, or minimum stay values that differ from the Hospitable calendar, it pulls them in and pushes them to the other listings on the property — but only for the sub-syncs you have enabled:
Availability sync
Pricing sync
Minimum night stay sync
If a sub-sync is disabled, the corresponding value is not pushed right away. The other calendars are then updated during the 24-hourly full sync with Airbnb and Booking.com.
⚠️ Note: If you use a dynamic pricing tool, connect it directly to Hospitable — not to your booking platforms, even if Vrbo Legacy is your lead listing!
Setting The Lead Listing
There are two ways to set the lead listing:
Select a Lead Platform — a global setting applied to all properties on your account by default.
Select a Lead Listing on a specific property — overrides the lead platform for that property.
Set a lead platform
Click on Settings
Select Preferences
Go to the Properties tab
Set your lead listing platform
Save your changes
Set a lead listing on a property
Click Properties.
Select your property.
Click the three dots next to the listing you want to make the lead listing.
Select Set as lead listing.
⚠️Setting a lead listing takes precedence over the lead platform. A listing that is unlisted cannot be set as the lead listing.
If a lead listing becomes unlisted, it will remain as the lead listing.
If you have two listings from the same booking platform, you can choose which of those is the lead listing — provided they have unique listing IDs.
A Note About Co-hosted Airbnb Listings
When you connect a co-hosted Airbnb listing to Hospitable, the listing admin must also be connected to your Hospitable account for guest messaging and calendar sync to work as expected.
Once connected, both Airbnb listings are automatically merged into a single property in Hospitable. Co-hosted listings are displayed as a single unified listing, with a Co-hosts label and a tooltip listing all associated co-hosts.
If you want automated messaging to be sent from the co-host, configure that in the scoping of your messaging rules.