By default, Direct bookings have a non-refundable cancellation policy. You can configure custom policies and associate them to properties using our cancellation policy manager that will let you choose how flexible you would like your policy to be.
Guest cancellations
Guests are able to cancel bookings at any time from the guest portal. Hospitable displays the refundable value of their reservation according to the cancellation policy of the reservation. If the guest chooses to go forward with a cancellation, we require them to first validate either their email or phone number by submitting a one-time code.
Refunding your guest
If you need to cancel a reservation, we will ask you if the cancellation is at the guest's request, or if you, the host, are requiring the cancellation:
Guest cancellations - if you cancel at the request of your guest, we will calculate the refund according to the reservation's cancellation policy.
Host cancellations - when you cancel and tell us it was at the host's initiative, the guest will receive the exact amount they paid refunded to their payment method.
Partial refunds - click the Send or request money button within two weeks of the end of a reservation to refund any portion of the reservation, without altering the dates of the reservation.
Canceling from the inbox
Open the conversation in your Inbox
Click on the Cancel reservation button
Select whether the cancellation is at the request of the guest or the host (this affects how we calculate the refund amount on the next screen)
If the cancellation was not requested by the guest, Hospitable will return the entire amount the guest paid to their payment method
If the cancellation is at the request of the guest, no amount will be refunded.
Click Continue, review the final details, and click Confirm & cancel
How to alter a booking
If you need to make alterations to a Direct booking:
Open the conversation in your Inbox
Click on the Alter reservation button
Select whether the Alteration is at the request of the Host or the Guest (this helps us figure out if your cancellation policy will apply to any alterations which lower the total cost)
For Direct bookings, you can currently alter the number of guests, check-in and check-out dates
You’ll be presented with the price difference, which may be positive or negative depending on the changes made
If the price difference results in a partial refund to the guest, and the alteration was at the initiative of the guest,
Direct Basic reservations can decide how much of the difference that you want to refund at your discretion.
Direct Premium reservations will refund the entire amount.
Click Continue, review the details of the alteration, and press Confirm the alteration
We will automatically charge or refund the guest the difference
The guest will not need to take any action. We will attempt to charge their card on file for any additional amount. Make sure you have communicated the charges to the guest and have a record of their consent to the charges.
If their payment method fails, the booking will remain unaltered.
