A confirmed reservation in your PMS doesn't mean the work is done. Between booking and arrival, your team still has to collect guest documents, submit mandatory registrations, chase payments, calculate tourist tax, and answer the same three questions for every guest who's about to check in. Chekin and Smartpms, the property manage.
A guest reaches the desk to check in. Somewhere in the conversation they mention they are celebrating an anniversary, or that their flight home does not leave until 9pm. The receptionist has maybe ten seconds to do something with that. Most of the ti...
The Chekin referral program pays you up to €500 a month for every new client you bring in. If you know other property managers, hosts, or owners who could get value out of automated check-in, your recommendation now comes with a reward. The idea is...
Efficient hotel operations are what separate a property that runs smoothly from one that lurches from one fire drill to the next. When check-in, guest communication, and back-office tasks are tight, your team spends less time on admin and more time o...
Airbnb takes 15.5% from hosts on most bookings in 2026. This is the single host-only service fee that now applies across nearly the entire platform, charged on the booking subtotal before taxes. If you started hosting under the old system, this numbe...
A guest app earns its place at 11pm, when a booking is confirmed, the guest lands at midnight, and someone on your team is still texting door codes and chasing a passport photo. That gap between "reservation confirmed" and "guest settled in" is where...
The holiday let registration scheme is the biggest regulatory shift facing short-term rental owners in England, and most hosts still don't know what it asks of them or when it lands. The government has confirmed it is coming, but not every detail. Th...
Short-term rental revenue calculator tools nearly all answer the same question: how much could this property earn from nightly bookings? Punch in an address, get ADR, occupancy and projected annual revenue. Useful for deciding whether to buy. But tha...
Airbnb works for owners as a global marketplace: you list a property, guests book and pay through the platform, Airbnb releases your money after check-in, and you run the stay. Simple on the surface. Underneath sits a system of fees, payout rules, an...
The Airbnb Summer Release 2026 is the platform's biggest expansion beyond accommodation to date, announced on 20 May 2026. It adds bookable travel services (grocery delivery, airport pickups, luggage storage, car rentals), thousands of new Experience...
If you manage a tourist accommodation in Croatia, eVisitor is not optional. Every guest must be registered within 24 hours of arrival. No exceptions. Miss the window or submit incorrect data, and you risk fines that scale fast across a portfoli...
The tourism trends 2026 describe the movements changing vacation rental this year: regulatory pressure as the number-one challenge, check-in automation only halfway done, AI entering guest experience, and a divided view of how the year will close. Th...
Hotel upsell software is a crowded category where every vendor promises personalized AI, deep PMS integration and dynamic pricing. From the outside, the platforms look interchangeable. The gaps between them only become visible after a few months of u...
