Guide
Knowledge for hosts who want to be booked directly.
Practical guides on direct bookings, pricing rules and your own booking flow — written for holiday rental hosts who work with Smoobu.
Child rates for your holiday rental: charging by age
Babies free, kids reduced, adults full price — why this model goes beyond the standard case the Smoobu booking tool covers, which detours cost bookings, and how age bands become truly bookable. With an interactive family price calculator.
Read the article →Multiple Smoobu accounts in one booking engine
For property managers and hosts with separate owner accounts: where Smoobu's built-in tools stop, how all properties still become bookable together — and how every booking lands in the right account automatically.
Read the article →Booking engines compared: Smoobu, Lodgify, Hostaway, Guesty & Beds24
The big 2026 comparison: what the booking engines of the PMS platforms deliver on your website — design control, pricing rules, fees, GDPR — and which combination suits whom.
Read the article →Customise the Smoobu booking engine to match your website design
What can be adjusted in the standard widget, where the limits are — and the three routes to take when the booking flow really has to look like your website.
Read the article →Showing tourist tax correctly in a booking
Why tourist tax must not carry the accommodation VAT rate, what a clean example breakdown looks like and what to watch for in your booking tool.
Read the article →More direct bookings for your holiday rental
Seven levers that really work: from a bookable website through the direct-booker advantage to the art of turning portal guests into repeat guests.
Read the article →Embed a Smoobu booking engine in WordPress
Step-by-step for Gutenberg, Elementor and co. — plus the four pitfalls (height, cookie banner, cache, HTTPS) almost everyone hits once.
Read the article →Down payment & cancellation policy: fair rules that protect you
How high the down payment should be, which cancellation tiers are customary — and the goodwill trick that saves you arguments and bad reviews.
Read the article →Security deposit for a holiday rental: worth it, allowed — and how much?
Deposit or down payment, typical amounts, the three ways to collect one — and why it must never appear inside the total price.
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