For hosts
Host help
Everything you need to run a Bukavilla listing — onboarding, pricing, calendar, payouts, the extension, and team access.
Get started as a host
The four ways to start as a Bukavilla host, what onboarding asks for, how to take your villa live, and what the platform does and does not do on your behalf.
Read article →List your villa
Paste your Airbnb link at /list and we build your page from what you already publish. Free, and no account needed to see it first.
Read article →Concierge TV welcome screen
Turn any TV into a warm guest welcome screen — try it in a browser in 30 seconds, or set it up on a real TV in two minutes.
Read article →Edit your listing
Where to edit each part of your listing, what every tab on the villa page controls, how changes save one section at a time, and how to preview before guests do.
Read article →Set your map pin
How to set your villa's location with a Google Maps link, why a wrong pin costs you bookings, and what the one-off confirmation link is.
Read article →Manage your calendar
Where the owner calendar lives, what each colour on it means, how to block and unblock dates, and how to price individual nights without touching your base rate.
Read article →Set prices and discounts
Your base nightly price, seasonal multipliers, length-of-stay and direct-booking discounts, minimum-stay rules, and the cleaning fee panel — and how they stack.
Read article →Get paid
Bukavilla never holds your money: guests pay you directly. How payouts reach your account, how refunds work, and who handles taxes and disputes when they come up.
Read article →Handle bookings and messages
Booking statuses, instant book, where to find new bookings, and how the message inbox connects to each one.
Read article →Rental agreements
Generate a branded rental agreement for a booking, send it for the guest to accept, or use the free standalone generator — no account needed.
Read article →Sync calendars (iCal)
Two-way iCal sync with Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking.com — what it is, how to set up both directions, and the polling lag to plan for.
Read article →Connect Hostaway
Connect your Hostaway account so reservations and availability flow into Bukavilla automatically — how to set it up, what syncs, and why Hostaway becomes the source of truth for a connected villa.
Read article →Team and branding
Invite managers, cleaners, and viewers; scope them to specific villas; and brand your direct-booking page.
Read article →Install the extension
One click from the Chrome Web Store. Chrome desktop only. You need to be signed into Airbnb and Bukavilla.
Read article →Pair the extension
After installing the extension, connect it to your Bukavilla account so it knows which villas to sync — generating a pairing key, entering it, and confirming it worked.
Read article →Chrome extension
The seven things the Bukavilla browser extension automates between your dashboard and Airbnb, Booking.com and VRBO — calendar sync, prices, reviews and messages.
Read article →Extension troubleshooting
The common problems with the Bukavilla extension and the fix for each: a logged-out channel, a sync that never finishes, a missing villa, and a blank popup.
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