The terms that show up in PMS marketing copy, support tickets, and host community threads — defined plainly, with examples from real hosts.
Software that synchronizes a property's availability, rates, and reservations across multiple booking platforms (Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, etc.) so the same room never gets sold twice.
A flat charge added to a reservation to cover the cost of cleaning the property between stays — separate from the nightly rate, visible to the guest at booking.
A method of sharing calendar availability between booking platforms by exchanging plain-text .ics files at a polling interval — usually 15 to 60 minutes.
A booking setting that lets a guest reserve a property immediately without the host's manual approval, in exchange for higher booking volume and OTA ranking weight.