You’ve worked tirelessly to create a Welcome guide for your Vacation Rental. In addition to having all the basics covered like your contact information, house rules, safety / emergency info, amenities, and recommendations you’ve personalized it and truly made it your own.

Now you can certainly print out your House Manual and put it in a nice leather clad enclosure which lives at your Airbnb for guests to see when they get there. But what if you wanted to share it with guests in advance of their visit. This article will walk you through how to do that.

But first, let’s talk about why you would want to share it with guests before they arrive. It helps build guest excitement leading up to their stay, conveys house rules in a friendly format, and ensures that guests spend more of their time while at your Vacation Rental enjoying the place vs reading your House manual trying to figure it out.

To be able to share your Guest Manual before the guests arrive, you need a digital version. This can be a word document or a PDF document that you put in the cloud (Google Drive, DropBox) accessible via a public link. Or better yet, can be a link to a House Manual created on a fully hosted platform like Guest Manual which does most of the work for you, makes it instantly searchable and gives your guests a nice interactive experience that will keep them coming back for more.

Like any good vacation rental host, you have your property listed in both Airbnb and VRBO. Right? Both platforms attract a slightly different audience and based on our experience as Superhosts running top performing Airbnb’s for many many years now, this is definitely what we recommend. This guide will walk you through setting up auto share on both platforms.