Import from Airbnb
If your property is already listed on Airbnb, you don't have to recreate it by hand. The Import from Airbnb flow pulls the listing's content into hejGuide and connects its bookings and calendar in a single, guided step.
What you need
- An Airbnb account with at least one published listing.
- The first time you import, you'll be asked to authorise hejGuide with Airbnb (a standard Airbnb login + permission screen). After that, your listings are available to pick straight away.
How to import
- Go to Listings in the sidebar.
- Click Import from Airbnb in the top right.
- If exactly one listing can still be imported, the button names it directly (for example, Import 'Well-kept Family House').
- The first time, you'll be sent to Airbnb to log in and approve access, then returned to hejGuide automatically.
- Pick the listing(s) you want to add and confirm.
- hejGuide creates the listing, imports its content, and continues automatically to connect bookings and calendar — you'll briefly return to Airbnb to authorise the connection.
- When it's done you'll see a "You're all set" screen with your cover photo. Your bookings and calendar will start syncing.
That's it — no column mapping, no copy-pasting.
What gets imported
| Imported | Notes |
|---|---|
| Photos | The full gallery, with the first photo set as the cover. |
| Title & property type | Name and category (house, cabin, apartment, …). |
| Amenities | Mapped onto hejGuide's facilities, including kitchen and in-room items. Some Airbnb-specific extras (e.g. games rooms) have no equivalent and are skipped. |
| Description | Imported in your listing's language — see the note below. |
| Nightly price | Set up as a rate plan, including any weekly/monthly discounts. |
| Minimum & maximum nights | From your Airbnb availability rules. |
| Cancellation policy | Flexible, moderate, strict, etc. |
| Check-in & check-out times | From your Airbnb settings. |
| Fees | Flat per-booking fees (such as a linen fee) are matched to your fee products. |
| Bookings & calendar | Existing Airbnb reservations are pulled in once the connection completes. |
Note about descriptions and language
Airbnb stores your description per language, and we can only read one language per listing — the listing's primary language. If your Airbnb listing has descriptions in several languages, the one we receive may not be the language you actually wrote in, and can even come through empty.
If your description doesn't import, make sure it's filled in your listing's primary language on Airbnb (or remove the empty extra languages). You can always edit or add the description yourself on the listing afterwards — hejGuide handles guest translations separately.
What you complete yourself
A few things aren't pulled from Airbnb and are best set up in hejGuide:
- Bedrooms, beds and bathrooms are used to build your photo-tour spaces — review them on the listing.
- Check-in instructions and access codes (these live in your guidebook, not on Airbnb).
- Anything Airbnb doesn't expose, such as your full house manual.
After importing
Once connected, hejGuide and Airbnb stay in sync through the channel manager. To avoid accidentally opening dates your host had blocked, a freshly imported listing connects closed — open the dates you want to sell in hejGuide and they'll be pushed to Airbnb.
Related articles
- Creating a Listing -- Set up a property by hand instead
- Connecting Channels -- How channel connections work
- Amenities -- Review and complete your facilities
- Importing Bookings -- Bring in booking history from a spreadsheet