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Guidebook Platform Tips and FAQ

Guidebook Platform Tips and FAQ

This series of articles will walk you through the needed steps to set up your guidebook and give you a few helpful tips along the way.

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How to change the color settings in Guidebook

How to change the color settings of the menu section under “Themes”
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Remove sponsored recommendations

How to edit/remove sponsored recommendations on your Guidebook
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Changing payment method of Guidebook

How to change payment method for the subscription of your Guidebook
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Adding photo to your Hostfully Guidebook

How to add photo to your Guidebook
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The Basics

Guidebook Quick Start Wizard

Build a simple guidebook in minutes by answering a few questions!
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How to Delete a Guidebook

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How to Share Your Hostfully Guidebook With Your Guests

How to find your guidebook link and how to share it with guests
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Changing the order of your house manual and recommendation cards.

How to put your information in the order you wish your guests to see it.
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Hostfully Unpublish a Guidebook

Temporarily deactivate a Guidebook's link
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Removing the Ground Transportation Card or the Baby Gear Rental Card From Your Guidebook

How to remove the Mozio card or the BabyQuip card from a Hostfully guidebook.
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Upgrading your Guidebook Platform Account

How to increase the number of guidebooks you can publish on your guidebook platform account.
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House Manual Cards

House manual card with external link

This will show you how to create a house manual card on your Hostfully Guidebook that will link directly to an external website.
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Adding a New House Manual Category

How to add a new house manual category and tab to your Hostfully Guidebooks
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Recommendations

Tips for using the Recommendation Wizard

How to generate guidebook recommendations automatically, and also how to edit or delete unwanted recommendations generated by the wizard.
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Sponsored Recommendations on your Guidebook

Some brief information about how Hostfully's sponsored recommendations work and how to adjust how they show up in your guidebook.
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Hostfully Recommendations-Only Guidebook

Create a Recommendations-Only Guidebook to sell the experience of staying at your destination or property.
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Customization

How to re-name your Guidebook's Marketplace tab

Another way to customize your guidebook, with an updated name for the Marketplace
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Re-ordering your Guidebook Tabs

How to change the order of your Hostfully Guidebook Tabs.
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How To Customize Your Hostfully Guidebook's URL

How To Find Your Guidebook's URL And Customize It
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Hostfully Guidebooks - Create Custom Categories

Creating Custom Recommendation Categories - how to create a category, add a name, add an icon, and pick a color.
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Add custom checkout items to your guidebook

Add highly visible items to your checkout list on the departure card
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Adding Custom Fields to Your Guidebook Splash Page

Collect (and require, if you wish) custom information from your guests before they view your guidebook.
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Hostfully Splash Screen Feature

Use this feature to capture email addresses for re-marketing
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Advanced Features

Embedding a PDF in your Guidebook

How to upload a PDF to be embedded in your guidebook
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Using your own custom domain for guidebooks

How to point your own domain (or subdomain) to the guidebook platform so you can serve your guidebooks with your own custom URL.
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Adding Multiple Languages to your Guidebooks

How to translate your guidebooks into multiple languages.
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Hostfully Guidebooks - Select a Language

Available Guidebook languages: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese (Traditional), Polish, and Russian
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Guidebooks Marketplace

Upsell Services On The Marketplace
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Restricting access to your Guidebook

How to generate secure links so that you can restrict access to your guidebook and add sensitive information for your guests.
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Hostfully Guidebook List Export

Export a spreadsheet listing some of your guidebooks' details & URLs
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Creating dynamic card-to-card links

Make links from one card to another that will work on multiple guidebooks. Link to guidebook tabs, recommendation categories, house manuals
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Adding a Video or Matterport Tour to your Hostfully Guidebook

How to add Youtube and Vimeo videos or Matterport Tours to your Hostfully Guidebook in two different ways
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Bring the power of voice tech to your rentals!

Integrate your Hostfully Guidebooks with Virtual Concierge Service
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Templates

Hostfully New Guidebook from Template

Create a new guidebook quickly and easily from a template.
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Hostfully Creating a Template

Easily multiply entire Guidebooks in seconds, using Templates.
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Printing

How to Print your Hostfully Guidebook

How to print a guidebook to leave in your listing for your guests
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Printing a Magazine-Quality copy of your Guidebook

Create a professional, branded guidebook, full of tips and information for your guests with Blurb’s Premium Magazine format.
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