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AI assistance

Draft guest replies from your own past answers, set prices by describing them and preview every change on a calendar. Nothing sends or changes on its own.

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What it will and will not do

Every AI feature in BnB Console suggests. None of them send a message, publish a post, or change a price on their own. A draft lands in the message box for you to edit; a pricing plan shows you what it does to real dates and waits for you to press apply. There is no setting that turns this into autopilot, because the thing being automated is a conversation with your guest and a number on your calendar.

Reply drafts that sound like you

Open any reservation thread and press Draft a reply. The draft is written from four things: the conversation so far, the reservation itself, what you have written about the property and its arrival guide, and — the part that makes it sound like you — how you answered the same question on previous bookings at this same property.

If a guest asks about parking, the draft is shaped by the answer you gave the last three guests who asked about that property, including the local detail no property record holds. Precedent never crosses between your properties: parking round the back is true of one cabin and wrong for the next, and a fact borrowed from the wrong listing is the worst thing a draft could state confidently.

Those past answers are your own words. The questions that prompted them are not, so they are stripped of names, phone numbers, email addresses and booking codes before they are used.

  1. Draft a reply writes the next message. It never sends it — you always press send yourself.
  2. Rewrite edits words you already typed: friendlier, firmer, shorter, or grammar only. It cannot add a fact you did not write.
  3. Translate works in both directions, and shows you a translation back so you can check what the guest will read.
  4. Summarise catches you up on a long thread before you reply.

Setting prices by describing them

On any property’s pricing page, open Set prices by describing them and type what you want in plain English — “weekends 20% more, and $450 a night from 29 December to 2 January”. You get back a month calendar of real dates with every night that would change highlighted, the old price struck through beside the new one, and a count of how many nights change. Arrows step through the months the plan touches.

That preview is the point. Nobody can check “weekends +20%” in the abstract, but anybody can check “Fri 12 June: $200 → $240”. It is calculated by the same engine that quotes real guests, so it is not an approximation. Nothing is written until you press Apply this, and what gets written is ordinary seasons, date prices and weekend percentages — listed on the same pricing page, so you can change or delete any of them afterwards.

When your request replaces something you already had, the plan says so in a red Replaces these existing rules box before you apply, and removes the old rules instead of stacking a new one on top. It also tells you what it could not do — ask it to match a competitor’s prices and it says so plainly under Not done — and anything it had to drop, such as a date range entirely in the past, is listed under Adjusted before showing you, because a request that quietly disappears is worse than one that is refused.

Pricing advice from your own numbers

The pricing advisor is a different tool: rather than translating what you asked for, it reads your last 180 days — occupancy, average rate, RevPAR, booking lead time, orphan gaps — and proposes at most three changes, each citing the number that argues for it.

It refuses to advise on fewer than ten completed stays. Advice drawn from single-digit data is guesswork wearing a confident face, and a tool that says “come back later” is more useful than one that invents a trend. It has no market data and no competitor prices, and will never claim otherwise.

Elsewhere in the app

  1. Review replies draft a response to a Google review, in your voice.
  2. Listing copy writes a property description from the facts you have already entered — never amenities you do not have.
  3. Social captions and campaign drafts start the post or the email; you edit before anything goes out.
  4. Photo captions describe your own uploaded photos for the property page.

What it costs

AI features are part of the Pro plan and run on credits. Each action shows its credit cost on the button before you press it, and Settings → AI credits shows what you have and what it has been spent on, broken down by feature. Nothing is charged for a request that fails.

Frequently asked questions

Can AI reply to guests automatically?
Not in BnB Console, by design. Draft a reply writes a suggested answer in your voice from the conversation, the reservation, your property details and how you answered the same question before at that property, but you always read it and press send yourself.
Can I set my vacation rental prices by describing them?
Yes, on the Pro plan. Type something like weekends 20% more and $450 a night over New Year, and BnB Console shows a month calendar of exactly which nights change and by how much. Nothing changes until you press Apply this.
Does the AI pricing advisor use competitor or market data?
No. It reads your own last 180 days of bookings, such as occupancy, average rate, lead time and orphan gaps, and proposes at most three changes, each citing the number behind it. It declines to advise on fewer than ten completed stays.
Is guest data safe when AI drafts a reply?
Door codes and wifi passwords are removed from every prompt before it is built, and past guest questions are stripped of names, phone numbers, email addresses and booking codes before they are used as examples.