Available modes
2
Marketplace booking rules
Booking modes
Hosts can use instant book for low-friction reservations or request-to-book when each stay needs approval. Both modes feed the same reservations, messages, payments, and audit workflow.
Host selectable
2
Confirmation mix
1 instant / 1 approval
Instant book
Instant book
Guests can reserve eligible listings immediately without waiting for host approval.
Supports listings that confirm immediately after successful availability, policy, identity, and payment checks, giving guests a fast booking path while preserving future transactional guardrails.
- Host approval
- Not required
- Request state
- Skipped
- Confirmation
- Immediate
- Listing choice
- Host selectable
Request to book
Request to book
Guests submit a booking request that the host must approve before confirmation.
Supports listings that require host review before confirmation, preserving request state, approval decision points, expiration behavior, and future guest-host messaging workflows.
- Host approval
- Required
- Request state
- Created
- Confirmation
- After approval
- Listing choice
- Host selectable