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How do Broadcasts work?

Sending a mass message to a filtered set of guests, and why View Qualifying Reservations should be treated as a mandatory step rather than a preview.

Written by Sam Dundas

What Broadcast does

Broadcast sends one message to many guests at once, filtered down to exactly the group you want. Find it under Broadcast in the sidebar. The subtitle sums it up: "Send a mass message to your guests."

Typical uses are a service interruption affecting several properties, a weather event, a change of arrival instructions, or introducing a new messaging number to guests who are already mid-stay.

Broadcast, showing the audience filters above the message and the View Qualifying Reservations button

Choosing the audience

Six dropdowns define who receives it, and they combine, so each one narrows the group further:

  • Listings, all or a subset

  • Select channels, all or specific booking channels

  • Owner status, which lets you include or exclude owner stays

  • Reservation status, such as Confirmed

  • Send message via, the channel the message goes out on

  • Guest status, such as current stays or upcoming stays

Beneath them sit the Message box and a Template variables picker, so a broadcast can still address people by name or reference their own property rather than reading as a form letter.

Always use View Qualifying Reservations

Treat this as a required step, not a preview. View Qualifying Reservations resolves your filters into the actual list of people who will receive the message. It is the only point at which an abstract set of dropdowns becomes a concrete list of real guests.

The reason to insist on it is that a broadcast cannot be recalled. A filter combination that looks obviously right can resolve to far more guests than you intended, or to almost none, and the difference between "current stays" and "upcoming stays" is one dropdown. Check the list, confirm the count looks like what you expect, and only then send.

Previous Broadcasts and Preview Broadcasts at the top right let you review what has already gone out and what is queued.

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