Product Updates - Hospitable Town Hall, June 24, 2026

**Miles** (0:00)
Hi there, welcome to today's episode of the Hospitable Hosts podcast. Today's episode is a recording from this week's town hall that we hosted live on Zoom. You can join our next public bi-weekly town hall by heading to hospitable.com/towndashhalls.
You can always watch past event recordings too in the same place. That's hospitable.com/towndashhalls.
Enjoy today's episode. Okay. Hello, everyone, and welcome to today's town hall. Thank you so much for joining us. And we're going to get started with a few housekeeping notes before we start today's bi-weekly town hall. So thank you again for joining us. As always, we are recording today's session. So if you get disconnected at any point, you can go and head over to YouTube at youtube.com/athospitable and follow along on our channel there. It's worth noting that our recordings are also auto-dubbed in multiple languages, including Spanish, French, Italian and more. So if you have any issue following along in English, you can watch the recording back there in multiple languages as well. So we're going to start off with some product updates from the team and as always move on to some Q&A from the audience. Without further ado, we're going to briefly bring up our disclaimer and then I'm going to pass on to Marina to do a verbal update. Thank you.

**Marina** (1:22)
So two weeks ago, we launched the Vrbo Partner Connection and this is the biggest release of all time for Hospitable. We never launch anything as big as Vrbo, and I want to guide you today to show you where we are at. So we now have 1500 hosts live on the connection today. In January, that was 15, and two weeks ago, we opened it to every host. And I remember that by the end of the town hall, we already had over 80 hosts who were watching us live, already connected and live on Vrbo.
So in 14 days, that number went from a few hundred to more than 1500 hosts. And we're seeing all sorts of two hosts joining. Some of them are brand new to Vrbo. Some of them are upgrading from our Legacy Connection. Some of them are switching to Hospitable from other platforms. And those hosts all together now received over 3000 reservations so far. And I remember two weeks ago when I came here and we talked about it, I was like super happy with the fact that we had just reached 1000 during the town hall. And it's been two weeks and we already tripled that number. But here's what that number actually matters to you. Because we already processed over 3.4 million dollars in reservations. And this number is not really ours, it's yours. And we, so from the hosts who joined since two weeks ago, combined, they made already over a million dollars. And the 3.5 is like everything since the beginning.
So the connection was the biggest release we ever had at Hospitable. It was a huge success.
And the connection is also very new. And it doesn't behave at all like the last connection. So it's very normal that you have questions about how things work. So we receive all sorts of questions. Why is the credit card needed? Which credit card do I add? When do I get paid? Which bank account do I get paid to?
Also questions about your calendar. We know that when you migrate to Vrbo, the Vrbo calendar stops working because Hospitable is now the source of truth for your calendar. So many of you have questions about where do I check if my prices are correct? How do I check if my reservations are blocking the calendar correctly? And we want to be able to provide a high quality experience to all of you who are upgrading. So we decided to step back to be able to support all of your questions. And in the meantime, we're limiting upgrades to the new connection. So if you're not on the new connection yet, tomorrow when you go upgrade, we will place you on a queue of users. First come, first served. And we will let you know when it's your turn.
Okay. So coming next is Andrew to tell you all about the Task app.

**Andrew** (4:46)
Thank you very much. Switching gears, let's talk about the Hospitable Tasks app. If you haven't heard yet, Hospitable now has an English and Spanish language companion app for giving a dedicated workspace to your teammates, who are doing your maintenance, doing your cleanings, and other jobs. You can manage their work, and they can manage the status of their work from the app, giving you real-time updates in Hospitable, and you can pay them instantly, weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, however you prefer. So today, I have a couple of fun updates to share, and we'll start with a quality of life improvement for your teammates. So image upload in the Task app is now much, much faster. I'm sharing a technical image, but a very real-world win. So if you look on the left side of the graph, you see those spikes. This is when we got feedback that, hey, some of us are having problems uploading images. Some images were taking a long time, like at the very extreme edge, like 30 seconds to upload an image.