With Vrbo rolling out their new same-day booking feature, it appears that bookings may be allowed throughout the entire day of arrival. Based on what I’ve been told by support, Vrbo does not currently provide a way to set a cutoff time for same-day bookings the way Airbnb does.
For example, on Airbnb we can set a same-day booking cutoff (e.g., 6:00 PM). This is important because many hosts need time to prepare for last-minute guests, communicate check-in instructions, and coordinate things like security registration or access codes. In our case, we also stop monitoring messages after 10 PM, so very late same-day bookings would be difficult to accommodate.
Right now, it seems Vrbo could allow bookings until late in the evening (potentially even close to midnight) if the property is still showing as available. It would be very helpful if OwnerRez could provide a way to prevent same-day bookings after a certain time when Vrbo performs its last-minute availability check.
Possible solutions could include:
• A configurable same-day booking cutoff time for Vrbo (similar to Airbnb’s setting).
• Automatically marking the property unavailable after a specified hour on the day of arrival.
• A setting that disables same-day Vrbo bookings after a host-defined time.
This would help hosts who need a reasonable buffer to prepare for guests and avoid late-night bookings that cannot be properly supported.
If this is something other OwnerRez users would find helpful, please consider upvoting this request.
Thanks!
