Adding a Booking Yourself

Booking Types

On the Calendar, select + Add booking:

• Add a Direct booking: Kabora collects payment from the guest by card, on your own Stripe account.
• Add an offline booking: You settle payment with the guest yourself, and Kabora holds the nights.
• Add an owner stay: You are using the place yourself. The nights are held, and no money is involved.

Quoting Before Creating

The dialog has two steps, so you see the money before anything exists. First select the listing, dates and guest count, then press Get current rates. The quote uses the same calculation as guest checkout: nightly rates with every discount and fee the stay qualifies for. Then enter the guest details, and Continue creates the booking.

Held Nights

If nights are held by your own block or closed by another site's calendar link, the dialog warns you. Continuing overrides both, which can double-book across systems, and the warning says so.

Nights already taken by a confirmed reservation in Kabora always refuse, because the database itself does not write an overlap.

Collecting Payment Through Kabora

A guest who has not paid you yet can pay by card through Kabora. You do not have to switch this on. A booking you added yourself displays its balance and a Pay button on the guest's trip page as soon as there is something to pay.

The guest needs no account: they pay from the link you give them, and signing in is offered underneath but not required.

The money goes to your own Stripe account, like any other booking. The Kabora fee is the rate that bookings from your own site carry, and only on what the guest pays through Kabora. See fees, commissions, and payouts.

Recording a Payment Made Outside Kabora

If they already paid you, record it. Open the booking's Price and payment details and select Record offline payment, for cash and bank transfers.

Only you know the payment happened, so Kabora waits for you to record it. The Pay button asks for the balance, so once you record the payment nothing is left to pay, the button disappears, and the guest is not asked twice. Money that never goes through Kabora carries no Kabora fee.

Emailing a Payment Link

Email payment link, also inside Price and payment details, is a convenience, not a switch. It emails the guest the amount and their link.

Send it as often as you like. The first sending stands, and the line displays when it was sent. Sending requires both of the following:

• Guest email: The guest's email address is on their guest record.
• Payments: Your payments are set up under Settings → Payments and payouts.

The link is not offered on a canceled booking, or once the stay is paid in full.

Replacing the Link

Anyone holding a booking's link can open the stay. If it has gone somewhere it should not, press New link beside the link's Copy, on the booking's Email payment link panel or on its row under Automation → Guest portal. Kabora asks first, then emails the guest the new link, and the old one stops opening at once.

It needs the guest's email address on their guest record, and a teammate who can see money. It is not offered on a canceled booking.