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The Best Way to Create a Digital Guidebook for your Vacation Rental (on your phone)

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Whether you know them as digital welcome books, house manuals, or a digital guest book for vacation rentals, digital guidebooks are online resources that are a must have for hosts looking to elevate the guest experience. A digital guidebook can be updated easily, can be shared with guests in advance of their stay, and has been shown to reduce common guest questions while leading to more 5 star reviews and repeat bookings.

This guide has step by step instructions on how to create a digital guidebook for your Airbnb / VRBO.

Video: Create a Digital Guidebook for your Vacation Rental

Step by Step: Create a Digital Guidebook for your Vacation Rental

Set up a free account

The first step to creating a Digital Guidebook is to create a free account at Guest Manual. Visit www.guestmanual.com and click on Free trial to start your 14 day Trial.

Set up a free account

Get started

Creating a Digital Guidebook with Guest Manual is a 4 step process - 1. choose a template, 2. provide some property details, 3. personalize & make it your own, 4. set up automatic sharing. Tap the + button to create your first Guest Manual.

Get started

Select AI template

Guest Manual comes with templates for different property types that leverage years of (super)host experience running high performing Airbnbs. One of these templates leverages AI to process photos and any descriptions of your vacation rental to create a first draft that is already customized and personalized for you.

Select AI template

Enter listing information

Specify a title for your Guest Manual, enter in a location, provide a description, list of amenities, house rules, and any additional information. Upload a cover image for your Digital Guidebook and choose up to 5 images of your vacation rental. Remember the more information you provide here, the more personalized the Guest Manual will be. Tap Generate.

Enter listing information

Make it your own

The editor page lets you personalize your Guest Manual. You can add, edit, delete or re-order sections. Let's edit a section by clicking on the Edit link.

Make it your own

Edit section

Tap Select Emoji to change the image and use the Run AI button to automatically generate a description for you. Modify the description as you see fit and add up to 5 images or videos for this section. Tapping Save will take you back to the Editor page.

Edit section

Delete section

Want to remove this section? Tapping the Delete link will delete this section from your Guest Manual.

Delete section

Add section

Adding a new section is just as easy. Tap the + button to add a new section.

Add section

Complete new section details

Tap Select Emoji to choose an image. Enter in a description and add up to 5 images or videos. Tap the Save button to be taken back to the Editor page.

Complete new section details

Reorder sections

Use the dots next to the images on each row to drag / drop sections to re-order them. We recommend maintaining a grouping for things like safety, rules, amenities, and recommendations.

Reorder sections

Preview

You can preview how your Digital Guidebook will appear to your guests at any time by tapping the Preview button.

Preview

Preview what your guest will see

Search, scroll, and review. This is what your guests will see when they tap the link to your Digital Guidebook.

Preview what your guest will see

Share

Tap the share button to see all the different ways this Guest Manual can be shared.

Share

Automatically share

A Digital Guidebook that is shared in advance of a guests' visit helps build anticipation and excitement leading up to their stay. For step by step instructions on how to do this, please follow the following guides:

Automatically share

Digital Guidebook QR code

We recommend printing out and framing a QR code to keep at your Vacation Rental. This is handy way for Guests to view your Guest Manual while at the property.

Digital Guidebook QR code

All set! Your Digital Guidebook is ready to go. Get more 5 star reviews, repeat bookings, better adherence to house rules, and best of all, get your life back!

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Naureen Ali

I am an Airbnb superhost with over 11 years of hosting experience running 2 top performing Airbnbs in the Pacific Northwest.

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