Exploring your hosting tools

What you open every day

The listing page is what guests see. The host view is what you use: nights you open, nights you close, messages on a reservation, who completed check-in, and the payout after a completed stay. You do not collect cards at the door.

If a night is closed, it will not sell. If a message sits unanswered, the guest assumes the house is empty. Tools only work if the calendar and the inbox are true. There is no separate Superhost score to chase and no Instant Book toggle — nights you open, plus guest verification, are what let a booking confirm.

Calendar — nights you will actually host

Treat the calendar as the truth of the house, not a wish list. A closed Friday in Gabala because your family is there is a good close. An open Friday when you are on the road to Balakan is a host cancellation waiting to happen.

You set the nightly floor in AZN on the dates you host. Absolute may show the guest a higher price on busy weekends. We never sell a night below that floor. Smart pricing does not rewrite the nights you closed.

• Open only the nights you can finish the rooms for.
• Close family dates, repair days and the turnaround night your cleaner cannot cover.
• Read the reservation before you change a nearby date — a closed night next to a stay is prep, not a leftover gap to sell at the last hour.

Messages on the reservation

Each booking has a thread. That is where arrival time, the gate, the extra bed and a late marshrutka belong. Do not move the stay to WhatsApp to “keep it simple” — off-platform cash for the same nights can cancel the reservation and remove AbsoluteCover.

Answer the same day when you can. A guest landing in Sheki at dusk needs the street, not a brochure. If you will be offline for a funeral or a hospital day, say so on the thread and write Absolute through the contact form so we are not guessing.

Check-in — who arrived, not a gadget pairing

Check-in on Absolute is a record: the guest completed arrival against the reservation. It is not a smart-lock pairing product and we do not sell lock hardware. You still decide how they enter — a person at the gate, a code you send on the thread, a neighbour with a key.

Write the method on the listing before they book. A surprise lockbox in a dark lane in Lankaran is how reviews start badly. When check-in is done, you can see it on the stay. If it is not done and they say they are inside, write us through the contact form the same evening.

Payouts after a completed stay

Guests pay Absolute. You receive the nightly floor you agreed, in AZN, after the stay is completed — plus any cleaning and extras on that reservation. The guest programme fee is 15% of the stay subtotal (nights + cleaning + extras). It is added for the guest. It is not taken from your floor.

AbsoluteCover is always on the reservation and is free for you. There is no host commission hiding under another name. Read the booking: guest paid one column, you receive the other.

What Absolute still does

We merchandise the stay, take payment in AZN, run guest verification, and hold AbsoluteCover. You do not need a second booking engine for friends — they book the same listing so the file stays in one place.

If a tool on the host view does not match a reservation you can see, write through the contact form. The public address is info@abaz.az. Do not send guests a private mailto and take the nights off the page.