Category: Feature requests → Properties / Channels
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Since the Hospitable is the source of truth for your photos rollout in late March 2026, once a host clicks through the one-time confirmation dialog on a property, Hospitable stops pulling photos down from Airbnb / Booking.com and overwrites any direct edits made on those platforms on the next sync.
For most hosts this is a clear win, but a meaningful subset of hosts want to keep Airbnb (or BDC) as source of truth for photos on specific properties. Common reasons we hear in support:
• Photo quality on Airbnb specifically. Hosts perceive Airbnb-side uploads as sharper than what Hospitable pushes back, and want to manage Airbnb photos directly to control compression/cover photo behaviour.
• Existing platform-native workflows. Hosts (especially co-hosted Airbnb accounts, or BDC multi-room setups) have established photo workflows on the OTA side and don't want Hospitable to override.
• Different photo sets per channel that are easier to curate from inside the OTA's own editor.
Today there is no way to flip this back on a per-property basis. Once acknowledged, manual Airbnb/BDC edits are fragile — any future Apply changes push from Hospitable wipes them.
What we'd like:
1. A per-property toggle (e.g. Properties → Details → Manage photos → "Hospitable manages photos for this property" on/off) so hosts can choose which side is source of truth.
2. Optionally, a per-channel scope (e.g. Hospitable manages BDC + Direct, but Airbnb stays source-of-truth on its own).
3. When toggled off, Hospitable resumes pulling photos down on the existing 6-hour rolling sync and stops pushing on Apply changes for that channel.
Why it matters: the current all-or-nothing model forces a workaround (manually re-uploading high-res originals into Hospitable) that doesn't always solve the underlying perceived quality issue, and removes an established host workflow without a clean off-ramp.
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