Stays book off Jinu
Jinu lists the stay and hands the guest to your booking page. It never takes the booking payment, holds a deposit, issues a refund or manages a calendar. That is why every stay listing requires a booking link before it can be published.
What the booking link is
An https link to wherever the stay is actually booked. That can be your own direct-booking site, or your listing on a booking platform. The listing records which kind it is, so the button on your listing reads sensibly to a guest rather than sending them somewhere unexplained.
The link is required. A stay listing cannot be published without one, and if you clear it while editing, the listing cannot go back live until you put one back.
What this means for a host
- You keep your existing setup. Your calendar, your pricing rules, your cancellation policy and your payment processing all stay where they are. Jinu is a listing surface, not a replacement channel manager.
- Keep the link current. A dead booking link is a listing that cannot convert. If you take the property down elsewhere, update or remove the Jinu listing.
- Availability is not synced. Jinu does not read your calendar. Nothing here knows the place is booked, so say so in the listing if you are dark for a season.
- $3 is the whole fee. It is charged to publish. There is no commission, no per-booking fee and no cut of the nightly rate. What the booking site charges you is between you and them.
What this means for a guest
- You are leaving Jinu to book. The terms, the cancellation policy, the payment protection and the dispute process are the booking site's, not Jinu's.
- Read the destination before you pay. Check the site you land on, and check that the property matches the one you were reading about.
- Never send a deposit by wire, gift card or a cash app to a host who asks you to skip their own booking page. A host steering you off their booking flow to a payment method with no recourse is the single most common vacation rental scam. If it happens, do not pay, and report the listing.
- Jinu cannot refund a booking, because Jinu never received the money.
Reviews still work
Booking off Jinu does not mean a stay is unreviewable. After the stay, the guest opens the listing and claims "I stayed here". The host confirms it, and that makes it a confirmed deal. Both sides can then review each other, double-blind, within 14 days, exactly like a marketplace sale. The guest cannot review alone and the host cannot review alone.