Inviting Guests
KynStay is built around invitations. Your property is never in a search or directory — people reach it through your invitations, or through a public profile link you choose to share, and only people you have given access to can request dates or book a stay. Here's how to get the right people in.
There are two ways in: email invitations for specific individuals, and your property's public profile for groups or people you don't have an email address for. With an invitation you choose the properties and the pricing tier up front. With a public profile, nobody gets access until you have reviewed their request and chosen a tier for them.
New to KynStay? Start with our step-by-step guide for the full picture, then come back here for the details on inviting people.
Email Invitations
Email invitations are the most direct way to share your property. You enter your guest's email address, choose which properties to share and which pricing tier to assign, and they get a personal invitation in their inbox.
Create the invitation
From your host dashboard, choose "Invite Guest." Enter one email address — or paste up to 50 at once for batch invitations. Select which properties to share and assign a pricing tier. You can add a personal message so they know exactly what to expect.
Guest receives the email
Your guest gets a personalized email with a link to accept. If they already have a KynStay account, they sign in and the property appears in their dashboard immediately. If they're new, they create a free account and access is granted automatically.
Access is granted
Once accepted, your guest can view the property details, check availability, and request bookings. You get a notification when they accept so you know they're in.
Good to know
- Invitations expire after 7 days, but you can resend them to extend the window.
- You can revoke a pending invitation before it's accepted.
- If the guest already has access (from a public profile, for example), you'll both be notified — no duplicate access is created.
Public Profile
Each property can have a public profile: a page anyone with its link can see and ask to stay from. You can text the link, post it in a group chat, or put it in a bio. It's the way to reach a group — say, your running club or a family WhatsApp group — without collecting everyone's email address. You switch it on, listing by listing, in the Public profile section of the listing form.
The page is public to anyone who has the link. They can see it without signing in, and it may be forwarded. You choose what it shows. Hidden (the default) shows nothing about the property, only an optional welcome line and a way to ask. Core shows the listing's name, its cover photo, city and country, bedrooms, bathrooms, how many it sleeps and the welcome line. Full details adds every photo and the description. It never shows the address, your rates or your availability — but anything you show in the cover photo (with Core), or write in the description or show in any photo (with Full details), is public too.
Visitors ask
Anyone who wants to stay has to sign up for KynStay and send you a note saying who they are. Opening the link doesn't give them access.
You decide, and pick the tier
You review every request under Access Requests. When you approve someone, you choose their pricing tier then. If you decline, they aren't told.
You can switch a public profile off whenever you like. Your Guests page has a Property profiles tab that lists each of your properties with its link, so you can copy it or switch it off in one place. Archiving a listing switches its public profile off too.
Pricing tiers and guest access
Every guest has a pricing tier: you choose it when you send an invitation, or when you approve a request that came through a public profile. Tiers control what rate the guest sees when they book. You might set up tiers like:
You can change a guest's tier at any time after they have access — per property or across all your properties at once. Want to learn more about setting rates? See our pricing guide and advanced pricing guide.
Managing access over time
Inviting someone is just the start. From your Guests dashboard, you can manage every aspect of a guest's access:
Reciprocal sharing
If your guest also owns a vacation home on KynStay, you'll see a prompt to "share back" — giving them access to your properties in return. This is the foundation of stay exchanges, where two hosts trade stays instead of paying cash.
Reciprocal sharing is never automatic — you always choose whether to share back and which properties to include. If it's not the right time, you can dismiss the prompt and it won't reappear for 30 days.
Ready to invite your people?
Set up your property, create your pricing tiers, and start sending invitations. Your guests can be browsing your property in minutes.