What's New
A running list of what we've shipped. We're always improving OurSharedPlace — here's the latest.
October 2026
Booking offers now expire on their own
When you send a guest an offer, we now look after the deadline for you. The day before it runs out, the guest gets a reminder with an Accept button. If they don't accept in time, the offer expires, the dates open up again, and you and the guest both get an email. Expired offers stay on your calendar, faded, so you can open one and send it again with a new deadline. Guests also get an email as soon as they send a request, and they can see their open requests at guest.oursharedplace.com and withdraw any they no longer need. A guest who is already signed in accepts an offer in one tap, with no code to type.
One page for all your listings
Run more than one home? Put them all on one public page at book.oursharedplace.com/host/your-name. Each home gets a card with its cover photo and a link to its booking page, where guests check dates and send a request. Set it up in your profile under "Your Listings Page." Any home with its booking page turned on appears, and you can add your own heading and introduction.
September 2026
Add a guest booking from any source, and send the confirmation
Took a booking by phone, from a friend, or on Airbnb? Choose Guest on the calendar and note how it was booked, along with the guest's email and phone. Tick "Send their booking confirmation" and the guest gets an email with their dates, your payment instructions, their booking code, and a link that opens their booking. It's off by default for Airbnb, VRBO and Booking.com, which already message their guests. Added the email later? Open the booking and choose "Email confirmation to guest". When a guest signs in at guest.oursharedplace.com, every booking made with their email appears, however it was booked. Editing a guest booking also no longer clears its booking link, notes, or guest count.
Guests open their booking with their email and booking code
Give your guest their booking code, and they can see their booking without an account or a password. At guest.oursharedplace.com they enter the code and the email on the booking, and the booking opens straight away. From there they can ask you for a change. It works however the booking was made, online or by phone, as long as the guest's email is on the booking. The code opens only that one booking, so a forwarded email can't reach anything else. The same box still takes the house guide access code.
A booking code for every guest booking
Each reservation and guest booking now has a short booking code, like BK-ADQ-49B. Administrators see it when they open a booking on the calendar, next to the stay's house guide code, each with a Copy button. "Copy message for guest" copies a short note with the dates, the booking code, and the house guide link, ready to paste into a text or email. This helps most with bookings made by phone or through friends, where the guest never got a confirmation email.
Guests can find their way in from anywhere
Guests now have their own front door: guest.oursharedplace.com. Look for "Guests" at the top of the site, "Guest Sign-In" in the footer, a guest box on the login page, and "Manage your booking" on every property's booking page. Guests who have a booking sign in with just their email and a one-time code, and signed-in members can reach the guest portal from the top bar. Guest-level members now see only their own stays, not everyone's bookings or the booking queue. And sending a booking request no longer pauses before the dialog closes.
Cancel your own confirmed booking
Plans change. Members can now cancel a booking they made even after an administrator has confirmed it, up until the day they arrive. Find it in the bookings list and choose Cancel Booking. The dates open up right away, and your property's administrators get an email so nobody is caught by surprise. The booking stays on record as cancelled.
Properties and calendars open faster
Opening a property or its calendar used to wait on a long chain of lookups, one after another. The site now checks who you are once per page and loads everything else together, so these pages show up noticeably sooner. There is nothing to turn on.
Guests see availability right next to the booking form
On your public booking page, the availability calendar now sits beside the booking form instead of at the bottom of the page, so guests can see which dates are free before they choose. A booking's check-out day now shows as open, because the next guest can arrive that day. The form also shows your stay rules, such as a minimum stay or Saturday-to-Saturday, next to the dates. Check-out now starts after the chosen check-in, and if the dates don't fit your rules, guests see why beside the Send button before anything is sent.
Set the calendar color for any member
Everyone's bookings show in their own color, but members who rarely sign in never picked one — so several people ended up sharing the same default blue. Administrators can now set a member's color directly: open Members and click the small swatch next to their name. The color applies to that property only; it doesn't change what the member chose in their own account or affect other properties they belong to, and "Use their own color" puts it back. The calendar legend now names each member next to their color instead of just saying the color varies, with a link to change it.
Read moreFix a finance entry after you've saved it
Typed the wrong amount, or picked the wrong person? Open Finances, find the entry, and choose Edit. You can change the description, amount, date, category, and who paid, and adjust how it's split — each person's share is shown in dollars as you type, so you can see the effect before you save. Income can be reassigned to an outside source like a family trust, and either side of a settlement can be corrected. Administrators can edit any entry; everyone else can fix the ones they recorded themselves.
Export your property data
Your data is yours. Now you can take a copy of it whenever you like. Property Settings has a new Export Data page: download one ZIP holding every photo, article image, and document, alongside a JSON file with your calendar, articles, contacts, finances, tasks, documents, messages, and members. Prefer just the data? Take the JSON on its own. Administrators only, and it keeps working whether or not your subscription is current.
The Android app is on Google Play
OurSharedPlace for Android is out of closed testing and into open beta. Anyone can install it from Google Play — no tester list, no invitation. Sign in with the account you already have and get the shared calendar, library, tasks, contacts, messages, finances, members, and guest access codes on your phone. Push notifications work on Android just as they do on iPhone. Free for current subscribers; in-app billing is still to come, so upgrades happen on the web.
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August 2026
Your check-in and check-out times, everywhere
Set your property's default check-in and check-out times once and every part of the app follows them: the booking form starts on them, your calendar feed carries them out to Airbnb, VRBO, and Google Calendar, and your guest check-in and checkout emails quote them. Set yours under Calendar, then More, then Share.
Monthly plan now available
Prefer to pay as you go? You can now subscribe monthly at $14.99 per property instead of committing to a year. The annual plan is still the better deal at $99 a year — about $8.25 a month — and every feature is the same either way. Pick your plan when you upgrade a property.
Invite your co-owners with one link
Every property now has a member invite link ready to go — copy it, paste it into your family text thread, and everyone who opens it joins as a member. No more typing email addresses one at a time. People you invite land on a page that names the property, shows the join code, and gets them set up in one step — and the same code works in the iPhone app.
July 2026
Android app development underway
We've heard you! OurSharedPlace is coming to Android, with a beta expected this calendar year. Jot us a note at info[at]oursharedplace.com if you'd like to be notified when it's ready. As with our iOS app, you'll be able to manage your shared calendar, photos, expenses, members, and documents from your Android phone or tablet; no additional cost.
Adjust a guest's booking offer
Sent an outside guest a booking offer and their plans changed? Update the dates and re-send it with a fresh acceptance link — now right from the iOS app, no laptop needed.
Choose your property's currency
Track expenses and settle up in the currency that matches where your place is — not just US dollars.
Emailed receipts and billing history
Get an emailed receipt whenever your subscription renews, and download your full billing history any time from your account.
June 2026
Hold dates on the calendar
Admins can block off dates that aren't a booking — maintenance, a repair visit, or a tentative plan — with a distinct look so nobody mistakes them for an open week.
Guest booking portal
Send an outside guest a booking offer they can review and accept, with a private, no-login portal for their stay. Rejections are kept on file for fairness down the road.
Read moreBooking windows: limit how far ahead people can book
Stop one person from claiming prime weeks two years out before anyone else gets a turn. Set a cap on how far ahead a check-out date can be — property-wide, per member, or a separate limit for outside inquiries.
Read moreAutomated check-in and checkout emails for guests
Turn on per-property check-in details and checkout reminders and let us send them on schedule, with merge fields, your how-to articles, and a private guest portal code that activates before the stay and expires after.
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May 2026
OurSharedPlace is now on iPhone and iPad
The app is live in the App Store. Sign in with your existing account and take your shared calendar, photos, expenses, members, and documents everywhere — with push notifications for new bookings and messages.
Read moreA new online How-To Center
Step-by-step guides for every feature, so you and your co-owners can find answers without asking.
Read moreReusable checklists
Build checklists for the things that happen over and over — checkout, cleaning, winterizing, spring opening — and share them as a tap-friendly link, no sign-in needed.
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April 2026
Round-robin booking queue
Take turns choosing dates in a structured order, with time-bound windows, per-member night allowances, and automatic email reminders. A fair, low-drama way to run season booking.
Read moreHouse Rules Generator
Answer a few questions and get a printable, polished house rules document for your property — free to use.
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March 2026
Guest access portal
Create time-limited access codes so guests can see WiFi passwords, house rules, local tips, and emergency contacts via a simple link — no account required.
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January 2026
Document cloud
Keep manuals, warranties, insurance papers, and agreements in one shared place, so the right document is always a click away.
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