First steps

This is the shortest path from a brand-new tenant to a published listing on a live storefront. The Go live page tracks all of it for you — a new tenant lands there, it is in the sidebar, and each step opens the real settings card in place rather than sending you somewhere else. Your dashboard carries a short summary of the same thing.

In a hurry, or not sure yet? Demo mode fills the workspace with example content and lets you take a booking end to end — with payments that move no money — before you answer any of this. None of the steps below block it.

The checklist has two tiers: Required (do these to accept bookings) and Recommended (do these next). Here’s the order that works.

Each required step ends with a button. A step is ticked off when you press Confirm (or Save, if you changed something) on the card the step opens — not merely when the setting happens to be right. Several of these questions have a sensible default already in place, and the checklist walks you past every one of them once so you know what you are running on rather than finding out later. If a step’s card looks correct as it stands, press Confirm and move on; nothing is written and the row closes. A couple of steps have no button of their own — adding your first listing or owner is answered by doing it, and the workspace review is ours to close, not yours.

1. Set your business name

Open Settings → Identity and set your business name, along with your currency, timezone, and logo. This is your tenant’s identity across the console, storefront, and emails.

2. Add your legal information

Under Settings → Legal, add your legal (company) name, address, country, and a legal contact email. These appear on invoices and legal pages, and the storefront won’t go live without them.

3. Configure a payment method

Under Settings → Payments, enable bank transfer and fill in your IBAN and account holder. Without a payment method, bookings publish with no payment obligation. See Payment providers.

4. Set a notification email

Under Settings → Email delivery, set the address that should receive new booking and inquiry notifications. Otherwise you won’t be emailed when guests book. See Email delivery.

5. Set a cancellation policy

Create a policy under Settings → Cancellation Policies and choose it as your default in Settings → Booking settings. See Cancellations & refunds.

6. (Marketplace only) Add an owner

If your tenant runs in marketplace mode, add at least one owner under Owners — in that mode a listing can’t publish without an assigned owner. In direct mode there are no owners and you can skip this. See Owners.

7. Create your first listing

Go to Listings and click to create one. The default flow is AI import: paste a URL, text, or PDF, or upload photos, and Reynt extracts the details and generates content in all your languages. Prefer to type it in? Switch to Enter details manually. See Create a listing.

8. Fill the critical items and publish

A new listing starts as a Draft. The completeness bar on the listing shows what’s missing. To leave Draft and become publishable, a listing needs at least one photo, a primary photo, and pricing (plus an owner in marketplace mode). Once those are set, the Publish button on the listing header activates — click it to take the listing live on your storefront. See Publishing & visibility.

9. Take your storefront live

Publishing a listing doesn’t make your public site live on its own. Under Settings → Storefront, the Publish Storefront section lists four prerequisites: an imprint, a privacy policy, a notification email, and a payment method. Once all four are met, turn on Storefront live.

10. (Optional) Use your own domain

Still under Settings → Storefront, the Custom Domains section lets you add your own domain (for example booking.mydomain.com). Add it, create the CNAME record shown, then click Verify DNS. Once active you can Set Primary. See Domains & SEO.

11. (Optional) Send email from your own domain

By default Reynt sends your guest emails on your behalf from a platform address (“Your Name via Reynt”). To have them come from an address on your own domain instead, connect your own mail server under Settings → Email delivery — SMTP, Brevo, or Mailjet — and set the sender address to one on your domain. Besides putting your name on the envelope, this aligns SPF, DKIM, and DMARC with your domain, which is what keeps your mail out of spam folders. See Notifications & email.

Both of these last two are optional: your storefront serves and your mail goes out without either. They appear under Recommended on the Go live page once you’re live.