<p><strong>Listing Your Property:<br /></strong><br />Listing your property on Halalhosts is completely free. To get started, after registration and login, click&nbsp;<strong>List Your Property</strong>&nbsp;under&nbsp;<strong>Hosting&nbsp;</strong>in the header on&nbsp;the top-right corner of the any page on the platform or simply log in to the platform and click <strong>List Your Property</strong> on the Dashbaord. You will be asked to enter all relevant information regarding your property listing, including title, description, price, location, amenities, photos and house rules. You can set different prices for nightly stays under Calendar. It also allows you to select the amenities and features that your property has or that you provide. Ensure your title and description of your property are accurate, clear, concise, and captivating, while maintaining true and correct reflection of your property, in order to attract potential guests and travellers to your listing.&nbsp;<br /><br />Furthermore, you may also provide a shot list of&nbsp;tourist attractions that may be&nbsp;available around you or close to&nbsp;your area,&nbsp;such as Historical Sites, Mosques, Museums, Beaches, Restaurants, Rivers, Parks, Shopping Malls, Festivals, Libraries,&nbsp;Mountains, Hills, Lakes, Game Reserves, Zoos and other things to do or see in your&nbsp;for your prospective guests.<br /><br />We encourage you to ensure your property is very clean before each guest&rsquo;s arrival. This includes providing clean bed sheets, pillow cases, towels, washcloths, kitchen utensils&nbsp;etc. for your guest(s) and regularly changing linens, cleaning surfaces, wiping mirrors and emptying wastebaskets in your bedrooms, bathrooms and kitchen.&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Listing Experience and Adventure:</strong></p>
<p>To list Experience and Adventure, simply log in to the platform and go to the Dashbaord. On the Dashboard, <strong>My Experiences List</strong> link for Experiences and Adventures and simply enter all the relevant information and upload pictures of your event<strong>. </strong></p>
<p><strong>Profile:<br /></strong><br />Your profile is a representative of yourself. It enables your guests to get to know you before they meet you in person. As such, upload a recent and clear picture of yourself and enter details about yourself as a host to enable your potential guests to know more about you. To do this, click on your User Name or Profile icon on the top-right corner of the site after login. Click&nbsp;<strong>SETTINGS</strong>&nbsp;in the drop-down menu and click&nbsp;<strong>EDIT PROFILE</strong>, enter your name in the name fields and other information as requested; write something about yourself in the&nbsp;<strong>ABOUT ME</strong>&nbsp;field to enable your prospective guests to learn about you, as the information you provided will enable you to get bookings for your property from prospective guests. Upload a recent photograph of yourself by clicking&nbsp;<strong>UPLOAD PHOTO</strong>. Enter your address and your contact phone number(s) under&nbsp;<strong>CONTACT DETAILS</strong>. Please note that your full name, address and phone number(s) will not be revealed to your prospective guests until you have approved their booking requests.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /><br /><strong>Online ID Verification:</strong><br /><br />The platform is based on trust&nbsp;and allows you to connect your account to Social Networks such as Facebook, Google, Linkedin or Twitter for online identity verification. To do this, go to the Dashboard, if you are not already there. To get to the Dashboard, click on your&nbsp;<strong>Profile</strong>&nbsp;icon or&nbsp;<strong>Profile</strong>&nbsp;picture on the top navigation bar and highlight&nbsp;<strong>My Account.&nbsp;</strong>Once<strong>&nbsp;My Account&nbsp;</strong>is highlighted, you will find the<strong>&nbsp;Dashboard&nbsp;</strong>link on the left side&nbsp;of it.&nbsp;<br /><br /><strong>Property/Space Types:<br /></strong><br />Halalhosts enables listing of the following properties or spaces by hosts which can be rented on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, depending on the specification of the host: Apartment, House, Boat, Bread &amp; Breakfast, Bungalow, Cabin, Camper/RV, Castle, Cave, Chalet, Coach, Condo, Dorm, Earth house, Halal Hotel, Hut, Island, Igloo, Lighthouse, Loft, Motor home, Sport house, Tent, Tipi, Tree house, Van, Villa and Yurt.&nbsp;<br /><br /><strong>Property Pictures:&nbsp;<br /></strong><br />We encourage all prospective hosts to upload very clear, attractive or professional pictures of their properties or spaces in their property listing. You property pictures are part of your selling point to prospective guests or travellers.&nbsp;<br /><br /><strong>Availability Calendar:&nbsp;<br /></strong><br />It is also important that hosts set the availability of their properties or spaces in&nbsp;<strong>Calendar&nbsp;</strong>to ensure that guests don&rsquo;t contact them when their properties or spaces are not available for reservation on the platform. To locate the calendar, click on&nbsp;<strong>Hosting</strong>&nbsp;on the upper right corner of the site after login. Click&nbsp;<strong>Calendar</strong>&nbsp;in the drop-down menu. Click on the appropriate dates and select&nbsp;<strong>Not Available</strong>&nbsp;for the dates your property will not be available for booking.&nbsp;<br /><br /><strong>Property Pricing:&nbsp;<br /></strong><br />Proper pricing of your property on Halalhosts is your responsibility as a host. It is up to you to determine the price of your space. However, we encourage you to see prices of similar properties in your area or location when determining what to charge for your space.&nbsp;<br /><br /><strong>Communication:&nbsp;<br /></strong><br />Communicating clearly with your guests is very essential to successful hosting on Halalhosts. It&rsquo;s very important to let your guest know in advance what your property looks like and what your requirements are before they book your property. Use the messaging system on the platform to send and receive messages regarding your reservations. The messaging tool&nbsp;<strong>(Envelope Icon)&nbsp;</strong>can be found in the upper right corner of the site after login. The messaging system enables you and your potential guests to ask questions and get answers regarding expectations. Proper communication with your guests will ensure that your guests understand you and your offering and give you good reviews after hosting.&nbsp;<br /><br /><strong>Booking:<br /></strong><br />The platform provides you and your guests all the necessary booking and reservation tools. When a guest or traveler requests a booking of your property, you have 24 hours to accept or reject the booking; otherwise the booking request will expire after 24 hours. It is important that you as the&nbsp;Host, respond to every booking request from your prospective guests in a timely manner, as lack of response may negatively affect you as a host.&nbsp;<br /><br /><strong>Contacting Host:<br /></strong><br />The platform also has <strong>communication</strong>&nbsp;tool, which allows a Traveler to contact a host. This feature can be found after a user is logged in to the site and clicks on Host&rsquo;s profile picture. Traveler can ask a host questions pertaining to the property or any kind of questions they might have before or after booking a property.&nbsp;<br /><br /><strong>Hosting Fees:<br /></strong><br />Listing your property on Halalhosts is completely free, however, the platform charges a hosting fee to cover the cost of the transaction, if a traveler successfully books your property.&nbsp;<br /><br /><strong>Host Payout:<br /></strong><br />The platform enables you to set how you will like to receive your pay. These include Paypal, and Bank Transfers. When you accept a booking as host, the payment for booking your property is held by Halalhosts until 48 hours after your guest&rsquo;s check-in date. Thereafter, you will receive the payment in your account.&nbsp;<br /><br /><strong>Get Verified:<br /></strong><br />Verification is very important to successful hosting: E-mail address and Phone Number verifications, Online ID Verifications such as connecting your account to Facebook, Google, Linkedin or Twitter, and Offline ID verifications such as ID Card, Driver License and Passport.&nbsp;<br /><br /><strong>Reviews:<br /></strong><br />The platform enables hosts to write a review of their guests after their checkout dates. It equally enables the guests to write a review of the hosts regarding their stay with the hosts.<br /><br />To post a review after your hosting of the guest,&nbsp;make sure you are logged in and go to the&nbsp;<strong>Dashboard</strong>, if you are not there already. On the&nbsp;<strong>Dashboard</strong>, you will find&nbsp;<strong>Booked Trips</strong>&nbsp;on the right pane of the screen.&nbsp;Click&nbsp;<strong>Waiting For Your Review&nbsp;button&nbsp;</strong>in pink colour. This link will take you to your booked properties where you will find the booked property you want to review. On the property, click the wheel icon on the left next to the property and click&nbsp;<strong>Review</strong>.&nbsp;</p>