How requests and offers work

Trip Requests &
Host Offers

Trustead books a stay the way any platform does, and adds two more social ways to start one — asking, and offering.

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Two new ways · 01

Two new ways to stay

Trustead works just like other platforms — but requests and offers add a more social and proactive way to host and rent.

Trip Requests
travelers post where they want to go — hosts answer.
Host Offers
hosts post special offers or availability.

This mimics current Facebook groups or email threads

Trip Request Lisbon

Calm Lisbon neighborhood for a slow week

Eleanor Roosevelt

Looking for somewhere quiet — Alfama, Graça, or Príncipe Real would be ideal.

May 8 – May 15 1 guest
Host Offer 20% off

Springfield Historic Home

Abraham Lincoln

Two-bedroom near the historic district, parking, walkable to Old State Capitol.

Springfield, IL Jul 11 – Jul 20
Trip Requests · 02

Post a Trip Request and let hosts make you offers

The whole ask is one form: where you want to go, dates as firm or as loose as your plans really are, and who’s coming.

  • Where to — a city, several, or a whole region — up to 10 places on one request.
  • Dates in three tiers — ‘Exact’, ‘Around these dates’ or ‘Sometime in a window’ — hosts see real flexibility instead of a guess.
Searching requests · 03

Search for guests with Trip Requests

Travelers post where and when they want to stay. You search the requests and answer the ones that fit your place.

  • They post a request — a place or a region, dates firm or loose.
  • You search and answer — filter by your listings and how tightly the dates must line up.
  • Or set a trip alert — an email or text when a matching request appears.
Host Offers · 04

Post special Host Offers

A Host Offer is you making the first move: your dates, your place, and a reason to say yes written in your own words.

  • You make the offer — Pick a listing and the dates you’d actually like filled.
  • The hook is yours to write — A discount, or a trade — water the plants, watch the dog. Your words, not a price field.
Trip alerts · 05

Stop checking — set an alert

Tell Trustead what you care about, and it tells you when that appears: new Trip Requests if you host, new Host Offers if you travel.

  • What to watch — requests, offers or both — your places, your dates.
  • Straight to your inbox — delivered by email; pause or delete an alert anytime.
The flower-lined entry of a real Trustead home — a beach cottage in Laguna

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