The Parent listing is the group leading listing. In most cases it is an Airbnb listing or listing created from Hostify. This listing manages the prices and availability of all attached child listings.
Child listing can be Airbnb, Booking.com, Expedia, Siteminder or RentalsUnited listing.
The most important feature of this functionality is the calendars synchronization. The parent-child functionality allows you to unify all of your calendars in the different platforms.
How to attach an Airbnb or RentalsUnited listing as a child to another listing:
Open the listing that is going to be the child.
Go to the "Settings" sub-menu.
You will see a "Parent-Child" section.
Turn the switch from Parent to Child:
5. From the section "Parent Listing" select a Parent listing, where you want to attach this child listing.
You can choose if you want the child to automatically inherit the pricing, descriptions, rooms, amenities, photos, and settings from the parent or not:
6. Click Save Changes.
Also you can use this functionality for A/B testing of prices.
So, you can have for example 2 Airbnb listings for the same property with different pricing, but perfectly synced calendars and statistics. This would allow you to experiment with different pricing and improve your ADR.