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title: Hostaway Insurance powered by Safely - How to cover or exclude bookings channels
description: Clients can elect to exclude booking channels in the Hostaway embedded program.
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# Hostaway Insurance powered by Safely - How to cover or exclude bookings channels

## Clients can select the booking channels they would like to cover in the Hostaway embedded program.

To edit a booking channel selection in Hostaway: 

- Go to **Insurance** on the left toolbar
- View current selections under **Summary**
- To update selections, click **Edit Insurance**

#### **![](https://hello.safely.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-18-25%E2%80%AFPM-png.png?width=670&height=279&name=Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-18-25%E2%80%AFPM-png.png)**

#### **If changing from covering only selected channels to covering all booking channels**

NOTE: In this example: Selected channels are being covered. The only channel **covered** is Airbnb.

![](https://hello.safely.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-21-14%E2%80%AFPM-png-1.png?width=229&height=354&name=Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-21-14%E2%80%AFPM-png-1.png)  ![](https://hello.safely.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-22-33%E2%80%AFPM-png.png?width=399&height=363&name=Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-22-33%E2%80%AFPM-png.png)

- Select **Channel** in the **Edit Coverage** toolbar
- To cover all channels, click **Select** in**Cover all connect channels**,
- Click **Save**

![](https://hello.safely.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-01-16%E2%80%AFPM-png.png?width=670&height=227&name=Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-01-16%E2%80%AFPM-png.png)

- Review and click **Confirm**
- When complete, a success message will show.

NOTE: When confirmed, all future arrivals will be changed to the new selected coverage.

 ![](https://hello.safely.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%202-59-51%E2%80%AFPM-png.png?width=287&height=215&name=Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%202-59-51%E2%80%AFPM-png.png)    ![](https://hello.safely.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-05-59%E2%80%AFPM-png.png?width=341&height=112&name=Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-05-59%E2%80%AFPM-png.png)  
On the Summary page, under Channels it will now show that all connected channels are covered. 

![](https://hello.safely.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-12-37%E2%80%AFPM-png.png?width=232&height=351&name=Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-12-37%E2%80%AFPM-png.png) 

#### **If adding additional exclusions or updating covered channels**

NOTE: In this example: Selected channels are being covered. The only channels **covered** are Homeaway and Vrbo.  
![](https://hello.safely.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-15-16%E2%80%AFPM-png.png?width=234&height=295&name=Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-15-16%E2%80%AFPM-png.png)   ![](https://hello.safely.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-33-33%E2%80%AFPM-png.png?width=383&height=378&name=Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-33-33%E2%80%AFPM-png.png)

- Select **Channel** in the **Edit Coverage** toolbar
- Check to add coverage or uncheck to remove coverage (exclude) for each booking channel
- Click **Save**

![](https://hello.safely.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-37-07%E2%80%AFPM-png.png?width=396&height=221&name=Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-37-07%E2%80%AFPM-png.png)

Channels that are not checked will be excluded. In this example, only Airbnb reservations will be covered. All other booking channels will be excluded. 

- Review and click **Confirm**
- When complete, a success message will show.

NOTE: When confirmed, all future arrivals will be changed to the new selected coverage.

![](https://hello.safely.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-40-13%E2%80%AFPM-png.png?width=287&height=231&name=Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-40-13%E2%80%AFPM-png.png).  ![](https://hello.safely.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-41-46%E2%80%AFPM-png.png?width=374&height=103&name=Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-41-46%E2%80%AFPM-png.png) 

On the Summary page, under Channels it will now show that all connected channels are covered.

![](https://hello.safely.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-42-56%E2%80%AFPM-png.png?width=226&height=376&name=Screenshot%202025-06-23%20at%203-42-56%E2%80%AFPM-png.png)

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