Klub, Kaza, and Everything Else: The KazaKlub Glossary

Klub, Kaza, availability, access request... KazaKlub uses its own vocabulary, one that doesn't always have a direct equivalent on traditional rental platforms. This glossary brings together the essential terms, with precise definitions and what they mean in practice.

Kaza

A Kaza refers to a home listed on the platform by its owner or occupant: a house, an apartment, a second home, or more broadly any place someone chooses to share (a communal hall or an association's premises can also be listed as a Kaza). Each Kaza has its own listing: address, capacity, photos, amenities, availability, and visibility rules.

A Kaza is never rented out: it's shared, lent, or exchanged according to the rules its owner sets, with no commercial transaction.

Klub

A Klub is a private circle of members who trust each other — family, friends, neighbors, or any other existing community. It's inside a Klub that its members' Kazas become accessible to the others. A Klub can have two members or several dozen: no minimum size is required.

An account can belong to several Klubs at once, within the limit allowed by its subscription plan. A member can also leave a Klub, and an administrator can remove another member if trust no longer holds.

Availability

An availability is a period during which a Kaza is declared free by its owner. It's this calendar that lets a Kaza show up in a search filtered by date — with no availability set, a Kaza can't match any search for a specific period, even if it's otherwise complete and visible.

Access Request

An access request is the request a member sends to a Kaza's owner to stay there on given dates. It never goes through automatically: every request must be explicitly accepted. Being findable in a search therefore never means being bookable without the owner's agreement, who can decline a request with no need to justify it.

Visibility

Visibility is a setting specific to each Kaza, reversible at any time: it can appear in the network's general search, or stay reserved for members of the Klubs its owner belongs to. This choice doesn't change how access requests work, which remain subject to acceptance either way.

Case Study (or Testimonial)

A case study is the detailed account of a real or representative situation — a family home that's hard to coordinate, an under-used second home, a first Klub set up between two people — published on the site's Testimonials page. Each case covers a single situation in depth rather than piling up generalities.

Explorer, Easy Traveler, Globetrotter

These are KazaKlub's three subscription plans. Explorer is free and limited to one Klub. Easy Traveler and Globetrotter are paid and progressively lift the limits on the number of Klubs, visibility in search results, and access to premium partnerships. No plan, including paid ones, introduces a per-night price: the subscription pays for access to the network, never for the stays themselves.

Reciprocity

Reciprocity refers to the idea, specific to classic home-exchange systems, that lending your home would require borrowing another one in return. KazaKlub explicitly departs from this: sharing, lending, or accessing a Kaza creates no obligation to exchange in the other direction. A member can host without ever borrowing, or the reverse, with no issue.

This glossary will grow along with the questions members ask most. To go further into how these concepts actually work, the How It Works page details the full journey, step by step.