Travel · head to head
Hostfully vs Uplisting
Hostfully
Travel
Vacation rental property management platform with per-property pricing and digital guidebooks
- From
- $15/month
- Rated
- -
Uplisting
Travel
Short-term rental management with a flat per-property price and no percentage of revenue
- From
- $100/month
- Rated
- -
The short version
- Each has a real cost: Hostfully the advertised per property price excludes a platform fee that is not published anywhere on the pricing page, so no listed figure is a real monthly cost until sales quotes it.; Uplisting the 100 US dollar monthly minimum means an owner with one or two properties pays roughly fifty dollars per unit, five times the effective rate a twenty-unit manager pays.
- They diverge on capability: Hostfully covers Channel management, Uplisting covers Channel sync.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Hostfully and Uplisting actually diverge.
Identical on both: pricing model (Per property per month), free tier (No), platforms (Web, iOS, Android), user rating (Not yet rated), category (Travel).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in Hostfully
- Channel management
- Digital Guidebooks
- Owner portal
- Direct booking engine
- Pipeline and lead management
Only in Uplisting
- Channel sync
- Direct booking site
- Automated messaging
- Cleaning and team management
- Guest verification
- Smart lock codes
- Multi-unit handling
Both cover
- Unified inbox
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Hostfully
- A manager with thirty units who wants channel sync, an owner portal and a direct booking site under one subscriptionnot Uplisting
- A host who only wants professional check-in and local recommendation guidebooks and will buy Digital Guidebooks without the PMSnot Uplisting
- An operator pushing guests towards direct bookings who needs the Pro tier because the Growth tier taxes exactly that revenuenot Uplisting
- A property manager onboarding third-party owners who need visible reporting on their own unitsnot Uplisting
Uplisting
- A manager with fifteen city apartments who wants fixed software cost rather than a percentage of high nightly ratesnot Hostfully
- An operator burned by double bookings across Airbnb and Booking.com wanting hard sync protectionnot Hostfully
- A team coordinating cleaners across same-day turnovers with automated task assignmentnot Hostfully
- A host issuing smart lock codes automatically instead of arranging key handoversnot Hostfully
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Hostfully
- The advertised per property price excludes a platform fee that is not published anywhere on the pricing page, so no listed figure is a real monthly cost until sales quotes it.
- The Growth tier charges 1% on payments and 0.85% on direct bookings, so the operators most focused on direct revenue are penalised on the cheaper plan and effectively forced to Pro.
- Pricing is per property, so a portfolio of small low-revenue units pays the same per listing as high-revenue ones and studio-heavy portfolios carry a disproportionate cost.
- Accounting is lighter than manager-grade competitors, with no full trust accounting, so client fund segregation has to be handled outside the platform.
- Digital Guidebooks are sold and priced separately from the PMS, so the product Hostfully is best known for is an additional line on the invoice rather than part of the subscription.
Uplisting
- The 100 US dollar monthly minimum means an owner with one or two properties pays roughly fifty dollars per unit, five times the effective rate a twenty-unit manager pays.
- Owner statements and trust accounting are effectively absent, so agencies that must report to and pay property owners need separate bookkeeping alongside it.
- Payments are tied to Stripe for direct bookings, which limits operators in countries Stripe does not serve well or who want to keep an existing acquiring relationship.
- Channel coverage is narrower than the larger platforms: Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo are solid but regional OTAs and wholesale distribution are not there.
- Reporting is basic, with limited custom report building, so investors or multi-entity operators typically export data and analyse it elsewhere.
Pricing, plan by plan
Hostfully
$15/month- Growth$15/month
- 1 to 50 listings
- $15 per property per month plus a platform fee
- 1% payment gateway fee
- Pro$25/month
- 1 to 199 listings
- $25 per property per month plus a platform fee
- No payment gateway fee
- Enterprise$undefined/month
- 200 or more listings
- Custom volume pricing plus a platform fee
- Priority support
Uplisting
$100/month- Pro$100/month
- 100 USD monthly minimum
- About 20 USD per property per month
- Channel manager, direct booking site and automation included
- Pro at scale (21 to 100 listings)$undefined/month
- About 10 USD per additional listing beyond twenty
- Same feature set
- No revenue share
- Pro above 100 listings$undefined/month
- About 5 USD per additional listing beyond one hundred
- Volume rate for larger portfolios
- No revenue share
Which should you pick?
Choose Hostfully if
- You need channel management.
- You work on Web, iOS, Android.
- You also want digital guidebooks.
Choose Uplisting if
- You need channel sync.
- You work on Web, iOS, Android.
- You also want direct booking site.
Questions people ask
- Is Hostfully or Uplisting better?
- Neither clearly leads. Hostfully starts at $15/month and Uplisting at $100/month, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Hostfully or Uplisting?
- Hostfully starts at $15/month and Uplisting at $100/month.
- Does Hostfully or Uplisting run on more platforms?
- Both run on Web, iOS, Android, so platform support will not decide this one for you.
- What is Hostfully best used for?
- Hostfully is most often used for a manager with thirty units who wants channel sync, an owner portal and a direct booking site under one subscription, a host who only wants professional check-in and local recommendation guidebooks and will buy digital guidebooks without the pms, an operator pushing guests towards direct bookings who needs the pro tier because the growth tier taxes exactly that revenue, a property manager onboarding third-party owners who need visible reporting on their own units. Of those, a manager with thirty units who wants channel sync, an owner portal and a direct booking site under one subscription and a host who only wants professional check-in and local recommendation guidebooks and will buy digital guidebooks without the pms are not what Uplisting is typically brought in for.
- What can Hostfully do that Uplisting cannot?
- Hostfully covers Channel management, Digital Guidebooks, Owner portal, Direct booking engine. Uplisting covers Channel sync, Direct booking site, Automated messaging, Cleaning and team management. Both handle Unified inbox.
Answered from the vendors’ own pages
Hostfully: What is the platform fee?
Hostfully does not publish it. Ask for the total monthly figure for your listing count in writing before comparing plans.
Uplisting: Does Uplisting take a percentage of bookings?
No. It charges a flat monthly rate per property and takes no cut of reservation value, including on direct bookings.
Hostfully: Which tier is cheaper in practice?
Pro, for anyone with real direct booking volume. Growth is $10 less per property but adds 1% on payments and 0.85% on direct bookings.
Uplisting: What is the minimum I can spend?
One hundred US dollars a month, regardless of whether you have one property or five.
Hostfully: Can I buy guidebooks alone?
Yes. Digital Guidebooks are priced separately and are commonly bought without the PMS.
Uplisting: Does it do owner payouts and statements?
Not meaningfully. Managers who owe monthly statements to property owners generally run accounting separately or choose Hostaway or Guesty instead.
Hostfully: Is there a minimum property count?
No stated minimum, but per property pricing plus a platform fee makes it uneconomic for one or two units.
Uplisting: Which channels connect?
Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo are the core two-way connections, plus its own direct booking site and Google Vacation Rentals.
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