Hostaway

Vacation rental management platform for professional operators

As of 29 August 2026, Hostaway's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Short-term rental management: channels, guest messaging, automation and owner reporting for portfolio operators. Softwr lists it under Travel. Hostaway is available on Web, iOS, Android.

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Overview

What Hostaway does

Hostaway is a vacation rental management platform for professional short-term rental operators, covering channel distribution across Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com, unified guest messaging, automated workflows, dynamic pricing integration and owner statements. It competes directly with Guesty for portfolio managers rather than individual hosts, and its emphasis is automation: message templates, cleaning task creation and review requests triggered by booking events rather than done by hand.

What people use it for

Managers running portfolios across several booking channels
Operators whose margin goes to manual guest messaging and turnover coordination
Companies producing owner statements for managed properties

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Hostaway.

Quote-only pricing scaled by listing count, with an onboarding fee commonly reported, so entry cost is real
Built for professional operators; single-property hosts find the cost per unit hard to justify
Channel sync inherits the reliability of the booking platforms it connects to
Depth in individual modules is shallower than dedicated point tools

Cross-shopped

What people choose instead of Hostaway

Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

Hostawayvs
Guesty
Guesty: The closest direct competitor in short-term rental management
Hostawayvs
Cloudbeds
Cloudbeds: Aimed at hotels and hostels rather than distributed rental portfolios

Capabilities

Features

Multi-channel distribution
One inventory across Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com
Unified inbox
Guest messages from every channel in one thread
Automation
Messaging, tasks and reviews triggered by booking events
Owner statements
Reporting for owners of managed properties

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

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What does Hostaway cost?

It quotes by listing count and modules and does not publish rates. An onboarding fee is commonly part of the arrangement.

Hostaway or Guesty?

They compete for the same professional operator market with broadly similar feature sets. Differences usually come down to quoted price, onboarding and specific channel or PMS integrations.

Is it worth it for one or two listings?

Generally not. It is built for portfolios, and the per-unit cost is hard to justify below a handful of properties.

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