Hostfully

Vacation rental property management platform with per-property pricing and digital guidebooks

As of 31 August 2026, Hostfully starts at $15/month. A short-term rental PMS charging $15 to $25 per property per month plus an unpublished platform fee, best known for the digital guidebook product it sells separately. Softwr lists it under Travel. Hostfully is made by Hostfully Inc, available on Web, iOS, Android.

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Overview

What Hostfully does

Hostfully is a property management platform for short-term rental operators, run from San Francisco. It provides a central calendar and booking record, channel management to Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo, guest messaging, an owner portal, a direct booking engine and payment handling. Separately it sells Digital Guidebooks, a guest-facing product covering check-in instructions, house rules and local recommendations, which many operators buy without the PMS at all. The commercially significant detail is the fee structure. Growth costs $15 per property per month plus a platform fee, and layers a 1% payment gateway fee and a 0.85% direct booking fee on top. Pro costs $25 per property per month plus the platform fee but removes both percentages. For an operator taking meaningful direct booking revenue, the cheaper tier is the more expensive one, and the platform fee itself is not stated on the pricing page, so no published figure is a complete monthly cost. Buyers are managers with roughly ten to two hundred units, plus individual hosts buying guidebooks alone. The trade-off is that Hostfully sits mid-market: more capable than a host tool, less deep on accounting and enterprise reporting than the largest platforms, and its pricing only becomes clear after a conversation.

What people use it 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

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 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.

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What people choose instead of Hostfully

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.

Hostfullyvs
Hostaway
Hostaway: If you want channel management and automation without a separately quoted platform fee
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Guesty
Guesty: If you manage over a hundred units and need trust accounting and enterprise owner reporting
Hostfullyvs
Smoobu
Smoobu: If you have a handful of units and want fully published, per unit pricing

Pricing

What Hostfully costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Growth

$15 /mo

1 to 50 listings
$15 per property per month plus a platform fee
1% payment gateway fee
0.85% direct booking fee
24/7 support

Pro

$25 /mo

1 to 199 listings
$25 per property per month plus a platform fee
No payment gateway fee
No direct booking commission
Dedicated customer success manager

Enterprise

On request

200 or more listings
Custom volume pricing plus a platform fee
Priority support
Regular one to one success meetings

Capabilities

Features

Channel management
Two-way sync with Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com and Expedia
Digital Guidebooks
Branded guest guidebooks with check-in, house rules and upsells, sold as a standalone product
Owner portal
Owner-facing reporting and booking visibility for managed properties
Direct booking engine
Branded booking site, with a 0.85% fee on the Growth tier and none on Pro
Unified inbox
Cross-channel guest messaging with templates and triggers
Pipeline and lead management
Tracking of enquiries that did not arrive through an OTA

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

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.

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.

Can I buy guidebooks alone?

Yes. Digital Guidebooks are priced separately and are commonly bought without the PMS.

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.

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