This is the announcement post for the Hostfully integration. The step-by-step setup instructions have moved — the current, maintained guide is Connect Hostfully to Houfy — Complete Integration Guide. Follow that one if you are connecting an account.
This integration empowers hosts to streamline their operations, synchronize listings, and manage their properties more efficiently—all while leveraging Houfy’s no service fee booking model.
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What is Hostfully?
Hostfully is an award-winning vacation rental property management platform designed to simplify the lives of short-term rental hosts and property managers. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools to manage reservations, synchronize listings across multiple platforms, and enhance guest communication—all from a centralized dashboard. With Hostfully, hosts can efficiently manage their properties, ensuring a seamless experience for both themselves and their guests.
Key Features of Hostfully
Channel Manager: Synchronize your listings across major booking platforms like Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, and Expedia. This ensures real-time updates to availability, rates, and reservations, minimizing the risk of double bookings.
Centralized Calendar: Manage all your reservations from a single dashboard. Hostfully's centralized calendar allows for easy tracking of bookings, payments, and guest information, streamlining the reservation process.
Unified Inbox: Enhance guest experience with a unified inbox that consolidates messages from connected platforms. This ensures timely and consistent communication with guests throughout their stay.
Automation Tools: Automate routine tasks such as updating calendars and communicating with guests, allowing you to focus on providing exceptional hospitality.
Analytics & Reporting: Gain insights into your property's performance with detailed reports on revenue, occupancy rates, and more. This data-driven approach helps in making informed decisions to optimize your rental business.
How Does the Houfy-Hostfully Integration Benefit Hosts?
By integrating Hostfully with Houfy, hosts can:
Streamline Operations: Manage all aspects of your rental business from a single platform, reducing the need to switch between multiple systems.
Expand Reach: List your properties on Houfy while simultaneously managing them on other major booking platforms, increasing visibility and potential bookings.
Maintain Consistency: Ensure that property details, availability, and rates are consistent across all platforms, providing a reliable experience for guests.
Save Time: Automate routine tasks such as updating calendars and communicating with guests, allowing you to focus on providing exceptional hospitality.
Getting Started with the Integration
To connect your Hostfully account with Houfy:
Connecting takes two parts, and both are needed before any listing appears: you authorise Houfy from houfy.com/p/hostfully, then you switch the properties you want to share on inside Hostfully, under Channels › Houfy. Missing that second part is the most common reason listings never show up.
The full step-by-step, including what syncs afterwards and how to troubleshoot an empty listing page, is in Connect Hostfully to Houfy — Complete Integration Guide.
Understanding Houfy Connect
Properties connected through software partners like Hostfully are part of Houfy Connect. Houfy charges hosts 0% commission to list. Guests pay a 5% API connection fee on bookings made through a connected property management system, shown at checkout as a separate line. It covers the cost of maintaining these integrations, and hosts are never billed for it.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Hostfully and what does it do?
Hostfully is an all-in-one property mangement platform built for short-term rental hosts and professional property managers. It centralises reservations, guest communications, channel distribution, and reporting into a single dashboard. Hosts use Hostfully to manage listings across Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com, and now Houfy — all from one place, without logging into each platform separately.
Does the Houfy Connect charge apply to Hostfully bookings on Houfy?
Yes. Properties connected to Houfy through a software partner like Hostfully are part of Houfy Connect. A nominal API usage charge applies to bookings made on these properties to cover the cost of maintaining the real-time sync between platforms. This charge is transparently displayed during the booking process and is significantly lower than the commission fees charged by OTAs.
How do I connect my Hostfully account to Houfy?
The setup takes a few minutes and has two parts. First authorise Houfy at houfy.com/p/hostfully, choosing to import new listings or map existing ones. Then, in Hostfully, open Channels › Houfy and switch on the properties you want to share — until at least one is switched on there, nothing imports even though the connection looks healthy on both sides.
Does the Hostfully-Houfy integration support two-way calendar sync?
Yes. Calendar sync is bidirectional. Bookings and blocks made in Hostfully from any channel update your Houfy availability in real time, and Houfy bookings flow back into your Hostfully calendar automatically. This prevents double bookings without any manual calendar management on your part.
Can I manage multiple properties through the Hostfully-Houfy integration?
Yes. The integration works across your full Hostfully property portfolio. You can import all of your listings to Houfy at once or map them individually to existing Houfy listings. Each property syncs independently, with its own calendar and reservation management handled inside Hostfully.
Do I need to update my listings separately on Houfy after connecting Hostfully?
No. Once connected, your listing content — descriptions, photos, amenities, pricing, and availability — is managed through Hostfully and syncs to Houfy automatically. Changes made in Hostfully push to your Houfy listing without any manual updates required on the Houfy side.
Embrace Seamless Hosting
Integrating Hostfully with Houfy simplifies your property management, reduces manual tasks, and broadens your reach to potential guests—all while maintaining control over your listings and avoiding unnecessary fees.
