How to connect Rentals United to Houfy

Houfy can only bring over properties that Rentals United has sent, so the first step happens in Rentals United. Five steps in all:

1. In Rentals United, open Services › Houfy and click Get Connected. If that link does not open the right service page, search for Houfy in your Rentals United services list.

2. Accept How it works, then select and push the properties you want on Houfy.

3. Go to houfy.com/p/rentals-united, enter your Rentals United username (the email you sign in to Rentals United with) and click Connect. Your numeric Account ID works too.

4. Sign up or log in to Houfy and finish verification.

5. Connect Stripe, Square or PayPal under Manage Listings › Connected Payments so guests can pay you.

Push your properties in Rentals United before you connect on Houfy. If you connected first and nothing arrived, push them, then open houfy.com/p/rentals-united and connect again.

Before you connect - the API connection fee

Once your listings are connected through Rentals United, guests booking those listings are charged an API connection fee of 5% of the booking subtotal, before tax. It is shown to the guest as its own line in the price breakdown at checkout - it is not deducted from your payout and it is not a commission. It covers what Houfy pays the software partner for the connection.

One thing that surprises hosts: this charge only applies once you have a payment processor connected to Houfy. If you connect Rentals United before you connect Stripe or Square, you will not see the charge at all - and it will start appearing on every one of your connected listings on the day you connect a processor. If you plan to take payments through Houfy, expect the 5% from that day, not from today.

If you would rather not have the charge, you can keep Rentals United and take bookings without a Houfy payment processor, or disconnect the integration.

That’s it!