Houfy is Now Connected to Channel Manager Guesty

Note this integration is still in the soft launch stage. If you would like to take part please email info@houfy.com

We are thrilled to announce that Houfy is now seamlessly integrated with Guesty, a leading property management and channel manager platform​. This new API-based partnership makes your hosting journey smoother, more efficient, and even more rewarding. By connecting Houfy with Guesty, hosts can centralize their operations, reduce manual workload, and enjoy the best of both worlds: Houfy’s commission-free direct booking marketplace combined with Guesty’s powerful automation and multi-channel management tools.

As a vacation rental host, you already juggle plenty of tasks – from communicating with guests and coordinating cleanings to updating listings on various sites. Manually managing bookings and calendars across multiple platforms can be daunting and error-prone. Our integration with Guesty is designed to alleviate those challenges, giving you more time to focus on providing exceptional guest experiences and growing your business, instead of doing repetitive administrative work.

Why Do Vacation Rental Hosts Need a Channel Manager?

Maintaining a rental across different online travel agencies (OTAs) like Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, and now Houfy can lead to several challenges. A dedicated channel manager helps solve these common pain points:

• Avoid Double Bookings: Without a unified system, two guests might book the same dates on different platforms – a situation every host dreads. Channel managers sync your calendars in real time to prevent double-booking conflicts, saving you from potential customer dissatisfaction and financial loss.
• Save Time & Reduce Errors: Updating availability, rates, and listing details on each website individually is not only tedious but also prone to mistakes. With an integrated channel manager, you update everything in one place, and those changes propagate everywhere​. This automation frees up hours and ensures accurate information across all sites.
• Centralize Guest Communications: Juggling inquiries and messages on different apps can cause missed messages or delayed responses. A channel manager brings all your guest communications into one inbox, so you can reply faster and keep every conversation organized.
• Streamline Your Workflow: Ultimately, a channel manager lets you run your vacation rental business from a single dashboard. By automating routine tasks and centralizing information, it creates an efficient workflow that lets you devote energy to what matters most – keeping guests happy and improving your property.

A channel manager is a game-changer: it centralizes your operations so that managing multiple listings feels as easy as managing one. This is why we’re so excited to bring Guesty into the Houfy family of integrations – to help you “work smarter, not harder” in managing your rentals.

Guesty’s dashboard provides a unified hub for managing listings and automating tasks. In the example above, hosts can see an overview of their upcoming check-ins, check-outs, turnovers, and easily connect additional channels via the quick-start guide. Having all this information in one place helps hosts save time and avoid errors, which is exactly what our Houfy–Guesty integration aims to leverage.

What is Guesty?

Guesty is one of the most well-known all-in-one property management platforms in the short-term rental industry. It simplifies hosts’ work by integrating with major listing sites like Airbnb and Booking.com​, allowing you to oversee all your reservations and tasks from one system. Founded in 2013, Guesty has grown into a global solution supporting thousands of property managers with robust features for channel management, guest communication, automation, and more​.

By partnering with Guesty, Houfy aims to bring you a powerful combination of tools. Houfy’s mission has always been to facilitate easy, commission-free direct bookings, and Guesty’s technology complements this by making multi-channel management effortless. This integration is a natural fit – helping Houfy hosts expand their reach and efficiency without sacrificing our core principle of direct booking simplicity.

What Are Guesty’s Key Features?

Guesty offers an impressive suite of features designed to make vacation rental management easier and more professional. Here are some of the key features that Houfy hosts can take advantage of through this integration:

1. Multi-Channel Listing Sync: Guesty’s built-in channel manager connects with all the major OTAs and keeps your listings in sync in real-time​. You can update your property details, pricing, and availability once in Guesty, and those changes will instantly reflect on every connected platform – including Houfy. This ensures consistency everywhere and drastically reduces manual updates.
2. Unified Inbox for Guest Messages: No more logging into five different apps to check messages. Guesty provides a unified inbox that pulls in all your guest communications from various channels into one place​. Whether a guest sent you a question on Houfy or Airbnb, you’ll see it in Guesty and can respond promptly. This centralization means quicker responses and less chance of missing a message.
3. Automated Guest Communication: Guesty allows you to set up automated messaging to guests for common events and milestones​. You can create message templates (even in multiple languages) for booking confirmations, check-in instructions, welcome messages, post-stay thank-yous, and more – and Guesty will send them on your behalf at the right time. It can even automatically send review requests or thank-you notes after check-out. These automation tools help you maintain great communication with minimal effort.
4. Task Management & Automation: Keeping track of turnovers and maintenance is a breeze with Guesty. The system lets you assign tasks (like cleaning or repairs) to your team and sends automatic notifications when a new booking comes in or a check-out is approaching​. You can schedule recurring tasks and have peace of mind that your cleaners or contractors are alerted on time – ensuring your property is always guest-ready without your constant oversight.
5. Multi-Calendar View: If you manage multiple properties, Guesty’s multi-calendar is a lifesaver. It pulls together all your bookings from different platforms into a single calendar view, making it easy to adjust rates and check availability in one place​. You can even include bookings from your own direct booking website if you have one. This gives you a clear overview of all reservations across channels, so you can eliminate the need to jump between different calendars.
6. Payment Processing & Financial Tools: Guesty streamlines payment collection and accounting for your bookings. It integrates with popular payment solutions and can automatically handle credit card charges for reservations (for example, processing a guest’s payment from Houfy or any OTA). Additionally, Guesty provides financial reporting – helping you track income per property, handle security deposits, and integrate with tools like QuickBooks for bookkeeping. All your Houfy payouts can be tracked alongside other channels, simplifying your financial management.
7. Analytics and Reporting: Making informed decisions is easier with Guesty’s reporting dashboards. The platform offers analytics on your occupancy rates, revenue, and booking sources. You can monitor how your Houfy listings are performing compared to other channels and identify trends (like seasonal demand changes) to optimize your strategy. Rather than juggling spreadsheets, you’ll have on-demand reports to guide your business growth.
8. Open API & Integrations Marketplace: Guesty is extensible – it offers an open API and a marketplace of third-party integrations. If you want to plug in a dynamic pricing tool (like PriceLabs or Wheelhouse), connect a smart lock system, or use a specialized service, chances are Guesty can integrate with it​​. This means you can tailor your management tech stack to your needs. For instance, you might use Guesty’s integration with a smart lock solution to automate door codes for Houfy bookings, or connect a cleaning scheduling app – the possibilities are wide.

Together, these features allow hosts to automate and scale their operations. The bottom line is that Guesty helps you do more with less effort – which perfectly complements Houfy’s goal of making direct booking easy and attractive.

How Does This New Integration Benefit Houfy Hosts?

Connecting Houfy with Guesty unlocks several advantages for hosts:

• Effortless Multi-Channel Exposure: With Guesty managing your channels, you can list your property on Houfy in addition to all the major OTAs without extra work. This integration means your Houfy listing’s calendar and info stays up-to-date alongside your Airbnb, Vrbo, etc. Essentially, you’re expanding your marketing reach to Houfy’s audience of direct-booking travelers, without any duplicate data entry. More exposure can lead to more bookings – and Guesty makes handling that exposure simple.
• Real-Time Sync = No More Double Bookings: Houfy bookings and inquiries will flow directly into Guesty and sync with your other calendars. If a night gets booked on Houfy, Guesty will instantly mark it unavailable on your other channels, and vice versa​. Everything is updated in real time through the API. This tight synchronization virtually eliminates the risk of double bookings or inconsistencies. You can accept direct bookings on Houfy with confidence that your availability is accurate everywhere.
• Centralized Control and Convenience: Thanks to the integration, Houfy joins the roster of channels you can fully manage from Guesty’s dashboard. That means one login, one system for all your booking management. You’ll see Houfy reservations, messages, and payouts alongside those from other sites. Your team will also see these in the unified calendar and task lists. The result? A dramatically simplified workflow – managing a Houfy booking will feel no different than managing an Airbnb booking in Guesty.
• Better Automation for Direct Bookings: By funneling Houfy into Guesty, you can apply all of Guesty’s automation to your Houfy reservations too. For example, the moment a guest books your property on Houfy, Guesty can send out your preset confirmation message or trigger a cleaning task, just as it would for any other channel. You won’t have to remember to manually message Houfy guests or update a separate calendar – it’s all handled. This means even direct bookings become as hands-off and seamless as bookings from OTAs.
• Optimized Revenue and Occupancy: Guesty’s tools like dynamic pricing integrations and analytics can now include your Houfy listing data. You can ensure you’re not underpricing (or overpricing) for Houfy by using the same smart rate rules across all platforms. Additionally, by opening your property to Houfy’s direct booking community, you might capture guests who prefer to book directly (and avoid traveler fees on other sites). This can boost your occupancy rate and overall revenue. It’s a win-win: more bookings with zero commission taken out, since Houfy doesn’t charge commissions.
• Stay True to Direct Booking, at Scale: Perhaps the most important benefit is that this partnership enables scaling up your direct booking strategy. If you love Houfy for its direct booking model, you can now integrate it into a professional PMS environment (Guesty) without sacrificing efficiency. Houfy remains commission-free, and now it’s as integrated into your workflow as any OTA. This alignment supports Houfy’s mission to simplify direct bookings – making it just as easy to manage a booking that comes through your own Houfy listing as one from an OTA. It lowers any barrier to accepting more direct bookings.

In short, Houfy hosts who use Guesty will save time, reduce headaches, and likely increase their booking opportunities across the board. You’ll maintain control and flexibility, all while keeping Houfy as a key part of your channel mix.

How Can Houfy Hosts Connect with Guesty?

To connect your Guesty account with Houfy:

1. Navigate to Houfy's Guesty/Rentals-United Integration Page
2. Choose to map existing listings or import new listings.
3. Click on "Signup with Rentals united." You will be redirected to log in to your dashboard.
4. Click on "Allow" to grant Houfy access to your Guesty account.
5. After that, your listings will be imported based on your chosen option

Level Up Your Hosting Experience with Guesty

Our new integration with Guesty is a big leap forward in making Houfy an even more host-friendly platform. Houfy has always stood for independence and simplicity in vacation rental management – allowing you to earn more by booking direct. By collaborating with an industry leader like Guesty, we’re doubling down on that promise.

As hosts, we wear many hats and our time is valuable. Automations and integrations like this one ensure that managing your properties doesn’t turn into another full-time job. Instead, you can rely on smart systems to handle the busywork while you focus on hospitality and growth.

We’re proud to offer this integration in a collaborative spirit – it’s about giving you, the host, more choices and flexibility. (And rest assured, we continue to work with a range of top partners to support all hosting styles, from big property managers to individual hosts.) The addition of Guesty to the Houfy ecosystem is another step toward a future where direct booking is easy and scalable for everyone.

Thank you for being a part of Houfy’s journey. We’re excited to see how you leverage the Houfy–Guesty connection to elevate your hosting game. As always, happy hosting and stay tuned for more updates!