A PMS for Airbnb
hosts, not hotels.
Everything you need to run Airbnb properly, calendar, channels, messages, rates, direct bookings, without the enterprise overhead you would never use. And an honest account of when you should buy something else.
Laurie saved $4,000 last year when he switched to Host Port.
“I was paying hotel money for software I needed a training call to understand. Host Port does the same job for a fraction of it. One calendar, every channel, and nothing I have to think about on a changeover day. Moving all four took less than an hour to do.”
Laurie hosts four stays around Manly, NSW.See them on Airbnb
The Airbnb app is good at Airbnb. Then you add one thing.
Nobody buys this category on day one, and nobody should. It becomes worth paying for at a specific moment, and it is usually one of these four.
You listed the same place somewhere else
The day a second channel goes live, you become the integration. Every booking is a note-to-self to go and close the dates on the other platform, and the one time you forget costs you a cancellation and a rankings hit on both.
Someone booked you directly and you took it by text
A repeat guest, a friend of a friend. You want the money without a commission, but you also want a card taken, dates held and the nights closed everywhere else, and a bank transfer and a note in your phone is none of that.
Someone else started helping
A co-host, a cleaner, a partner. The moment two people need the same calendar, screenshots in a group chat stop being a system, and you need to give access without handing over your bank details.
You are answering the same message for the hundredth time
Check-in time, wifi password, where to park. It is five minutes each and it is every single stay, and it always seems to land while you are driving.
And if none of that is you
- Airbnb is genuinely your only channel and you like it that way
- One property, a calendar you can hold in your head
- You do not want direct bookings and never will
Then stay where you are. The Airbnb app is free, it is genuinely good, and adding a second system to manage one thing is how you end up with two things to manage. We will still be here later.
Which of these you need depends on what you own.
There are three kinds of software in this market and they are not competing for the same person. Two rows below are a flat no from us. They are the reason you can trust the others.
Run one Airbnb listing well
Keep a calendar true across several channels
Answer every channel’s guests in one place
Take a direct booking with a real card payment
Give a cleaner or co-host limited access
Send the same five guest messages automatically
See what you earned, by property, over time
Owner statements and trust accounting
The enterprise column is the category Guesty and its peers occupy. If the bottom two rows are what you came for, that is the tier to buy, and our comparison of Lodgify and Guesty is written to help you pick between them rather than to sell you this.
What ten dollars a listing actually buys.
Six things. Each of them is in the product today, on the web and on your phone, and none of them is an add-on with its own fee.
A calendar that is true
Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo connected directly, so a booking on any of them closes those nights on all of them. Free unlimited iCal for anything else you sell on.
One conversation per guest
Every channel threaded into one inbox, with the reservation beside it, and replies delivered back out through whichever platform they booked on.
The messages you keep retyping
Confirmation, check-in details, checkout, review request, written once with the guest’s name and dates filled in, sent off the booking rather than off your memory.
Bookings that cost no commission
A booking page per listing with real card payments into your own Stripe account, promo codes and gift cards. On every plan, including the free one.
People, without handing over everything
Unlimited co-hosts and cleaners, access set per property across five areas, and one switch that hides every dollar figure from someone.
Knowing before you are told
Push, email or text on bookings, changes, cancellations and arrivals, with quiet hours, so the 2am booking is still there in the morning but does not wake you.
Four things we do not have, and why that is the price.
Every one of these is a real reason to buy something else. Three are deliberate. One is simply not finished, and it would be dishonest to file it under philosophy.
Owner statements and trust accounting
The defining feature of the enterprise tier, and the reason it costs what it costs. If you are managing properties for other people and owe them a statement each month, you need it and we do not have it.
Revenue and occupancy reporting
Not a philosophical position, it simply is not built yet. It is the thing we get asked for most and the thing we are building next. Until it ships, this is a gap and we would rather you heard it here.
An enterprise tier
No quote, no annual contract, no implementation project, no minimum listing count. The price is on the website because there is only one price.
A cleaning roster
There is no task list or job sign-off. A cleaner gets the calendar, the guest messages and any note you leave on a booking. For a small operation that is usually enough; if it is not, pair us with something built for it.
Three things worth a closer look.
How Airbnb connects
What crosses between the two systems, which way, and what never moves.
See the connectionThe guest inbox
Every channel in one queue, with the reservation beside the conversation.
See the inboxEverything, in one place
The whole product at breadth, including where it stops being the right tool.
See the lotWhat you get free, and what costs $10.
We would rather you understood the line than found it after signing up. Here it is.
Unlimited listings. No credit card, no trial clock.
- One-way iCal sync with Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo
- Unified calendar across every listing
- Manual bookings, blocks and notes
- Mobile app with push alerts
- Commission-free direct booking page for every listing
- Team and cleaner access, unlimited seats
Per listing, per month, in AUD.
- Everything in Free
- Airbnb, Booking.com and Vrbo connected directly
- Two-way sync, usually inside a minute
- Guest messages from those channels in the inbox
- Automated guest messaging on every stay
- Priority support, one-hour first reply
Billed per listing, not per account, so five listings is $50 and one is $10. Stop paying and those listings fall back to free iCal sync rather than locking you out.
Common questions
How is this different from a channel manager?
A channel manager is the sync layer, it keeps availability and rates true across platforms and stops there. A PMS is that plus the day to day: one guest inbox, automated messaging, direct bookings with payments, and team access with permissions. HostPort is both, which is why you do not need to buy a channel manager separately.
Do you support owner statements and trust accounting?
No, and not by accident. Those exist for management companies running properties on behalf of third-party owners, with the money and the regulatory obligations that come with it. If you need trust accounting, a platform like Guesty is a better fit and we would rather tell you than sell you something that does not do the job.
Is there any reporting?
Not yet, and it is the honest gap in this page. There is no revenue dashboard, no occupancy or ADR reporting and no payout history. It is what we are asked for most and what we are building next. Airbnb’s own earnings view still covers your Airbnb income in the meantime.
How long does setup actually take?
The parts we control are quick, a wizard walks you through the listing, the photos, your iCal feeds and payments, and saves as you go. The parts we do not control are the wait: Booking.com needs you to accept a connectivity agreement in their extranet, and Stripe runs its own identity checks. So: an evening, mostly spent waiting on other people rather than on us.
What if I outgrow it?
Then you should leave, and we will say so. The point it stops fitting is usually somewhere past fifty listings, or the day you take on properties for other owners. Your data is yours and your channels are connected to your own accounts, so moving on is a migration rather than a hostage negotiation.
Is there a contract?
No. Monthly, cancel any time, no setup fee, no minimum term, no per-seat charge. The free plan never expires, so stopping payment drops those listings back to iCal sync rather than locking you out of your own calendar.
Why is it this cheap?
Because it does less. There is no trust accounting to maintain, no enterprise tier to support, no sales team to pay for, and no implementation project to staff. That is the whole trade, narrower product, tenth of the price, and the price published rather than quoted.