Property management
software for Airbnb.
One system behind every listing you run, calendar, rates, guests, direct bookings and the people who help you. It connects to the Airbnb account you already have, and leaves the listing itself alone.
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
It manages the operation. Airbnb keeps the listing.
The fear with any tool that plugs into Airbnb is that it will quietly change something you spent two years earning. It does not. Here is exactly what sits on each side of the line.
- Availability, blocks and the dates you close
- Nightly rates, weekend rates and per-date prices
- Minimum and maximum stay
- Bookings from Airbnb and from everywhere else, in one place
- Guest messages, in the same thread as every other channel
- Your listing, title, description, photos, amenities
- Your reviews and your rating
- Superhost status and search ranking
- Airbnb’s payouts, fees and cancellation policies
- Anything you prefer to keep doing in the Airbnb app
Which way each thing goes, and how fast.
“Two-way sync” is usually where the detail stops. It is worth knowing which direction each piece actually travels, including the row most comparison tables leave off.
As they happen, on a webhook. A missed one is swept up within 15 minutes.
The moment you save, with a sweep every two minutes behind it.
On save, and again overnight when the last-minute ladder is refreshed.
In real time, inside the Airbnb thread the guest is already using.
Nothing we run pushes listing text or photos to Airbnb. You keep editing those on Airbnb.
The timings are the typical case. Behind them sits a sweep every two minutes, a reconcile against Airbnb every fifteen, and a full resync overnight, so a bad minute becomes a delay rather than a double booking.
Three steps, and none of them are a phone call.
No implementation fee, no mandatory onboarding call, no sales engineer. The Airbnb side is an authorisation screen and a list.
Sign in with Airbnb
A normal Airbnb authorisation screen. You approve the connection there and come back, we never ask for your Airbnb password and never hold it.
Match your listings
Your Airbnb listings appear in a list and you say which HostPort property each one is. That mapping is the whole configuration.
Add the rest
Every property after the first reuses the same connection, one authorisation for the account, one mapping per listing. Booking.com and Vrbo connect separately.
Booking.com and Vrbo connect separately and take a little longer, Booking.com needs you to accept a connectivity agreement in their extranet, which is their timetable rather than ours.
The screen you will actually live in.
Availability is the thing that has to be right, and it is the thing you change most. So the calendar is built for editing a stretch of nights, not clicking them one at a time.
Change a run of nights at once
Drag across the dates you mean and set them together, closed, open, or a different price. School holidays take one gesture rather than fourteen.
A buffer that blocks itself
Set how many nights you need between stays and those nights close on their own, on every channel, so nobody books the turnover out from under your cleaner.
Bookings that never came from a channel
The friend of a friend, the repeat guest who texts you. Add them with dates, a total and a note, and the nights close everywhere else the same way.
Two people, one calendar, no silent overwrite
If you and a co-host edit the same dates at the same time, the second save is caught and told rather than quietly winning. Nothing disappears without someone being told.
Being straight about a limit: the month grid shows one property at a time and you switch between them. There is a booking list that crosses every property, which is what most people use for the week ahead, but a single combined timeline is not something we have built.
One thing moves on its own. You set the rest.
Plenty of tools promise pricing that thinks for you, and then quietly reprice your peak weekend. Here there is exactly one automatic behaviour, it is opt-in, and it stops where you tell it to.
Set by you, and left alone
- A base rate, and a different one for weekends
- A discount for weekly stays, and another for monthly
- A price on one specific night, overriding all of it
- Minimum and maximum stay, per property or per night
- Cleaning, pet and extra-guest fees
The one that moves: an unsold night, getting closer
You choose the steps and the floor, and weekends can run a different ladder from weekdays. It is re-checked and re-pushed overnight, so the discount follows the date without you opening anything.
What there is not: seasonal rules that reprice a whole month on a schedule, and automatic gap-filling between two stays. Both get asked for. Neither exists yet, and we would rather you knew that before signing up than after.
What happens in the minute after someone books.
This is the whole product in one sequence, and it is the fairest way to judge whether it is worth ten dollars a listing.
Airbnb tells us, in seconds
The booking arrives on a webhook rather than a poll, so it is in your calendar before the guest has finished reading their confirmation.
The dates close everywhere else
Booking.com, Vrbo, your direct booking page and any iCal feed, all closed for those nights without you touching anything. This is the whole reason the software exists.
You find out how you want to
A push notification, an email, a text, or nothing at all. Quiet hours mean the 2am booking waits until a civil time to make a noise.
The guest hears from you
If you have set it up, the confirmation goes out on its own with their name, their dates and your check-in time, and so does everything after it, right through to the review request.
The conversation has somewhere to live
A thread exists from the moment the booking does, not from the first message. When they ask about parking three weeks later, it lands in the same place with the booking beside it.
Every listing gets its own booking page.
On every plan, including the free one. It takes real card payments, it sits on the same calendar as everything else, and the repeat guest who already knows you has somewhere to go that costs neither of you a commission.
The money is yours from the start
Card payments run through your own Stripe account and settle to your bank. We never hold the funds and we take no cut of the booking.
Held, not charged
If you review requests before accepting, the card is authorised and held at the point of booking and only charged when you say yes. Decline and nothing was taken.
Codes and gift cards
A percentage, an amount, or free nights, limited by date, by number of uses, to one listing or all. Gift cards can be credit that runs down over several stays.
A second chance at the ones who left
When someone abandons checkout, one email goes back out on your timing. If they return and book, that conversation folds into the real booking thread.
A co-host who can answer guests, and never sees a dollar.
Access is granted per person and per property, across five areas, each set to no access, view only, or full. Unlimited people on every plan, we bill per listing, never per head.
Pricing is the one that matters most: switch it off for someone and every dollar figure in the product disappears for them, nightly rates, booking totals, the reservation panel. It is checked in the database rather than by hiding a button, so it holds.
What you can grant
- Calendar, see the dates, or change them
- Pricing, the switch that governs every dollar figure
- Guest messages, read them, or answer them
- Listing details, descriptions, photos, house rules
- Channel connections, the plumbing, usually yours alone
No cleaning roster or task list. A cleaner gets the calendar, the messages and any note you leave on a booking, not a job sheet.
Three things worth a closer look.
The guest inbox
Airbnb threads alongside every other channel, with the reservation beside the conversation.
See the inboxMessages that send themselves
Six triggers off the booking dates, eleven merge fields, five ready-made messages.
See messagingWhat 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 connected directly, not by iCal
- Two-way sync, usually inside a minute
- Airbnb guest messages 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
Does it work alongside the Airbnb app?
Yes, and most hosts keep using both. HostPort connects to your existing account rather than replacing it, your listings, reviews and Superhost status stay exactly where they are. Nothing we run pushes listing content or photos to Airbnb, so anything you edit there stays yours to edit there.
Will this affect my ranking or my Superhost status?
Not by connecting. Those are calculated by Airbnb from your reviews, your response rate and your cancellations, none of which we touch. The one place it can help is response time, because messages from every channel land in one queue instead of an app you had closed.
Do I have to give you my Airbnb password?
No. Connecting is a standard authorisation screen on Airbnb’s own site, you approve it there and come back. We never see or store a password, and you can revoke it from Airbnb whenever you like.
I have several Airbnb listings. Do I connect each one?
You authorise the Airbnb account once, then say which HostPort property each Airbnb listing belongs to. Adding a property later reuses the same connection rather than sending you back through it.
What happens to bookings I already have?
Existing reservations come across when you connect, so the calendar is not empty and you are not re-entering anything. From that point, new bookings, changes and cancellations arrive as they happen.
Can I see all my properties on one calendar?
Not as one grid, the calendar shows a month at a time for one property, and you switch between them. There is an all-properties booking list that crosses everything, which is what most people use for the week ahead. If a single combined timeline is the thing you need, we are not there yet and would rather tell you now.
Do prices change on their own?
Only the last-minute ladder, which steps the price down as an unsold date approaches and stops at a floor you set. Everything else, base rates, weekend rates, seasonal changes, is yours to set, and stays exactly where you put it. There is no seasonal rule engine and nothing that reprices you overnight without being told to.
What does it cost?
The free plan is unlimited listings on iCal with no card and no time limit. Connecting Airbnb directly is $10 AUD per listing per month, billed per listing rather than as an account plan. There is no commission on any booking.
Can I add my co-host or my cleaner?
Yes, on any plan, with no per-seat charge. Access is set per person and per property across five areas, and pricing is the switch that governs whether they see any dollar figures at all. Worth knowing what it is not: there is no cleaning roster or task list, so a cleaner gets the calendar, the messages and your notes rather than a job sheet.
What if I only sell on Airbnb?
Then be honest with yourself about whether you need this yet, if Airbnb is your only channel, its own app covers a lot. Where it starts paying off is a second channel, or a direct booking page you take with no commission, or wanting messages to go out on their own while you are at work.