Houfy is Now Connected to Channel Manager Hostaway

We are thrilled to announce a significant enhancement to your hosting toolkit—Houfy is now seamlessly integrated with the channel manager Hostaway, making your hosting journey smoother, more efficient, and rewarding.

As a vacation rental host, you juggle multiple tasks for running a successful business. With so much already on your to-do list, manually managing bookings to multiple channels becomes daunting. This integration promises to alleviate those challenges, giving you more time to focus on delivering an exceptional guest experience and growing your business.

Why Do Property Owners Need a Vacation Rental Channel Manager?

Managing a vacation rental property involves numerous responsibilities, from maintaining the property and ensuring it's guest-ready to marketing it across various platforms and managing bookings. Handling these tasks across multiple online travel agencies (OTAs) such as Airbnb,Booking.com, and VRBO can lead to several issues:

1. Double bookings: without a unified system, there's a high risk of double bookings, leading to customer dissatisfaction and financial loss.
2. Time-consuming processes: updating availability, pricing, and property details across different platforms is time-consuming and prone to human error.
3. Mis-communication: juggling communications with guests from various platforms can be overwhelming and lead to missed messages or delays in response time.
4. Inefficient workflow: without automation, running your vacation rentals becomes inefficient, ultimately affecting guest satisfaction.

A vacation rental channel manager like Hostaway centralizes these processes, allowing you to manage your business from a single dashboard. Enjoy peace of mind knowing your guests are supported at every step of their booking process while your business runs smoothly without your presence.

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What is Hostaway?

Hostaway is one of the best channel managers for vacation rentals, renowned for its robust solutions. The platform integrates with multiple OTAs, offering indispensable tools for managing reservations, automating operations, and optimizing pricing.

Since its launch in 2015, Hostaway has helped thousands of property managers expand their businesses, constantly in the pulse of the rapidly changing industry landscape. This new integration aims to bring you the best of both worlds: Houfy's commission-free booking site and Hostaway's powerful management capabilities.

What Are Hostaway's Key Features?

Hostaway comes packed with a variety of features that cater to the needs of vacation rental hosts:

1. Channel management: seamlessly integrate with major booking sites and niche OTAs, ensuring real-time synchronization of availability, pricing, and calendars.
2. Property management system: keep track of your bookings, manage inquiries, and engage with past and previous clients. Know exactly who's coming or going, and coordinate your team to enhance guest satisfaction.
3. Centralized calendar: no need to open multiple tabs and sign into different websites. With Hostaway, you can manage all your listings from one calendar to eliminate mistakes.
4. Unified inbox: are multiple guest inquiries driving you crazy? Hostaway's unified inbox consolidates messages from all connected OTAs into one centralized location. No headaches and better response times—win-win!
5. Automated guest communication: bid farewell to manually messaging clients after every booking. Create automated messages for major events such as booking confirmation, check-in, check-out, and post-stay follow-ups, and stay ahead of your game.
6. Revenue management: secure steady revenue throughout low and high seasons. Set up discounts, special offers, and longer or shorter stays with easy bulk edits.
7. Dynamic pricing (New Product July 2024): leave the guesswork out of the equation when setting your nightly rates. With Hostaway's dynamic pricing, you can adjust your rates based on supply and demand and ensure you're not leaving money on the table.
8. Task management: automate task assignments based on new bookings. Set reminders for housekeepers and maintenance to ensure your property is always guest-ready.
9. Reporting and analytics: track your vacation rental properties' performance with customizable reports. Make informed business decisions based on real-time data.
10. CRM and lead management: reengage with past guests, create tailored marketing campaigns, and encourage them to become repeat customers.

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How Does This New Integration Benefit Houfy Hosts?

The new Houfy integration with Hostaway offers many advantages that are bound to elevate your hosting experience. Here's how Houfy hosts can benefit from it:

• Enhanced visibility: with Hostaway's extensive network, your Houfy listings will gain unprecedented exposure. Your properties will be listed across various OTAs, increasing your chances for bookings and filled calendars.
• Simplified operations: managing bookings across multiple platforms can be a logistical nightmare, but Hostaway simplifies this process significantly. With real-time synchronization, you'll no longer risk double bookings.
• Optimized revenue: don't waste your income potential by setting lower prices. With Hostaway's dynamic pricing feature, you can set your rates based on demand, seasonality, and market trends to offer competitive prices and stay booked even in slower seasons.
• Scalability: whether you manage a single rental or a portfolio of properties, Hostaway scales as you do. The intuitive platform will support your growth, helping you increase your income and add more properties to your vacation rental business.

How Can Houfy Hosts Connect With Hostaway?

Connecting your Houfy account with channel manager Hostaway is a straightforward process:

1. Log in to your Houfy account
2. Navigate to API Connections and click on "Connect Hostaway"
3. Fill in your Hostaway Account ID and API key
4. Choose whether you want to import new listings or map existing listings on Houfy
5. Click "Continue" to complete the integration process.

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Level Up Your Property Management With Hostaway

Houfy's new collaboration with Hostaway will help hosts not just simplify property management for their direct booking website but also elevate their entire hosting experience. As property managers, seeking new solutions that make our lives easier is essential. The goal is not to work another 9-5 but to benefit from a business that runs itself. Such partnerships give us the tools and efficiencies to achieve that ideal balance. Stay tuned for more updates and happy hosting!