Running your short-term rental on Hostfully? You can connect it to your Boostly website and start receiving commission-free direct bookings without changing the way you manage your day-to-day operations. This guide covers what the integration does, which types of operators benefit most, and how the connection works in practice.
Why Connect Hostfully to a Boostly Website?
Hostfully does a great deal for the operational side of running a short-term rental business. It automates guest communication, manages your channel distribution, handles owner reporting, and keeps everything coordinated from one place. What it is not primarily designed to do is drive direct bookings.
Boostly fills that gap. A Boostly website is built to convert website visitors into paying guests. It gives your property or portfolio a professional online presence on a domain you own, with a booking engine connected directly to your Hostfully account. Guests can search availability, see live pricing, and complete a booking with you directly, without passing through Airbnb or Booking.com.
Every booking that comes through your Boostly website is a booking you keep in full. No commission deducted, no platform fee, no reliance on an algorithm to deliver you guests.
What Is Hostfully and Who Is It Built For?
Hostfully is a property management platform used by short-term rental operators worldwide, from individual hosts with a handful of properties to professional managers running portfolios in the thousands. The company positions itself around the idea that operators should be able to scale confidently, with automation doing the heavy lifting behind the scenes.
The platform includes a channel manager for distributing listings to Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking.com, automated messaging tools, a centralised calendar, task and cleaning coordination, and digital guidebooks for guests. Hostfully also reports strong outcomes from their customer base, including significant reductions in time spent on guest communication and measurable improvements in occupancy rates for operators using the full suite of tools.
It suits growth-focused operators particularly well. If you are planning to expand your portfolio, need tools that work for a distributed team across multiple locations, or want a PMS that can grow with your business over years rather than months, Hostfully is worth serious consideration.
What the Boostly and Hostfully Integration Does
The connection between Boostly and Hostfully uses a direct API, which means the data flow between them is continuous and automatic. When you have the integration in place, the following happens without any manual input from you:
- Your availability calendar on your Boostly site updates in real time whenever a booking is made in Hostfully or on any connected OTA channel.
- The pricing you set in Hostfully, including seasonal rates, discounts, and length-of-stay rules, displays accurately on your Boostly website.
- Property information including descriptions, photographs, and amenities pulls through from your Hostfully listings so you manage everything in one system.
- When a guest books through your Boostly website, that booking is sent to Hostfully immediately and blocks the dates across all your connected channels.
- Guest communication workflows in Hostfully trigger as normal, including confirmation messages, pre-arrival instructions, and check-out follow-ups.
The practical outcome is a direct booking website that is always accurate and always in sync with the rest of your operation, with no extra management required on your part.
Who Benefits Most From This Setup
Operators managing multiple properties
Hostfully is designed for scale, and Boostly websites are built to handle multi-property portfolios. Each property gets its own dedicated page with live availability and pricing, and guests can browse your entire portfolio from a single professional website. For operators managing five or more properties, a unified direct booking website adds considerable credibility and gives guests a single place to explore everything you offer.
Hosts who want to reduce OTA dependency over time
If the majority of your bookings currently come through Airbnb or Booking.com, a direct booking website is the most effective long-term strategy for changing that. You do not have to abandon OTAs. Most Boostly clients continue listing on major platforms while building their direct booking channel in parallel. Over time, as more guests discover and return to your own website, your OTA commission costs fall.
Businesses investing in brand and online presence
A Boostly website on your own domain gives you the ability to build something that belongs to you entirely. You can add blog content, optimise pages for local search terms, and develop an online presence that works for you long after it is first built. Hostfully manages your operations. Boostly builds your brand.
How the Integration Is Set Up
The technical setup is handled by the Boostly team as part of your website build. You do not need any development experience or technical knowledge to get started.
- Your Boostly project manager configures the API connection between Hostfully and your new website during the build process.
- Your Hostfully properties are mapped to the relevant pages on your Boostly site.
- The booking widget is integrated into your property pages so guests can check availability and pay without leaving your site.
- The connection is tested thoroughly before your website goes live to confirm that data is flowing correctly in both directions.
- Once live, the integration runs automatically with no ongoing maintenance required from you.
If you already have a Boostly website and want to move to Hostfully from another PMS, your project manager can update the integration without you losing your existing site content or domain.
Feature Overview: Hostfully and Boostly Working Together
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Feature |
What It Means in Practice |
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Live calendar sync |
Availability updates across your Boostly site and all OTAs the moment a booking is confirmed. |
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Automatic pricing sync |
Seasonal rates, discounts, and minimum stay rules from Hostfully display accurately on your website. |
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Two-way booking feed |
Direct bookings on your Boostly site go straight into Hostfully, blocking dates everywhere instantly. |
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Centralised listing management |
Update your property details in Hostfully once and they reflect on your website automatically. |
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Automated guest messaging |
Hostfully's communication workflows trigger for direct bookings just as they do for OTA bookings. |
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No commission on direct bookings |
Every booking through your Boostly website is kept in full, with no platform fee deducted. |
Hostfully's Performance Data and What It Means for You
Hostfully shares aggregate performance data from their customer base that gives a reasonable indication of what becomes possible when you have the right tools in place. Operators using Hostfully's full platform have reported, on average, 90 per cent reductions in time spent on repetitive guest communication tasks, occupancy rate increases in the region of 71 per cent, and portfolio growth of 9.6 times over two years.
These figures reflect what the PMS side of your operation can achieve. A Boostly direct booking website adds the demand side of the equation, giving you a channel that generates bookings independently of OTA algorithms and works to build your reputation and brand over time.
What Boostly Adds That Hostfully's Own Website Builder Does Not
Hostfully includes its own website builder as part of the platform. For operators who want a no-fuss solution with one vendor and one bill, it is a practical starting point. The limitation is that it is designed to display your listings rather than to convert visitors into committed bookings.
Boostly websites are built with a different priority. The page layouts, trust signals, booking flow, and overall design are all focused on moving a visitor from interest to completed reservation. You also own a WordPress site, which means you have full flexibility to add content, improve your search engine rankings, and build an online presence that does not depend on Hostfully continuing to offer a website product.
Ownership matters. If you ever change PMS providers, your Boostly website stays with you and the integration is updated to work with your new system. The time and effort you invest in building your online presence is never lost.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Boostly integrate directly with Hostfully?
Yes. Boostly has a direct API integration with Hostfully. This allows real-time syncing of availability, pricing, and property details between the two platforms.
Will my Hostfully workflows still trigger for direct bookings?
Yes. When a guest books through your Boostly website, the booking is recorded in Hostfully as normal. All automated messages, task assignments, and workflows tied to new bookings will activate just as they do for OTA bookings.
Can Boostly display all of my Hostfully properties?
Yes. Boostly websites are designed to showcase multi-property portfolios. Each property has its own page with live availability and pricing, and you can present your full portfolio in a professional, organised way.
Do I have to give up Airbnb if I build a Boostly website?
Not at all. The Boostly approach is to build a direct booking channel alongside your existing OTA presence, not to replace it. Most operators continue listing on Airbnb and other platforms while gradually increasing their direct booking percentage.
How long does the website build take?
Most Boostly websites are completed and live within 35 days of the project starting. The Hostfully integration is set up as part of the build.
Ready to Connect Hostfully to Your Boostly Website?
If you are using Hostfully and want to add a high-quality direct booking website to your operation, Boostly makes the transition straightforward. Your property management system stays exactly as it is. Your Boostly website sits on top of it, giving guests a professional booking experience and giving you a channel that earns without commission.
Book a free call with Boostly's team to find out what is possible for your business.
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