Hospitable
Vacation Rentals · Apartments · Villas · Cabins
Short-term rental automation platform best known for guest messaging, with channel management and direct booking sites alongside it. Has a free tier; paid plans add properties at $10 to $15 a month each, with a 14-day trial and no setup fee.
- Free trial
- 14 days
- Setup fee
- No setup fee
- Multi-property
- No
- Features
- 7/14
Features
- Channel Manager
- Booking Engine
- Payments
- Reporting
- Mobile App
- Multi-Property
- Guest Messaging
Support: Email, Chat
Hospitable: automation first
Hospitable started as guest-messaging automation for Airbnb hosts and grew into a fuller short-term rental platform. Messaging is still the centre of it: templated, triggered sequences across the whole guest journey, with team and task assignment behind them.
Pricing
There is a free Essentials tier covering unlimited properties, which is unusual in this market. Above it sit Host, Professional and Mogul plans whose base prices are shown only once you pick a plan on their site, so the tier columns here are left blank rather than filled from a third-party figure.
What the site does state is how the plans add properties: the Host plan includes one property and charges $10 a month for each additional one; Professional includes two and charges $15; Mogul includes three and also charges $15, with sales contact for larger portfolios. Annual billing saves 12%. The trial is 14 days with no card required.
Note that the per-property add-on goes up, not down, as you move to a more capable plan — the opposite of most sliding scales here. Model the plan you actually need before comparing the headline.
What it does
Beyond messaging: channel management for Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com, direct booking websites with payment processing, a unified inbox, and team tools for cleaners and co-hosts.
Who it suits
Hosts whose main problem is the volume of guest communication rather than the accounting. The free tier makes it cheap to try against whatever you run now.
How Hospitable compares to the other 33
Every system here is recorded on the same axes, so these are positions in the field rather than opinions. We publish no user ratings, because we have no reviewers.
- On features it lists 7 of 14, below the field median of 10 — 32nd of 34.
- What it lacks that most peers ship: Rate Management, Invoicing and Multi-Currency.
- A 14-day free trial, which puts it among the 13 of 34 systems here that publish one.
Hospitable: common questions
- Does Hospitable offer a free trial?
- Yes, 14 days. Only 13 of the 34 systems tracked here publish a free trial at all.
- What does Hospitable not do that most PMSs do?
- Rate Management, Invoicing and Multi-Currency — each of those is offered by most of the 34 systems tracked here and is not listed for Hospitable.
- What are the best Hospitable alternatives?
- The closest are Beds24, Guesty, Lodgify and Smoobu — each serves the same property types. Compare any of them against Hospitable side by side below.
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