Hostaway
· #365 most-usedAutomate your short-term rental operations end to end
Hostaway is a leading property management system and channel manager built for professional short-term rental operators — centralising reservations, calendars, guest messaging, tasks, financial reporting, and channel distribution in one platform. Connect it to Actionist and your agents can respond to reservation inquiries within about a minute, automate the full guest communication lifecycle from welcome to review request, create cleaning and maintenance tasks from reservation events, generate owner statements from financial reports, monitor calendar availability across your portfolio, and keep STR compliance records current — all without manual intervention.
Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate the manual effort of responding to inquiries, sending guest communications, creating cleaning tasks, generating owner statements, and monitoring the property portfolio across multiple Hostaway views.
What your Hostaway agent runs on autopilot
A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.
Hostaway × every other app you use
End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.
Checkout confirmed — cleaning task created instantly
When a reservation is updated to checkout status in Hostaway within about a minute, the agent retrieves the property and next check-in details, creates a cleaning task assigned to the right crew member, notifies the #operations Slack channel, and logs the turnaround in Notion — the cleaning schedule self-assembles from reservation events.
Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot
Savings
What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.
What you do manually today
What your agent runs for you
- Sales60 min / weekManual inquiry monitoring and response
The team checks Hostaway periodically for new inquiries, drafts a response, and replies — often hours after the inquiry arrived, by which time the guest has already booked with a property that responded faster.
Sales Agent0 minAgent responds to every inquiry within minutes automaticallyWhen an inquiry fires in Hostaway within about a minute, the agent checks availability and sends a personalised response — converting more inquiries before guests book elsewhere.
- Marketing30 min / weekManual post-stay review outreach
The team selectively follows up with guests who seemed happy, missing many eligible reviewers and accumulating review volume far below what a consistent automated cadence would deliver.
Marketing Agent0 minAgent sends review requests to 100% of eligible checkoutsEvery week the agent identifies guests who checked out and haven't received a review request, and sends personalised messages automatically — maximising review volume at zero marginal effort.
- Customer Support45 min / weekManual guest communication at every stay milestone
Staff manually send welcome messages, door codes, checkout reminders, and mid-stay check-ins for each reservation — a time-consuming routine that scales poorly with portfolio size.
Customer Support Agent0 minAgent handles the full guest communication sequence automaticallyWelcome messages, door codes, mid-stay check-ins, checkout reminders — all sent on schedule via Hostaway's messaging system without any staff involvement.
- Human Resources25 min / weekManual cleaning task assignment after each checkout
The coordinator checks the Hostaway calendar, identifies checkouts, manually creates a task for each one, and notifies the relevant cleaning crew — a repetitive process that's easy to miss under a busy schedule.
Human Resources Agent0 minAgent creates cleaning tasks from reservation events automaticallyWhen a checkout is confirmed, the agent immediately creates a cleaning task in Hostaway assigned to the right crew member — the cleaning schedule self-assembles without a coordinator.
- Finance120 min / weekManual owner statement preparation
Finance exports data from Hostaway, manually calculates revenue, fees, and payouts for each property, and formats an owner statement — a process that typically consumes most of the first day of the month.
Finance Agent0 minAgent generates owner statements automatically on the first of the monthThe agent retrieves financial reports from Hostaway and writes formatted owner statements to each owner's Google Sheets template by mid-morning — no manual data export required.
- Operations90 min / weekManual portfolio monitoring across multiple Hostaway views
The operations manager manually checks the Hostaway calendar, task board, and reservation list daily — a fragmented monitoring process that misses issues when the portfolio grows beyond a handful of properties.
Operations Agent0 minAgent monitors calendar, tasks, and reservations across the full portfolioThe operations agent runs daily checks for turnaround conflicts, overdue tasks, low-occupancy windows, and maintenance-to-check-in clashes — surfacing issues before they become problems.
- Legal40 min / weekManual STR compliance tracking across a property portfolio
The compliance team manually tracks permit expiry dates in a spreadsheet and counts occupied nights for tax reporting at month-end — error-prone and time-consuming as the portfolio grows.
Legal Agent0 minAgent tracks STR permit expiry and occupancy tax data automaticallyEvery week the legal agent checks permit expiry dates across all listings, flags renewals due within 60 days, and logs occupancy data for tax reporting — STR compliance runs as a background process.
Calculate what your team saves
Based on Hostaway's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~3.5 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.
How to plug Hostaway into Actionist
Pick the connection method that suits your environment.
Connect using your Hostaway Secret API Key and Account ID — both available in Settings → Integrations → API. The API uses OAuth2 client_credentials tokens generated from these credentials.
Log in to Hostaway and go to Settings → Integrations → API. Your Secret API Key and Account ID are listed there.
Copy your Secret API Key and Account ID. Treat the key like a password — it grants full API access to your Hostaway account.
Paste the key and Account ID into Actionist and click Test connection. Actionist runs a read-only verification call to confirm the credentials are valid.
15 actions your agent can call
Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.
2 events your agent can react to
Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.
MCP servers that work with Hostaway
Connect Actionist to MCP servers built for or around this app.
Hostaway PMS: reservations, listings, calendars, financials, and guest messaging.
MCP server for the Hostaway property management system — 10 read-only tools covering listings, reservations, calendars, and guest conversations.
Read-only MCP server for Hostaway PMS — guest conversations, reservations, and listings.