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Hostaway

· #365 most-used

Automate your short-term rental operations end to end

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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.

Average time saved
14 hours
per person · per month
≈ 2 workdays back

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.

Schedule

What your Hostaway agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

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Multi-app workflows

Hostaway × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows
5Apps spanned
~19 hrsSaved / week
6Personas served
For operations
Featured3 apps

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.

~3 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow
Trigger·When a reservation is updated to checked-out status in Hostaway
Result
Create Task — cleaning task assigned to crew with checkout and check-in timesPost cleaning task confirmation to #operations channelUpdate property operations log with turnaround task details
The win
Saved per run
8 min
Runs / week
~20×
Every checkout triggers a cleaning task without coordinator intervention
Driven byHuman Resources Agent
ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

  • Sales
    60 min / week
    Manual 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 Agent
    0 min
    Agent responds to every inquiry within minutes automatically

    When 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.

  • Marketing
    30 min / week
    Manual 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 Agent
    0 min
    Agent sends review requests to 100% of eligible checkouts

    Every 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 Support
    45 min / week
    Manual 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 Agent
    0 min
    Agent handles the full guest communication sequence automatically

    Welcome messages, door codes, mid-stay check-ins, checkout reminders — all sent on schedule via Hostaway's messaging system without any staff involvement.

  • Human Resources
    25 min / week
    Manual 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 Agent
    0 min
    Agent creates cleaning tasks from reservation events automatically

    When 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.

  • Finance
    120 min / week
    Manual 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 Agent
    0 min
    Agent generates owner statements automatically on the first of the month

    The 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.

  • Operations
    90 min / week
    Manual 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 Agent
    0 min
    Agent monitors calendar, tasks, and reservations across the full portfolio

    The 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.

  • Legal
    40 min / week
    Manual 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 Agent
    0 min
    Agent tracks STR permit expiry and occupancy tax data automatically

    Every 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.

+ 100s of other Hostaway automations
Average time saved
41 hrs / person / month
Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size
5 people
Hourly rate
$75 / hr
Hours saved / week
18
Hours saved / year
875
Annual ROI
$65,625

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.

Connect

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.

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Find your API credentials

Log in to Hostaway and go to Settings → Integrations → API. Your Secret API Key and Account ID are listed there.

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Copy the API key and Account ID

Copy your Secret API Key and Account ID. Treat the key like a password — it grants full API access to your Hostaway account.

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Paste into Actionist and test

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.

Credentials you'll need
Secret API Key*
Hostaway → Settings → Integrations → API → Secret API Key
Account ID*
Your Hostaway account ID, found in Settings → Integrations → API
Actions

15 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

2 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

MCP servers

MCP servers that work with Hostaway

Connect Actionist to MCP servers built for or around this app.

hostaway

Hostaway PMS: reservations, listings, calendars, financials, and guest messaging.

prosperkartik/hostaway-mcp

MCP server for the Hostaway property management system — 10 read-only tools covering listings, reservations, calendars, and guest conversations.

hostaway

Read-only MCP server for Hostaway PMS — guest conversations, reservations, and listings.

FAQs

Questions about Hostaway + Actionist

How does Actionist connect to Hostaway?
Go to the Apps tab, find Hostaway, and click Connect. The recommended path is MCP — Actionist surfaces a Hostaway API key prompt and walks you through generating a Secret API Key under Hostaway Settings › Integrations › API. Paste the key, click Test, and the agent verifies access before any actions run. Alternatively, use the API key connection method directly if you already have your credentials to hand.
What Hostaway plan do I need to use the API with Actionist?
Actionist uses the Hostaway Public API (https://api.hostaway.com/v1), which is authenticated via an OAuth2 client_credentials token obtained from your Secret API Key. The key lives under Hostaway Settings › Integrations › API. The API covers reservations, listings, calendars, guest messaging, tasks, financial data, and webhook events. You need the API plan or higher; the base Hostaway subscription must include API access.
How quickly does Actionist react to new Hostaway reservations?
Yes. Hostaway webhook triggers in Actionist fire within about a minute of events occurring — typically a new reservation inquiry arriving or a reservation being created or updated. The agent listens on a webhook endpoint Actionist registers with Hostaway on your behalf. Polling-based triggers (such as scheduled calendar checks or financial report pulls) run on the cadence you configure in the agent's scheduled task settings.
What are the most common things agents do with Hostaway?
The most common automations property managers run with Actionist and Hostaway are: (1) guest welcome and checkout message sequences triggered by reservation events; (2) cleaning task creation in task management apps the moment a checkout is confirmed; (3) automated owner statement summaries sent to Google Sheets or Notion weekly; (4) dynamic pricing reviews that cross-reference occupancy data with market signals; (5) reservation inquiry follow-ups that respond to potential guests within minutes; and (6) review request sequences sent a day or two after checkout.
Can Actionist connect Hostaway to other apps in the same workflow?
Yes. Actionist can connect Hostaway to any of its 200+ integrated apps and MCP servers. Common combinations include: posting reservation summaries to Slack, creating cleaning or maintenance tasks in Asana or ClickUp, logging financial data to Google Sheets, sending guest messages via SMS or email through communication tools, syncing owner statements to accounting software, and generating nightly revenue reports in Notion. Any Actionist-connected app can send or receive data in the same agent task alongside Hostaway.
What specific actions and triggers does the Hostaway integration support?
Actionist's Hostaway integration supports webhook triggers — New Reservation Inquiry and New / Updated Reservation — which fire when Hostaway pushes events to the webhook Actionist registers. Write actions include Add Host Note to Reservation and Update Reservation Custom Fields. The search action Find a Reservation lets the agent locate a specific reservation by ID for further processing. Additional capabilities are available via the MCP servers (reservations, listings, calendars, financials, guest conversations) which expand the available operations considerably.
How do I find a specific reservation to update its notes or custom fields?
Use Find a Reservation with the reservation ID as input — this is the recommended pattern for any action that targets a specific reservation. For the agent to have the right ID, the trigger or upstream step in the workflow should surface it: the webhook triggers include the reservation ID in their payload, and custom field automations can store the ID at booking time for later retrieval. If you need to search by guest name or date range, use the Hostaway MCP server's reservation-listing tool which supports filtering.
Can Actionist automate parts of Hostaway that aren't available via the API?
Actionist's Computer Use capability can operate Hostaway's web dashboard directly — navigating the UI, reading calendar views, and performing actions that have no API endpoint yet (such as adjusting certain listing settings or pulling reports only available in the interface). This runs on the Actionist desktop app and uses visual screen automation. It is not available as a cloud-only background task; the desktop app needs to be running for Computer Use actions to execute.