Turn your Hostaway listings into a direct booking business.
hostAI finds your guests, wins the booking on your own site, and brings them back for the next stay. It runs on the Hostaway account you already have.
- Live in as little as 24 hours
- No commission on direct bookings
- Month to month
$1,000 off your first four months
$250 off each of your first four months of hostAI when you sign up before January 1, 2027. For Hostaway customers new to hostAI.
How to redeem: connect Hostaway, then quote the code when we set up your site. We apply the $250 to each of your first four invoices. Signup has no code field, so the code only counts once you have told us.
Find guests. Win the booking. Bring them back.
Show up wherever guests search.
Hundreds of pages built from your listings, two blog posts a week written for you, and listings AI assistants can read and link to.
Give them every reason to book direct.
The site shows the saving on every stay, lets hesitant guests make an offer, and reminds the ones who leave.
The second stay books with you.
After checkout, hostMail writes the emails that bring past guests back, and you see every booking they make.
Keep Hostaway. Add growth.
How hostAI sits on top of the Hostaway account you already run: the site, the content, the emails and the ads, all synced to your listings.
1:06 · plays here, no sign-up
Operators who made direct bookings a real channel
Hotel Home Stays~30 properties, West Palm BeachRead the story
Smoky Mountain Vacation Cabins32 properties, TennesseeRead the story
Amy Fine House~40 properties, DallasRead the story
Hostaway gives you the tools. hostFront does the work.
Hostaway's Booking Website is a solid way to take direct bookings, and its paid Pro add-on gives you tools to draft posts and send campaigns. hostFront is done for you: the pages, the posts and the guest offers are built and run for you.
| What you get | Hostaway Booking Website | hostFront |
|---|---|---|
| Booking site on your own domain | Yes | Yes |
| Synced to Hostaway in real time | Yes | Yes |
| A page for every property, built from your listings | Yes | Yes |
| Programmatic SEO landing pages by city, theme and amenity | No | Yes |
| Blog posts | AI drafting tool on Pro; you write and publish | Two a week, written and published for you |
| Listings built for AI search (ChatGPT, Perplexity) | No | Yes |
| OTA price shown next to your direct price | Through marketplace partners | Built in |
| Guest negotiation AI that answers price offers | No | Yes |
| Automated retargeting with price alerts | No | Yes |
| Abandoned-booking recovery | No | Yes |
| Guest emails that bring past guests back | Email campaigns you run, on Pro | Written and sent for you (hostMail add-on) |
| Google Ads | Through marketplace partners | Managed for you (hostDistro add-on) |
| Detailed direct-booking reporting | No | Yes |
Hostaway's Booking Website comes in Standard and Pro; Pro is a paid Hostaway add-on. Hostaway features as documented in Hostaway's help center, October 2026.
It runs on the Hostaway account you already have.
Nothing moves out of Hostaway. hostFront reads your inventory, sells it on your own domain, and writes every booking back.
1 · In Hostaway
Your listings, rates and calendar
Photos, descriptions, amenities, pricing and availability stay where you manage them today.
2 · hostFront syncs
A site built from that inventory
Property pages, search, SEO landing pages and a blog, kept in step with Hostaway.
3 · The guest books
On your domain, not an OTA
They see the direct saving, can make an offer on open dates, and check out with your brand.
4 · Back in Hostaway
The reservation, like any channel
The booking is written to Hostaway, so your calendar and other channels update as usual.
Change it in Hostaway. The site follows.
You never maintain two copies of a listing. When you edit a description, add photos or move a rate, the site picks it up.
Listings and photos
Titles, descriptions, amenities and the full photo set.
Rates
Nightly prices and fees as Hostaway calculates them.
Availability
Open dates in real time, so guests only see what they can book.
Reservations, written back
Every direct booking appears in Hostaway as a reservation.
A few minutes of your time. A site preview in as little as 24 hours.
Connect from the Hostaway Marketplace
Find hostAI, click Connect, create the public API key, then copy your Account ID and API key.
Paste them into hostAI
Sign up at app.gethostai.com, choose Hostaway as your PMS and paste the two values.
Review your site, then go live
Your preview is built from your own listings. We connect your domain with you when you are ready.
From $299 a month, month to month.
One monthly subscription with no upfront fee, no commission on direct bookings and no lock-in. hostMail and hostDistro run on top when you want them.
Hostaway offer: $1,000 off your first four months. Quote code Hostaway1000 when we set up your site.
See pricing- Upfront feeNone
- Your own domainIncluded
- SEO pages and two posts a weekIncluded
- Commission on direct bookingsNone
- ContractMonth to month
Questions Hostaway operators ask
Do I have to leave Hostaway?
No. Hostaway keeps running your listings, calendar, channels and payments. hostFront is the direct channel on top.
Who collects the guest's payment?
Your own Stripe account, connected through Hostaway the way it is today. If you prefer, hostAI can manage the Stripe connection instead. Either way, hostAI never holds guest funds.
Can a direct booking double-book a date?
Direct bookings are written into Hostaway as reservations, so your calendar and other channels update the way they do for any booking.
Can I keep my own domain?
Yes. The site goes live on your domain, and we set it up with you.
How long does it take?
Connecting takes a few minutes. Your preview can be ready in as little as 24 hours.
Is there a contract?
No. Plans are month to month.
How do I use the Hostaway1000 code?
Quote it when we set up your site. We take $250 off each of your first four monthly invoices. It applies to sign-ups before January 1, 2027, for Hostaway customers new to hostAI.
See your Hostaway listings as a direct booking site
Connect Hostaway and your preview is built from your own listings. No cost, no commitment, and $1,000 off your first four months: quote code Hostaway1000 when we set up your site.