Best Software for Airbnb Co-Hosting and STR Management Companies
Description
Short answer: For multi-owner STR management, Guesty is the clearest fit at scale, with real-time two-way sync across Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, and 50+ other channels, at an enterprise-leaning price. Lodgify fits a growing portfolio without an enterprise price floor and includes a no-code direct-booking website. Hostfully’s Growth plan starts at $15 per property per month plus a platform fee (roughly $120 to $150 a month for four listings per pricing guides) and suits running day-to-day operations from a phone, with AI-assisted guest messaging.
Running a short-term rental management business on behalf of other property owners is a different problem than owning a vacation rental yourself, our Best PM Software for Short-Term Rentals guide covers that angle. A co-hosting or professional STR management operation needs multi-owner reporting, deep multi-channel sync at real scale, and per-unit economics that hold up across a portfolio, not personal-use features.
Guesty is the clearest fit at real scale: real-time two-way sync across Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, and 50+ other channels from one centralized calendar, built for professional managers running larger portfolios. It’s genuinely enterprise-leaning on price, and reviewers consistently call it expensive relative to competitors, worth it once you’re managing enough units that double-booking risk and channel-sync overhead are the real cost drivers.
Lodgify scales from a single property through a small-to-mid portfolio without an enterprise-only price floor, and includes a genuine no-code direct-booking website on Starter tiers and above, a real channel for reducing dependence on OTA commissions across every property you manage.
Hostfully includes a customizable direct-booking site on every plan (not gated to a higher tier) plus AI-assisted guest messaging, built for someone running day-to-day operations from a phone across multiple properties. Its four-listing total is roughly $120 to $150 a month per pricing guides, higher than Lodgify’s entry plans for a small portfolio, though Lodgify’s price also rises with listing count.
THE ACTUAL DECISION
If you’re managing a real multi-owner portfolio at scale and channel-sync automation is the actual bottleneck, Guesty is built for exactly that, and the price reflects it. If you’re scaling from a handful of properties and want your own bookable website without an enterprise price floor, Lodgify fits better. If you want to run things mostly from your phone with AI-handled guest messaging and don’t mind paying more per listing at small scale, Hostfully’s the pick.