# Hostaway

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/hostaway/  
**Website:** https://www.hostaway.com  
**APIs profiled:** 16

Hostaway is an AI-powered vacation rental management platform that consolidates property management, channel management, direct booking, guest messaging, automation, and revenue optimization for short-term rental operators. The platform connects to Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, Google Vacation Rentals, and Marriott Homes & Villas, and exposes a documented OAuth 2.0 public REST API at https://api.hostaway.com/v1 covering listings, reservations, calendar, messaging, finance, tasks, custom fields, guest payments, and unified webhooks. Pricing is quote-based; a free product demo is available. The Hostaway Marketplace contains 100+ integrated vendors spanning revenue management, operations, smart locks, payments, and accounting.

## Kin Score — 51.6 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 51.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 63.1 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 50.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 73.7 |
| Access Clarity | 73.7 |

## Agent readiness — 29.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (16)

- **Hostaway Listings API** — Manage vacation rental listings — properties, amenities, bed types, images, and custom field values. Each Hostaway listing maps to one or more external channels (Airbnb, Vrbo, B...
- **Hostaway Reservations API** — Create, read, and update reservations across all connected channels. Includes coupons, reservation fees, reservation units, host proxy email handling, and channel-of-origin cont...
- **Hostaway Calendar API** — Read and update the per-listing availability and nightly pricing calendar. Supports per-day retrieval, batch updates across date ranges, and inline reservation context via the i...
- **Hostaway Messaging API** — Unified guest messaging across Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, email, SMS, and WhatsApp. Resources include conversations, conversation messages, and reusable message templates.
- **Hostaway Finance API** — Financial operations for vacation rental managers — finance fields, price calculations, expenses and extras, offline charges, and owner statements.
- **Hostaway Tasks API** — Create, assign, and complete operational tasks (cleaning, maintenance, inspection) tied to listings and reservations.
- **Hostaway Custom Fields API** — Define and manage custom fields on listings and reservations, plus retrieve and set custom field values on individual records.
- **Hostaway Guest Payments API** — Manage guest payments and auto-payment rules for reservations.
- **Hostaway Reference Data API** — Reference-data endpoints for cancellation policies (Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Marriott), countries, currencies, languages, and timezones.
- **Hostaway Webhooks API** — Manage unified webhooks for the three Hostaway event types — reservation created, reservation updated, and new message received. Failed deliveries retry up to three times before...
- **Hostaway Listing Amenities API** — Amenities offered by a listing
- **Hostaway Listing Bed Types API** — Bed types configured for a listing
- **Hostaway Listing Images API** — Photographs attached to a listing
- **Hostaway Reservation Coupons API** — Coupons applied to a reservation
- **Hostaway Reservation Fees API** — Fees applied to a reservation
- **Hostaway Reservation Units API** — Sub-units associated with a reservation

## Agentic access (1)

- **Hostaway Agentic Access** — 23 operations · 11 acting

## Security (2)

- **Hostaway Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Hostaway Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Hostaway Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Vacation Rentals, Short-Term Rentals, Property Management, Channel Manager, Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, Software-as-a-Service

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/hostaway/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.