Built and run by an independent host

End-to-end rental management, built for independent hosts.

Run bookings, guests, operations, and finances in one place. Your direct-booking site stays yours, with 0% HostMoat commission; Stripe processing fees still apply.

No signup, no email needed.
The working product

Your booking site, calendar, and dashboard belong together.

Not another disconnected tool. Change a reservation once and the rest of the operation follows.

Built and used daily by an independent host, not a property-management giant. New features ship weekly: see the changelog.
One connected rental operation

Your direct booking site stays connected to the rest of the rental.

Availability, pricing, messages, pre-arrival forms, and the guest portal use the same property and reservation data.

Direct sales

A booking site built around your property.

Show live availability and pricing, accept inquiries, Instant Book, or Request to Book, and keep HostMoat from taking a percentage of the booking. Pick a curated theme and font pairing, add your own content sections, and get pages built with crawlable metadata and structured data for search engines.

Curated themes and custom sections
Flexible booking modes
0% HostMoat booking commission
Availability

One calendar starts everything else.

Connect Airbnb or Vrbo, or add one reservation manually. HostMoat uses that availability across the dashboard and the booking-site draft.

Airbnb and Vrbo iCal
Manual reservations
Outgoing availability feed
Guest experience

Messages, forms, and one guest portal.

Review sensible message templates, preview the pre-arrival form, and see the portal guests use for stay details and communication. Works like an app on your phone, with push notifications. HostMoat sends booking and inquiry alerts the moment it records them; events found through iCal polling follow the sync cadence.

Core message templates
Pre-arrival forms
Per-booking guest portal
Push notifications
Operations

Stay on top of the work behind each stay.

Coordinate cleaners, maintenance, contracts, expenses, reports, and advanced pricing without losing the guest or reservation context.

Cleaning and maintenance
Finance and owner reporting
Advanced pricing and Autopilot
See all included features

Browse everything HostMoat can do. Select a linked feature for a detailed guide.

Setup and daily operations

The core tools that get a property operating

Automation and guest preparation

Connected workflows for guests, finances, and property care

Direct revenue and advanced operations

Revenue, sharing, teams, devices, and decision support

Run your own numbers with the free host fee calculator, or see how the booking site works.
“I manage my own rental, so I built the tool I wanted: one calendar, one guest list, and a booking site that belongs to me.”
Greg, founder of HostMoat. Hosting in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

A simpler alternative for independent hosts

Direct-booking tools without enterprise bloat or a percentage taken from your revenue.

Your brand stays in front
Guests book on your own site, with your property, policies, and guest experience at the center.
No HostMoat booking fee
HostMoat does not take a percentage of direct bookings or upsells. Stripe processing fees still apply to payments.
Built for independent hosts
Manage reservations, guests, direct bookings, finances, and property operations without enterprise pricing or complexity.

Comparison content last reviewed August 22, 2026. Third-party features and prices can change.

Straightforward pricing

One plan. One price.

Pro includes the complete product. Choose monthly or annual billing. Every new account starts with a 14-day free trial.

The complete product
Pro
$7.99/mo
Run your rental from setup through the guest stay
2 properties* plus direct booking website & checkout
Contracts, e-signing, invoices & guest portal
Staff, cleaner portal, smart devices & team access
Revenue Autopilot, Market Intelligence & built-in AI
* Need more than 2 properties? Contact support to discuss your setup.
The fine print, plainly

Frequently asked questions

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HostMoat connects to Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking.com calendar feeds through iCal URLs and checks available feeds for changes every 2 hours. Imported data updates HostMoat and its export feed, but source-platform refresh timing can create delays, so review each platform before relying on availability. Email Import can enrich supported confirmation data with pricing, fees, confirmation codes, and reservation links.
Absolutely. HostMoat is designed to work alongside your existing platform listings. It syncs your bookings from those platforms so you have a unified view, while you continue to receive bookings through Airbnb, VRBO, and direct.
They reserve cleaning time between stays. At 0, a new guest can arrive on the previous checkout date. At 1, same-day arrival and the next full day are unavailable, so a Jun 8 checkout makes Jun 10 the earliest next check-in. HostMoat applies this to manual and direct bookings, guest calendars, inquiries, and outgoing iCal availability. Imported platform reservations keep their original dates.
Your first 14 days include the complete product with no card required. After that, Pro is $7.99/month or $79.90/year, with no long-term commitment. You can cancel renewal anytime.
Paid features pause after the trial or paid period ends, but your data remains safe. You can restore access later without rebuilding your account.
Revenue Autopilot is an optional Pro feature for adaptive direct-booking nightly rates. You preview a complete proposal first, set a hard floor and ceiling, and explicitly approve before any rate is guest-visible. Manual pricing rules always win, pending suggestions stay private, and every published change has a receipt with restore controls. Airbnb and VRBO updates remain a guided checklist you apply yourself.
Yes. Pro includes one standing owner-report link per property. It shows a live, read-only monthly, year-to-date, or full-year P&L without guest identities, notes, or the street address. You control whether fixed property costs and depreciation appear, and you can disable or rotate the link at any time.
Yes, on multi-property Pro plans. Route each checking, savings, or card account to one property, send a mixed-use account to Review, or exclude it. Review transactions can be assigned to one property or split across several, while Expenses & Income can show a consolidated same-currency portfolio ledger. With one property, bank sync stays automatic and no routing setup appears.
Enter a property name and HostMoat creates the property and its dashboard immediately, then setup continues into importing your rental: bookings from your calendar link, plus listing details and photos you review before anything is saved. Guided setup is four short steps and ends with a closing screen that shows exactly what is running. Launch Status then tracks optional follow-ups like location, base rate, publishing the private booking-site draft, paused guest messages, Stripe, and the pre-arrival form and guest portal with Live, Draft, and Later labels.
Set date-range pricing rules in Rates & Rules to automatically override your base nightly rate for specific periods — holidays, peak season, school breaks, or any custom window. You can also set a minimum stay per rule. On top of that, configure a weekend premium percentage to automatically add a surcharge to every Friday and Saturday night. Both are applied together: a Friday night in peak season gets the seasonal rate plus the weekend uplift. Guests booking through your Direct Booking Site see a full per-night breakdown showing exactly how each night is priced. Manual bookings auto-suggest a total using the same rules.
Create invoices and send them to guests by email. Supported online payments use Stripe on the host's connected account. Automatic reminders can reduce manual follow-up, but you remain responsible for monitoring delivery, payment status, refunds, disputes, and offline payments. Enable "Track my cost" to record a related vendor expense and review the resulting margin.
Create reusable contract templates with merge fields that auto-fill guest details. Send contracts via email — guests view and e-sign through a secure portal. Toggle "Require payment method on file" on or off when sending — when enabled, the guest saves a supported payment method for incidentals via Stripe; when disabled, they sign without entering payment details.
Yes. Pro plans include team sharing. Open Settings → Property Access to invite a teammate as a viewer or manager. Managers can create, edit, and delete property data; viewers have read-only access. Cleaner portal links on the Staff page are separate and only expose assigned cleaning work. You can also configure per-staff email notifications — 11 types including new bookings, booking cancellations, turnovers, form submissions, inventory alerts, upsell requests, and portal messages.
Add your cleaners on the Staff page and share their no-login portal link. They see their assigned cleanings with checkout/checkin guest details, and can upload photo checklists from their phone. Cleanings are managed from the Cleanings tab on the Staff page. One is created automatically for every checkout (toggleable per property), with your default checklist attached and the departing/arriving guests shown on each job.
Watchtower drafts replies to guest inquiries and inbox messages so you can review, edit, and send instead of writing from scratch. Pro includes HostMoat's built-in AI and an optional public chat widget that answers pre-booking questions with stricter public-data rules. Structured inquiry dates receive live availability and pricing checks; otherwise the AI is told to defer rather than guess.
Set up email templates that fire automatically based on booking dates — for example, send pre-arrival details 2 days before check-in, a checkout reminder the morning of departure, or a review request 1 day after checkout. Each template has a trigger type and timing you configure. Booking confirmations can be sent instantly when a new booking is created. Everything is per-property and uses your message templates with merge fields (guest name, dates, check-in instructions, etc.). A log shows every email sent so you can verify delivery.
Pre-arrival forms are customizable questionnaires you send to guests before check-in. Collect dietary preferences, flight arrival times, guest lists, special requests, and anything else you need. Forms auto-save as guests fill them out, support conditional logic (show/hide sections based on answers), and auto-send on a schedule you set (e.g., 5 days before check-in). When a guest submits, your staff receives a formatted HTML report by email.
Every booking automatically gets a unique portal link, included in booking and pre-arrival emails. Guests get one place for the property address, check-in and checkout instructions, WiFi, guidebook, tasks, invoices, upsells, and messages. If smart access is enabled, the portal shows the released unit PIN plus shared entrance names or a mobile-key button after the same reveal, contract, and pre-arrival gates as the rest of check-in details. Thermostat settings, noise readings, and device alerts remain owner-only.
After checkout, HostMoat can automatically send a custom survey to your guest. The form includes staff ratings, satisfaction questions, and free-text feedback. Every guest who submits sees the same optional public-review links you configure, regardless of rating, while private form responses remain available to your team for follow-up and analytics.