How Hostaway prices
Hostaway prices by listing-count band (2–14, 15–49, 50+) but doesn't publish a dollar figure for any of them — every band routes through a quote request rather than a listed price.
At a glance
| Direct PMS | Hostaway | |
|---|---|---|
| Listing bands don't include a lease | A unit can carry a lease and a nightly calendar at once, refused from colliding at the database level. | Hostaway prices by listing count for channel management — there's no lease object for units that go long-term. |
| Pooled revenue is built in | Identical units share weekly income fairly; a unit down for maintenance doesn't drag down its neighbours' payout. | Hostaway tracks each listing's own performance — pooling identical units' income has to be done outside the platform. |
| A sales pipeline lives on the same registry | A unit that sells posts its commission to the same ledger as its rental history. | Hostaway has no sales pipeline — a resale is tracked, if at all, somewhere else. |
| Published pricing | Free to 2 properties, then from $50/month plus a per-property fee. Every figure is on the pricing page. | Hostaway prices by listing-count band (2–14, 15–49, 50+) but doesn't publish a dollar figure for any of them — every band routes through a quote request rather than a listed price. |
Where Direct PMS is different
A unit can carry a lease and a nightly calendar at once, refused from colliding at the database level.
Hostaway prices by listing count for channel management — there's no lease object for units that go long-term.
Identical units share weekly income fairly; a unit down for maintenance doesn't drag down its neighbours' payout.
Hostaway tracks each listing's own performance — pooling identical units' income has to be done outside the platform.
A unit that sells posts its commission to the same ledger as its rental history.
Hostaway has no sales pipeline — a resale is tracked, if at all, somewhere else.
The honest objection
"Our whole ops team is trained on Hostaway's channel manager."
Fair — and the channel-manager piece isn't what's missing. What Hostaway's listing-band pricing doesn't cover is a lease, a sales pipeline, or the pooled-revenue split identical units need to be paid fairly. That's the part that ends up in a second tool, or a spreadsheet, once the portfolio is more than pure nightly stays.
Switching from Hostaway
Your Hostaway listings and upcoming bookings come across in the same migration pass — we do the mapping, you review it before it goes live.
What you get that Hostaway doesn't cover
Direct PMS runs every business line on one registry — you only subscribe to the modules you use.
Your own booking sites (per community and portfolio-wide) at 0% commission, rate calendars with min-stay rules, holds that expire themselves, allocation at check-in.
Off-season home watching, turnovers auto-created at checkout, linen and consumable stock with reorder alerts.
Owners sell eventually — be the one who sells it, and keep the new owner as a client.
Furnishing packages that get a home listing-ready, quoted and invoiced in the same system.
Monthly winter lets on the same calendar as summer nightly stays.