Hostaway Review - why 4.4 stars?

Shlomi LaviShlomi Lavi / updated: Oct 16, 2020

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What is Hostaway?

Main category: Hotel Management

Hostaway is a hotel management and rental vacation software that helps property managers make quick and synchronized reservations. The software helps build a property management venture, increases income, and discover a more convenient way to travel to any location. Additionally, it features multiple calendars that help rule out the possibility of double bookings, a unified dashboard for a bird eye view on all business activities, an auto task manager for the maintenance of the property, and a channel manager for better integrations that help to increase profit.

Some of the key features of Hostaway are Revenue optimization, Mobile access, Direct-booking website, and Auto-task manager. The company was founded in 2015 by Marcus Radar, Saber Kordestanchi, and Mikko Nurminem with headquarters in Helsinki, Finland, and a broad range of about 30 employees from all over the globe.

Hostaway rating -

The rating of Hostaway is 4.4 stars out of 5 and the total score is 90 out of 100. The rating and score are based on ITQlick expert review. We publish unbiased reviews, learn more in our score and rating methodology page

Typical Customers

The typical customers include the following business size: Small business, Medium business, Large business.

Hostaway 4 Pros

  • Hostaway provides an all-in-one feature that provides users all that is needed to run their business smoothly
  • Customer service is excellent and regular
  • It is easy to navigate and operate
  • Almost all users have attested that the software helps to increase profit due to its multiple channel integration.

Hostaway 2 Cons

  • Some users complained of slow responsiveness to solving crucial issues encountered
  • Requirements to set up the software could be improved for easy process

Competitors & Alternatives

Popular alternatives to Hostaway: Cloudbeds, ResNexus, eZee Absolute, ThinkReservations, Guesty, Xotelia, CiiRUS, Lodgify Software, Sirvoy Software, MyVR. The full list of competitors can be found here.. The full list of competitors can be found here.

Hostaway Pricing Information

The cost of license starting from $25 per month. On top of the total cost of licenses which is easy to calculate - what is the REAL total cost of implementation? You need to add the cost of training, customization, data migration, and other "hidden cost". ITQlick pricing score is 2.8 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Find here the REAL total cost breakdown for Hostaway

Questions to ask the vendor during a demo

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Is it the right software for you?

Hostaway software is suitable for large, medium, and small businesses that cut across individuals, property owners and managers, and start-up businesses from all business sectors that seek to rent out their vacation residence, be it a bedroom or a full building. Some customers of Hostaway are N. Whitmore, Korneel Defauw, Ward Vercouteen, and Patrick Fetherson.

Hostaway Categories

Billing & Invoicing
Property Management
Property Management - Apartment
Property Management - Rental Property
Contact Management

Hostaway specifications

ITQlick Score: 90/100
ITQlick Rating: (4.4/5)
Company: Hostaway
Address: Finland
Pricing: Starting from $25 per month
Typical customers: Small business, Medium business, Large business
Platforms: Cloud
Operating Systems: Mac OS, Windows, Linux

Hostaway Vs. Alternatives

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ITQlick Score
90/100
Pricing score Pricing score ranges between 1 to 10 while 1 is low TCO and 10 is high TCO (TCO - total cost of ownership: cost of licences, customizations, training, hardware when relevant) Vs. alternative solutions
2.8/10
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$25 per month
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2.4/10
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$75 per user/month
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90/100
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Shlomi holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Information System Engineering from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Shlomi brings 15 years of global IT and IS management experience as a consultant, and implementation expert for small, medium and large size (global) companies.