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Hostaway

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.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Hostaway the way a machine reads it — 55 machine-readable artifacts across 16 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Hostaway scores 57.6/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 57.6/100 · developing
Contract Quality 15.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 9.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Hostaway

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Hostaway. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 16

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

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

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Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Hostaway Calendar API

OPEN COLLECTION

Hostaway Listings API

OPEN COLLECTION

Hostaway Reservations API

OPEN COLLECTION

Hostaway Webhooks API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Hostaway Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 16

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Channel manager for Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, Google Vacation Rentals, and Marriott Homes & Villas
Unified inbox across email, SMS, WhatsApp, and channel-native messaging
Listing and reservation management with custom fields
Calendar with per-day pricing, minimum stay, batch updates, and inline reservation context
Owner statements, finance fields, expenses & extras, offline charges
Price calculation engine with coupons and per-channel fee modeling
Automation rules and tasks (cleaning, maintenance, inspection)
Direct booking website
Guest payments and auto-payment rules
Marketplace with 100+ integrated vendors (Pricelabs, Wheelhouse, Beyond, Breezeway, Turno, Operto, RemoteLock, QuickBooks, Stripe, etc.)
Unified webhooks for reservation created, reservation updated, and new message received
Reference data for cancellation policies (Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Marriott), countries, currencies, languages, timezones
Public REST API at https://api.hostaway.com/v1 with OAuth 2.0 client_credentials
Documented rate limits — 15 req/10s per IP and 20 req/10s per account
Standard envelope response with status, result, and pagination (limit, offset, count, page, totalPages)
HTTPS-only, JSON request/response, UTC timestamps, ISO 3166-2 country codes, booleans as 0/1

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Hostaway Context

0 classes · 4 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Hostaway API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Hostaway Listing

23 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Hostaway Reservation

20 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Hostaway Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Hostaway Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Hostaway Scopes

1 scope · clientCredentials

1 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Hostaway Agentic Access

23 operations · 11 acting

23 operations · 11 acting

AGENTIC

Integrations 8

Pre-built integrations with other platforms tell you where this provider already fits in a stack.

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

Pricelabs, Wheelhouse, Beyond, DPGO — revenue management
Breezeway, Turno, Operto, Doinn — property operations and cleaning
Safely, Autohost, Truvi — guest screening and safety
RemoteLock, August, Yale, Nuki, Schlage — smart locks
Stripe, Braintree, ChargeAutomation, Authorize.net — payments
QuickBooks, Ximplifi, Clearing — accounting
Slack, WhatsApp, Zapier — communication
Lula Cleaning, Keepers, Tidy, Pacho — cleaning and maintenance

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Resources

Every other property we hold for Hostaway — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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