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Hostfully

Hostfully is a San Francisco-based short-term rental (STR) property management platform serving vacation rental managers, property managers, and hospitality operators worldwide. The Hostfully Property Management Platform (PMP) provides a channel manager that syncs listings across 60+ booking channels including Airbnb, Vrbo, and Booking.com (where Hostfully holds preferred/elite partner status), a central calendar, unified inbox with InboxAI for guest communication, direct booking site builder, automation and task management, multi-unit and group-booking management, payment processing via Stripe/PayPal/VRP, owner portal, mobile apps for iOS and Android, and digital guidebooks. The platform manages 62,000+ properties for 40,000+ customers, processing 96,000+ bookings monthly. Hostfully exposes a developer-grade public REST API (v3.3) and a GraphQL API for partners and property managers, supporting OAuth 2.0 authorization-code, basic auth, and X-HOSTFULLY-APIKEY authentication, cursor-based pagination, webhooks for agency/booking/property/messaging/custom-data events, and a 10,000 calls/hour per-client rate limit. The API is offered as an add-on across the Growth, Pro, and Enterprise Property Management Software plans.

human only

More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Hostfully the way a machine reads it — 24 machine-readable artifacts across 2 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 — Hostfully scores 22.4/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (human only). 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 — 22.4/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 8.9 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 8.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 7/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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 Hostfully

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Hostfully. 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 2

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.

Hostfully REST API

Hostfully Property Management Platform REST API v3.x covering properties (single and multi-unit), leads (inquiries, booking requests, bookings, group bookings, holds, cancellati...

Hostfully GraphQL API

Hostfully GraphQL endpoint for executing queries and mutations against the same underlying property-management domain as the REST API. Useful for clients that need to shape resp...

GraphQL 1

Where a provider ships GraphQL, the schema is the contract. We profile it alongside the REST surface so the whole interface is legible in one place.

GraphQL schemas published by this provider.

Hostfully GraphQL API

Hostfully GraphQL endpoint for executing queries and mutations against the same underlying property-management domain as the REST API. Useful for clients that need to shape resp...

GRAPHQL

Features 20

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.

REST API v3.3 covering Properties, Leads, Bookings, Group Bookings, Orders, Fees, Owner Adjustments, Messaging, Webhooks, Photos, Amenities, Jobs, Custom Data, Agencies, Employees, Owners, Guests, and Reviews
GraphQL API endpoint for shaped queries and mutations across the property-management domain
OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code Flow for partner-to-customer authorization
X-HOSTFULLY-APIKEY header authentication for direct account access
Basic Auth for partner OAuth token exchange
10,000 calls per hour per client rate limit with x-ratelimit-* response headers
Cursor-based pagination across list endpoints
Sandbox environment for partner integration testing prior to production approval
Webhooks for booking, property, messaging, custom-data, pincode, and partner-channel events with POST_JSON or POST_FORM callback formats
Multi-unit (hotel) property management with master/sub-unit hierarchy
Group bookings spanning multi-unit properties with main-lead and sub-lead structure
Channel manager integrations with Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, and 60+ OTAs (Hostfully holds Preferred/Elite Partner status)
100+ third-party software partner integrations (dynamic pricing, smart locks, cleaning, accounting, CRM, analytics)
InboxAI unified messaging across channels (email, Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com)
Direct booking site builder with DBS (Direct Booking System) settings exposed via API
Per-property monthly subscription pricing across Growth ($15), Pro ($25), and Enterprise (custom) plans
Open API offered as add-on across all PMP plans
Digital Guidebooks product available standalone
Screen & Protect guest screening and damage protection up to $50K
Hostfully Devices smart-home integrations

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Security Posture 1

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.

Hostfully Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Hostfully — 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 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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