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The tools keep multiplying. The rules keep changing. You shouldn't have to keep up.
Once it was just Airbnb and a calendar. Now there's dynamic pricing, half a dozen platforms and a new rule every other month. We take the whole tech side off your plate, set up properly and kept current, so you can get back to hosting. Your account, your reviews and your income stay completely yours.
Sound familiar?
You're not imagining it, hosting got harder
It used to feel like passive income. Now it can feel like a part-time job you didn't apply for. Small changes in pricing, occupancy or platform rules swing your income far more than they used to.
i.
A new tool every month
Channel managers, pricing engines, messaging apps, guidebooks, each promising to help, each another login to learn.
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Your price hasn't moved in months
You know it should flex with demand, but the pricing tools have dozens of settings, so it's easier to leave it, and quietly leave money behind.
iii.
You're stuck on one platform
Getting onto Booking.com, Bookabach and Vrbo means more exposure, but also more calendars, and the real fear of a double booking.
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The goalposts keep moving
Airbnb changes its ranking, policies and fees, and now leans heavily on AI to decide who even gets seen. Keeping up is its own job.
None of this means you're doing it wrong. It means the game changed, and nobody handed you the new rulebook.
Why we get it
We built HostConnect to fix our own problems
We're not a software company that decided to sell to hosts. We're hosts who got fed up stitching tools together, so we built the system we wished existed, and we run our own properties on it every single day.
Runs his place remotely, and doesn't give 20% to a property manager
David manages his Papamoa property from a distance, leaning on a trusted on-the-ground team. HostConnect handles the channels, pricing and messaging: the result a manager would charge 20% for, without a cent of commission.
Free to go deeper on guest experience
Michael runs his own portfolio of properties and looks after his local cleaning and maintenance team. With HostConnect picking up all the tech behind the scenes, he can focus on the guest experience and the five-star reviews that keep a place booked out.
We're not above you, we're right beside you supporting your success
Hand us the tech
You keep the hosting. We keep up with everything else.
Here's what lifts off your shoulders the moment we're set up, all of it configured for you, then looked after as the platforms keep changing.
Dynamic pricing, done properly
We set up and tune your pricing so rates move with real demand: seasons, weekends, events and quiet midweek gaps.
Like Uber surge pricing, working quietly in your favour.
Across every Kiwi platform
Live on Booking.com, Vrbo and Bookabach alongside Airbnb, opening up Expedia, Agoda, Trivago and more.
Far more travellers see your place, without you managing six accounts.
Calendars that can't clash
Every platform connected through proper links, so a booking on one instantly blocks those dates everywhere else.
All your calendars stay in sync, so you can never get a double booking.
The ever-changing rules, handled
When Airbnb shifts its policies, fees or ranking, we adjust your setup, so you're not the last to find out.
You stop chasing updates. We keep your listings current.
Guest messaging that runs itself
Automated confirmations, check-in and check-out messages, plus AI-drafted replies with your details built in.
The repetitive questions answer themselves, and your evenings are yours again.
Someone in your corner
We keep an eye on your pricing and systems and stay reachable when something comes up. Set up, not abandoned.
Real people who run their own properties, not a help desk.
The maths worth doing
"Only 20%" is the most expensive phrase in hosting
A manager's fee sounds modest as a slice of gross revenue. But you don't keep your gross; you keep what's left after rates, power, insurance and maintenance. Measured against that, 20% tells a very different story.
How it's sold to you
20%
of your gross revenue, which sounds like a fair, modest cut for the help.
What it actually takes
~70%+
of your real profit, once the true costs of running the property come out first.
An illustrative $100,000 property
HostConnect is $215 + GST a month. Flat. No cut of your revenue.
Roughly one night's stay a month, versus tens of thousands a year.
Figures are illustrative and rounded to show the principle; your real numbers depend on your property, mortgage, location and occupancy. We don't guarantee specific results.
It stays yours
Your property. Your asset. Your name on everything.
This is the part many hosts only realise matters when it's too late. With HostConnect, nothing runs through us; it all stays in your name.
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Your accounts
Your Airbnb and Booking.com profiles stay yours, set up in your name, controlled by you.
ii.
Your reviews
Years of reputation stay attached to you, not a manager's account you'd lose if you left.
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Your income
Every booking payment goes straight to your bank. We never touch a dollar of it.
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Your freedom
Leave any time with 28 days' notice and take the whole lot with you. No lock-in.
How it works
Three steps and the tech's off your plate
No jargon, no homework. We do the heavy lifting and walk you through the rest.
Free listing check
We look at your current setup and pricing and show you, plainly, where the easy wins are. No cost, no obligation.
We set everything up
Channels connected, pricing live, messaging and guidebook configured, all in your name. You don't touch the technical side.
You host, we keep watch
You get back to your guests while we monitor your pricing and keep your setup current as the platforms change.
Fair questions
The things hosts usually ask us
I'm not technical at all. Is this over my head?
Not even slightly. We handle all the setup and configuration; your side is downloading one app and keeping an eye on your calendar. If something comes up, you've got real people to ask.
What if I want to leave?
You can leave with 28 days' notice, and because everything is in your name, you take your accounts, reviews and history with you. Very different from a manager who runs your property through their own account.
Can you guarantee I'll earn more?
No one honestly can, and we won't pretend otherwise. What we can do is give your property the same professional pricing, channel reach and systems the best-performing places use. Michael lifted one of his own from $110k to $130k after adding a second channel.
Do I still talk to my own guests?
Yes, you stay the host. We're not a management company. We just make sure the routine messages are automated and the late-night repeats are handled, so it's far less work.
See what your listing could be doing
Send us your listing and we'll come back with a plain-English read on your pricing, your channels and the quick wins we'd start with. No cost, no obligation, no pressure.
$215 + GST per month · flat fee · cancel with 28 days' notice