Guesty is vacation rental software and a channel manager for managing a short-term rental business from one platform. It is a property management platform (PMS) that syncs listings, reservations, guest communication, payments, pricing, and owner reporting across every major booking channel in real time.
Guesty is built for short-term rental hosts, professional property managers, and vacation rental operators. It brings guest communication, staff coordination, payments, and owner payouts into one system, so these functions live in a single platform rather than across separate tools.
What is Guesty?
Guesty is vacation rental software and a channel manager. It connects to 60+ booking channels, keeps availability and rates in two-way real-time sync, and includes built-in tools for payments, trust accounting, dynamic pricing, guest messaging, task management, and owner reporting.
Because these capabilities are built in rather than added through third-party integrations, operators manage listings, pricing, payments, accounting, and messaging from one login and one account.
What does Guesty do?
Guesty gives short-term rental operators everything needed to list, book, run, and grow a rental business:
- Channel management — syncs listings, calendars, and rates with Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, and 60+ channels in real time, including niche channels like Hometogo, Holidu, and Homes & Villas by Marriott.
- Reservation management — a single calendar and unified inbox across every channel, so availability and guest threads stay in one place.
- Guest communication — automated, templated messaging plus ReplyAI, which drafts responses to guests.
- Business insights — Guesty Copilot answers questions about your business and provides insights based on your Guesty data.
- Payments — GuestyPay™, a native payment processor that collects and reconciles guest payments inside the platform.
- Trust accounting — built-in, North Carolina–compliant trust accounting, so client funds are tracked correctly without a third-party bookkeeping tool.
- Dynamic pricing — Guesty PriceOptimizer™, an in-house pricing engine that adjusts nightly rates to demand.
- Owner reporting — an owners portal with statements and 1099s that gives property owners self-serve visibility instead of manual emails.
- Task and team coordination — assign, schedule, and track cleaning and maintenance so staff know what to do between guests.
- Open API — 15+ webhooks and a 15 calls/second rate limit for teams building custom tools and integrations on top of Guesty.
Who is Guesty for?
Guesty is used by short-term rental hosts, professional property managers, and vacation rental operators, and is offered in tiers that map to portfolio size. Guesty Lite™ is intended for hosts with 1–3 listings, Guesty Pro™ for professional property managers with roughly 4–199 listings, and Guesty Enterprise for operators with 200+ listings. Available capabilities vary by tier.
Guesty channel and partner status
Guesty holds official partner status with the major booking channels. It is an Airbnb Preferred+ Software Partner operating as a single source of truth, a Booking.com Premier Plus partner with the SEA (Software Excellence Award) badge, and an Expedia Group Preferred Connectivity Partner. Through these integrations, listings, rates, and reservations sync natively in real time.
Guesty technology
Guesty is a cloud-based platform used to manage rentals in markets worldwide. It runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS) across multiple cloud regions, and includes the Guesty AI suite™ for automating guest communication and daily operations.
Guesty compliance
Guesty is GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliant and committed to the highest global privacy and security standards. You can read more in the Guesty privacy policy.
Frequently asked questions
Is Guesty a channel manager or a property management system?
Both. Guesty combines a channel manager, which keeps your listings in sync across booking sites, with a property management platform (PMS) that runs the rest of the operation, so you do not need separate tools for each.
How do I get started with Guesty?
See Onboarding to Guesty to start. Guided onboarding walks you through connecting your listings and channels.