Comparing Guesty and Uplisting: What you need to know
Managing short-term rentals has become far more demanding in recent years. Guest expectations are higher than ever, people are visiting you from all over the world, and booking sites keep multiplying.
Nobody can do without a solid Property Management System (PMS) at the center of their operations.
Many start their software search with Guesty and Uplisting. Both providers offer essential tools for handling key processes such as check-in, guest communications, and multi-calendar management. But the big question is whether either one gives you the flexibility to scale and grow your business.
In this guide, we compare Guesty and Uplisting across their features, pricing, and customer support so you can decide once and for all.
Key differences between Guesty and Uplisting
The key difference between Guesty and Uplisting is their depth of features. While Guesty provides a range of AI and automation tools, Uplisting is relatively lightweight. For example, it doesn’t include any dedicated accounting features like many alternatives do.
Guesty also has a broader ecosystem than Uplisting does. It integrates with over 100 popular short-term rental apps, such as payment processing, dynamic pricing, and security deposit tools, whereas Uplisting only has around 50 to date.
Guesty: Who’s it for?
As a comprehensive platform, Guesty is best for medium to large businesses. It’s particularly well-suited to professional short-term rental managers overseeing multiple rentals and housekeeping teams across different locations.
Guesty is able to handle such complex operations due to its combination of advanced automation, analytics, and reporting tools. These ensure you can streamline operations and monitor them from afar to maintain a consistent quality of service.
Uplisting: Who’s it for?
Uplisting is best for small-scale operations that only require a minor degree of oversight. It provides all the essential tools, such as automated messaging and task scheduling, that you need to keep processes running smoothly.
Plus, its lower starter price and sliding scale pricing make it easier to budget for monthly subscription fees. You can calculate exactly what you need to pay based on your tier and number of properties.
Why Hostfully is the best alternative to Guesty and Uplisting
It’s true that Guesty and Uplisting are both great options. But only Hostfully provides the full range of AI, automation, and analytics features that you need to effectively scale your vacation rental business.
Hostfully offers all the fundamentals you need to develop reliable workflows at every pricing tier. That’s because we understand that even small businesses need access to our guest messaging, team management, and marketing tools from the start.
Plus, our platform includes many features that competitors simply don’t. We’re the only platform to provide a CRM-style booking pipeline that lets you track reservations in real-time across properties and channels. And we’re also the only platform to include a website builder, digital guidebook, and smart device management in one place.
Whatever we don’t have, hosts are sure to find in our app marketplace. We have over 120 integrations, and we’re constantly adding to that number.
Best of all, Hostfully is always there to support our customers. Everyone can reach us through our 24/7 live chat, so nobody’s left struggling with issues simply because they’re on a different schedule or in another time zone.
Hostfully vs Guesty vs Uplisting: A feature comparison
| Feature | Hostfully | Guesty | Uplisting |
| Centralized automation | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Multi/stacked calendars | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Booking pipeline | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Proprietary guidebook | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Channel manager | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Unified inbox | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| AI assistant | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Direct booking website | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Accounting functionality | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ |
| Owner portal | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Email templates | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Task management | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Mobile app | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Minimum contract period | One month | One month (for the Lite plan only) | One month |
| Booking fee | Zero booking fees | Zero booking fees | Zero booking fees |
| Property minimum | One | One | One |
| Scalable pricing | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Custom plans | ✔️ from 21 listings | ✔️ from 4 listings | ✔️ from 10 listings |
| Customer success manager | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Direct integrations with popular OTAs (Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, etc) | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| API | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| 24/7 global live chat support (including weekends) | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ |
Real customer testimonials: Why businesses choose Hostfully over Guesty and Uplisting
| “Great all-around property management platform.
As an avid user of Guesty for Hosts previously, I needed a more well-rounded platform that could handle more as my company and portfolio grew. I looked around to many PMS systems, but none compared to Hostfully with their reporting level and owners’ reports.” |
| “Switched from Guesty to Hostfully and we’re much happier!
I like the Pipeline for an instant glance at the status of the bookings, and I like the app for on the go tasks. The customer support is very good!” |
| “We were looking for a PMS that would be easy to implement, integrate with all of our booking platforms (AirBnB, VRBO, Booking.com) and be cost-effective. We looked at three different PMSs before choosing Hostfully and we haven’t regretted it for a minute!
My wife especially loves how she can automate messages and have them triggered based on settings that she can customize and change whenever she wants. I love the customer support and the response to questions/issues. Most of all, I love the fact that it allows us to manage multiple properties and all of our tasks, integrated with Pricelabs, seamlessly for what amounts to one night’s booking per month! Highly recommend for anyone with one or more properties.” |
Switching to Hostfully is easy and seamless
Changing PMS platforms is no small undertaking. When you rely on the software, even the smallest disruption can have a big impact on operations and the guest experience.
The Hostfully team understands this and that’s why we take the onboarding process seriously. Our team always lets new customers set the pace, whether you want to move quickly or take time to get comfortable. We also provide you with a dedicated customer success manager — we’d never expect you to coordinate with dozens of team members.
Hostfully is also prepared for every scenario. If you’re switching from Guesty to Hostfully, we help you rebuild complex workflows and transfer all your data. And if you’re coming from Hostfully to Uplisting, we guide you through all the additional features.
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