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A guest experience like no other
Make happier guests and more money with Hostfully Guidebooks
Happier guests. Unlimited cash flow opportunities.
A guest stay starts before check-in and ends after checkout. So why not give your guests the stay they deserve with Hostfully’s user-friendly Digital Guidebooks?
Add everything your guests need and more, from house guides and videos to maps and local recommendations. Empower guests to create their own instantly generated customized itineraries. Offer easy add-ons and earn income from referral partnerships. It’s a 5-star guest experience. All in one welcoming place.
Did you know your first guidebook is FREE? (You’re welcome!)
CREATE MY FREE GUIDEBOOK
Did you know your first guidebook is FREE? (You’re welcome!)
CREATE MY FREE GUIDEBOOK
You’ll enjoy these benefits:
- Sync your guidebooks and your property management platform
- Partner with local businesses to offer thoughtful tours and activities to your guests and earn referral revenue
- Unlock instant, easy upsells like early check-ins and late checkouts, mid-stay cleanings, rentals, and so much more
- Add instant language translations for a larger international reach
- Customize guidebooks with your branding and preferences
- Eliminate those repetitive questions (Wifi passwords! Check-in times! Access codes! Amenities!) with one private link
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Curious about the impact a Hostfully Digital Guidebook will make on your vacation rental? Take just a minute to try our Guidebook ROI calculator.
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Guidebook features
Guidebooks are created by you with your guests in mind, to ensure convenience, ease-of-use, and added value.
Easy content creation
AI itinerary planner
Referral revenue
Product & service upsells
All-access for all guests
Immersive multimedia support
Custom branding
Multiple languages & instant translations
Customize guidebooks to reflect your business with your branding (logo, colors, categories). Brand enhancement leads to more direct bookings in the future.
Custom branding
Customize guidebooks to reflect your business with your branding (logo, colors, categories). Brand enhancement leads to more direct bookings in the future.
Multimedia support
Add images, upload videos, and embed Google Maps to enhance the experience and make your guidebooks even more inviting.
Optimized for any device
No need for guests to download an app. Share your guidebook via PDF, QR code, or with a unique link that’s as easy to open as it is to send. (Even print out a hard copy to keep at your property.)
Easy content creation
Create a new guidebook in just minutes with our Guidebook Wizard and highlight the features and amenities that make your property unique.
Referral revenue
Easily earn passive income. Recommend local tours, activities, and guides to guests through Viator and earn 8% of every purchase.
Upsell services
Make extra income by offering guests upgrades and additional services, including early check-ins, mid-stay cleaning, airport pickups, in-home chefs, and more.
Any language (almost)
Reach more guests with a click of a button to automatically translate your guidebook into 16+ languages, including (but not limited to) English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic and Vietnamese.
The anatomy of a Hostfully Digital Guidebook
What goes into a Hostfully Digital Guidebook? The sky’s the limit, but here are some popular ideas to differentiate your listing and give guests everything they could want before, during and after their stay.
- Provide detailed directions to your property through various means of transport
- Share check-in and checkout times and detailed instructions
- Add descriptions and beautiful property photos, videos, and tours
- Include house rules to set expectations and mitigate complaints and property damage
- Provide essential information: Wifi, how-to guides for appliances, service requests, accepting packages, and more
- Upsell additional services you may offer: early check-in and late checkouts, transportation to your property from the airport, additional beds, mid-stay cleanings, etc.
- Share essentials in the area: hospitals & pharmacies, ATMs & banks, currency exchanges, gyms, grocery stores & convenience shops.
- Recommend popular and personal favorites: popular things to do, places to visit, restaurants, and more
- Offer discount codes and vouchers to your favorite small businesses (and build key community relationships)
- Include tours and activities through Viator for useful guest planning and booking commission
- Provide automatic and instant language translations relevant to your market reach
- Automatically prompt guest reviews and provide actionable ways for guests to leave them
* No credit card details required
Guidebook examples
Want some inspiration? See some Hostfully Digital Guidebooks in action.
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Nick Halverson, OSA Property Management
Hostfully has become an integral part of delivering an exceptional guest experience at Moving Mountains. Our homes are complex with many features & intricacies and the guidebooks have allowed us to easily share the relevant information so guests can safely use every feature. Now we get fewer troubleshooting calls and better reviews. We could not be more satisfied!
Robin Craigen, Moving Mountains
Hostfully is a winner in my book. It's easy to use - everything is straightforward and intuitive, saving me time and hassle. The support team is also fantastic. They're quick to respond and always ready to assist, ensuring that any issues are resolved promptly. If you're looking for a hassle-free solution that delivers results, Hostfully is the way to go.
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FAQs
About Hostfully's Digital Guidebooks
With Hostfully’s Digital Guidebooks, you’re able to communicate everything a guest needs to know from check-in to check-out about your property, and even provide local recommendations. They’re easy to build & manage, and require no technical expertise at all. When sharing, you can either print, download the PDF version, or provide a simple private link to your guest that is optimized to be opened on any device or browse. You can also upsell your extra services and create more revenue streams for your business.
Curious about the impact a Hostfully Digital Guidebook will make on your vacation rental? Take just a minute to try our Guidebook ROI calculator.
Everything about your property the guest should know! How to check-in, where to find certain amenities, how the laundry machine or the hot tub works..it’s endless, really. You can also add as many local recommendations as you want. Your favorite cafes or restaurants, tours your guests can sign up for, places to visit, things to experience, and more. You can also add gift cards or vouchers, simultaneously supporting small businesses in your area.
Beyond this, you can also upsell your own services. Do you offer pick up/drop off? Great! Add that in. How about mid-stay cleaning? Awesome. Add that in too. With upselling, you can create additional revenue streams, which helps you increase your profits while also providing a 5* experience to your guests.
For some live examples of awesome guidebooks created, click here.
Of course! We have free live demos happening weekly for our Digital Guidebooks. Visit this link to register now and have a fun chat with our team: https://app.livestorm.co/hostfully/liveguidebook
Alternatively, we also have a pre-recorded demo you can check out here. All demos can be found on our “Request a Demo” page.
Yes! You can create a single guidebook for free. The paid version comes with more features, however. You can click here to start creating your free guidebook.
The only additional fee is if you decide to use our Guidebook Marketplace to upsell your services. In this case, there is a 1% Stripe fee.
Yes, you may! We give you the total flexibility to cancel at any time. And no, there are no cancellation fees.
Our team won’t be building the full guidebook for you, however, yes they will take you through the process, step by step and then let you get creative. However, our Quick Start Wizard is quite helpful too and with the help of that you’ll have a new guidebook in no time!
More answers can be found in our FAQ page.
Why Hostfully
World-class customer support
Our solutions are easy to use and will automate your everyday tasks. Our team is also there to help with any issues and will stay with you until you’re comfortable and everything is running smoothly.
A company with a purpose
We do more than just provide a tool. Through partnerships with Sustonica, EnviroRental, Ecologi and others, we help others in our industry make meaningful changes in the way they operate, to make a positive impact on the community and environment.
We share our insight and knowledge
Our team has years of experience in the business, learning best practices from leading brands. And we love sharing our knowledge with you. Come say hi to our team during the big vacation rental conferences, or tune into our free webinars.
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Still not convinced?
At Hostfully we do things very differently. Instead of jumping right in, you can book a FREE and PERSONALIZED demo with one of our friendly Sales team members. They will show you exactly how Hostully will make your life as a vacation rental property manager much easier, in a demo that is customized to your business needs. So, how about it?
Still not convinced?
At Hostfully we do things very differently. Instead of jumping right in, you can book a FREE and PERSONALIZED demo with one of our friendly Sales team members. They will show you exactly how Hostully will make your life as a vacation rental property manager much easier, in a demo that is customized to your business needs. So, how about it?
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