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Automated guest screenings to detect risky bookings and protect yourself

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The integrations to the most important OTA's is quick and easy, the integrations for other 3rd party software (dynamic pricing, operational, accounting, insurance, etc) and service providers is seamless. For any questions or issues, Hostfully has fast and knowledgeable customer service.
Nick Halverson, OSA Property Management

About Authenticate

Authenticate revolutionizes the guest onboarding process for short-term rental platforms with its ultra-fast and comprehensive identity verification service. Leveraging advanced technology, the platform effortlessly integrates with over 20 verification and background check options, enabling hosts to confirm guest identities in 30 seconds, in over 200 countries.

How Hostfully's integration with Authenticate will benefit you:

  • Instant risk scoring
  • Fight chargebacks
  • No bad guests & prices
  • Protection from AI fraud & deep fakes
  • Screen against international sanctions

Get to know Authenticate

Instant Identity Verification

Authenticate’s identity verification system confirms guest identities in less than 30 seconds. Utilizing forensic analysis of government-issued IDs and facial feature mapping of selfies, the platform can instantly detect fake bookings. This advanced technology ensures your guests are who they claim to be, preventing fraud and enhancing trust in your booking process.

Comprehensive Background Checks

Access immediate and extensive criminal reports aggregated from various U.S. states, including all available criminal records and sex offender convictions. Authenticate’s comprehensive background verifications provide you with instant results, allowing you to make informed decisions swiftly. By ensuring thorough background checks, you enhance the safety of your property and provide a secure environment for all your guests.

Your Property, Your Control

Take full control of your property’s security with customizable workflows tailored to your specific needs. The platform enables deeper verifications where necessary and allows you to personalize the guest screening experience to reflect your brand identity. Manage all bookings and download reports from one convenient platform, giving you centralized oversight and enhancing your professional image.

Flexible Pay-As-You-Go Pricing

Enjoy the freedom of Authenticate’s flexible pricing model with no monthly minimums or charges based on the number of properties or listings. Pay only for each verification, deposit any amount you prefer, and perform verifications whenever you receive a booking. Benefit from volume discounts as you increase the number of verifications. The pricing is both affordable and scalable to your needs.

FAQs

About Authenticate

Choosing Authenticate means elevating your guest screening to the next level of security and efficiency. Fight chargebacks with instant, downloadable background reports and comprehensive identity verification that taps into national, federal, and international databases for the highest-quality data.

Authenticate’s cutting-edge biometric verification and AI fraud detection protect you against deepfakes and identity fraud. With Hostfully, you can seamlessly automate your guest screening process and customize it with your branding for a consistent guest experience.

Make informed decisions with their thorough 7-year criminal background checks covering felonies, misdemeanors, and sex offenses—all without monthly minimums or long-term contracts.

Learn more by clicking here.
Authenticate provides a fully automated guest screening solution to safeguard your property effortlessly. It starts with instant identity verification using a government-issued ID and a live selfie, leveraging iBeta Level 2 certified technology for real-time forensic analysis and facial recognition. This ensures your guest is exactly who they claim to be.

Next, they conduct a comprehensive and instant background check through authoritative databases (complimentary for Hostfully users) and then perform detailed criminal history screenings—all complimentary for Hostfully users. For added security, hosts can opt for more in-depth background checks with advanced risk assessment and fraud prevention tools.
Choose Authenticate for comprehensive guest screening that accesses over 200 public and private databases, including criminal watchlists, sex offender registries, and international criminal lists. The platform verifies guest identities from more than 200 countries and accepts over 7,500 types of government-issued IDs, offering an Airbnb-style screening experience.

With no monthly minimums or long-term contracts, their pay-as-you-go model provides flexibility and discounts as you scale. Protect your property with Authenticate’s in-depth screening for ultimate peace of mind.
Authenticate’s User Insights feature adds an extra layer to your guest screening process, much like industry leaders such as Safely.com and Autohost.ai. It offers two powerful tools:

Risk Score: This tool verifies if a guest’s information matches an identity in our proprietary identity graph. By analyzing digital and terrestrial data, it provides a risk score that helps detect fraud and assess potential risks.

Risk Insights: Delivering a confidence score out of 99 based on email and phone inputs, it offers detailed insights, including related emails, phone numbers, and social profiles. This comprehensive analysis is indispensable for identity verification.
Authenticate® offers customizable screening options that allow you to tailor the verification process according to your property’s unique needs. Whether you need to focus more on identity verification, criminal background checks, or ongoing monitoring, the platform can be configured to meet your specific requirements. You can select which checks to perform and define criteria that best fit your security standards and operational workflow.

About Hostfully's Property Management Platform

Hostfully products give property managers the tools they need to automate their business, earn more money, and deliver a 5-star guest experience.

The Property Management Platform lets you automate and simplify the busy management operations of running a vacation rental. With award-winning and industry-leading features such as a booking pipeline, channel manager, central calendar, unified inbox with templates, triggers and AI-enhanced communications, payment processing, analytics & reporting, smart home management, and more, you can run your business with less effort and more success.

Hostfully provides premium channel distribution to over 50+ booking platforms and OTAs. We’re one of the few companies in the world to hold the distinct quadruple crown: Preferred Plus, Premium & Elite Partner Status with Airbnb, Vrbo, [Booking.com](http://booking.com/), and Homes and Villas by Marriott Bonvoy.

We connect with other listing sites and OTAs through direct API (we don’t rely on a separate channel manager to sync), making Hostfully one of the most stable platforms in the industry.

Hostfully’s unique pipeline view gives managers a bird’s eye view of their businesses to easily track incoming leads, unpaid deposits, upcoming check-ins and checkouts, manage teams and tasks, and automate operations. Guest communication through our Unified Inbox enhanced with InboxAI, allows managers to quickly screen and send AI-generated responses to save valuable time and ensure consistent, quality messages.

We offer direct integrations with 100+ of the industry’s leading software providers, giving you the option to pick and choose software that’s right for you. We believe that your business is unique—and so should the software used to run it.
Our onboarding process empowers managers to learn at their own speeds and styles. All customers have access to weekday Onboarding Office Hours, on-demand Hostfully University video tutorials, and 1:1 designated Onboarding Specialists, among other resources.

Please note that the set up time to import and list properties on listing sites varies. This is outside of our control. However, due to Hostfully’s Preferred Partner status with Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, and Homes and Villas by Marriott Bonvoy, we can track your status and gain faster listing site assistance if an unforeseen problem happens.
Hostfully invests in and provides world-class customer support across markets and available 24/7, with dedicated specialists working whenever you are. Additionally, all customers have access to our 300+ help articles, optional instant AI support, Hostfully’s Facebook Users group, Hostfully University courses, webinars, and live office hours. Additionally, all customers with 5+ properties are matched with a dedicated Customer Success Manager who offers further guidance and a customized annual business review.

Yes! Our mobile app helps you manage your critical and time-sensitive tasks from the palm of your hand. It is available for both iPhone & Android.

Of course! We offer personalized demos free of charge. Book yours here: https://www.hostfully.com/request-a-demo/

Alternatively, we also have a pre-recorded demo you can check out here.

Yay! We’re so excited you’re ready to come try us out. Our onboarding team really goes above and beyond to provide you dedicated hands-on expertise to make sure you are set up for success, and because of this, we do not offer any free trials. However, we do offer a free demo so our team can guide you through just how Hostfully’s PMS will solve your business headaches, and to answer any questions you have before choosing to subscribe to our platform. Want to try a demo, then? Click here to get started.
Alternatively, you can check our pricing page to subscribe right away.

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.

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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.

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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.

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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