Hostfully pricing and reviews in 2026

Founded in 2015, Hostfully offers a Free plan that covers one guidebook and shows sponsored recommendations. The Pro plan adds a Marketplace for extras, which keeps 1% of each sale, and translation into 16 languages. Managers who already run Hostfully's PMS get a guidebook that syncs with their reservations and Hostfully Devices. If you're still choosing a PMS, our PMS finder narrows the field in a few questions.

The block above sets Hostfully Pro against WonderGuest Pro, both on yearly billing. For three properties, we took Hostfully's price per guidebook for three to four guidebooks, times three. Its checkout page doesn't say whether that price applies to every guidebook or only to the ones in that bracket, so we read it as three guidebooks at the same price. WonderGuest Pro covers two to five properties for one price.

Why Pro and not Hostfully's Free plan? Pro is the plan with what WonderGuest Pro includes: your branding, translation and a way to sell extras. For one property, the block uses Hostfully's Free plan next to the free WonderGuest guidebook, so both cost nothing and there's no saving to show. Hostfully's Free plan shows sponsored recommendations and has no Marketplace, branding or translation. WonderGuest's free guidebook shows no sponsored recommendations, and it has no extras shop.

Hostfully doesn't show Pro prices on hostfully.com. They appear on the checkout page behind the Get Started button, and that's where we read them. Neither page says whether tax is included, and WonderGuest's US prices exclude sales tax.

Some costs sit outside those figures. Hostfully keeps 1% of each Marketplace sale, and its help center says Stripe's fees come on top; WonderGuest's shop takes 0%. Past three properties, Hostfully bills every guidebook, so a fourth property adds another guidebook to the bill, while WonderGuest Pro keeps the same price up to five. Hostfully's price per guidebook does drop with volume, down to its lowest price at 20 guidebooks or more, so a larger manager should rerun the numbers with their own count.

The first seven rows are the ones hosts notice day to day. Hostfully has one full mark there, external links: link cards, embedded PDFs, and Google or Apple Maps. The other six are partial, which doesn't mean weak.

Video comes from YouTube, Vimeo or Matterport embeds, and the check-in video card embeds a video too. Lock PIN codes reach the guidebook through Hostfully Devices, while check-in forms sit in Hostfully's PMS. The Marketplace for extras is on Pro, runs through Stripe and keeps 1% of each sale; the upsell revenue calculator helps you estimate what your extras could earn. Design is built on card-based tabs you reorder, with custom categories on Pro, and branding covers themes and category colors, with fonts not stated.

Further down, Hostfully offers 16 languages on Pro, translated card by card. There's a Free plan for one guidebook, but no Pro trial is stated. To leave, you can print or save a guidebook as a PDF, in English only, and export a CSV list of your guidebooks. Help comes through templates and weekly office hours, with guided creation on Enterprise.

If you already run Hostfully's PMS, the check-in row fills in, because the guidebook syncs with your reservations and Hostfully Devices. This table compares the guidebook sold on its own.

Hostfully has plenty of public reviews, but they need sorting. The 374 reviews on Trustpilot, rated 4.9 out of 5, cover the whole company, and most of them are about the PMS. The Capterra listing for Hostfully Guidebooks, 123 reviews rated 4.8 out of 5, is the closer match, so that's the one we read first. Most of its reviews date from 2022 to 2024.

Reviewers like how quickly the guidebook comes together and how easily guests open it. One calls it a low-cost, professional guidebook with recommendations and how-to videos, and a March 2026 review says guests like having everything about the property on their phone.

The limits are about the tool more than the guest experience. A February 2024 review regrets that there's no app, only a web version. Another says updating recommendations can be buggy, and an October 2025 reviewer took a while to figure out how to enter content.

The no-app point applies to WonderGuest too. Both guidebooks open in the browser, which is also why guests have nothing to install.

Three properties take about half a day, new QR codes included. Importing your Airbnb listing covers photos, the description and amenities. What's left to copy is your check-in cards, codes and local recommendations.

Hostfully doesn't export card content. Before you cancel, print each guidebook or save it as a PDF, keeping in mind that the PDF comes out in English only. If you sell extras on the Marketplace, write down your items and prices so you can recreate them in the WonderGuest shop, and check what you're allowed to charge in our guide to Airbnb security deposits and extra fees.

Videos embedded from YouTube or Vimeo can be uploaded again from your original files, or filmed again on your phone. A Matterport tour can stay as a link in the guidebook.

If you run Hostfully's PMS, know what you give up: the guidebook's sync with your reservations and Hostfully Devices, which WonderGuest doesn't replace.

Send the new link to one guest first, through your Airbnb message templates, check that everything is right, then swap the QR codes and cancel Hostfully Pro. WonderGuest support answers 7 days a week during the switch.