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About Hostfully Guidebooks
Hostfully Guidebooks Pricing
https://www.hostfully.com/pricing/property-management/
Starting price:
$7.99 per month
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Hostfully Guidebooks User Reviews
OVERALL RATING
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Craig
Verified reviewer
Company size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Real Estate
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
September 2019
State of the art guest guidebook system
We use Hostfully guidebooks to provide a great experience for our thousands of guests. The ability to create templates saves us a lot of time creating new guidebooks. Both our guests and owners are extremely impressed by the functionality.
Pros
Saves us hours of time, great guest experience, mobile responsive, easy to use.
Cons
The recommendations screen is a little hard to navigate.
Tim
Company size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Real Estate
Time used: Less than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
September 2019
Hostfully Guidebook Keeps Guests Informed if Only They Would Read
My experience with the platform is it has been terrific to work with. There are a lot of features and capabilities that may not be readily apparent to a first-time user, such as how to include the ability for guests to review you after their stay, or how to customize the checkout list, or rename a category. But just know, the platform is flexible and there are many ways to organize and setup your guidebook to be uniquely yours.
Pros
The program is tremendously flexible for taking once written binders of information into accessible information whether links, text and/or video. Use of Google Places helps to ensure recommendations are good looking and have all the relevant information such as an image, link, map and whatever information a host would like to write in recommending an attraction, bar or restaurant. Guidebooks created with Hostfully look terrific whether on a computer, smartphone or printed. As a property manager, there's really no need to manage multiple documents of information to send to guests. You can print your guidebook and keep a binder if you want, you can email a PDF version or you can send a link to the guidebook. Hostfully becomes the one place to update all house information, rules, policies and guest recommendations and that's darn handy! And if you are a property management company implementing Hostfully for many properties, you'll appreciate the ability to Brand your guidebooks.
Cons
Hostfully allows you to manage multiple guidebooks. As an administrator of several guidebooks, how to manage one entry to many guidebooks can be a little confusing until you gain experience with the program. However, the fact that Hostfully has such a capability places it in a unique position so I'd call this also a Pro.
Reasons for choosing Hostfully Guidebooks
Ease of use, especially making recommendation cards, overall features and flexibility, and the end result of guidebook; good looking on any device.
Reasons for switching to Hostfully Guidebooks
No need to reinvent the wheel. Creating your own guidebook will be much harder and time consuming. In the end, you might not be happy with the results and will no doubt lack important capabilities already built into Hostfully.
Paul
Company size: 2-10 employees
Industry: Hospitality
Time used: More than 2 years
Review Source: Capterra
March 2022
Save yourself time while improving your guests' experiences (win-win)
Pros
It's no easy feat to manage over 100 vacation homes/rentals. An even bigger challenge is when they're all full of guests! This is where Hostfully guidebooks came in and saved the day. I've been using Hostfully's guidebooks for over 3 years and our guests love them. They find the information and recommendations we provide extremely helpful and because of it, we believe, they enjoy their stay more. Importantly, they are intuitive for first-time users and easy to dive right into. I was never asked by any guests for instructions or for help using them. We provide a QR code in each property which guests can scan to access the guidebook and voila! The management side is very easy and user-friendly. I was able to create almost 100 guidebooks for different unique homes in just 3 days! Hostfully also makes it easy and quick to update the guidebooks using a super-efficient "card" system which I love (it's genius). I used to create and update guidebooks by using a word processor, a very manual and time-consuming approach I would not recommend from the moment Hostfully is around. It's a no-brainer, really... Give it a try!
Cons
None comes to mind, honestly. I provided feedback for improvements when I first started working with Hostfully and the team was always so receptive and appreciated our feedback. They implemented so many improvements since then... so, what I saw as "cons" in the early days have been more or less ironed out.
Dan
Verified reviewer
Company size: 10,000+ employees
Industry: Education Management
Time used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: GetApp
December 2021
Launching Hostfully
Have started yet. Just trying to get it going!
Pros
Lots of great features!! For someone looking at a completed guidebook, it would be very helpful.
Cons
Extremely complex and challenging to get all the details put in properly on the paid version while waiting for emails to get a response. Would be real nice to have phone support or screen shots to assist. The videos are helpful for the overall site but NOT for specific fine details or when glitches arise.
Reasons for choosing Hostfully Guidebooks
Just trying it out because it came recommended.
Anonymous
Company size: 2-10 employees
Time used: Less than 6 months
Review Source: GetApp
November 2020
lack of free trial makes it impossible to see quality
Pros
nice design, good potential, but lacks features.
Cons
Lacking of basic features. Unprofessional staff when comes to refunds. Sales team very aggressive but no free trial so they oversell its abilities Massive overselling and marketing hype but very much overhyped. Not user-centric.