Kicking off the new year with a new integration: if you automate your rentals with Hosttools, BetterSTR now connects directly — and like every BetterSTR integration, it's included in the free plan.
Paste in your Hosttools auth token and BetterSTR pulls in your properties and upcoming reservations, validating your credentials instantly. Within a minute or two, every booking has its own personalised guidebook.
What actually syncs
- Properties: your listings come across with the details BetterSTR needs to build a guidebook that already knows your place.
- Reservations: guest names and contact details, stay dates and the booking channel — kept current automatically as bookings are created, changed or cancelled. You can optionally sync historical reservations too, to power BetterSTR's SMS marketing.
Every reservation gets its own guidebook link
The moment a reservation syncs, BetterSTR generates a unique guest guidebook link for that stay — personalised to that guest, that property and those dates, with their actual check-in and check-out times. Drop the link into your Hosttools message rules once, and every future guest gets their own guide without you lifting a finger.
It's not just guidebooks
- Digital guidebooks — branded, personalised per booking, no app download for guests.
- WiFi marketing — capture every staying guest's details (not just the booker's) and build your direct booking funnel.
- SMS and email automation — timed messages keyed off the real check-in and check-out dates from Hosttools.
- Upsells — early check-in, late check-out and local extras, offered inside the guide.
How to connect (about a minute)
- Grab your auth token from your Hosttools account settings.
- In BetterSTR, go to Integrations → Hosttools and paste it in — BetterSTR validates it straight away.
- That's it. Your properties and reservations sync within a minute or two, and stay in sync from then on.
Common questions
Does this cost anything on the BetterSTR side?
No. All BetterSTR integrations — Hosttools included — are part of the free plan.
Do guests need to download an app?
No. Guidebook links open in any browser, personalised automatically for every booking that syncs from Hosttools.
Can I choose which properties have guidebooks?
All properties on your Hosttools account sync across, and you control which ones have active guidebooks and messaging inside BetterSTR.
Want the full feature rundown? See the Hosttools integration page, the step-by-step connection guide, or browse all BetterSTR integrations.