Hostaway Vacation Rental Software and Airbnb Management System helps you grow your Property Management Business by automating & streamlining every aspect of your business across Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Expedia, and others.
Webready is now integrated with Hostaway allowing you to import your listings, sync your availability and daily prices and display your listings on your Webready website.
Signing Up to Webready
You can sign up to Webready from the Register page on the website here by clicking on the Get Started button.
Step 1: Enter your name, email and password or sign up using your Google or Facebook accounts.
Step 2: Select Hostaway from the list of PMS options available.
Step 3: Enter your business details and click on the Complete button.
Confirm the verification of your email address.
You should get a verification email to your email address, click on the Verify your email button. You will be directed to the login page for Webready after clicking on the button.
Once logged in, a pop up will appear directing you to connect to Hostaway - it will take you to the Integrations page in Webready to proceed.
Connecting Hostaway to Webready
To connect with Hostaway, follow the steps below:
In Webready, navigate to the Integrations tab on the left panel.
On the integration page, locate Hostaway and click on the Connect button.
Enter the Client ID and API Key.You can create your Client ID and API Key from Hostaway in the Settings section under Hostaway API then click on Create.
First, enter a name for your public secret key.Then, copy the Account ID to paste as the Client ID in Webready then copy the API Key.
Note: Your API key will only be visible when you first create it.
Click on the Connect button.
Once you are connected to Hostaway, you can see the ability to view your Hostaway rentals or disconnect Webready from Hostaway.
To view the Hostaway properties, Click on the Listings button.
All listings from Hostaway will be displayed, but to import the property into Webready, click on the Actions icon on the right then Import.
Note: Importing your property will bring in the Rooms of that property into Webready and will automatically import the availability so you calendar is Webready will be blocked accordingly.
Select whether you will like your Hostaway daily prices for the listing to be imported into Webready.If you select No then want to import daily prices later, go to Rates in Webready, click on the rental then the Add button and Import Rates.You will then see the daily prices listed where you can view them then click on Import Rates.Your daily prices will be visible on the Rates Table tab in Webready.If you wish to create daily prices in Webready instead, follow the steps in this article.
Note: If you have updated your daily prices in Hostaway, then you will need to re-import rates using the steps above.
Note: Be sure to also fill in a nightly rate and minimum night stay value on the Settings tab for your rental's rate.
Your imported rooms will be visible by clicking on the Rentals tab in the left navigation bar:
Once you have imported the listings along with their availability and imported or created daily prices, you can then create your website using your Hostaway properties. See the help article here on setting up your Webready account.
Note: Since you would have already imported rentals and handled daily prices at this point, you can skip those 2 sections in the setup article above.
Syncing Rental changes
After making rental changes to your listings on Hostaway, you are able to sync some of these changes to Webready, to avoid having to repeat the same updates in Webready.
There will be indicators when there are updates available for rentals:
To sync the rental changes, navigate to the Rentals section in Webready and click on the "Sync Changes" button.
The rental details that will be updated in Webready includes:
Name
Address
Currency
Bedrooms
Bathrooms
After clicking on the button, you will be able to see columns showing the updates that were made to the rental in Hostaway compared to what is saved in Webready.
Note: Rental changes can only be synced from Hostaway to Webready. They cannot be synced from Webready to Hostaway.
Use the checkboxes on the left to select the updates that you want synced to Webready then click on "Sync".
Note: the checkbox next to the rental name will allow you to select all updates available for that rental. If there are multiple updates available, you can also choose the individual checkboxes if you don't want all updates to be synced.
Disconnecting from Webready
To disconnect Hostaway from Webready, click on the Integrations tab in the left panel, locate Hostaway and click on the "Disconnect" button.
First, enter a name for your public secret key.
Note: Your API key will only be visible when you first create it.
Note: Importing your property will bring in the Rooms of that property into Webready and will automatically import the availability so you calendar is Webready will be blocked accordingly.
Note: If you have updated your daily prices in Hostaway, then you will need to re-import rates using the steps above.Note: Be sure to also fill in a nightly rate and minimum night stay value on the Settings tab for your rental's rate.
