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Velocity6.3

After launching AI CoHost, Hostaway pours effort into channel, statement, and direct-booking tooling

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◆Current state
Hostaway is shipping at a steady clip across the short-term-rental workflow. Recent releases deepen channel control (Airbnb-specific discounts, Booking.com content sync), automate back-office work (one-click conversion of manual owner statements into scheduled auto-statements), and extend the direct-booking site (new Contact and About page templates). This follows the late-June launch of AI CoHost, a conversational layer over live Hostaway data.
◆Where it's heading
The strategic bet is AI CoHost — 'talk to your data' over the industry's largest PMS dataset — and the current stream of releases is the operational substrate it sits on: the more channel, statement, and content surfaces Hostaway owns natively, the more CoHost can act on. Expect the incremental channel and finance work to keep feeding that assistant rather than existing as standalone features.
◆Prediction
Expect CoHost's conversational actions to reach into the newly native surfaces — issuing channel discounts, generating statements, editing listings by prompt — and more regional compliance integrations to follow the Italian SDI e-invoicing model.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1d ago

    Drive Conversions with Airbnb Top Rated Guests & Mobile Only Discounts

    Two Airbnb-specific discounts — for top-rated guests (4.8+) and mobile-app bookers — plus bulk editing to apply them across a portfolio. Incremental channel-conversion tooling that widens Hostaway's native control over Airbnb settings.

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  2. 1d ago

    Booking Website Pro: Build Guest Trust & Capture More Leads with New Page Templates

    Booking Website Pro adds Contact Us and About Us page templates with synced dynamic contact info, aimed at trust-building and lead capture on direct sites. A useful extension of the direct-booking arc that reduces reliance on OTAs.

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  3. 3d ago

    Convert Owner Statements into Auto-Statements in One Click

    Any manual owner statement can now be converted to a scheduled, auto-emailed auto-statement in one click, with fields pre-filled. A clear back-office automation win that removes recurring manual work for property managers.

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  4. 3d ago

    Italy: native SDI electronic invoicing (FatturaPA) support

    Native Italian SDI e-invoicing (FatturaPA) lets Italian property managers generate and file compliant electronic invoices directly from Hostaway via Invopop, with real-time authority status. A regional compliance integration that removes a third-party tool from the stack.

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  5. 6d ago

    Booking.com Content Sync: Take More Control of Your Listings

    Booking.com content sync lets hosts push photos, amenities, descriptions, and policies from Hostaway to Booking.com on save, with partial sync to avoid overwriting extranet-managed fields. Deepens native channel control and cuts extranet round-trips.

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  6. 8d ago

    Owner Statements and Auto-Statements Design Update (View and Edit pages)

    A visual design refresh of the Owner Statements view and edit pages to match the rest of the platform; the release notes explicitly state no features changed.

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