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Hostaway spreads CoHost to mobile and absorbs French e-invoicing before the mandate

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◆Current state
Three strands are shipping in parallel. AI CoHost, introduced in June, reached the mobile app, so property questions, conversation search and financial reports can be pulled from a phone. Operationally, a new Refuse Bookings setting blocks reservations that hourly automated reshuffling cannot fit, closing a double-booking gap at the source. Commercially, French electronic invoicing is now handled inside Hostaway ahead of the phased September 2026 requirement, alongside recent work on OTA-channel invoices and the Booking Website Pro site builder.
◆Where it's heading
The pattern is absorbing adjacent tools rather than integrating with them: invoicing, compliance, the booking site and now on-the-go assistant access all move inside Hostaway so an operator does not buy a second product. CoHost is following the ordinary assistant path of widening reach rather than taking on new authority — it answers on more screens, it does not yet act unprompted. The regulatory work is the more distinctive bet, since compliance deadlines create adoption pressure a feature cannot.
◆Prediction
Expect the e-invoicing groundwork to extend to other markets with similar mandates, given how specifically this was built around a national deadline. CoHost's next step is more likely to be acting on reservations than appearing on another screen.

◆Recent moves

  1. 21d ago

    AI CoHost is now on the Mobile App

    AI CoHost arrives in the mobile app, answering property, reservation and performance questions and pulling financial reports from a phone. This widens where the June assistant can be reached without changing what it is allowed to do, which keeps it on the reach side of the line rather than the authority side.

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  2. 25d ago

    Prevent Double-Bookings: Refuse Bookings When Smart Reassignment is Impossible

    A new Refuse Bookings setting blocks incoming reservations when hourly automated reshuffling cannot free a consecutive block of units. It is a genuine operational safeguard rather than a report about one, and it makes the existing reassignment engine into something that can decline work.

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  3. 26d ago

    La facturation électronique française est disponible dans Hostaway 🇫🇷

    French electronic invoicing is handled inside Hostaway ahead of the phased requirement starting September 2026, replacing extra tools and manual exports. It extends the invoicing and billing-compliance work of recent months rather than opening a new front, but a legal deadline gives it a harder adoption curve than a typical feature.

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  4. 29d ago

    Showcase Your Listings: Property Pages Now Live on Booking Website Pro

    Property Pages join Homepage, About Us and Contact Us in the Booking Website Pro editor, fully customizable and included in templates by default. It completes the page set a direct-booking site needs, which is the practical bar for leaving a separate website tool behind.

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  5. 1mo ago

    Download Data From Your Analytics Board

    The analytics board exports to PDF with adaptive portrait or landscape layout, including both charts and the underlying data tables. Aimed squarely at the monthly report a manager sends to property owners.

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  6. 1mo ago

    Invoices for All Your OTA Channels - Including Airbnb

    Invoicing extends to every OTA channel with a per-channel opt-in, Airbnb being the notable addition, and compliant e-invoices in Spain, Italy and France. Substantial back-office work, though it broadens an existing invoicing capability to more sources rather than changing what the product does.

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