Guesty For Hosts vs Uplisting: Which is a better fit?

Matthew F.: I'm Matthew. I'm the owner of The Lens Lodge. And I give Guesty For Hosts a 5 out of 5. Before Guesty For Hosts, I was just doing everything manually, and so it was taking a lot of time, answering all the guest questions, taking any inquiries that came in, responding to all the messages. And I basically just used Guesty For Hosts to automate the messages, and that saved me a bunch of time. I chose Guesty For Hosts, honestly, because it had great reviews and a YouTuber that I follow called Robuilt recommends it. And he is super good at Airbnbs, and he used them for all of his. And I kind of trust his judgment on that. Getting started with Guesty For Hosts was not too hard. The main thing that just took time was setting my automated messages, which is crafting those messages. But getting it set up to the platform was super quick, very easy as well, and pretty much had it up and running within a couple hours. All right, the recommendation that I would give, whether you're going to get Guesty For Hosts or another software, would be to go with Guesty For Hosts, simply because there's a lot of other softwares out there, but most of them are cheaper and harder to scale up with. So, if you do want to scale up your business, I would start with Guesty For Hosts. That way you can become familiar with the platform when you have a smaller number of properties and it'd be easier to scale up from there.

Vee: Hey, I'm Vee, I'm a property manager with HNFC Stays. We're a short term accommodation provider in England. We have five employees, five contractors, and we rate Uplisting four. When we've had only two properties we realized we need some sort of a channel manager, because it's really hard to maintain all your listings on Airbnb, Booking.com, VRBO. And Uplisting, it's very easy to implement, has a good price, and it was our first choice, to be honest. So the reason we chose Uplisting, is because a colleagues of mine who actually does, they own short term rental business suggested. So we thought, okay, we're gonna give it a try. And then as I said, it's very simple to use. Integration is very simple. The customer support is great. It's probably one of the best features of having Uplisting. They're always happy to support you there, and the whole process was very smooth. So starting with Uplisting is pretty easy. Yes, there are a few things you don't know how to do. Yet, if you reach out to a support team, a live support team, which is really important, they will get back to you within five to 15 minutes, and then they will resolve all the queries. Also, you have a big platform forum, where you're going to search the questions with very detailed step by step video how you can do it yourself. So I'd say Uplisting is more suitable for small business owners who are actually just starting out the short term management or property management business. I would say it's good for up to 15, maybe 25 properties max, because after that you probably need a more sophisticated software. Because with Uplisting, they're still an early startup and they need to implement a lot of new features that currently in the development, but it might take a while before it actually gets to your business.