DoorLoop vs Hostfully Property Management Platform: Which is a better fit?

Charlie: Hi, I'm Charlie. I'm broker and owner and property manager with Front Porch Properties here in Madison, Wisconsin. We're a small boutique property management. We handle single family short-term rentals, and then smaller multifamily portfolios. We would give Doorloop five out of five stars. We used a software platform that is online right now. We just felt that that platform didn't have all the tools integrated into one space, and then we thought that was what was really missing. And so that's why we took the opportunity to meet with Doorloop and have the conversation about, "Here's what we have that is what we think is wrong, what we'd like to fix in the future, and if we grow our company, how would Doorloop grow with us?" And they seem to match all those needs. The ultimate reason we decided to go with Doorloop is because everything's in one platform, from managing tenant requests, handling applications that come in, and we can create specific ones on property, we can do all of our advertising, we can keep all of our files in one space. And I think one of the better things is from a income and reporting, to get all of our distribution and information to our ownership groups, but also, our tenants have a portal where they can use it and be very integrated to pay all their stuff online. So again, just everything seems to fit into one area, and that was really, really important to us. Onboarding Doorloop seemed to be very easy. They gave us some really nice instructions of how to pull information out of our old system, what it would look like... Basically onboarding all the information we needed for Doorloop. And then it was just some simple training. We went through their online academy, learned all of their steps, and anytime we've had any particular issues or stuff that we didn't know how to handle, they've been available to either chat with us or to jump on a call. Well, we recommend Doorloop highly to other people that are running property management companies, or if you're managing your own small portfolio of properties, we would say give Doorloop at least a chance. Look at their software, look what they're offering and see if it's right for you.

Holbrook: Hello, my name's Holbrook. I am the owner of Casa Encanto, which is short-term rental. And Hostfully is my property management system. And I give Hostfully a five-star review. I use Hostfully for their digital guidebook, but then I have them integrate my other OTAs, the booking.com, Vrbo and Airbnb. And I'm working on Google Travel or Google Vacations. And they then send out automated automatic messages to my guests. I use it for my calendar. I have another app, PriceLabs I use for my pricing. And then I'm going to start using Hostfully's direct booking site more. And I think that's where I need help with setting up social media. The thing that has impressed me right from the get-go with Hostfully is the attention they pay to customer support. Right from the beginning, the people that I've interacted with have been both very knowledgeable, professional, courteous, and have been able to take a newcomer and a relatively old newcomer to the short-term rental business through the whole process. And anytime I have any question or issue, they get back to me in a timely manner. And so I've been very, very happy with them. Well, as a professor, long time retired professor, I've had to do hundreds of letters of recommendation or phone interviews for candidates. And the question that always stumps me is, what do I like least about a candidate or what their weaknesses are because we always tend to pay attention to the negative as opposed to the positive. And so I think with Hostfully, sometimes it gets a little complicated going through, setting up everything. But that having been said, they have a lot of videos, they've instituted a Hostfully University that has courses. And so even in that relative weakness or something that I don't like, I still find that Hostfully addresses that.