Everything co-hosts and vacation-rental managers need to know.

Host Sidecar configures and maintains the 18 connected PMS settings that turn a reservation into a working operating system around every stay.

• Protect booking opportunity: channel calendars, pricing, stay rules, high-value dates, gap nights, inquiry responses, and booking triggers.

• Prepare a guest-ready stay: cleaner and task scheduling, check-in guidance, access, arrival comfort, and local-team awareness.

• Care, learn, and improve: guest care, checkout routines, turnover reminders, review follow-up, and practical improvements from recurring guest and team signals.

We configure these around your property rules, hospitality style, local team, and preferred software. You continue to lead owner relationships, guests, local decisions, approvals, and the exceptions that need judgment.

See the 18 PMS settings every co-host should configure at www.hostsidecar.com/guides/pms-settings-every-cohost-should-configure

Yes. Host Sidecar was specifically built for independent co-hosts and small vacation-rental managers who want to earn more, spend less time on repeat admin, and stay in control as they grow.

Whether you manage one property or twenty, Host Sidecar helps keep guest messaging, arrivals, turnovers, calendar workflows, pricing attention, owner reporting, and follow-through clear and connected.

You keep the owner relationships, local team, standards, approvals, and final say. Host Sidecar keeps the operating layer behind your business organized, maintained, and working harder.

No, but we can recommend experienced co-hosts and property managers who can provide the hands-on local support you need.

Host Sidecar provides the operating systems behind a well-run short-term rental, including guest communication, turnover coordination, pricing workflows, calendar management, and owner reporting. We can work with you directly or help connect you with someone who can manage the property locally.

Yes—software is part of Host Sidecar, but the value is in how the system is set up, managed, and improved for each property.

Host Sidecar combines trusted tools such as Hospitable where they fit, proprietary systems, and experienced operating judgment. We actively manage pricing, guest communication, arrival details, guidebooks, turnover coordination, reporting, and ongoing operating review—so the tools support better revenue, smoother stays, and clearer coordination.

Host Sidecar is built to support your operation without making it dependent on us. Your property, accounts, team relationships, standards, and final decisions remain yours throughout.

If you decide to step away, your team can carry on as if we were never there—except with a clearer, more capable system left behind. No complicated unwind. No disruption to guests, owners, or your local team.

Host Sidecar is built specifically for independent co-hosts and small vacation-rental managers who want to grow a more capable business without giving up personal service, local knowledge, or final control.

• Independent co-hosts
  Protect more booking opportunity, reduce repeat admin, and spend more time on owners, guests, local teams, and the decisions that need you.

• Vacation-rental managers
  Create clearer, more consistent systems across a growing portfolio without turning your operation into an impersonal software machine.

• Hands-on owner-hosts
  Put stronger systems around pricing, guest communication, turnovers, arrivals, and follow-through—while keeping the property and guest experience fully yours.

Yes. Hospitable is included with Host Sidecar’s standard monthly subscription. We also configure, connect, and improve the PMS and pricing tools you already use—including Guesty, Hostfully, Hostaway, Lodgify, PriceLabs, Wheelhouse, Beyond Pricing, and others.

We build the operating system around your property rules, team, guest experience, and preferred software—so you can get more from the tools already supporting your business without being forced into a migration.

No. Host Sidecar does not charge a setup fee.

The goal is to make it easy to test whether better systems, automation, and operational support can improve how your rental runs without requiring a large upfront commitment.

No. There is no long-term contract.

Host Sidecar is month-to-month. We believe the service should earn its place every month by making your rental easier to operate, better coordinated, and better positioned to perform.

Yes. You can cancel anytime.

We keep the commitment low because we are confident in the value of the operating layer we provide. If Host Sidecar is not helping your property run better, you should not be locked into paying for it.

Host Sidecar is not traditional full-service property management.

Most full-service short-term rental managers charge a percentage of gross booking revenue because they take over much of the operation. Host Sidecar is different. We provide the systems, automation, coordination, visibility, and performance support that help your existing operation run better.

That means you keep more control and more upside.

You can—and for some owners or co-hosts, that may be the right choice. But software alone does not run a short-term rental.

Most STR platforms still require someone to configure the system, connect the right tools, maintain settings, monitor activity, adjust workflows, catch exceptions, and make sure the right people receive the right information at the right time.

Host Sidecar adds the operating discipline around the technology. We help translate software into practical workflows for guest communication, calendar coordination, turnover logistics, pricing, owner reporting, and day-to-day follow-through.

The value is not simply access to another tool. It is having a smarter operating layer around the tools and people already supporting the property.

That means co-hosts can support more properties with less administrative work, while owner-hosts can earn more, work less, and keep control.

You are not paying Host Sidecar just for software access.

You are paying for the operating layer that sits around the software: configuration, workflow design, calendar coordination, messaging structure, cleaner reminders, guest communication support, review follow-up, pricing hygiene, platform readiness, owner visibility, and ongoing refinement.

The software is one ingredient. Host Sidecar helps turn it into a working short-term rental system.

Host Sidecar can help with:

• Guest messaging workflows

• Fast reply structure

• Calendar coordination

• Airbnb and Vrbo calendar sync support

• Cleaner scheduling reminders

• Turnover coordination

• Review follow-up

• Pricing hygiene

• Minimum-stay rules

• Gap-night strategy

• Listing readiness checks

• Owner reporting

• Co-host support

• Vendor routing

• Smart lock and guest access workflows

• Basic guest issue triage

• Operational visibility across the property

The goal is to reduce missed details, repetitive admin, and operational friction.

Yes. Host Sidecar helps with pricing hygiene and performance support.

That may include reviewing nightly rates, minimum stays, gap nights, seasonal rules, orphan nights, calendar gaps, and settings that may affect booking performance.

Host Sidecar does not promise magic pricing results. The goal is disciplined, ongoing revenue support based on better operating inputs.

Yes.

If you own and manage your own Airbnb or Vrbo, Host Sidecar can reduce repetitive work and help you operate with more structure.

This is useful when you want to keep control but stop relying on memory, manual texts, scattered reminders, and reactive problem-solving.

Yes. This is one of the best fits.

Host Sidecar does not need to replace your co-host. In many cases, the goal is to make the co-host relationship work better.

Your co-host may still handle local tasks, guest-facing work, or property-specific responsibilities. Host Sidecar adds systems, automation, reporting, reminders, and coordination so fewer things fall through the cracks.

Yes. Keep automated messages short, timely, and specific to the property. Use automation for information guests predictably need, then respond personally when they raise a real question, concern, or exception.em description

Do not automate judgment-heavy work such as exceptions, refunds, sensitive guest concerns, repairs, local relationship management, or final property-readiness decisions.

No. Property-management software provides useful capabilities, and co-hosts and local teams provide judgment and service. Host Sidecar strengthens the operating structure around the property so those tools and people have clearer information, timing, and follow-through.