HoufyReviews of houfy.com

I added Houfy as a direct booking utility for our VRBO business. I have several local FB groups that I'm a member of that allow advertising for direct booking where our condo is located. While marketing our HOUFY listing is tedious, we did finally receive a short stay booking to get started. Our VRBO listing gets tons of exposure and we are able to stay at 85% booked through that, but the HOUFY booking avenue helps with short (in between regular bookings) stays. I found setting up the listing on HOUFY with the importing function of our VRBO listing to be very helpful. I also find the syncing of the calendars to be accurate and timely within an hour or so and the review pull from VRBO is also a great feature. The only negative I would have with my HOUFY experience is when I was setting up the payment processing, HOUFY promoted square versus stripe and offered a promo code to get a first booking discount. So, I decided to use square and setup my account, linked it to HOUFY and after doing so, got a message during the linking process that they don't recommend square because users are getting "non descript" declines on bookings making it problematic for the owners and travelers! Well, I had already gone through the whole process to link it so I have kept it. With the recent booking, I did see that message come through, but it must have processed again or the traveler attempted a second time (they never reached out to me with any issue). I think HOUFY should iron that out or find an alternate vendor to recommend and stop promoting square on their platform. I really hope that we can get about 10% of bookings through HOUFY because it adds to our profitable bottom line to not have all the VRBO outrageous platform fees.

Houfy is a convenient platform for communication and logistics. The site was particularly helpful in securing a vacation rental and coordinating our check in and departure.

Easy site to use. Great to deal more directly with host.

Fair and transparent pricing, legitimately listings, user friendly interface, secure checkout, clear communication.

From start to finish, the entire experience was easy to navigate and process. Communication was easy and felt more personal compared to the “middle man” always being there experience we have had with the other rental sites.

Houfy was easy to use and has the lowest fees, $20.

Very easy to book our reservations. Easy site to navigate

Easy to use. Nice savings.