Hostaway’s Whimstay API Channel Manager Offers You More

Whimstay is a marketplace focused on last-minute travel, matching guests with properties available inside roughly the next 30 days at reduced rates. Instead of competing head-on with the primary OTAs, it targets the nights that would otherwise go empty, including gap nights and orphan days between reservations. That makes it a complement to your main channels: a place to move near-term inventory and lift occupancy without discounting your full calendar.

Through Hostaway, your listing content, rates, and availability feed into Whimstay and stay aligned with the same calendar you use for Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, and Expedia, so a last-minute booking updates everything at once. You can lean on Whimstay for near-term windows while your primary channels carry the longer booking horizon. Because Hostaway distributes to the other majors too, Whimstay slots in as a targeted, incremental channel rather than a replacement.

When using Hostaway, you can ensure all your information is up to date - calendars, availability, rates, reviews, booking policies and amenities. You’ll be able to scale up and grow your business much faster, and the property owners will be happy to see the revenues you can generate. Your staff will be happy to onboard new properties in a breeze. Book a demo today.

Whimstay positions itself as a leading last-minute vacation rental marketplace across North America, focused on bookings within about 30 days of check-in. For property managers, it is a way to sell nights that would otherwise stay empty and add incremental revenue without leaning harder on the big OTAs. Learn more about listing at Whimstay.