Developed by HostAStay, HostPlatform, a centralised short-stay management platform engineered to ease operations,  was officially launched at the inaugural Short Stay Summit 2019 which was held at Sunway Resort Hotel & Spa.

The Short Stay Summit 2019 is an event organised with a mission to empower the short-stay industry, the Summit hosted more than 400 participants and was officiated by MDEC chief operating officer, Datuk Ng Wan Peng, who also launched HostPlatform.

HostAStay founder and chief executive officer, Jordan Oon recalled that it was not easy in the initial stage to even find a host.

“I knew the short-stay model was lucrative, and I bought a property to start listing, but I could not find a professional host!

“This is why we created HostAStay, a simple search tool to find hosts in the area of your unit,” said Jordan.

HostPlatform comes in with seamless asset management and higher profit margins, making venturing into short stay businesses easier by integrating technology into the equation.

HostPlatform features three main powerful tools including HostConnect, HostManage and D.O.R.A.

HostConnect is a Centralised Reservation System equipped with a direct Application Programming Integration (API) that integrates with the world's top five online booking sites,  Airbnb, Agoda, Booking.com, Expedia and Ctrip.

Hosts gain full control of their online inventory in one interface, ensuring double bookings do not occur as unit availability is updated in real time across all booking sites.

In addition, its Pricing Synchronisation feature also allows hosts to modify their unit rates with full visibility of their listings across multiple bookings sites with just a few taps.

HostManage enables hosts to manage multiple short-stay reservations at their own convenience.

With its built-in Multi-Calendar View, hosts can browse through all bookings and arrange schedules easily.

The tool comes with an Internal Booking Engine that synchronizes offline with online bookings, and ensures zero overlaps within the same unit. In addition, hosts can better plan for their future promotions with the Monthly Performance Analysis that generates performance charts of every registered unit.

With D.O.R.A, the Dedicated Owner Revenue System, hosts will no longer need to worry about generating payout reports manually.

The revenue system will automatically generate reports for all registered units, clearly listing breakdown of revenue, operational expenditure and payout.

Respective homeowners can easily gain access to the monthly payout of the units that are linked to them, having transparent reports right at their fingertips.

“We strive to be synonymous with ‘responsible tourism’, as the human touch cannot be replaced when checking someone in, and hosts should be focussed on providing the best hospitality experience possible, HostPlatform allows them to do just that by eliminating tedious tasks,” commented HostPlatform general manager, Jayden Lee.

The subscription plan also comes with HostProtect, a protection plan underwritten by Tune Protect Malaysia.

Homeowners enjoy peace of mind with a policy that protects them against any loss or damage to the contents in their properties of up to RM 30,000 per unit.

The plan also covers their legal liability to guests and third parties in the event of an accident caused by or through their own negligence of up to RM50,000.

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