A welcome guidebook for your short-term rental
Stop answering the same twelve questions on every booking.
Fill a structured form covering welcome, access, house rules, your local picks, getting around, and emergencies. Hostbook turns it into a private hosted page on this domain you can share with guests, laid out to print or save as a PDF. Flat $19 per property, no subscription. The local picks in your guidebook are exactly the ones you list.
Your favorites, not a generic list
Saraghina, Bittersweet, the park you actually go to. Hostbook polishes the prose around the picks you supply, and the guidebook is not published unless its picks match your list name for name.
Hosted page you can print
The hosted URL is for guests who'd rather read on their phone. The same page prints cleanly, or saves as a PDF from your browser, for hosts who leave a copy in the unit. It is usually ready within a minute of checkout.
One flat price
$19 per property. No monthly bill. No account. You can take the hosted page down from your dashboard at any time.
One form, six sections
Welcome, access, rules, picks, getting around, emergencies. Paste from the welcome doc you already have, then check out. The link to your guidebook arrives by email when it is ready.
How it works
- 1. Fill the form. Welcome tone, WiFi and check-in access, house rules, 3–10 local picks with a line each, getting around, emergencies.
- 2. Pay $19. One checkout, no account, no subscription.
- 3. Share it. Copy the hosted-page URL into your check-in message, or print the page and leave it in the unit.
Who this is for
Solo and small-portfolio Airbnb / VRBO / direct-booking hosts with 1–5 listings, in the US, Canada, UK, AU, or NZ. People who would otherwise either send no guidebook at all (and answer the same questions on every booking), or maintain a half-finished Google Doc they've been meaning to clean up. Not built for property managers with ten or more listings — that's a different ICP.
Common questions
Will it add places I didn't list?
The writing is built from the facts in your form: your picks, your hospital, your transit notes. Before a guidebook is published we check that its local picks are exactly the ones you entered, by name and by count. Read it on your dashboard before you share it, and check codes, phone numbers and hospital details against what you know.
Is this a subscription?
No. Hostbook is a one-time $19 purchase per property, with no account to create.
Can I edit the guidebook later?
Not yet. The guidebook is generated once from your form; if the WiFi password changes, you would buy a new one ($19).
What's your refund policy?
Two ways you get a refund automatically, using the refund link in your delivery email: if our system flagged the guidebook as a generation failure (we couldn’t produce a guidebook from the facts you supplied), refunds are available for 90 days; or if our logs show you never opened your dashboard after delivery, refunds are available for 30 days. Anything else, email hostbook@forage.bot — we'll work it out case-by-case.
Can I take the hosted page down?
Yes — one click from your dashboard, immediate. The URL flips to a 404 right away. Anything you've already printed is in the wild, of course.