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 "schema_version": "1.0",
 "id": "guesty",
 "name": "Guesty",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "guesty.com",
 "category": "Operations & Workflow",
 "task": null,
 "summary": "Property management for short-term and vacation rentals: bookings, guest messaging, channel distribution and pricing in one dashboard. Heavy for a single listing.",
 "best_for": "hosts with 1-3 listings starting on Guesty Lite (~$9/mo + ~1% per reservation) who may grow into the full property-management platform",
 "skip_if": "you want quote-free scaling: Pro and Enterprise are custom-priced, so growth means a sales conversation",
 "honest_knock": "Pricing runs higher than leaner rivals, onboarding has a learning curve, and some users flag support: it earns its keep at scale, but it's heavy for a single listing.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "see_details",
  "entry_price": null,
  "entry_price_terms": null,
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(price re-verified 2026-09-22 against the vendor's own pricing page and the Guesty Lite package page, read from a Dutch exit) Guesty Lite is $9/mo PER LISTING plus 1% per reservation in 34 named markets, for 1-3 listings; Pro covers 4-199 listings and Enterprise 200+, both quote-only. 14-day free trial of Lite, no credit card. NOTHING CHANGED in the geo table since 31 Aug 2026, value for value. READING NOTE: guesty.com/pricing shows no price at all in the served HTML -- the plan-price divs are empty and are filled in the browser from a geoPricing payload. That payload: a 34-country group (US, GB, AU, NZ, CA, MX, BE, CR, HR, DK, HU, IS, IE, JP, PH, SI, ZA, SE, TH, AR, PE, CO, CY, MT, VI, KY, AT, DE, BR, GR, IL, IT, ES, FR) at $9 annual AND $9 monthly, note '+1% per reservation | Including PriceOptimizer'; group2 (SA, KR, CZ) $20/$29; group3 (SK, RO, BG) $18/$26; group4 (LV, LT, EE, TR, SV, GT, HN, NI, PA, BO, CL, EC, GY, PY, SR, UY, VE, ID, MY, KH, LA, VN, IN, BZ) $16/$23; group1 $24/$34 with an EMPTY country list, so no country is priced into it; fallback for every unlisted country $27 annual / $39 monthly, and that fallback is the only entry carrying a sale tag ('Save 30%!'). The Netherlands is not named; Belgium is. SECOND, DIFFERENT PRICE SET on the same domain: guesty.com/packages/guesty-lite/ shows three static Lite cards -- 'Pay as you grow' from $9/mo per listing with 'Per listing + 1% per reservation' and PriceOptimizer included; 'Annual' from $20/mo per listing, tagline 'Save up to <s>30%</s> 50%' with a 'Limited time offer' flag; 'Monthly' from $29/mo per listing, '100% Flexibility'. Only the $9 card carries a percentage line. VENDOR SELF-CONTRADICTION, confirm before relying: the geo note reads '+1% per reservation | Including PriceOptimizer' while the feature table on the same page lists Guesty PriceOptimizer as an 'Add-on' on Lite, Pro and Enterprise alike; and the FAQ says 'The monthly plan is not discounted, so if you are looking to save, we recommend the annual plan' while the $9 group pays the same number either way. Add-ons rather than inclusions on Pro: Trust Accounting, GuestyPay, Fraud & Chargeback Management, GuestVerify, Damage Protection, Liability Coverage. Lite excludes owner management and the owners portal, rate strategies and promotions, phone support and a dedicated CSM, and processes payments through Stripe only. Also on the pricing page: a Guesty Ultimate bundle advertised at 'Save 40%' with 25% off Damage Protection and 25% off Guest Communication Services. Vendor's own numbers on the Lite page: hosts 'increase their revenue by an average of +28.5% in their first year', 500K+ listings managed.",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-22",
  "source_url": null,
  "schema_offer": null,
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": {
   "status": "stable",
   "tracked_since": "2026-09-14",
   "last_read": "2026-11-12",
   "read_days": 11,
   "stable": {
    "since": "2026-09-14",
    "until": "2026-11-12",
    "reads": 11,
    "days": 59
   },
   "changes": [],
   "method": "Stable = every amount on the vendor's pricing page identical across >= 3 of our reads over >= 30 days. A change is listed only after we confirmed the new price on the page, with a verbatim quote. Differences in raw readings are never published on their own."
  }
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "addons_extra",
   "label": "Key features are paid add-ons",
   "evidence": "VENDOR SELF-CONTRADICTION, confirm before relying: the geo note reads '+1% per reservation | Including PriceOptimizer' while the feature table on the same page lists Guesty PriceOptimizer as an 'Add-on' on Lite, Pro and Enterprise alike; and the FAQ says 'The monthly plan is not discounted, so if you are looking to save, we recommend the annual plan' while the $9 group pays the same number either way.",
   "verified_at": "2026-09-22",
   "source_url": null
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Hostaway / Hospitable / Lodgify",
  "why": "leaner, cheaper rivals"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/guesty.json",
  "review": "https://officesoftwaremarketplace.com/guesty-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/guesty/",
  "vendor_site": "https://guesty.com"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://join.guesty.com/hbsivmn3jiqk",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Pricing status is 'see_details': no single public entry price.",
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "guesty:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "guesty:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "guesty:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "guesty:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_found",
   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}