Manage Hostaway vacation-rental listings, calendars, reservations, guest conversations, reviews, tasks and financial reports.
Hostaway ships in the w6w first-party pack. It declares 21 actions, 4 health checks, and the host runs its code in a sandbox that never sees the credential.
io.w6w.hostawayHostaway is vacation-rental / property-management software: it sits between a host’s own listings and the channels they sell on (Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, Marriott, direct) and owns the calendar, the reservation, the guest conversation, the review and the money.
This app covers that operational surface end to end. Listings can be listed and searched (by city, country, contact, property type or name) and read or partially updated. A listing’s calendar can be read for a date range and updated in one call with a price/availability/stay-restriction interval. Reservations can be listed with the documented arrival/departure/date-type filters, read, created, updated and cancelled. Guest conversations can be listed and read, their messages listed, and a message sent (that endpoint is rate-limited to 30 requests per minute per account). Reviews can be listed with the documented filters and read individually, tasks listed and created, and the account’s static reference data — amenities and property types — can be read so a workflow can resolve the ids those writes expect. A financial standard report can be requested as CSV, gated on a doc-commented account feature.
Authentication is OAuth2 client credentials against Hostaway’s single public API version: the numeric Hostaway account ID and the account’s client secret are exchanged for a bearer token, so the app works in scheduled, unattended runs with no browser sign-in.
Health comes from the API itself rather than a status page, because Hostaway publishes none that exists: a signed GET /v1/users?limit=1 probe classified from Hostaway’s own status envelope, an unsigned probe of the same endpoint that proves the API is reachable when no credential is available, and a declared absence recording that no machine-readable Hostaway status surface exists.
Three routes to the same 21 actions. The Workflow tab is generated from Hostaway's own manifest and carries its real ids, so it is copy-pasteable; the Code and CLI examples are the same call for any action on any app, so every app-specific value in them is a blank you fill in.
cancel-reservation Cancel one reservation, recording whether the host or the guest cancelled.
get-finance-standard-report Download the standard financial report for a date range as CSV. Requires financial reporting to be enabled on the account.
get-reservation Show one reservation in full, including its cancellation policy snapshot.
list-conversation-messages List the messages in one conversation, newest state included.
list-listings List the account's listings, optionally filtered by city, country, contact name, property type or a name search.
list-property-types List the property type ids and names Hostaway accepts on a listing.
list-reservations List reservations, filtered by listing, channel, guest name or a date range.
list-reviews List guest and host reviews, filtered by listing, reservation, type, status or rating.
send-conversation-message Send a message in a guest conversation. Hostaway rate-limits this endpoint to 30 requests per minute per account.
update-calendar Update availability, price and stay restrictions for a date interval on one listing's calendar.
update-listing Partially update one listing's descriptive, pricing and policy fields.
update-reservation Update one reservation's dates, guests, pricing, notes or door code.
A workflow step names the app and the action, and the editor fills in the
connection when you pick one. This is the Step shape from the
workflow spec, carrying Hostaway's real ids.
{
"manifestVersion": "2",
"name": "hostaway-example",
"steps": [
{
"id": "create-reservation",
"uses": {
"app": "io.w6w.hostaway",
"action": "create-reservation",
"connection": "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID"
},
"with": {
"channelId": "<channelId>",
"listingMapId": "<listingMapId>",
"arrivalDate": "<arrivalDate>"
}
}
]
}create-reservation create-task get-calendar get-conversation get-finance-standard-report +16 more actions available
Every app-specific value here is a blank you have to fill in. An
app action is reached through the connection that authenticates it, so the
address is a connection id, not the app id — and connections belong to your account,
so a public page cannot know yours. Create one for Hostaway, then fill in
the three blanks: conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID, the action key, and the
parameters that action declares. The call itself is real — the shape is transcribed
from the studio's own snippet builder, which prints the same kind of blanks — but
nothing in it is specific to Hostaway. The Workflow tab is where this app's
real ids are.
npm install @w6w/sdkyarn add @w6w/sdkpnpm add @w6w/sdkdeno add npm:@w6w/sdkimport { W6wClient, isActionRun } from "@w6w/sdk";
// Reads W6W_BASE_URL and W6W_TOKEN from the environment when omitted.
const client = new W6wClient();
const envelope = await client.run({
urn: "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID",
action: "create-reservation",
payload: {
channelId: "<value>",
listingMapId: "<value>",
arrivalDate: "<value>",
departureDate: "<value>",
// guestName: "<value>",
// guestFirstName: "<value>",
// guestLastName: "<value>",
// guestEmail: "<value>",
// phone: "<value>",
// numberOfGuests: "<value>",
// adults: "<value>",
// children: "<value>",
// infants: "<value>",
// pets: "<value>",
// totalPrice: "<value>",
// currency: "<value>",
// cleaningFee: "<value>",
// taxAmount: "<value>",
// isPaid: "<value>",
// guestNote: "<value>",
// hostNote: "<value>",
// comment: "<value>",
// doorCode: "<value>",
// couponName: "<value>",
// forceOverbooking: "<value>",
// provider: "<value>",
},
});
if (isActionRun(envelope)) console.log(envelope.value); npm install -g @w6w/cli w6w run conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID --action create-reservation --payload '{"channelId":"<value>","listingMapId":"<value>","arrivalDate":"<value>","departureDate":"<value>"}' Give an AI agent Hostaway — without giving it Hostaway's credentials. One MCP endpoint exposes every app, function and workflow the caller is entitled to, as tools it can discover and run. Access is granted per team while we onboard.
One tool call{
"name": "w6w_invoke",
"arguments": {
"ref": "app:io.w6w.hostaway#create-reservation",
"input": {
"channelId": "<channelId>",
"listingMapId": "<listingMapId>",
"arrivalDate": "<arrivalDate>"
}
}
}
Every tool names its target with a single ref. The
app: form above doesn't name a connection at all — the
host resolves which of the caller's Hostaway connections to sign
with, and refuses rather than guesses when the answer is ambiguous.
The token is attached host-side, at the moment of the call. It is never a tool argument, never in the model's context, and never in a transcript — so a prompt injection has nothing to exfiltrate.
Tools are derived per end user from what that person has actually connected and is entitled to — not one shared bot identity carrying the union of everyone's access.
Multi-step work runs on the workflow engine and returns a run handle the agent can poll — retries, branching and state survive the conversation that started them.
Hostaway's declared health checks are on the surface too, so an agent can tell "the vendor is down" from "your credential expired" before it burns a retry on either.
The MCP surface is part of the hosted platform. Hostaway itself is MIT, and the runtime that executes it is source-available (FSL).
Hostaway declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.
No status page exists: status.hostaway.com does not resolve and hostaway.statuspage.io is an unclaimed subdomain that redirects to statuspage.io's own marketing site.
Signed GET /v1/users?limit=1, classified from Hostaway's own `status` envelope rather than the HTTP status code. Reports X-RateLimit-* headroom when a 429 carries it.
Unsigned GET /v1/users?limit=1. A well-formed {"status":"fail",...} envelope proves the API is reachable and speaking Hostaway's own protocol without proving this connection's credential is live — so this check is informational and never reports `down`.
Not exposed in advance: Hostaway documents fixed per-endpoint windows and states its X-RateLimit-* headers appear on 429 responses only, so headroom can only be read after a limit is hit (health/api.ts reports it there).