Question 1

What is Hostli?

Accepted Answer

Hostli replaces the agency retainer and the OTA commission with $100 a month flat, or a managed plan with a 2% to 2.2% success fee charged only on direct bookings we can show you. It builds complete Meta and Google campaigns from your reviews, photographs and booking data, and you approve each one from your phone. No laptop, no agency, no Meta Ads training. Available in English and Hebrew.

Question 2

How does Hostli help me increase direct bookings?

Accepted Answer

Every booking that lands on your own booking engine instead of an OTA keeps the 15% to 25% commission in your pocket. Hostli sends travellers straight to your site with a different ad for each guest type, so the message fits and the page converts. On Deluxe there is no success fee at all; on the managed plans it is 2% to 2.2%, charged once.

Question 3

Can the system help me reduce dependency on OTAs?

Accepted Answer

An OTA takes 15% to 25% of every stay it sends you. Hostli is $100 a month flat on Deluxe, or 2% to 2.2% on the managed plans, charged only on bookings it can show you by reservation ID. The gap between those two numbers is the margin you get back. Hostli builds and keeps running the Meta and Google campaigns that route travellers to your own booking engine, so the direct channel grows without you hiring anyone.

Question 4

Can I really manage everything from my phone?

Accepted Answer

A decision that takes a minute on your phone instead of an evening at a laptop is the hour you get back every week. Approving creatives, changing the daily budget, pausing a campaign and reading what the ads returned all happen in your mobile browser. A new campaign arrives as a notification, you see who it targets, and one tap sends it live.

Question 5

Do I need Meta Ads experience to use the system?

Accepted Answer

No, and that is the point: the specialist you would otherwise pay for is the platform. Hostli writes the copy, picks the photographs, chooses the audience and sets the daily budget from what is actually bringing bookings. Your only job is to tap Approve when the result looks right.

Question 6

How fast can I get started?

Accepted Answer

There is no onboarding retainer and no setup project, so the first live campaign costs you about 30 minutes of a phone. You connect your Meta Business account, share your website and grant access to your review profiles over WhatsApp. Hostli reads your photographs, reviews, logo and tone, builds the first campaign for the guests most likely to book, and it goes live minutes after your approval.

Question 7

Will this add more notifications to my team?

Accepted Answer

Fewer, not more. Interruptions cost staff time, so Hostli folds everything that can wait into one readable weekly digest and only pings you when money or a guest is actually waiting on you. The channels stay clear for real emergencies and the night shift reads the same summary the morning shift did.

Question 8

We already have an agency. Why do we need Hostli?

Accepted Answer

Keep the agency for strategy and let the platform do the part you pay a retainer for by the hour. Hostli adds what an agency rarely gives you: weekly competitor rate checks, guest personas built from your own bookings and daily budget guardrails, all for $100 a month flat on Deluxe. Many hotels run both, with full visibility of every shekel of ad spend.

Question 9

Can I work with Hostli alongside my current marketing agency?

Accepted Answer

Yes, and it usually shortens the agency's billable hours. Your agency can build ads, run the social calendar and pull market reports inside Hostli instead of from scratch. You see every campaign, every budget change and every booking the platform attributes, and you decide how much runs on autopilot.

Question 10

How is this different from boosting posts on Facebook?

Accepted Answer

A boosted post spends the same money on everyone and cannot tell you which booking it produced. Hostli builds a separate campaign per guest segment with its own creative, copy and targeting, pauses the weak ones and moves budget to the winners. The spend goes to the people who book, not to the whole feed.

Question 11

How does Hostli's pricing model work?

Accepted Answer

Compare it with the 15% to 25% an OTA takes: Deluxe is $100 a month flat with no success fee. Superior is $500 a month at 2.2% and Signature is $750 a month at 2%, charged only on direct bookings they can show you by reservation ID. Free costs nothing and carries no fees at all. Annual billing on Superior and Signature costs ten months for twelve.

Question 12

Are there any charges beyond the subscription?

Accepted Answer

On Deluxe, none: $100 a month flat. On Superior and Signature, one, and only when you earned something: a success fee of 2% to 2.2% on direct bookings we can show you, booking by booking. No per-click charges, no ad-management charges and nothing billed that cannot be traced to a reservation ID. In a month with no attributed booking you pay the monthly fee alone.

Question 13

How does the AI generate the campaigns?

Accepted Answer

A campaign built from your own data costs no brief, no draft round and no agency day rate. Hostli reads what guests wrote about you, chooses photographs by what is actually in the frame, checks where you sit against nearby hotels at a similar rate, and looks at which guest types already book with you. Out of that comes a different ad per guest type, each with its own image, tone, call to action, audience and starting budget.

Question 14

How does the AI choose which audience to target?

Accepted Answer

Ad money spent on people who never book is the most expensive line in a hotel's marketing. Hostli looks at who actually booked with you, when and for how much, works out which guest types are most likely to book again, and asks Meta and Google to find travellers who look like them. Every dollar of spend goes toward the guests your booking history says are yours.

Question 15

How do I make sure my ads reach people who will actually book?

Accepted Answer

Wasted impressions are wasted budget, so Hostli starts from your booking history rather than a list of interests. It watches what each ad brings back and moves the money toward whatever is producing bookings. More bookings from the same budget, less spend on the wrong people.

Question 16

How does Hostli decide what to spend each day?

Accepted Answer

The goal is a month's budget that lasts the month and buys bookings, not clicks. A few times a day Hostli asks what each campaign returned and what each booking cost. A campaign that pays for itself gets more of the day's budget while it is working; one that slips below your target, or where a booking starts costing more than it is worth, is slowed or stopped. Nobody on your team has to touch it.

Question 17

How does the system learn my hotel's voice?

Accepted Answer

Copy that sounds like your hotel converts; copy that sounds like a machine costs you the click you paid for. During setup Hostli reads your website, your property descriptions and your past guest replies, and picks up your vocabulary, tone, logo, colours and fonts. Every piece of content it produces afterwards is checked against that identity before you see it.

Question 18

Where do the ad images come from?

Accepted Answer

From your own photographs, which means no stock licence and no shoot to pay for. Hostli scores your library for what is in the frame and how well it fits your brand, then picks the shots most likely to earn the click. Your logo, colours and any brand rules are applied automatically, and every generated visual is marked as such.

Question 19

Should I show the same ad to every guest?

Accepted Answer

One ad for everyone means paying to reach people with a message that was not written for them. Hostli reads your reviews by guest origin to find what each market praises, and builds campaigns in the language and with the angle that market responds to. The same budget buys a more relevant ad in every country you sell to.

Question 20

What should I post on social media?

Accepted Answer

Organic posts are the cheapest bookings you will ever get, and they only cost time, which is what Hostli removes. The content calendar drafts posts from local events, holidays and fresh reviews, and schedules them to Instagram and Facebook. Bookings your analytics attributes to that channel are billed at your plan's success fee, and nothing else.

Question 21

Can I schedule routine social media posts?

Accepted Answer

Yes, in one tap, and the calendar keeps itself full so the channel never goes quiet and stops earning. Hostli spots triggers such as a glowing review or an upcoming holiday and turns them into a ready post, and it publishes when your audience is actually online.

Question 22

How does the system help with online reviews?

Accepted Answer

A review answered quickly, in your voice, is worth more than most ads and costs no media budget. Hostli brings Google, OTA and Meta reviews into one inbox, drafts a reply in your tone for you to approve, reads the sentiment against nearby hotels, and can turn a strong review into a campaign.

Question 23

What is the benefit of Competition Intel?

Accepted Answer

Being priced above the market without knowing it costs you the bookings that go next door. Hostli checks the rates and reviews of the hotels around you every week, tells you when you are out of line, and suggests what to change: the message, the offer, or a piece of added value such as breakfast.

Question 24

My campaign only brought in 3 bookings. Did it fail?

Accepted Answer

Not if those three stays cover what the campaign spent, which is the number Hostli shows you. A hotel stay is a large purchase, so it also counts the smaller signals on the way there, such as a date check or a visit to the booking page, and keeps improving the campaign while the booking count is still small.

Question 25

Does Hostli function as a Hotel CRM?

Accepted Answer

Yes, and a guest you can reach again is a booking you do not pay commission on twice. Hostli keeps booking history, groups guests into personas and puts every conversation from WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook and Google in one inbox on your phone.

Question 26

Which platforms does Hostli connect with?

Accepted Answer

Every integration is included in the plan, so nothing is bought or built separately. Hostli connects to Meta (Facebook and Instagram) and Google Business for advertising and local presence, and to your booking engine, OTA channels and PMS, including Optima PMS, Mini-Hotel, SimpleBooking and Simplex, so bookings can be attributed one by one.

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Demand moves from their listing to your page

60%+ more back on every ad dollar¹, alongside their existing agency

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Real-Time Budget Guard

Competitive Intelligence

One Guest Inbox

Reputation, Handled

Reporting You Can Argue With

An entire marketing team, in your pocket

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