A direct booking platform for hostels and hostel networks

HostelSnap provides modern booking engines for hostels, hostel directories, and hostel associations. Launch an OTA-style booking experience on your website, control your inventory and guest relationships, and earn commissions from bookings made through your platform.

HostelSnap technology powers websites like Hosteling.US and many indivdual hostels.

Choose HostelSnap if you only need a website booking engine to accept direct bookings for your hostel.

No Monthly Fee
Dorm pricing as low as 10¢ per guest overnight.*
Private rooms $.50 per roomnight*

Choose HostelSnap Full if you want a full PMS system with a booking engine for direct bookings on your hostel website.

No Monthly Fee
Dorm pricing as low as 15¢ per guest overnight.*
Private rooms $.50 per roomnight*

For many years, HostelSnap has integrated with the MyAllocator channel manager to synchronize rates and availability across multiple booking channels.

Recently, Cloudbeds, the parent company of MyAllocator, discontinued the availability of MyAllocator as a stand-alone product. As a result, many PMS systems that previously integrated with MyAllocator will no longer function unless the hostel already has an existing MyAllocator account.

For the hostel industry, we believe Cloudbeds' decision to discontinue MyAllocator raises several concerns:

It reduces the number of PMS choices available to hostel owners.
It limits interoperability between independent software platforms.
It pushes hostels toward a single vendor ecosystem that may not fit every property's needs or budget.

Many smaller hostels rely on simple and affordable technology stacks rather than large PMS systems. Removing the stand-alone channel manager option makes it harder for these properties to remain competitive unless they adopt the Cloudbeds PMS.

We also believe this decision contradicts earlier statements by Cloudbeds leadership that MyAllocator would remain a platform-agnostic channel manager when Cloudbeds acquired the company. See our interview with CEO Adam Harris here.

We believe the hostel industry benefits from open platforms and healthy competition between software providers.

If you share these concerns, you may wish to communicate your feedback directly to Cloudbeds.

Important: If your hostel already has an existing MyAllocator account, we can still onboard you to the HostelSnap PMS and connect it to MyAllocator.

Schedule a demo to see how the HostelSnap PMS can integrate with your existing MyAllocator account and support your hostel

Reservation Rules

Like most PMS systems, HostelSnap (when configured in PMS mode) will automatically enter reservations for channels you have connected to Myallocator. When Myallocator sync has been set up, the processing of importing reservations is automatic so you DO NOT need to enter those reservations sources here.

However, it’s likely that your hostel receives reservations from sources that can not easily be connected through Myallocator or you don't want to connect through Myallocator. These are the reservations that will need to be manually entered by your staff.

This page allows you to set up reservation rules for each source of bookings at your hostel. Each rule will specify:

1. How much advance payment is required from the guest

2. Who the advance payment is paid to (the hostel or a 3rd party reservation partner)

3. And, if the advance payment goes to a 3rd party reservation partner, how much that partner will share the advance payment with you.

You can be as detailed as you want when setting up reservation rules. However, for clarity in your reservation source reports, we recommend adding a separate reservation rule for each source of reservation at your hostel. For example, you may later find it useful to have a separate date for telephone reservations and in-person reservations even though you may have the same advance payment requirements for both.

Detailed Information about Reservation Rules

Hopefully, your hostel is receiving reservations from a variety of different sources. Some of these reservations will be the result of your hostel's own marketing efforts and some will be from 3rd party booking engines and other sources (for ex. other hostels). If the reservation is not generated directly by your hostel, these sources are called "Reservation Partners". Usually, each reservation source will have different rules for collecting deposits from guests. For some reservations your hostel may receive 100% of the first nights payment. At other times, your reservation partners may collect a 10% deposit that your hostel will never receive.

To add a new reservation source rule, click the "Add Reservation Rule" button.

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