How Hostshare works
Your listing pays for
the trips you take.
That's it — hosts travel using the nights their listing earns. No nightly rates, ever.
How the exchange works: your travel balance starts at 2 nights. Another host stays 3 nights at your listing, depositing 3 nights into your balance for a total of 5. You then book a 4-night trip at a member home in Tuscany, paying no nightly rate — your balance ends at 1 night.
The whole loop, in three steps
Step 01
List your home
Connect your listing in minutes. It stays on every platform you already use — Hostshare only touches the nights you choose to share.
Step 02
Hosts stay, you earn
When another member books one of your shared nights, that night lands in your travel balance. No cash changes hands.
Step 03
You travel on nights
Spend your balance at any member home in 55+ countries. One earned night books one night — no nightly rate, ever.
Two ways to get started
Earn your way in, or buy in up front.
Most hosts pick a path based on how soon they want to travel. Start free and build a balance over time, or commit annually and travel right away.
Earn as you host
Start with 3 free nights just for listing. Earn more every time another host books your place. No annual commitment — your travel balance builds over time as your listing gets used.
- Free to list. Starter-level plans from $0
- Earn travel nights on completed stays
- No annual share contract
- Best if you want to try it before committing to a plan
Commit to share
Pledge a block of shareable nights upfront and get a generous travel balance the day you sign up. Use it for trips you book this month — no need to host first and wait to earn them.
- Annual plans from $299
- 11–21+ nights credited at signup
- Service-fee credits included
- Best if you already know where you want to go
Earning travel
Every shared night earns travel.
The rate you earn depends on the value and demand of your listing. Share your home when it suits you to fund your own getaways.
Cozy studio
Austin, TX
Example scenario:Sharing 6 nights a month gets you ~3 travel nights.
Family cabin
Catskills, NY
Example scenario:Sharing 6 nights a month gets you ~6 travel nights.
Luxury villa
Tulum, MX
Example scenario:Sharing 6 nights a month gets you ~12 travel nights.
Spending is always simple.
The rate only applies when you earn. Once you have a travel night, its value is universal across the platform.
Earning pace varies with market demand, season, and how many nights you choose to share. Your travel balance never expires.
Protected by design
Up to 200
blockout nights.
You decide which ones.
Hostshare is opt-in. Nothing gets shared unless you choose it. Reserve up to 200 nights a year for the dates that actually book for you — peak season, holidays, big local events — and decide what to do with the rest.
- Protect peak weekends and holidaysYour highest-revenue dates stay yours
- Lock down big local eventsFestivals, graduations, finals weekends
- Only share what you want to shareYou review every night before it goes live
What a booking costs
The same trip, priced two ways.
Same home, same dates — compared line for line. Your earned nights cover the biggest expense; the rest is cleaning plus a small cut of what you saved.
Regular booking site
Pay for every night, plus fees
- $340 × 5 nights
- $1,700
- Cleaning
- $180
- Service fee
- $281
Total
$2,161
Hostshare · Starter member
Use earned nights to cover the nightly rate
- $340 × 5 nights
- Covered by 5 nights
- Cleaning (paid to host)
- $180
- Service (15% of savings)
- $297
You pay
$477
— You save on this trip
$1,684
78% offvs $2,161 on a regular booking site. Our fee is a slice of what you save — we only win when you do.
Our cabin sat empty forty weekends a year. Last year those empty nights paid for two weeks in Portugal and a ski trip — we never opened our wallet for a room.
Maya & Tom R.
Hosts in the Catskills, NY · Members since 2024
Hosts like you, everywhere
A network built by hosts, for hosts.
Every home on Hostshare belongs to a member who hosts too — people who care for a place the way they'd want theirs cared for.
- Countries with member homes
- 55+
- Countries with member homes
- Average member stay rating
- 4.8/5
- Average member stay rating
- Nightly rates paid by hosts
- 0
- Nightly rates paid by hosts
Common questions
The things hosts ask first.
Ready when you are
Your empty nights are worth more than you think.
Start free. Connect a listing and see how many travel nights it would earn in your next quarter.
