For short-term rental managers
Owner trust accounting that actually ties out.
Pay every owner to the penny, stay audit-ready, and answer “where’s my money?” in one click — without a $250/mo enterprise tool or a full-time bookkeeper.
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Owner statement
You manage properties — and other people’s money
The money side is where management gets scary
Operations tools handle the bookings. Almost nothing handles the part that keeps you up at night: the owners’ money.
Every month you carve your fee, cleaning, lodging tax, and reserves out of guest payments, then pay each owner their share — per property, per owner. Miss by a dollar and the emails start.
Guest payments → channel payouts → owner statements → your bank. Reconciling it by hand in spreadsheets never quite balances, and it eats a weekend a month.
You’re holding other people’s money. Commingle it or botch the accounting and it’s your license on the line — not just an annoyed owner.
Too big for spreadsheets, too small for a $250+/mo enterprise trust tool or a full-time bookkeeper. And QuickBooks can’t do per-owner sub-ledgers without a fight.
What hostli does
Real trust accounting, made effortless
Everything you already track — payments, expenses, taxes, statements — feeding a real double-entry trust ledger, so the hard part happens on its own.
Double-entry trust ledger
Every dollar is traceable to an owner, a reserve, lodging tax, or your management fee — the real accounting under the hood, not a spreadsheet dressed up.
Owner statements that tie to the penny
Generate reconciled statements for every owner in one pass, straight from the ledger — so the number you send is the number that’s true.
Three-way reconciliation
Trust cash = what you owe owners + reserves + lodging tax + your fees. The check auditors and state trust rules look for, run automatically.
Per-owner reserves
Set a target, hold from each statement, and auto-draw the reserve down on a negative month so an owner is never left owing — with a clean audit trail.
An owner portal
Owners see their balance, reserve, and statements themselves — so they stop emailing you to ask where their money is.
Bank feeds + smart reconciliation
Connected bank and card activity is matched to what you’ve already recorded (no duplicates), so the books stay current without manual entry.
Built for the 5–40 unit manager the big tools ignore
The enterprise trust platforms start around $250/mo and are built for large operators. The free host apps can’t touch owner accounting at all. hostli is built for the underserved middle — affordable, automated, and white-label ready so it can carry your brand to your owners.
Be one of our first manager design partners
We’re onboarding a small group of STR managers to shape this with us. We’ll set it up with your real numbers, white-glove, and generate your owner statements in front of you — you tell us where we’re wrong.