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Guesty

Guesty API

Short-Term Rental (STR) / Vacation Rental Property Management Software (PMS) · guesty.com

Guesty's Open API is a documented REST surface covering listings, reservations, calendar, messaging, and webhooks. It is self-serve for property managers, but Marketplace and OTA partners are barred and routed to commercial approval. OAuth tokens are capped at 5 per key per 24 hours.

Last verified: July 2026Real Estate & Property
API GRADE
C
VERIFIED JUL 2026

SCORECARD

ExistenceGOODDocumented Open API (REST) plus a separate Booking Engine API for building direct-booking sites.
AccessMIXEDSelf-serve for a property manager's own account; Marketplace and OTA partners are barred and must seek commercial approval.
CoverageMIXEDListings, reservations, calendar, and messages are covered; some reports, owner statements, and trust accounting need CSV export.
AuthGOODOAuth 2.0 client-credentials flow with 24-hour bearer tokens; issuance is capped at 5 tokens per key per day, so cache them.
Docs & DXPOORNo official SDK, and the sandbox does not always mirror production; some channel-sync edge cases only surface live.
StabilityPOORThe legacy v1 API was sunset in 2022-2023, breaking older integrations and forcing rewrites onto the Open API.
Supergood: Guesty has an API, with gaps. We cover what it's missing: stable endpoints, normalized JSON, managed auth.

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Guesty scores C on the API Report Card. Guesty's Open API is a documented REST surface covering listings, reservations, calendar, messaging, and webhooks. It is self-serve for property managers, but Marketplace and OTA partners are barred and routed to commercial approval. OAuth tokens are capped at 5 per key per 24 hours.

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Token generation capped at 5 per API key per 24 hours; partners who don't cache tokens get locked out for the rest of the day open-api-docs.guesty.com
Burst limit of ~15 concurrent requests; exceeding the limit causes rate-limit quotas to progressively decrease as further requests pile on open-api-docs.guesty.com
Marketplace/OTA partners explicitly prohibited from using the Open API, must go through commercial partner approval process to get appropriate API access open-api-docs.guesty.com
Legacy v1 API was sunsetted in favor of the Open API in 2022-2023, breaking older integrations and forcing rewrites help.guesty.com
Sandbox does not always mirror production behavior; some channel-sync edge cases only surface in production boldertechnologies.net
API does not expose all data shown in the Guesty UI; some reports, owner statements, and trust accounting data require CSV export g2.com
Webhook delivery occasionally drops events during high-volume periods; partners must reconcile via periodic polling open-api-docs.guesty.com
Documentation fragmented across open-api-docs.guesty.com, booking-api-docs.guesty.com, support.guesty.com, and help.guesty.com knowledge bases support.guesty.com
Per-account API isolation, partners building multi-tenant tools must collect Client ID/Secret per customer rather than using a single partner-app credential, unless they go through Marketplace partner program help.guesty.com
Steep pricing relative to SMB competitors; reservation fees plus seat/listing fees stack up for smaller portfolios g2.com
Customer support response times have degraded as the company scaled; tier-1 support often escalates without resolution capterra.com
Onboarding/migration is slow and error-prone; importing listings from previous PMS frequently loses historical reservation data trustpilot.com
Reporting is limited out of the box; financial reconciliation often requires custom CSV exports and external spreadsheets g2.com
Channel manager sync errors with Booking.com and Airbnb cause double-bookings during peak season capterra.com
Mobile app feels secondary to web; key workflows are missing or clunky on mobile g2.com
Frequent UI changes without notice break trained-staff workflows capterra.com
Acquisitions of YourPorter and others left product fragmentation (Lite vs Pro vs Enterprise tiers with different feature sets and pricing) lodgify.com
Owner statement / trust accounting features lag dedicated tools; many enterprise customers run a parallel accounting system g2.com