List your property — Guesty to VillaTracker
Share your Guesty portfolio with VillaTracker.
If you manage your portfolio through Guesty, you can connect to the Smiling House channel directly from the Guesty Marketplace. Open the Smiling House listing, select the properties you would like to distribute, and your content, rates and availability sync automatically. Smiling House is request-to-book, so you keep the final say on every reservation.
This page is for professional property managers who already use Guesty. In a few minutes, you can put your finest homes in front of an audience most channels never reach.
Read the setup guideOn a different system?
Smiling House connects to every major property management stack. If part of your portfolio lives elsewhere, these connections work the same way.
Why partner with Smiling House
Affluent, high-intent guests
Our travellers actively seek exceptional private homes and the service that surrounds them. These are discerning guests ready to book the right property, not casual browsers.
Higher booking values
Luxury stays command premium nightly rates and longer bookings, so each reservation tends to carry more value than a typical short-term rental.
Homes & Villas by Marriott distribution
As a preferred partner of Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy, we extend your reach to one of the most trusted affluent audiences in global travel.
Villa Tracker B2B exposure
Your homes are also promoted through Villa Tracker, our B2B platform, reaching travel designers, luxury agents and concierges who source private stays for high-budget clients.
You keep control
Because Smiling House works request-to-book, you keep control and the high-touch relationship your properties deserve. Every reservation is confirmed by you.
Deliberately selective
Smiling House is deliberately selective, which is exactly what protects the value of the channel — homes of five or more rooms with breathtaking settings, private luxury amenities and beyond-five-star hospitality.
Request to book, or Instant Book
Every Smiling House partner starts on request-to-book: a guest asks, you decide. Instant Book is optional, and you can turn it on or off at any time, for one property or all of them. The only thing that changes is who confirms the reservation — your rates, your calendar and your house rules stay yours in both.
| How it works | Request to book | Instant Book |
|---|---|---|
| Who confirms | You do. Every reservation waits for your approval. | Your rules do. A qualified guest confirms and pays in real time. |
| What the guest sees | They send a request, then wait for your answer. | They book the way they would a fine hotel — confirmed on the spot. |
| Your calendar | Nothing is blocked until you accept. | Blocked the moment a booking confirms, synced straight back to your PMS. |
| What it asks of you | A prompt reply. The longer a request sits, the more of them fall away. | Nothing day to day — but your pricing and availability have to be right. |
| Best suited to | Homes with staff to brief, bespoke terms, or tight turnarounds. | Homes with settled pricing and availability you already trust. |
| Changing your mind | Turn Instant Book on whenever you are ready. | Turn it off at any time, per property or across your portfolio. |
How to enable Smiling House in Guesty
Open the Guesty Marketplace
Log in to Guesty and open the Smiling House listing on the Guesty Marketplace.
Select your properties
Choose the homes you would like to distribute to Smiling House.
Submit for review and sync
Submit for review. On approval, your listings, rates and availability sync automatically, and you manage everything from Guesty as usual.
Setup guide — connect Guesty to VillaTracker
Guesty stays your system of record throughout. You tell us about your portfolio, our team activates the connection for your Guesty account, and from then on your listings, rates, availability and calendars sync automatically.
There is no API build, no developer time and no duplicate admin on your side.
Before you begin
- An active Guesty account containing the properties you would like to distribute.
- Complete, publish-ready listings — photography, descriptions, amenities, capacity and house rules.
- An accurate address and postcode on every property. Missing location data is the single most common reason a home is held back at review.
- Rates loaded as your net rates. Smiling House applies its own margin on top, so the figure you set is the figure you are paid.
Complete the Guesty onboarding form
Use the form on this page to tell us about your company and the homes you would like to distribute. Include your Guesty account details so we can identify your portfolio.
We activate the connection
Our onboarding team sets up the connection to your Guesty account and confirms the commercial terms with you. Nothing is published while this is in progress.
We never ask for your Guesty login. If anyone asks you for your Guesty password, it is not us — contact partners@smilinghouse.ch.
Curation review
Our team reviews the imported homes against our collection standards, typically within a few business days. We confirm the outcome for each property, so you always know where each one stands.
Sync and go live
Approved homes go live on Smiling House and Villa Tracker. Your listings, rates, availability and calendars sync from Guesty automatically, and you manage everything from Guesty as usual. Most Guesty partners are live within days.
Need help?
How long does onboarding take?
Most Guesty partners are live within days. The connection itself is quick; the time is usually spent on curation review and confirming commercial terms. Our team supports you through the whole process.
Some of my properties are not live
Only homes that meet our collection standards are published — five or more rooms, generous space, tasteful design, private luxury amenities, a strong setting and beyond-five-star hospitality. Incomplete content or a missing address and postcode are the most common practical reasons. We confirm the outcome for each property.
The prices on Smiling House are higher than my Guesty rates
That is expected. You load net rates in Guesty and the guest-facing price includes our margin; your payout is the net rate you set. If a price looks wrong rather than simply higher, contact the partnerships team and we will check the mapping.
How do I add or remove properties later?
Email partners@smilinghouse.ch with the homes you would like to add or withdraw and we will update the connection. New properties go through the same curation review; withdrawn ones stop being distributed, and confirmed reservations are unaffected.
Questions, answered
How does the Guesty connection work?
Smiling House is a native channel on the Guesty Marketplace. You enable it from within Guesty, select the properties you would like to distribute, and the integration handles the rest — listing content, photos, rates and availability all flow from Guesty automatically, with no separate extranet to maintain.
Who approves my properties, and how long does it take?
After you submit your properties through Guesty, our curation team reviews them against our collection standards, typically within a few business days. We will confirm once your homes are approved and the connection is live, so you always know where each property stands.
Do I keep control of pricing and availability?
Yes. You continue to manage rates and availability in Guesty, and they sync automatically to Smiling House. Because we operate request-to-book, every reservation is confirmed by you, so you retain full control over who stays in your homes.
What does it cost to list through Guesty?
Smiling House works on a transparent, commission-based model, so there is no upfront fee to connect. Exact terms depend on your properties and setup, and our team will walk you through them before anything goes live.
How often do rates and availability sync?
Continuously. Guesty pushes updates to the Smiling House channel whenever you change rates, availability or content, so there is no manual re-entry and no second calendar to maintain. Changes typically reflect on Smiling House shortly after you make them.
Ready to connect?
Enabling the Smiling House channel in Guesty takes just a few minutes. Complete the signup form to get started, and our team will review your properties and confirm your connection.