Lodgify

The case for a direct-booking site is straightforward: no channel commission. The part nobody mentions is that the channel was also doing work for you — surfacing the listing, holding the conversation, setting the guest’s expectation about response time.

When the booking is direct, all of that is yours. An enquiry that sits unanswered for six hours on your own site is not a booking somebody else gets a commission on; it is a booking that simply does not happen.

Connecting Lodgify puts those conversations in front of an AI that answers immediately, in your voice, from the real availability and details of the property being asked about. The commission saving survives contact with the fact that you also have a life.

Once Lodgify is connected, ProhostAI works from its listings and bookings.

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• Sync listings and bookings Properties and reservations from Lodgify — direct and channel — come across with their details.
• Answer from live availability Enquiries get a real answer about real dates rather than a promise to check. "Is the villa free the last week of July for six people?"

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• Answer enquiries fast The AI replies to direct-site enquiries in your voice, at any hour.
• Schedule the work A confirmed booking becomes a clean and the tasks around it.

Lodgify connects with an API key from your Lodgify account, so ProhostAI never sees your password.

1. In Lodgify, generate an API key from Settings → Public API.
2. Open ProhostAI and go to Settings → Connections.
3. Search for Lodgify, select Connect, and paste the key.
4. Wait for the first sync to finish, then check that your listings and upcoming reservations look right.

• Lodgify stays the booking engine and the website. ProhostAI works from its data rather than replacing it.
• The first sync takes a few minutes; bookings arrive before the full message history.
• Direct enquiries are where speed pays most. If you only turn Autopilot on for one thing, make it those.
• Disconnecting stops the sync and changes nothing in Lodgify.