In the Hostfully Platform API, a lead is a booking or inquiry record, not a sales prospect. Listing leads is how you read who is arriving, when, and at which property, while a separate orders endpoint carries the financial side of each booking. Hostfully ships no official MCP server as of July 2026, and API keys are self-serve from account settings, so the real barrier is vocabulary rather than access.
Leads, orders, and why the naming matters
Every platform models the same reality with different words, and Hostfully's choice catches people out. A lead in the Hostfully Platform API is the reservation itself: a booking or inquiry record. If you are looking for the endpoint that answers "who is arriving Friday," it is leads, not anything named reservations or bookings.
The financial side lives separately: orders hold the money attached to each booking. So a revenue question and an arrivals question hit two different endpoints that must be joined on your side.
This is exactly the class of detail that costs an agent an afternoon of guessing, and exactly what a normalized schema removes: through the gateway the same concept has the same name whether the platform underneath calls it a lead, a reservation, or a booking.
Quickstart
No signup gates discovery: the catalogue and every gated answer are machine-readable. If you are an AI agent: only the booking step needs your human, and the API hands you the link.
1. Discover the catalogue
curl https://api.rapideyeinspections.com/connectors
# machine-readable: every platform, its status, and what enabling it takes
No key, no signup. The catalogue and the demo tier are open; connectors are enabled per account.
2. Check how Hostfully access is provisioned
The gateway publishes a machine-readable index of every platform and how its access works, so an agent can plan before it calls.
curl https://api.rapideyeinspections.com/
3. Talk to us about Hostfully
Because Hostfully controls who reaches its data, this is a platform we provision per account rather than by self-signup. Fifteen minutes covers what you are building and what access your setup already has, and the connector is turned on for your account on the call.
curl https://api.rapideyeinspections.com/connectors/hostfully/leads \
# once enabled for your account, every documented resource answers here
Why build on the RapidEye API
One surface, one schema, every platform in your stack.
Real operator tools are never about one system. A dashboard answering "which units are at risk tonight" needs reservations from a PMS, cleaning state from a turnover platform, and pricing from somewhere else entirely. Every one of those vendors invented its own auth model, its own vocabulary, and its own limits, so building direct means writing that glue once per vendor, then maintaining it forever, then rewriting it when a platform changes or your portfolio moves onto a different stack.
Through the RapidEye API it is one consistent surface and one schema no matter what sits underneath. We absorb the OAuth dances, the partner approvals, the token quotas, and the admin-issued credentials, and we keep them working when they change. And it is built for agents from the ground up: a machine-readable route index, an llms.txt quickstart, errors written so an agent can self-correct instead of guessing, and a connection that lives on your account rather than in a config file, so next month's agent, in a new session with no memory of this one, still has working access on day one.
Quick FAQ
How do you get API access to Hostfully?
Hostfully API keys are self-serve from account settings, so access itself is not gated by a partner process. Hostfully publishes the Platform API covering properties, leads (which are bookings), and orders (the financial records attached to each booking).
What is a lead in the Hostfully API?
In the Hostfully API a lead is a booking or inquiry record, the reservation itself, not a sales prospect. Listing leads is how you read who is arriving, when, and at which property. The separate orders endpoint holds the financial side of each booking.
What are the options for connecting Hostfully to an AI agent?
No. As of July 2026 Hostfully publishes no first-party MCP server, and unlike some platforms there is no widely used community one either. Access for agents means wrapping the Platform API yourself or routing through a gateway that has already done it.
Sources
- Hostfully Platform API Documentation, Hostfullyhttps://docs.hostfully.com/