Agency

"The retainer goes out every month. The new ad takes three weeks"

A retainer is a fixed cost that does not know whether last month was full or empty. On top of it sits a briefing cycle: the call, the draft, the round of comments, the second draft. By the time the ad is live, the weekend it was meant for has passed. The cost is the retainer. The bigger cost is the weeks.

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The budget pacing itself against real bookings. Drag the gauge to see the daily spend move.

An agency sells you hours. The platform sells you the outcome and keeps the hours for itself.

What it costs

No retainer. $100 a month flat on Deluxe, or a managed plan with a person on your side and 2% to 2.2% on the direct bookings we can show you, booking by booking. Many hotels keep their agency for brand work and hand the daily running to Hostli.

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Questions hoteliers ask about this

The questions hotels with an agency ask first.

We already have an agency. Why do we need Hostli?

Keep the agency for strategy and let the platform do the part you pay a retainer for by the hour. Hostli adds what an agency rarely gives you: weekly competitor rate checks, guest personas built from your own bookings and daily budget guardrails, all for $100 a month flat on Deluxe. Many hotels run both, with full visibility of every shekel of ad spend.

Can I work with Hostli alongside my current marketing agency?

Yes, and it usually shortens the agency's billable hours. Your agency can build ads, run the social calendar and pull market reports inside Hostli instead of from scratch. You see every campaign, every budget change and every booking the platform attributes, and you decide how much runs on autopilot.

How does Hostli's pricing model work?

Compare it with the 15% to 25% an OTA takes: Deluxe is $100 a month flat with no success fee. Superior is $500 a month at 2.2% and Signature is $750 a month at 2%, charged only on direct bookings they can show you by reservation ID. Free costs nothing and carries no fees at all. Annual billing on Superior and Signature costs ten months for twelve.

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See it on your own property

Connect your hotel and Hostli builds the first campaign, the first replies and the first audit from your own data. Nothing publishes until you say so.