Company Profile (AI Text)
Name: Stayful
Canonical URL: https://wefunder.com/stayful
Updated at: 2026-06-02T05:00:04Z

Tagline: Zenefits meets Priceline for independent hotels. 
Description: What they do: Started by the former President of Hotels.com, Stayful helps you book hotels right from your phone at the guaranteed lowest price.  But it’s the independent hotels that make up 80% of the market that really love it.  Stayful gives away free hotel management software that only the big hotels can afford to build in-house.  In return, hotels provide their entire customer list to Stayful, helping them grow 20% month over month since launch. Why it’s a big deal: Stayful’s star team has built the first real innovation in the hotel industry since Priceline. Hotel room sales is broken; independent hotels are beholden to sites like Hotels.com and Expedia that handle 75% of all hotel bookings and charge small hotels 25% of every sale. Stayful CEO, Cheryl Rosner, took Hotels.com public before turning her efforts to level the playing field for independent hotels. These independent hotels make up 80% of the market, but don’t have the scale to negotiate lower fees from large distributors. With Stayful, small hotels get software they could never build themselves in exchange for their customer lists--and customers get the lowest room rates online. What Zenefits has done for small businesses with free HR and insurance software, Stayful is doing for independent hotels.

Key claims:
- Total raised on Wefunder: 514301 | citation: https://wefunder.com/stayful#claim-total-raised
- Total investors: 81 | citation: https://wefunder.com/stayful#claim-total-investors

Verified facts:
- Total raised on Wefunder: 514301 | observed_at: 2026-06-02T05:00:04Z | expires_at: 2026-06-03T05:00:04Z
- Total investors: 81 | observed_at: 2026-06-02T05:00:04Z | expires_at: 2026-06-03T05:00:04Z

Computed metrics:
- total_amount_raised: 514301
- total_investors: 81
- team_size: 6
- featured_investor_count: 0
- faq_count: 5
- recent_post_count: 0

Quick facts:
- 144,000 users and 346 hotel partners. | citation: https://wefunder.com/stayful#claim-fact-1
- 20% user growth month/month since launch. | citation: https://wefunder.com/stayful#claim-fact-2
- Real growth will come when new software released in Q4. | citation: https://wefunder.com/stayful#claim-fact-3
- 1st hotel experience app built for independent hotels. | citation: https://wefunder.com/stayful#claim-fact-4
- Software free in exchange for new customers. CAC ~$0. | citation: https://wefunder.com/stayful#claim-fact-5
- Investors include executives at Kayak, Hotwire & Hotels.com. | citation: https://wefunder.com/stayful#claim-fact-8

FAQ:
- Q: Can you provide more detail about the back-end portion of the software you provide- how robust are the tools that you are providing the hotels(maybe a screenshot would capture this) and is this software used in other aspects of hotel operation that are non-revenue generating f...
  A: Hi Darren, I am a little unclear on your question. Perhaps this is something that can be taken offline with either Shariq or me? emails for us are cheryl@stayful.com, shariq@stayful.com.
- Q: I wanted to see if your system is integrated in the Property Management System (PMS) or if its a independent system? If the reservation doesnt automatically deduct from the inventory, there may be issues with overbooking and not knowing about it.
  A: Thanks, Raymond, great question. We are independent of the PMS. We sell run-of-house (ROH) free-sell. We update the inventory every 15 minutes, the rest is secret sauce which either me or Shariq can walk you through.
- Q: Your slide deck projects a growth of over 900% in 2016. What metrics or indicators are you looking at to justify this lofty projection?
  A: Out plan is guided by the hotel sales momentum and which drives our consumer growth. Our new market expansion is driven by actual registered user searches and requests for markets we are not yet operating.
- Q: Hello, I was going to add a 5 star boutique hotel that I own in Costa Rica in order to test out the backend system but then I noticed that you only have hotels in the USA, Canada, and the UK. Do you have any plans on adding any international destinations?
  A: Hi Antoine, we are expanding further into Europe next based on customer requests. Currently, we have a significant % of user searches for destinations we are not yet operating. Our user searches become a roadmap for opening new destinations.
- Q: Can you disclose the number of bookings with 140K+ users and the most recent revenue numbers?
  A: Hi Siak, the booking platform by itself has done $439K in sales with 1,213 purchases mostly through word of mouth. 40% of those 140K users search in markets that Stayful hasn't launched in, and 22% look for dates beyond our current 30 day limit. The hotel network will be the engine of growth for Stayful upon launch; we get a targeted customer at a low CAC in a pay-for-performance model. Hope this helps.