Automate more Owner Statement workflows with our Public API and MCP

Hi guys, Ive definitly tried my best to underrstand those API instructions for Owner statements, and totally lost me! However, what I was looking for, was to know whether or not we can produce owner statements or, ‘publish’ statements, at any time during the month? Or is it only from the 1st of the following month that statements are available to download? Im in a situation where a couple of payouts have come through from recent bookings this month,  and my owner wants to be paid out for them now - yes, thats right, not wait a couple of days until the 1st rolls raound...I have no issue with doing this, but I woiuld prefer to send out a statement with the payout. Im guessing no,  but thought id put it out there.. Thanks and sorry for the silly question...from NZ :)  and very new to the platform. cheers

Hi ​@cherie scott!

No silly questions here, greetings back from Europe! 🌏

You're right; owner statements for the current month can't be published until that month is over. The system is built around a full-month cycle: a statement covers all activity from the 1st to the end of the month, and it only becomes publishable once that period closes. So for August activity you'd publish from Sept 1 onwards, September activity from Oct 1, and so on. There's no way today to "close out" a partial month early and publish a statement mid-cycle.

For your immediate situation (paying the owner now for bookings received this month), a couple of options:

• Pay now, statement later: send the payout to your owner via your usual bank transfer, then when the statement is published on the 1st, note the manual payout on the statement (or reduce the payout run so it reflects what's already been paid). The statement will still show the full month's revenue and fees for the owner's records. This is generally not recommended, but as we don’t support payouts/payments in NZ yet, it is a workaround. 

• Wait a few days: if it's only a couple of days until the 1st, publishing on the 1st gives you a clean statement + payout in a single flow via Owner Payouts. As today is September 1st, you could process your statement normally this way.

Quick side-note on MCP: MCP just means you can connect Hospitable to an AI assistant like ChatGPT or Claude and ask it to do things in plain English. So you could literally type "publish August's owner statement for Property X and mark it as paid" into ChatGPT and it will do it for you via your Hospitable account. It's the easier, no-technical-skills-needed way to automate some of your Owner Statement workflows.

Welcome to the Hospitable! 🇳🇿