Your rental. Your guests. No middleman fees.
Every booking through a platform costs your guests roughly 14–16% in service fees — and takes a cut from you too. A direct-booking website is a second door to the same calendar: your rates, your rules, guests pay you directly, and your Airbnb listing stays right where it is.
What the platform skims off your place, per year
Type your numbers. This is the money that leaves the room before anyone sleeps in it.
Estimates — platform fees vary by listing and fee model (some hosts are on a host-only ~15% plan, which moves the same money to your side of the table). The point survives any version of the math: if even a fifth of your bookings come direct, the site pays for itself in the first year and is free every year after.
A booking site, not a brochure
Built once, in your name, on your own accounts. Hosting is $0/month.
A calendar that can’t double-book
Your site’s availability syncs from your Airbnb/VRBO calendar automatically. A night booked anywhere shows booked everywhere within the hour — nothing to update by hand, and your platform listings keep working exactly as they do now.
Guests pay you, not a platform
Requests land on your phone; you confirm with one reply and the guest pays by card through your own payment link (Square, Stripe — your account, your money, same day). I never touch the money and neither does a platform.
Your five-star reviews, brought home
The write-ups your guests already left you, on your own page — word for word, where a stranger deciding at 11pm can read them without a platform wrapping them in ads for other people’s cabins.
The repeat-guest move
A card by the coffee maker with your site’s QR code. The family that loved it this year books direct next year — they save the fees, you keep the margin, and the platform’s cut of your best customers goes to zero.
Your own private dashboard
Every client gets a private page: a live preview of your site, what I checked and found, and every change we make — dated, so you can see exactly what you paid for. See the kind of site you’d get: the sample cabin site →
The parts other people gloss over
This isn’t leave-the-platform advice — the platform is where strangers find you first. Direct booking is for your repeat guests, your Instagram bio, the card in the cabin, and everyone who Googles your rental by name. Second door, same house.
On platform bookings, Airbnb usually collects and remits lodging taxes for you. On direct bookings, that’s yours to handle — in Washington it’s a line on the same excise return your bookkeeper already files. I’ll point you at the right page; I don’t do tax advice, and anyone who says it’s nothing is selling something.
Your rules page, your deposit policy, your cancellation terms — written once, plainly, instead of buried in a platform’s legalese.
Once. Not a percent of every night.
Photos and film of your rental: the whole vibe of a place changes with the seasons — the cabin that photographs cozy in October looks like a different property than it did in July, and guests book the season they’re seeing. I shoot your place in the light people are actually booking for, plus a slow, quiet film for the top of the site: a few unhurried shots — steam off the hot tub, rain on the eaves — that make the page feel like being there. Photos from $256, film from $512, and within 50 miles of Chehalis there’s no travel cost. Farther out adds mileage, quoted before anything is booked.