A direct booking website for Hostaway owners
Keep Hostaway for your calendar and prices. Add a booking website that is yours, connected to it.
How it connects
- We connect to Hostaway through its API, with access you create in your Hostaway account.
- We read your calendar and rates from Hostaway, so the prices on your site come from there.
- When a guest books, we check availability with Hostaway through its API first, in under half a second.
What stays in Hostaway
- Your listings, calendar and prices stay in Hostaway.
- You keep running your business from the tool you already know.
What you get on your own site
- A custom booking website with your own design and your own address.
- Card payments that cost about 2.9% plus 30 cents, against a booking site's fee of about 15.5% on Airbnb.
- Your own price and stay rules shown to guests.
Who this is not for. If you use Hostaway only to keep calendars in step and you do not need a booking page of your own, you may not need us.
Want to see what a direct booking is worth to you? Try the free booking site fee calculator.
How to start
- Pay half of the $999 setup to start.
- We build your site and connect it to Hostaway. It is ready in 7 working days, or it is free.
- Pay the other half only when you go live.
Questions about Hostaway
Do I have to leave Hostaway?
No. You keep Hostaway for your calendar and prices. Your new site sits on top of it, and your guests book on your site.
Do I need a certain Hostaway plan?
Check with Hostaway whether your plan includes access to its API, because that is how we connect. Ask us if you are not sure, and we will tell you what to look for.
Can two guests book the same dates?
Before a booking is taken, we check availability with Hostaway through its API. No system can promise that nothing ever goes wrong, so ask us what is realistic for your setup.
What can Hostaway's API do?
Hostaway says its API covers your listings, your calendar availability and rates, and your reservations. That is the information a booking website needs.
Ask us what is possible
We can look at how you use Hostaway and tell you honestly what your site can do with it. We do not promise results, because nobody honest can.
Launch VRO is not affiliated with or endorsed by Hostaway. Hostaway is a trademark of its owner, named here only to say what our sites connect to.