A direct-booking site lets a rental stand out from the listing-platform crowd and keep more of every booking. This demo answers every pre-booking question — amenities, rates by season, house rules, what's nearby — and finishes with an inquiry form so guests can book direct.
Azure Vista Beach House is a fictional business we invented for this demonstration — not a client. The website is real and fully working; the business, its reviews, and its story are illustrative.
This is a live website — scroll and click around right here, or open it full-screen. Try it on your phone, too.
What listing-platform bookings cost an oceanfront rental in fees and repeated questions — and what a direct-booking page does about both.
Bookings came through listing platforms — with their fees — and every guest emailed the same questions about rates, rules, and what's nearby.
Rates by season, house rules, amenities, and a quote calculator answer the pre-booking questions up front, and the inquiry form is built to turn that confidence into a direct booking.
A rental competes against a platform that has already trained the guest to expect certain information in a certain order. So this page gives them that information faster and more completely than the listing does: photos first, then amenities, then rates by season as a plain table, then the house rules stated without hedging.
Putting the house rules up front feels backwards — surely you bury the restrictions? The opposite is true. A guest who reads the pet policy and the quiet hours and books anyway is the guest who does not leave a two-star review about them later. The rates table does the same work from the other direction: it ends the back-and-forth before it starts, so the inquiry form receives someone who has already decided.
Your photos, your seasons, your rules, your calendar. The same structure carries a single beach house, a small inn, or a handful of managed units — the difference is whether the page ends at one inquiry form or a property picker.
Projects like this one are typically the Website Plan on its own.
The Website Plan is $99 a month ($297 to start), before sales tax. How pricing works
Take direct bookings without a platform's cut, with a page for every property and reviews that sell the next stay.
It's the Website Plan with the add-ons this kind of business uses most, at their signing prices, so it costs no more than ordering them one by one.
Before sales tax. The same add-ons ordered later would be $169 a month. Compare the packages
Start with this packageStart with a free check-up — an instant first-pass look at your website and online presence, with specific recommendations whether or not you hire us.
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