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Ben Szafran
  • Real Estate Broker
  • Wilmington NC
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STR direct booking site needed

Ben Szafran
  • Real Estate Broker
  • Wilmington NC
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My wife is growing fast with her STR property management. Airbnb is her main platform for bookings. She uses Hospitable to manage all her properties. She also receives referrals from various sources where a direct booking site would make life easier for guests, my wife and her cpa (lol). Hospitable has a "landing page" feature that can connect to Stripe payment feature but the site does not allow for any real creativity or enhanced functionality at this point.. Anyone out there have recommendations or know a web person who has worked around Hospitable? Thanks in advance.

Ben & MaryChris

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Dave Stokley
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Cleveland, OH
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Dave Stokley
  • Rental Property Investor
  • Cleveland, OH
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To preface this, we manage about 60 listings and do the vast majority of our bookings on Airbnb. We are just now considering a direct booking site.

We're on Guesty Pro, and looking into using their platform. The biggest downside for me is that if we ever leave Guesty or they go out of business or something we don't own the site. We're also looking at Boostly, which is more expensive but also more feature-rich and we own it.

The thing that has always kept me from doing it is the cost of replicating what you get from Airbnb for your 3%: payment processing (that'll cost you 3% alone), a massive marketing engine (what will it cost you in time/money to drive thousands of monthly views to your site?), AirCover (not as bad as the haters say...in fact I've never not got paid), and no guest reviews or customer support. 

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