Your properties, live availability, direct bookings - and no commission on any of them.
Take bookings for your holiday homes on your own site instead of paying a platform for every guest. Show each property with photos, what it sleeps and its nightly rate, keep two parties out of the same house with real availability, enforce your minimum stay, and collect the payment and damage deposit through your own Stripe account.
Building your site, pages and blog are free forever. Holiday rental website builder is not - it needs Starter ($14.99/mo). The 14-day free trial covers it, and starting the trial needs a card. That tier covers 50 properties and 200 stays a month, and carries a 2% platform fee per online payment (1% from Growth Business up); more properties are on Growth Business.
Before you start the trial
What it replaces
List each house, cabin, villa or apartment with photos, bedrooms, what it sleeps, parking and whether pets are welcome.
A property is bookable for a date range or it is not - worked out in real time, so the same week is never sold twice.
Take the stay and a refundable damage deposit through your own Stripe account. No commission to anyone.
Set a nightly rate, charge more in high season, and require a minimum stay per season so your weekends stay whole.
Guests, not drivers: no licence number, no mileage allowance, no fuel policy. Just the stay, the guests and your deposit.
Bookings taken on your own site come with the guest's details, so a returning guest is yours to reach directly.
A gap between one stay ending and the next beginning, so a Saturday checkout is never booked over by a Saturday arrival and the cleaner gets the day you planned for them.
Set how long before check-in a stay still cancels free; inside that window the refund runs automatically through Stripe rather than being an email you answer and a sum you work out.
Live in an afternoon - no code, no plugins.
Photos, how many it sleeps, the nightly rate and what is included - one cottage or a dozen.
Peak and off-peak rates, a minimum stay that can differ by season, changeover days and the gap you need for cleaning.
Guests check real availability, pay a deposit or the full stay, and you keep the commission a portal would have taken.
Hand-picked designs for this kind of business - customise any of them.
Hospitality & Events
Working rentals included
Holiday cottages with a house book: a cottage above the sea behind the date search, the live properties, the notebook every guest asks about, and dogs, logs and walks from the door.
Hospitality & Events
Working bookings included
Georgian townhouse hotel: a brass key fob over a bedroom, the request form beside a pigeonhole key board, three rooms with their fobs, breakfast as a printed menu, and Bath in walking minutes.
Hospitality & Events
Working rentals included
Independent car hire: the date search written on a manila key tag beside keys changing hands, the live fleet, three steps hanging as tags and the price agreement ticked line by line.
Practical guides from the Webkio blog.
Not sure how many pages you need? We counted 115 small business sites - three pages are the same everywhere, and the fourth depends on your trade.
Build and publish your site for free, with no card. Holiday rental website builder needs Starter, free for 14 days on the trial, and you can cancel any time.
Already have a website? Import it free and see it as a Webkio site, and your pages keep the addresses they already have.