Our goal is to make it as easy as possible for hosts to spin up a Direct site and start taking bookings. You will need a default payout method and an active Direct plan on top of your Hospitable subscription in order to publish a Direct site, but you can preview the site before you commit. Read more about Direct features and pricing.

We also support customers who prefer to self-host a direct booking site

You will want to customize your site before you publish, but don't worry, you can also make changes to your site at any time after publishing.

Our Direct sites use the content from the property details pages of each property. You can add content manually, or if you have a connected Airbnb listing, we will import and update your content from Airbnb. Once you edit a property detail on Hospitable we stop syncing that item with Airbnb so you can have content unique to your Direct site. To edit your content:

Images will be displayed in the same order they appear in your property details. The first image is used as your property's feature image on the home page. You can manually sort the images in Hospitable by clicking edit in the photo section and then you can drag-and-drop your photos into the desired order. More about images.

Note: Sorting your images will unlink to your Airbnb listing, this means new images uploaded on Airbnb after will not be pulled to Direct. If you have new images or if you require to resync this section contact support for assistance.
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If you select a site template that has additional image placements on the property page, you can set which images to display in each placement by adding tags on the property page.

In the example below, the Miami theme has an image placement in the Accessibility section, so you can designate which photo is displayed in this section for each property by setting the appropriate tag in the edit photo section.
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You can edit your Direct property URL slugs. The slug is the last part of the URL that uniquely identifies your property across all of your Direct sites. To edit the slug, open the property list for a Direct site and select Edit property URL from the three-dot menu icon.

Note: editing a property's slug will change that property's URL on all of your Hospitable sites; any previous links you have shared for that property will not work anymore.

Our new property search feature allows guests to search availability across all of your properties, with results displayed on a map. We return all of your properties on every search, sorted by location (optional) and availability. When a property is unavailable for given search terms, we'll explain why, ie. due to length of stay, guest count, and/or unavailable dates.

We'll create a basic list of locations from your property cities to get you started, but you can edit the location drop-down list however you like. Click the add location button, enter a display name, and then double click on the map to drop the pin where you want it. You can create up to three levels of locations (eg. country>city>neighborhood, or state>city>point of interest) by dragging and dropping your locations into place.

Treat your location list as another touchpoint to introduce your properties to prospective guests. For example, if you have popular nearby tourist attractions guests are searching for, consider adding them to the location list so guests can see how close your properties are. Or if you're taking a lot of bookings from traveling nurses, consider adding a list of local hospitals. Again, we use location to sort your properties, not to filter them, so all of your properties will display on every search.

You may disable the map or property search entirely to remove either feature from your site.

You can choose to use your own domain with your Hospitable site. Load your Hospitable site on your own root domain (example.com), or if you already have a site at your root domain, use any sub-domain you choose (book.example.com). Please note that subfolders/subdirectories are not supported; therefore, you cannot use a structure like example.com/stay or book.example.com/stay.

To get started, open Direct and click on your Hospitable site. Select Domain from the inner left side menu. Click the Add your own domain button on the top right and follow the instructions.

You will need to update your domain's DNS records to point at Hospitable's address. Your DNS settings are normally available from your domain provider (eg. GoDaddy or Namecheap). Find the option to edit your DNS records for your domain.

Once you're happy with the preview version of your site it's time to share it with the world.

In order to publish your site, you will need to activate your Direct plan, meaning we will start charging you a monthly fee for each property published to a Direct site or booking widget, starting from your next regular Hospitable subscription payment. Read more about Direct features and pricing.

On the Direct site sidebar menu, click on Publish and then confirm by clicking Publish now.

It will take several minutes for the SSL security certificate to be generated for your new URL. Until that happens you may see an "unsecure" warning on your browser.

If you are no longer using your site, you can click Unpublish to take the site offline.
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