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Set up and manage your Direct listings, websites, payments, and more

Direct Booking

Direct Video Overview

A full overview of features, pricing, and FAQs

All About Direct Bookings

Follow these steps to start taking Direct bookings

Direct setup checklist

In this article, we answer some of the most commonly asked questions related to Direct bookings.

FAQs & Troubleshooting - Direct

Set up your Hospitable Direct properties, plans, payouts, website, and more by following this step-by-step video series

Direct 101: Training Videos

Provide access to secondary users to manage your Direct Site and bookings

Secondary Access to Direct

Andrew Schorr

Getting Started

Get payment processing and payouts set up for Direct Basic and Premium users

How to setup a Direct payout method

Bank accounts must pass KYC checks to be eligible for payouts

Verifying bank accounts for payouts

Understand how income tax reporting works for Direct bookings

US Income Tax Reporting for Direct

Annual Earnings Report (Direct Premium)

Deleting a Direct Payout Method

Ensure your funds go to the right accounts by learning how to check and manage your payouts.

Managing Payouts and Payout Methods

How to setup and manage your payments and payouts

Payouts

What the Direct booking experience looks like for a guest and a host

How Direct bookings work

Block dates, and generate a payment link for guests to complete the Direct booking.

Adding a Direct Booking

How to adjust reservations for your guest, cancel a booking, and issue a refund.

Altering or cancelling Direct bookings

How it works, what's covered, and how to report an incident

Direct Premium Damage Protection

Automatically accept qualified Direct booking requests

Instant Book for Direct

Manage promotions by configuring discounts to share with your guests.

Direct promo codes

How to configure the cancellation policy manager to match your business

Direct Cancellation Policies

Every Premium booking is vetted and ID verified

Direct Premium guest verification

Issue an ad hoc refund on Direct Basic and Premium reservations

Send or request money

Block dates, set a price, and generate a payment link for guests to complete the booking.

Custom quotes

Allow your guests to make partial payments and manage these bookings.

Direct Payment Terms

Drive conversions on large bookings and long lead times by allowing guests to pay in installments.

Improve conversions with payment terms

Starting January 1, 2025, a 7.5% levy will apply to short-term rental bookings in Victoria, Australia. This levy applies to the total booking fees paid, including accommodation fees, cleaning fees,…

Victorian Short-Term Rental Levy: Overview

Western Australia Short-Term Rental Register

Leave and Receive Reviews for Direct Bookings

Understand the processes and identify how to manage your Direct booking.

Direct Booking Guest FAQ

How discounts apply to Direct bookings

Ethan Brown

Accepting, modifying, and cancelling Direct bookings

Managing bookings

A step-by-step guide for creating your direct booking website using our site builder

Create a Direct Booking Site

Managing your Hospitable Direct Site Contents

Setup your site to open using your own purchased domain.

Apply a custom domain to your Hospitable Site

Add a widget that searches across your properties.

Direct Multi-Property Search

Direct Single Property Sites

Understand how and what reviews are shown on your Direct Site.

Hospitable Direct Site Reviews

How do I change the order of properties on my Direct site?

How to troubleshoot any blockers or alerts that may prevent you from using Direct

What do properties need to be eligible for Direct?

Be sure your property pictures and hero photos look beautiful on your Direct site by uploading images at the right size.

Managing images on your Direct sites

Embed Hospitable widgets on your own site to capture Direct bookings

Self-hosted Direct sites

Get listed on Google Travel for free direct booking leads

Google Vacation Rentals

Adding the Direct booking widget to a Wix Velo site

Track your site visits and manage marketing tags.

Direct Booking Flow Analytics

Adding new languages to your direct booking site

Guide for using physical QR Codes in your vacation rental to promote your Direct Site

Promote Your Direct Site With QR Codes

Ben Davies

Frances Rebollido

Sites & Widgets

Hosts are ultimately responsible for their own tax compliance

How Taxes are Handled in Direct

Submitting Quarterly Tax Affidavits for Direct Premium

Direct Premium Taxes for Alabama

Direct Premium Taxes for Arizona

Direct Premium Taxes for Arkansas

Direct Premium Taxes for Florida

Direct Premium Taxes for Georgia

Direct Premium Taxes for Hawaii

Direct Premium Taxes for Illinois

Direct Premium Taxes for Indiana

Direct Premium Taxes for Maine

Direct Premium Taxes for Michigan

Direct Premium Taxes for New Jersey

Direct Premium Taxes for New York

Direct Premium Taxes for North Carolina

Direct Premium Taxes for Ohio

Direct Premium Taxes for Oregon

Direct Premium Taxes for Tennessee

Direct Premium Taxes for Texas

Direct Premium Taxes for Utah

Direct Premium Taxes for Vermont

Direct Premium Taxes for Washington

Brandon Huetteman

Direct Taxes

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