Your own booking website. Built for you. Found everywhere.
We build, host and secure a direct-booking website on your own domain, get it ranking on Google, Bing and the AI assistants travellers now plan with, and list you in our directory too. Guests pay you directly, so you keep 100% with no commission ever. One direct booking usually covers the whole year.
findyourstay
Direct bookings, done properly.
A 75-second tour
In short
A direct booking website lets you take reservations straight from guests, on your own web address, without paying Airbnb or Booking.com commission. FindYourStay is a direct booking website builder that does the building for you: we make the site, host it, keep your calendar in step with the platforms, and connect your own Stripe or PayPal so guests pay you and nobody else. Listings start at £79 a year, the booking website is £120 a year on top, and we never take a cut of a booking.
Who this is for
Independent hosts with one property, or a handful. If you are handing 15% of every stay to a platform and have nowhere of your own to send a guest, this is built for you.
Airbnb hosts
You have the reviews and the bookings, but the fee comes off every single stay and the guest belongs to the platform, not to you.
Holiday let owners
You want more direct bookings for your holiday rental, especially repeat guests who already know the place and would happily book with you again.
Small B&Bs and guesthouses
You want to increase bookings at a small B&B without adding a monthly software bill or learning a booking system.
Hosts who already have a site
Your website looks fine but nobody finds it. List with us for less, skip the build, and we send travellers straight to your own booking page.
A direct booking website builder that does the building for you
Most builders hand you a blank page and a monthly bill. Here you answer a few questions and we do the rest. Five steps, and nothing to maintain afterwards.
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Tell us about your place
Name, town, type of property, how many bedrooms, your nightly rate. It takes a couple of minutes and you can see the result before you pay anything.
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Pick a look and an address
Three templates: Classic, Modern and Coastal. We check which web addresses are free, you choose one, and it becomes yours.
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We build and host it
Your site goes live on your own domain with the padlock in place, in five pages: home, rooms, gallery, location and book.
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Connect payments and your calendar
Paste your Stripe or PayPal link and your Airbnb and Booking.com iCal feeds. Guests pay you, and dates block out everywhere at once.
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We get it found
We submit it to Google and Bing, add the file AI assistants read, and list you in our directory. Then the bookings arrive in your inbox.
No signup, no card. You see the site before you decide.
Booking platforms take a cut of every stay. We don't.
The big sites can charge 15 to 18% in commission, and guests pay more on top. Booking direct cuts out the middleman: better prices for your guests, full margins for you, and a real relationship with the people who stay. Add your own “book direct” perks too, like a best-price promise or free breakfast, to give travellers a reason to come straight to you.
Why hosts choose us
Everything you need to win direct bookings, in one place, for one simple yearly price.
| FindYourStay | Booking.com / Airbnb | DIY builder (Wix etc.) | Booking software (Lodgify etc.) | |
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| No commission on your bookings | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Guests pay you directly, keep 100% | ✓ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ |
| We build the website for you | ✓ | n/a | ✕ | ✕ |
| No tech skills needed | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | ~ |
| Listed in a directory for extra discovery | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ |
| Found on Google, Bing and AI assistants | ✓ | ~ | ~ | ~ |
| One simple yearly price | from £79/yr | 15-18% per stay | + domain + your time | monthly £££ |
We're not a channel manager or PMS. We do one thing well: get independent hosts booked direct.
Everything we do for you
Some of it you'll know. Some of it you've probably never heard of, but it's where the bookings are going.
Already have a website?
We fill it with direct bookings
Keep your site. We put you in front of travellers searching your area and send them straight to your own booking page.
Traveller
searching your area
✓ Booked direct
Direct bookings sent to you
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straight to your own booking page
No website? Or don't love yours?
We build and host one for you
Pick a template, we fill in your details and put it live on your own domain. No tech skills, nothing to manage.
Classic
Modern
Coastal
Pick a template, we fill it in and host it on your own domain.
Keep what you earn
No commission, ever
Guests pay you directly through your own Stripe or PayPal link. We never take a cut, so you keep the full price of every booking.
What you keep from a £100 booking
No commission. Guests pay you directly via your own Stripe or PayPal link.
Secure by default
The padlock, handled for you
Every site we build is secured so guests trust it at checkout.
In plain English: that little padlock in the address bar (HTTPS) tells guests the site is safe to pay on. We set it up and keep it working.
Never double-booked
Your calendar stays in sync
Connect Airbnb and Booking.com and your dates update everywhere automatically.
Airbnb
Your site
Booking.com
Book a date anywhere and it blocks out everywhere. No clashes.
Get found, get more bookings
We get you ranking on Google
We submit your site so it shows up when people search, and keeps climbing month after month.
In plain English: SEO and "indexing" just mean showing up on Google and Bing when someone searches. The higher you appear, the more people find you and book.
Monthly views
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Direct bookings
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The future of finding stays
Recommended by AI assistants
More travellers now ask AI where to stay. We make sure it can find and suggest you.
In plain English: we add a small file (called llms.txt) that lets ChatGPT, Gemini and others read your site, so they can recommend your place in their answers.
A traveller asks an AI assistant
Take bookings on your own website: everything included
One yearly price, no commission and no add-ons to discover later. This is the whole list.
Your website
- ✓A five page booking site: home, rooms, gallery, location and book
- ✓Your own web address, set up and pointed at your site for you
- ✓Classic, Modern or Coastal template, filled in with your details
- ✓Secured with HTTPS so guests trust the checkout
- ✓Photos, room details, amenities, prices and an approximate map
- ✓Your own book direct perks and guest quotes, if you have them
Bookings and money
- ✓An availability calendar guests can check before they ask
- ✓iCal sync with Airbnb and Booking.com so you are never double booked
- ✓Booking requests and enquiries sent straight to your inbox
- ✓Payment through your own Stripe Payment Link or PayPal.Me
- ✓Zero commission: we are not in the payment path at all
- ✓Accept or decline each request yourself, from your dashboard
Getting found
- ✓Your own robots.txt and sitemap.xml, submitted to search engines
- ✓An llms.txt file so ChatGPT and other assistants can read and recommend you
- ✓Re-submitted to Bing through IndexNow whenever you update your listing
- ✓A listing in the FindYourStay directory and on our city search pages
- ✓A dashboard showing views, enquiries, bookings and where visitors came from
- ✓Up to 5 properties and 5 websites on the Pro plan
Want to see the dashboard before you commit? Open the demo dashboard, it uses real screens with sample data.
See a website you could have
Three real example sites we built and host. Click around any of them.
The money goes straight to you. We never touch it.
You take payment through your own Stripe or PayPal, so there's no commission, no waiting for a payout from us, and nothing for us to be in the middle of.
Add your payment link
Paste your own Stripe Payment Link and/or PayPal.Me link. We show you exactly how, it takes about two minutes, and you can change it any time.
Guests pay you directly
On your booking site, guests pay straight into your own account. We just send them there and pass you their dates, we never see the card or the cash.
You keep 100%
No commission, no booking fees, no platform cut. The full price of every stay lands in your account, and refunds and cancellations stay entirely in your control.
Simple yearly pricing
Billed yearly. Cancel anytime. No commission on any booking.
20% off for life with code FOUNDING20
Every paid plan includes your own booking website, built and hosted for you. Already have one? Tick “I already have my own website” on any plan and the price drops, we just list you and send you traffic.
Free
£0/year
Text-only listing
- ✓ Listed on city + search pages
- ✓ Enquiry relay
- ✓ 1 property
- ✓ Listed below paid stays
Standard
£159/year
Founding price · for life
Standard £199/yr · founding price with code FOUNDING20
Your own booking website + 6 photos
- ✓We build, host & secure your own website
- ✓ Photo listing
- ✓ ‘Book direct’ link to your site
- ✓ Enquiry relay
- ✓ Basic stats
- ✓ 1 property + 1 website
Featured
£215/year
Founding price · for life
Standard £269/yr · founding price with code FOUNDING20
Your own booking website + 10 photos
- ✓We build, host & secure your own website
- ✓ Everything in Standard
- ✓ Featured placement
- ✓ ‘Featured Stay’ badge
- ✓ Detailed analytics
- ✓ 1 property + 1 website
Pro
£335/year
Founding price · for life
Standard £419/yr · founding price with code FOUNDING20
Your own booking website + 20 photos
- ✓We build, host & secure your own website
- ✓ Everything in Featured
- ✓ Top priority placement
- ✓ Dedicated profile page
- ✓ Monthly report
- ✓ Up to 5 properties + 5 websites
In plain numbers: a listing is £79, £149 or £299 a year depending on how prominent you want to be, and your own booking website is £120 a year on top of any paid plan. With the founding code that makes a Standard listing plus your own booking website £159 a year, held for life. At £120 a night, the roughly 15.5% platform fee is about £19 a night, so the commission on nine nights covers the whole year.
Direct booking tips that actually work
A website is the foundation, not the whole job. These are the five things that move the needle for small properties, in the order we would do them.
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Give guests somewhere to actually book
An enquiry form is a dead end at 11pm on a Sunday. Guests who cannot confirm dates and pay there and then go back to the platform they came from.
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Claim your Google Business Profile
It is free, it takes an hour, and it puts you in the map results when somebody searches for a B&B in your town. For most small properties this is the single best hour of marketing available.
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Give a reason to skip the platform
A best rate promise, a welcome drink, a later checkout. The cost to you is small and the perceived value is not.
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Keep the guests you already had
Past guests convert far better than strangers. One friendly email before your peak season, or a card at check-in with your web address on it, is enough.
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Stay on the platforms while you build
Nobody should switch off their bookings overnight. Use the platforms for discovery, your own site for repeats, and iCal sync so the two never clash.
Read more before you decide
Longer write-ups on the same ground, with the commission maths worked through.
- How to get direct bookings for your B&B · the full playbook, step by step
- Best direct booking website builders · how the options compare for small properties
- Take bookings on your own website · deposits, payments and cancellations
- How to increase bookings at a small B&B · what to do when you have few rooms
Direct booking questions, answered
What is a direct booking website?
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A direct booking website is your own site, on your own web address, where guests can see your rooms and dates and book with you instead of through Airbnb or Booking.com. Because no platform sits in the middle, there is no commission on the booking and the guest relationship is yours.
How do I take bookings on my own website?
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You need three things: a page that shows your availability, a way for guests to request or confirm dates, and a way to pay you. We put all three together for you. Your calendar keeps itself in step with Airbnb and Booking.com by iCal, booking requests come straight to your inbox, and payment goes through your own Stripe Payment Link or PayPal.Me, so the money never passes through us.
How much does a direct booking website cost?
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A directory listing is £79, £149 or £299 a year depending on how prominent you want to be. Your own booking website is £120 a year on top of any paid plan. With the founding code FOUNDING20 that makes a Standard listing plus your own booking website £159 a year, fixed for life. There is no commission on any booking, ever.
Do I need any tech skills to use it?
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No. You tell us about your property, pick a look and a web address, and we build the site and put it live for you. There is nothing to install, host, update or renew. If you want to change your photos, prices or dates later, you do it from your dashboard in a couple of clicks.
Can I keep using Airbnb and Booking.com at the same time?
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Yes, and most hosts should at first. Use the platforms for discovery and your own site for repeat guests and anyone who finds you directly. Paste your Airbnb and Booking.com iCal links into your dashboard and dates booked anywhere block out everywhere, so you cannot get double booked.
How do guests pay me?
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Through your own Stripe Payment Link or PayPal.Me link, which you paste into your dashboard in about two minutes. Guests pay straight into your account, so there is no payout to wait for and nothing for us to take a cut of. Refunds and cancellations stay entirely in your hands.
How do I get more direct bookings for my holiday rental?
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Give guests somewhere to book and a reason to use it. A site of your own removes the dead end that a Facebook page or an enquiry form creates, a claimed Google Business Profile puts you in local map results, and a best-rate promise or a small arrival perk gives repeat guests a reason to skip the platform. Past guests are the easiest wins, because they already know they like your place.
What if I already have a website?
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Then you do not need ours. Tick 'I already have my own website' on any paid plan and the price drops by £120 a year. We list you in the directory and send travellers straight to your own booking page.
Do you take commission on bookings?
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No, never. You pay one yearly price and keep every penny of every booking. We are not in the payment path at all, so there is nothing for us to deduct.
List free, or get the full booking website.
Already have a website? List for less and we'll send you traffic. Need one? We build, host and secure it, get you found on Google, Bing and AI, and you keep 100% of every booking.