Airbnb keeps 15.5% of every booking. And your guests.
The usual fix is a website of your own, but a website nobody visits books nobody. Stayverly builds yours from your listing in about a minute, then sends guests to it from Google and AI search, social, the homes nearby and everyone who's stayed before.
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Here's what one weekend really costs you on Airbnb.
Since September 15, every US host pays Airbnb 15.5% of each booking. Experience hosts pay 20%. That's a fair trade for a stranger Airbnb found for you. It's a lot less fair for the couple who've stayed three times and just want the same week again.
Stayverly is for them, and for everyone they tell about you.
3 nights at $425 plus $150 cleaning. Airbnb's US host fee is 15.5%; Stripe charges 2.9% + 30¢.
So you build a website. Then nobody comes.
A booking site only books the guests who find it, and nobody searches for a cabin they've never heard of. It's the most common complaint in host forums, and the surveys agree.
- 62%
- of operators get under a quarter of their bookings direct
- 18%
- get no direct bookings at all
Hostaway 2026 Short-Term Rental Report, 326 operators.
That's why Stayverly doesn't stop at the website. Here's how guests find yours.
Every road leads to your front door.
Your website is the last stop, not the first. From the day you publish, Stayverly opens six ways in: search and AI assistants, our directories, social, the hosts and guides nearby, your past guests, and anywhere you share a link. Every one ends at your own site, where the booking and the guest stay yours.
- Bing
- AI assistants
- Your area guide
- Stayverly Stays
- Town guides
- Monthly rentals
- Experiences
- Threads
- TikTok
- Neighbor homes
- Local tours
- Travel creators
- Guests' friends
- Welcome QR
- Guest list
- Come-back emails
- Date alerts
- Facebook groups
- Nextdoor
- Craigslist
- Any website
Found on Google and Bing
Every site is built for search engines to read, and gives them more than one page worth sending people to.
- Titles, descriptions, structured data and a sitemap on every site.
- Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools setup is built in, with your sitemap ready to submit, so you can see what people searched to find you.
- Bing and the other IndexNow engines hear about your site the moment you publish.
- An area guide builds itself from open map data, with pages like “Best hikes near Phoenicia” and “Where to eat”. Each one is another way in.
Listed free in our directories
Stayverly Stays, Experiences and Monthly list hosts you can book directly. Your listing is free and on from the start, and every click goes to your own site, never to a checkout of ours.
- A guide for every town, with its homes, monthly rentals, experiences and the places local hosts recommend.
- Travelers search by date and see live prices from your own calendar.
- Monthly rentals get a directory of their own, for travel nurses and remote workers.
Built for the question people now ask AI.
“Where's a good place to stay in Bend with a dog and a hot tub?” More and more travelers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google's AI instead of scrolling a map. Every Stayverly site gets AI search optimization (some call it GEO), so assistants can find your place, understand it and link straight to your own site.
- AI search crawlers are welcome: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google and Bing can all read your site.
- Every page goes to Bing the moment you publish. ChatGPT's search leans on Bing's results.
- Answers in plain facts: where you are and what's nearby, how many you sleep, pets, reviews and how to book direct. Written from your listing, never invented.
- Your town's page on Stayverly lists every home you can book direct, the kind of page assistants quote.
- Visits and bookings from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini and Claude are counted, so you can see it working.
Nobody can honestly promise an AI will recommend you. We make sure it can find you, read you and link to you.
Black Birch A-Frame is a good fit: a 2-bedroom A-frame cabin in Phoenicia with a wood-fired hot tub and a sauna, a few minutes from the Catskills trailheads. Guests who booked directly rate it 5.0. You can book it on the hosts' own website.
A month of posts from one set of photos
Content Studio turns your photos into reels, posts and pins, in 33 designs and 5 sizes. That includes “Dates just opened”, made straight from your live calendar.
- “Plan my week” drafts the posts. You approve them, and they go out on schedule.
- Each network gets its own tracked link, so you can see which posts turned into bookings.
- Captions and hashtags are written for you.
- Reel · “Hot tub season”Tue 6:30 PM · posted
- Pin · “A-frame in the Catskills”Wed 12:00 PM · posted
- Video · “Oct 14–17 just opened”Thu 7:00 PM · scheduled
Posting straight to Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Pinterest and TikTok opens as each network approves Stayverly. Until then, every design downloads in the right size for each one.
Neighbors, guides and creators who send you guests
The best recommendation is a local one. Stayverly connects you with the hosts, guides and creators around you, and tracks every guest they send.
- Neighbor network: when a nearby home is full, its site can suggest yours, with live prices. You pay a referral fee you set only when a guest books, and it works in both directions.
- Experience partners: local tours, chefs and outfitters list your home under “Where to stay nearby”, and you recommend them.
- Creator Stays: offer nights to travel creators. Each gets a link and a code, and you see every booking they send.
- Guests' friends: past guests share a link that gives friends a discount and earns them a credit.
Turn one stay into the next five.
Build lasting relationships with your independently acquired direct audience. Stayverly records consent and helps you send relevant offers.
- Ungated house guides and Wi-Fi cards, with separate direct-offer cards for independently acquired audiences.
- Emails that send themselves: a thank-you with a return code, “Same week next year” with live prices, open nights offered to past guests first, and “We miss you” after 15 months.
- Date alerts: when a guest's dates are taken, they can ask to hear if they open up, and get an email within the hour.
- Reviews requested after every direct stay, with links to review you on Google and Tripadvisor too.
- Thanks for stayinga return code, 3 days after checkout
- Same week next yearsent ~10 months later
- Open nights for past guestsweekly, when gaps appear
- We miss youafter 15 months
Ready to post, everywhere else
Some places no software can post to for you. For those, the Promote kit writes the words and gives each place a tracked link of its own.
- Facebook groups and Marketplace, Craigslist, Nextdoor, Pinterest and your Instagram bio.
- With monthly stays on: travel-nurse groups, and a note for hospital housing coordinators.
- Already have a website? Add the booking widget to Squarespace, Wix, Webflow or WordPress.
- QR codes you can point somewhere new without reprinting them.
Our A-frame in Phoenicia has Oct 14–17 open: wood-fired hot tub, sauna, sleeps 6, close to the Catskills trailheads. It's cheaper to book with us directly than on Airbnb → stayverly.com/l/fb-groups
Then help every visitor say yes
Traffic only counts once it books. Your site does the follow-up a good front desk would.
- Every quote shows what the same stay would cost on Airbnb.
- Guests who leave mid-checkout get their quote by email, repriced and only while the dates are free, at most twice.
- Gap-night and last-minute deals that only direct guests get.
- “Found it cheaper?” lets a guest ask, and you reply with a one-click offer.
Every booking, traced back to where it came from.
Stayverly tags every visit with its source, across 14 channels from search to a neighbor's site to the QR card on your fridge, and follows it through to the booking. Give each flyer, bio and partner its own link, and you'll see what each one sends.
A straight answer: direct booking builds over months, not days. Most hosts start at 0–5% direct in their first year. Every stay, post and neighbor adds to it, which is why all of this runs on its own.
- Campaigns7
- Search engines5
- AI assistants2
- Neighbor network3
- Social media3
- Stayverly directory2
- QR codes & print2
- Creators1
One home base for everything you host.
Maybe it's a cabin. Maybe it's a mushroom walk on Saturday mornings, or a furnished flat a nurse rents from January to April. Airbnb takes a cut of all of it. Stayverly gives each one a proper home of its own, then introduces them to each other.
From link to live before your coffee's ready.
Paste a link
A listing or an experience. Every photo comes across, sorted by room, with your description, amenities, reviews, rules and location. The AI tidies your copy but only uses facts you gave it.
- 38 photossorted into 9 rooms
- Descriptionrewritten from your real details
- 212 reviews4.98 average
- Amenities & ruleswifi, hot tub, check-in…
- Locationand what's nearby
Make it yours
Pick a layout, a palette and a pair of fonts, then change anything you like in the live editor. Use yourname.stayverly.com, or a domain of your own.
Start taking bookings
Connect Stripe and your calendar. Guests pay you directly, the dates close on Airbnb and Vrbo, and your Hospitable automations carry on as usual.
Designs that look like somebody cared.
Each layout was art-directed from scratch, then tested one-handed on a phone, because that's how most guests book. Switch whenever you like. Your words and photos come along.
5 layouts for homes · 3 for experiences · 50 palettes · 12 font pairings
Maison · Editorial magazine. Oversized serif headlines, numbered chapters, and asymmetric photo spreads, like your home was featured in Kinfolk.
Open the live demoThe boring parts, done properly.
A pretty site that can't take a booking is just a brochure. Stayverly looks after the calendar, the pricing, the payments, the taxes and the paperwork, so yours actually earns its keep.
No double bookings
Connect Hospitable for real-time sync, or paste your Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com calendar links and we'll check them every 15 minutes. Direct bookings flow back out, so the dates close everywhere.
Prices that fill the gaps
Weekend and seasonal rates, weekly and monthly discounts, a small thank-you for booking direct, and automatic deals on those awkward one and two night gaps.
A checkout people trust
Apple Pay, Google Pay or card, through Stripe. The quote even shows guests what they'd have paid on Airbnb.
The paperwork, sorted
Cancellation policies, a signed rental agreement, security deposit holds, ID checks, and chargeback evidence gathered for you if it ever comes to that.
- Rental agreement signed at checkout
- $500 security deposit held, released automatically
- Guest ID verified
- Balance charged automatically before arrival
Lodging taxes, looked up
We find the state, county and city taxes for your address and link the official source for each. Nothing reaches a guest until you approve it.
- New York State sales tax4%
- Ulster County sales tax4%
- Ulster County occupancy tax4%
Built to be found
Fast pages, structured data, a sitemap, and a local guide to things to do nearby, which gives search engines (and guests) something worth reading.
Or keep the website you have
Add the booking widget to Squarespace, Wix, Webflow or WordPress with one snippet, or point your own domain at Stayverly.
Your Airbnb Experience, minus the 20%.
Airbnb keeps a fifth of every experience booking. Paste your experience link and we'll bring over the photos, itinerary, schedule and reviews, then build you a site that sells sessions and tickets on its own.
Airbnb experience links preview free, no signup. See a demo experience
Import in one paste
Paste your Airbnb Experience or your own website. AI reads the page and brings over the photos, itinerary, schedule and reviews.
Live sessions, real spots left
Weekly schedules and seasons, a cap on each session, booking cutoffs, and time zones handled for you.
Tickets and private groups
Adult and child tickets, a price for booking the whole group, or per-group pricing for boats, tastings and classes.
Three layouts made for experiences
Horizon, Chapter and Compass are built around your itinerary and your story, not a list of rooms.
Listed on Stayverly Experiences
A free directory of independent experiences with a page for every town, plus the nearby stays that feature you.
Paid straight to you
Stripe checkout with Apple Pay and Google Pay. Payouts land in your bank, and partner commissions settle on their own.
Local stays send you guests, and get paid for it.
You set a referral fee and a small perk for partner stays' guests. Nearby rentals then feature you on their site, their booking confirmation, the welcome page in the house, and your own list of places to stay. Everyone gets paid automatically.
Oct 14 – 17, direct on the cabin's own site.
It's also on the cabin's site and the welcome page in the house, with 10% off for Black Birch guests.
The guide gets a booking with no Airbnb fee. Black Birch earns $17.10, paid automatically the day after.
For the guest who stays until spring.
Travel nurses, families between houses, someone on a four-month project. They need a furnished place for months, not nights, and they'd much rather deal with a real host. Stayverly gives every home a monthly page written for them, then collects the rent.
- A monthly page for every home, with the rent, what's included, the nearest hospitals and the local per-diem rate.
- Applications tell you who's coming: move-in date, how long, and the hospital or employer.
- First month charged at booking, then every 30 nights on the same card, with automatic retries.
- Monthly agreement, utilities cap and move-out cleaning built in.
- Stays of 30+ nights can skip lodging tax where the law allows.
- A free listing in our monthly stays directory. No annual fee, no commission.
- Margaretville Hospital28 km
- HealthAlliance Hospital, Kingston32 km
- Northern Dutchess Hospital37 km
- Jan 5Paid at booking
- Feb 4Charges automatically
- Mar 6Charges automatically
What happens after they click Book.
Hotels have a front desk for all this. You have Stayverly, from the first quote to the email eleven months later asking if they'd like the same week again.
What's your 15% worth?
Move the sliders. It's usually more than people expect.
on $36,000 of direct bookings, after card fees and a year of Stayverly Pro.
Want the full picture across Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com? Open the detailed fee calculator
Airbnb, a DIY site, or Stayverly.
An honest side by side.
| Airbnb alone | A DIY website | Stayverly | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fee on every booking | 15.5% (20% on experiences) | 0% | 0% |
| Guest emails and phone numbers | |||
| Built from your listing in a minute | |||
| Calendar synced with Airbnb and Vrbo | Not needed | Plugins, maybe | |
| Rentals, experiences and monthly stays | Separate tools | ||
| Payments, deposits and agreements | Add-ons | ||
| Brings you guests | Airbnb search | Search & AI, directories, social, neighbors, past guests | |
| Shows where each booking came from | Analytics setup | ||
| Marketing to past guests | Do it yourself | Runs on its own |
Flat monthly pricing. We never take a cut.
Every plan has every feature. The only difference is how many homes and experiences you run. Try it free for 14 days.
Pro
most hosts pick thisFor hosts building something guests come back to.
Portfolio
For property managers and growing portfolios.
Every plan comes with
Card fees are Stripe's standard rate and go to Stripe. Cancel any time.- Every layout, palette and font
- Your own domain, with SSL
- Calendar sync (Hospitable or iCal)
- Stripe checkout, Apple Pay, Google Pay
- Experiences with sessions and tickets
- Monthly stays with automatic rent
- Deposits, agreements and ID checks
- Lodging tax suggestions
- Guest list, campaigns, promo codes
- SEO and AI search optimization
- Content Studio reels, posts and pins
- Neighbor, partner and creator programs
- Free listings in our directories
- Promote kit and tracked links
- Bookings by source, across 14 channels
Questions hosts ask us.
The quickest answer is usually to try it. Paste your listing or experience and your site is ready in about a minute, free and without signing up.
Build my site freeShould I leave Airbnb?+
No, keep Airbnb for discovery. Stayverly is for the things Airbnb doesn't do well: your repeat guests, their friends, and people who find you on Google, on Instagram or through a neighbor. Every booking you move direct is one you don't pay 15.5% on (or 20% for experiences).
How will guests find my site?+
Six ways, all included. Your site is built for Google and Bing, with an area guide that adds pages people search for. It's listed free in the Stayverly directories. Content Studio turns your photos into posts, the neighbor network and local partners send you their guests, and your past guests hear from you automatically. The Promote kit covers everywhere else. Every visit is tracked to its source, so you can see what's working. Be patient with it: direct booking builds over months, not days.
Will my site show up when people ask ChatGPT where to stay?+
That's what our AI search optimization is for, and it's on every site. AI crawlers are welcome, every page is sent to Bing (which ChatGPT's search leans on) when you publish, and your site answers the questions travelers ask in plain facts taken from your listing. No one can honestly guarantee an AI will recommend a particular home. New sites show up first for their own name and for specific questions (a hot tub near a trail, dogs welcome), and for broader ones as reviews build. Your dashboard counts every visit from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini and Claude.
Do I need Hospitable?+
No. Paste the iCal links from Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com or your PMS and we'll check them every 15 minutes, then publish your direct bookings back so those dates close everywhere. If you use Hospitable, connecting it adds real-time availability, nightly prices and automatic reservations.
Do you take a cut of my bookings?+
Never. You pay a flat monthly plan and keep every booking, minus Stripe's standard card fee (2.9% + 30¢ in the US), which goes to Stripe, not to us.
I run tours, classes or tastings. Is this for me?+
Very much. Paste your Airbnb Experience link (or your own website) and you'll get a site with live session times, adult and child tickets, private-group pricing and checkout, plus a partner program that gets nearby rentals recommending you.
Can I rent my place by the month?+
Yes. Turn on monthly stays and your home gets a page for 30+ night guests like travel nurses, remote workers and people relocating. It shows the monthly rent, a utilities cap, the nearest hospitals and the local per-diem rate. The first month is charged at booking and the rest every 30 nights, automatically.
How do guests pay, and when do I get paid?+
Through Stripe, by card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, straight into your own Stripe account and on to your bank. You can take a deposit up front and charge the balance automatically before arrival, hold a refundable security deposit, and ask for a signed rental agreement.
What about lodging taxes?+
We look up the state, county and city lodging taxes for your address and show each rate with its official source. You approve them before a guest ever sees a total, and stays of 30+ nights can be exempted where the law allows.
Can I use my own domain, or keep my current website?+
Both. Connect a domain you own in a few minutes (we handle the SSL), or keep your current site and add the Stayverly booking widget. It works on Squarespace, Wix, Webflow and WordPress.
Is it okay to use my Airbnb photos and description?+
They're your photos and your words. We import them so you don't have to upload anything twice, and you can edit or replace all of it. The AI only writes from facts in your listing and never invents amenities.
Your next guest is already looking for you.
Give them somewhere to book you directly. Paste your listing or experience and see your site in about a minute. It's free, and there's nothing to sign up for.