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Short Term Rental Websites Built For Direct Bookings

Wise Media designs & develops premium brands, apps and websites, then runs the SEO, ads, and AI-search visibility that turn them into revenue. For hosts and operators, that starts with a booking engine on a domain you own.

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Why Airbnb Owns Your Guest And You Do Not

Every booking through a platform costs you twice. You pay the commission, and you never get the guest. The name, the email and the repeat stay all belong to the platform, so next year you pay again for the same person.

  • Commission on every booking, on every property, forever
  • No guest list, so no repeat bookings and no referrals you control
  • Your listing ranks on their domain and never on yours
  • One policy change on their side can halve your bookings overnight
  • Reviews and reputation you built, sitting on an account you do not own

The Platforms We Connect To

Your direct booking site has to live alongside the channels you are already on, not replace them overnight.

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What A Direct Booking Stack Actually Needs

A direct booking site is not a brochure with a contact form. It is a booking engine, a channel manager, a payment rail and an automation layer that all have to stay in sync with the platforms you are still listed on.

The Booking Engine

This is the part that takes money. It has to show live availability, price by season and length of stay, take a deposit or the full amount, and issue a confirmation without you touching it. We build on the engine that fits your portfolio size rather than forcing one on you.

Channel Sync, So You Never Double Book

While you are still listed on Airbnb, VRBO and Booking.com, every calendar has to move together. A channel manager sits between those platforms and your own site, so a direct booking closes the dates everywhere within minutes.

The Automation Layer

Guest messaging, door codes, check in instructions, upsells and review requests all run on triggers rather than on you. This is the part that stops a direct booking from costing you more time than a platform booking.

Ranking For Your Own Market

Direct bookings only work if people find you. That means pages built for the searches guests actually run: the city, the neighbourhood, the property type, and the thing they are coming for.

What You Get

Channels

Direct Booking Beside The Platforms

You are not leaving Airbnb overnight. A channel manager keeps every calendar in sync while your own site takes the bookings that would have cost you commission.

Commission
0%

Keep What You Earned

A direct booking carries no platform cut and comes with the guest details attached.

Access

Check In Without You

Door codes, guidebooks and messaging on triggers, so growth does not cost you hours.

Guest List

A List You Actually Own

Every direct booking adds a name and an email you can market to next season. On a platform that relationship resets every single time and you pay to rent it again.

Demand

Filling The Calendar Yourself

Local SEO for your city and neighbourhood, property and experience pages, and paid ads when the calendar needs help, so direct is a channel rather than an accident.

Resilience

One Policy Change Cannot Halve You

Your own domain is the only channel nobody else can switch off.

Built For The Size You Are

One To Three Properties

The jump from listing to brand.

  • A brand that does not look like a listing
  • Direct booking on your own domain
  • Local SEO for a single market

Four To Fifteen Properties

The point where manual stops scaling.

  • Channel manager keeping every calendar in sync
  • Automation so growth does not cost you hours
  • Multiple property and area pages

Sixteen And Up

Portfolio mechanics and owner relationships.

  • A portfolio site with search and filtering
  • An owner portal if you manage for others
  • Reporting on direct versus platform mix

Short Term Rental Website Packages

Prices show in CAD for Canadian visitors and USD everywhere else. Booking engine and channel manager subscriptions are billed by those providers and are not included.

Host Site

,500 CAD

One time

For one to three properties that need a brand and a direct booking path.

  • Brand identity or refresh
  • Direct booking engine on your own domain
  • Up to three property pages
  • Guest enquiry and booking flow
  • Local SEO foundation and schema
  • Mobile first build
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Operator Site

,500 CAD

One time

For a growing portfolio that needs channel sync and automation.

  • Everything in Host Site
  • Channel manager integration
  • Up to fifteen property pages
  • Automated guest messaging and digital guidebooks
  • Upsell flows for late checkout and experiences
  • Neighbourhood and experience landing pages
  • GA4 conversion tracking on direct bookings
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Portfolio Platform

,000 CAD

One time

For operators and managers running a portfolio and owner relationships.

  • Everything in Operator Site
  • Portfolio site with search and filtering
  • Owner portal and owner reporting
  • Multi brand or multi market architecture
  • Custom integrations with your property management system
  • Ninety days of growth support after launch
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Ongoing SEO, content and ads start at $750 a month.

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Stop Paying Commission On Guests You Already Earned

Tell us how many properties you run and where they are. We will tell you which booking engine fits, what the direct booking path looks like, and what it takes to get there.

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