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Rentals and venues

Stop renting your
own customers.

The listing platforms are great at finding you a guest once. Then they keep the guest, the email address and a slice of every booking forever. A direct booking site is how you take that relationship back.

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The math of direct booking

The same guest,
at full price.

Every booking that comes through a platform costs you a cut on the way in and a cut on the way out, and at the end of it the guest belongs to them. Repeat visitors go back through the platform and pay the toll again, because that is the only way they know how to reach you.

A direct site changes the arithmetic. The guest who found you on a platform the first time books straight with you the second time, at a better rate for both of you, and their email address is yours. That is the whole game for a rental business.

The site has to earn it though. Photography that makes somebody picture themselves there, a real calendar, honest pricing, and booking that is easier than the platform they are used to.

Lindale, Texas is home base. The work is not. Every build runs the same whether you are ten minutes up the road or three time zones away.

01

Photography that sells the stay

The property presented like a place, not a listing. This is most of the decision.

02

A live calendar

Real availability, synced with the platforms you still use so nothing double books.

03

Direct booking and deposits

Guests book and pay you, with deposits, damage terms and confirmations handled.

04

An owner dashboard

Tonight, this week, this month. Bookings, revenue and messages in one place.

05

Guest communication

Confirmations, arrival details, door codes and the follow up that earns a review.

06

Found for your area

Local and seasonal search for the kind of stay and the place people are looking for.

How a rental build runs

Listing to living.

  • 01Shoot it properlyThe single biggest lever on a rental site. Light, angles and the details that sell a weekend.
  • 02Build the calendarRates, minimums, seasons and blocks, synced so the platforms and your site agree.
  • 03Turn on direct bookingPayment, deposits, terms and automatic guest messages, tested end to end.
  • 04Bring guests directSearch, profile and a reason on every stay for the next booking to come to you.

Stays and venues

Booked direct.

Upward Treehouse website built by MINT DigitalUpward TreehouseSite and bookingUpward Treehouse website built by MINT DigitalUpward TreehouseOwner dashboardGilded Gatherings website built by MINT DigitalGilded GatheringsSite and brandFresh on the Hill website built by MINT DigitalFresh on the HillSite and booking

Questions people actually ask

About rental and venue websites.

Will my calendar stay in sync with the listing platforms?
Yes. The site syncs both directions with the major platforms, so a booking anywhere blocks the date everywhere.
Can guests pay a deposit and sign terms online?
Yes. Deposit, balance, rental agreement and house rules can all be handled before arrival with nothing landing in your inbox to chase.
I run an event venue, not a nightly rental.
Same bones, different shape. Enquiry to tour to contract to deposit, with a calendar that holds dates while a couple decides.
Is it worth it if most of my bookings come from a platform?
That is exactly when it is worth it. You are already paying to acquire those guests. The site is how the second and third stay comes to you instead.

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Let us take the bookings back.

Tell me what you are trying to do and I will tell you what I would build, what it costs, and how long it takes. No pressure, no pitch deck.

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Prefer to talk? Call 430 444 1229 and I will answer your questions directly.