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Send one property
Start with a listing URL, website, or photos plus a few notes about what guests should understand.
DirectStay · Built first for our own villa — Chalk Sound, Turks & Caicos
Own the guest relationship your OTA listings earned.
DirectStay gives vacation-rental owners a private, owner-approved direct booking path — without asking you to abandon Airbnb or VRBO.
Founder property Nº 001 · Villa La Percha · Live founder property
01 — Same demand, better memory
Discovery stays. Memory moves.
Let the platforms find your guests. Keep the ones who want to come back.
DirectStay is not an OTA replacement pitch. It is a private, owner-approved way to make guests remember the property, understand the stay, and ask about dates in your branded setting.
Marketplace listing
Marketplaces can be great at starting the relationship.
- Guests find the property
- Platform shapes the path
- Repeat guests often return there
DirectStay owner path
The owner's direct home — same demand, more owner control
- Property story and details in one branded place
- Owner-approved inquiry and booking options
- Repeat guests and referrals know where to come back
02 — Founder property
Chalk Sound · Providenciales
We built DirectStay for our own villa first.
Villa La Percha — living room to screened lounge, Chalk Sound
Villa La Percha is the founders' villa. Before offering DirectStay to anyone else, we built its direct-booking site, guest answers, and inquiry path — the same way we would for your property.
Every detail an owner should expect is live there today: accurate stay facts, honest photography, local context, and a calm way for guests to ask about dates directly.
Pool and hot tub above Sapodilla Bay
03 — How it starts
Private until you say otherwise
A first version, then your review.
02
Review a private dossier
We organize the property story, stay details, inquiry path, and owner questions before anything goes public.
03
Choose the next move
Revise it, pause it, remove it, or discuss a founder pilot after the basics feel right.
If there is enough material, the first private preview can usually be prepared in 1-2 days.
Private first. Owner approved.
A preview is a draft, not a launch.
Our review team prepares the private review materials, but the owner remains the decision maker before guest content, inquiry paths, or booking options go live.
No Airbnb, VRBO, or other marketplace content is published unless the owner approves it and confirms DirectStay may use it.
No guest outreach.
No public or bookable launch without owner approval.
04 — Founder pilot
Simple terms, in writing
Start with one property. Keep the commitment clear.
Property Nº 001 is ours, and it's live. The next properties are the pilot cohort — built one at a time, carefully.
Most owners can start with a listing URL and 2-3 notes about the stay.
Build fee
$0 upfront build fee
Monthly
$0 monthly during the pilot
Success fee
You pay nothing unless a booking you accepted came through your DirectStay site.
A 7% pilot fee applies only to owner-accepted bookings attributed under written pilot terms.
Owners remain responsible for rates, availability, taxes, payments, refunds, deposits, guest screening, and accepted bookings.
Start carefully