FAQ
Answers about HemmaBo: the booking website, payments, agents and VRP.
What is HemmaBo?
HemmaBo is vacation rental software. A signed stay offer on the host's own domain. A complete booking website, direct Stripe payments, and machine-readable, cryptographically verifiable stay offers (VRP · Ed25519). It is not an OTA and not a booking intermediary.
Who does the guest book with?
The guest always books directly with the host. HemmaBo provides the booking website system but is not a party to the agreement between host and guest.
How does payment work?
Payment runs through Stripe Connect directly to the host's own Stripe account. HemmaBo is never the merchant of record and never holds guest funds.
Who is responsible for the accommodation and agreement?
The host is fully responsible for the accommodation, the agreement with the guest, and all communication. HemmaBo is only a technical provider and has no responsibility for the rental.
What does HemmaBo do?
HemmaBo builds the booking site on the host's own domain: the calendar, payment via Stripe straight to the host, HemmaBo Konversa and HemmaBo Wallet for the guest, and stay offers signed by that domain.
What doesn't HemmaBo do?
HemmaBo does not guarantee bookings, search engine visibility, or financial outcomes. HemmaBo does not broker accommodations, does not receive or hold guest payments, and is not a party to agreements between host and guest.
How is HemmaBo used in practice?
The host creates an account, connects their own domain (a web address the host owns, bought from a domain provider of their choice), sets up their property in the settings — photos, prices, logo, FAQ and more — and activates payment via an external provider. Guests can find the site through search engines and the host's own links, and book directly on the host's domain. When an AI assistant uses the approved HemmaBo app, the app sends the guest to the host's own domain. On the host's page, WebMCP lets a compatible AI agent read the signed stay offer and verify its price.
Is there a binding period, and how do I cancel?
There is no binding period. You can cancel at any time via the customer portal, and no further charges are made after that. You bring your own domain, bought from a domain provider of your choice. HemmaBo does not sell or register domains. Your domain is always yours and is not affected if you cancel HemmaBo.
Is HemmaBo an alternative to external booking platforms?
HemmaBo is the software: a booking and hosting system on your own domain that works for you. You can run it alongside other booking channels. A centralized calendar on your own domain: every booking channel you connect follows it. When a night is booked anywhere, on your site or on a connected channel, it closes everywhere else. No double bookings.
Does HemmaBo take a commission?
No. HemmaBo takes no commission on your bookings: you pay a fixed monthly fee, and the price is on the Pricing page. HemmaBo is the software for your vacation rental. We put together a system that works for you.
Is HemmaBo a listing site?
No. Your property is not listed on HemmaBo — it lives on your own domain. HemmaBo does not aggregate properties and does not drive traffic to your property. HemmaBo's federation is a machine directory of host domains only: no ranking and no prices.
Who owns the guest relationship when I use HemmaBo?
You own the entire guest relationship. Communication, payment, and agreements happen directly between you and the guest. HemmaBo is only a technical provider and has no part in the agreement or transaction.
Who is the controller of guest data?
The host is the controller of guest data. HemmaBo processes it for the host.
Can an AI agent find my property and verify the offer?
It can find your property and verify the signed stay offer; the guest books on your domain. Compatible agents can discover a host domain, verify a signed stay offer, and send the guest to that domain to book. Every stay offer is signed with Ed25519 on the host's own domain (Vacation Rental Protocol: did:web + JWKS) and is valid for 15 minutes. Today, AI assistants mostly research and recommend, then hand the guest over to book.
How is a stay offer verified — what is VRP?
Every stay offer is cryptographically signed with Ed25519 on the host's own domain (did:web). A guest, or the guest's AI assistant, can verify the price, dates and availability against the keys the host domain publishes. HemmaBo operates the signing key on the host's behalf. Offers can be recorded in an append-only, tamper-evident transparency log. VRP (the Vacation Rental Protocol) is the open standard; HemmaBo is its reference implementation.
I run a PMS, channel or agency — can I integrate with HemmaBo or VRP?
Yes. VRP is an open standard and each host domain exposes standard machine surfaces — openapi.yaml, an MCP server, agent-traversal, did:web/JWKS and VRP attestations — so compatible systems and AI agents can read and verify without a proprietary connector.
What do I need to get started, and what does it cost?
Your own domain, bought from a domain provider of your choice (HemmaBo does not sell or register domains), and your property details. Your booking website goes live as soon as you have filled in your details, with 6 design templates one click away. When your domain goes live, it is submitted to search engines for indexing. 0% booking commission. The price is on the Pricing page (https://www.hemmabo.com/pricing). Stripe and third-party fees may still apply.
Which AI assistants can read a host's own site?
Any compatible assistant over the open web: connector-free AI assistants can read the host domain's machine-readable surfaces and verify the signed stay offer; the guest books on the host domain. The host domain stays the source of truth for price, availability and the signed offer.
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What is a VRP vacation rental?
A VRP vacation rental is a holiday home whose host runs its own booking site on its own domain and publishes stay offers signed by that domain under the Vacation Rental Protocol (VRP). Any guest or AI agent can check, over plain HTTPS, that the price, the dates and the conditions come from the host — with no listing site, catalog or connector in between.
HemmaBo is software that makes a host's home a VRP vacation rental: the booking site on the host's own domain, the signed stay offers, and payment straight to the host.