Why direct booking
Guests book directly with you; you own the relationship and payment.
Benefits of Direct Booking
- Flat monthly fee: 0% booking commission to HemmaBo.
- Own domain: Your brand, your address, your credibility.
- Own the guest relationship: Build returning guests who book directly with you.
- Full control: You set rules, prices, and cancellation policy.
Marketplace vs Direct Booking
- Guest data: Marketplace — Owned by platform; Direct Booking — Owned by you
- Branding: Marketplace — Platform design; Direct Booking — Your own
- Pricing: Marketplace — Algorithm-driven; Direct Booking — You decide
- Returning guests: Marketplace — Hard to reach; Direct Booking — Direct contact
Common Questions About Direct Booking
Can I have both an OTA and my own site?
Yes. Many hosts run both in parallel. Two-way API calendar sync — one calendar, no double bookings. Direct bookings use a flat monthly fee instead of per-booking commissions.
How do I get traffic to my own site?
Returning guests, direct links, search engines, and social media sharing. HemmaBo publishes structured data that compatible systems can read, but external ranking or recommendation cannot be guaranteed.
Is it technically difficult?
No. No coding required. You fill in forms, upload images, and publish.
What does it cost?
A flat monthly fee and 0% booking commission to HemmaBo. The price is on the Pricing page (https://www.hemmabo.com/pricing).
Ready to own your guest relationship?
No commitment. Cancel when you want.
Direct booking means you as a host take full responsibility for the rental. No intermediary is party to the agreement between you and the guest.
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.