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Compare direct booking website builders
Both let vacation rental hosts take direct bookings from a branded website. Lodgify bundles it into an all-in-one platform priced per property; Haven is free to build with 0% booking commission on every plan.
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5.0on Capterra · 6 reviews, September 2026Book With Haven and Lodgify both help short-term rental hosts and property managers take commission-free direct bookings from their own branded website instead of relying only on Airbnb and Vrbo.
Lodgify is an all-in-one platform: a template-based website builder plus a channel manager and property management tools, priced per property. Its website builder and onboarding are genuinely well reviewed, and its sites support standard content in roughly 25 guest-facing languages. Based on publicly available information as of October 2026, Lodgify lists Basic at $14, Starter at $26, Professional at $47 and Ultimate at $68 per property per month billed annually, with a 0% booking fee on every plan; the 1.9% fee it once charged on entry tiers has been retired.
Book With Haven is a self-serve, no-code booking site and guest experience platform. It is free to build — you pay only when you publish — with 0% booking commission on every plan, plan tiers that include a set number of properties with a per-property add-on beyond that, and guest-experience tools built in: a guest CRM with smart remarketing, digital guidebooks that capture guest emails, guest screening with damage protection, and multi-jurisdiction taxes and accounting.
Lodgify can stay the operations PMS. Haven connects to Lodgify natively through its API: listing content, photos, fees, prices, availability, reservations, and guest messages sync into Haven, and Haven direct bookings are created in Lodgify in real time so every channel closes together. This page compares the two on the capabilities hosts ask about most.
No-code branded site with property pages and built-in Stripe checkout.
Template-based website builder with a booking engine — a well-reviewed core feature.
Flat subscription; no per-booking commission on any plan (standard Stripe fees apply).
0% booking fee on every plan as of October 2026 — the 1.9% fee once charged on entry tiers has been retired. Card processing fees apply.
Free to build for as long as you like; pay only when you publish.
7-day free trial, then a paid per-property subscription.
Starter includes 1 property, Growth 10, and Pro 50. Each additional property is $3.99/month.
Priced per property per month — Basic $14, Starter $26, Professional $47 and Ultimate $68 billed annually, as of October 2026; portfolio costs grow with each listing.
Built-in guest CRM with smart remarketing — captures guests from every channel, including Airbnb and Vrbo bookers.
No native guest-marketing CRM (listed on Lodgify’s public roadmap); email marketing via Mailchimp integration.
Guidebooks and a mobile stay guide that capture the booker’s email and co-guests’ into your CRM.
Guest portal and app gated to the top Ultimate tier; richer guidebooks via third-party integrations.
Screenings free; up to $50,000 damage protection on eligible bookings via Truvi.
Available through partner integrations (Safely, Authenticate, Truvi) at added cost.
Beautiful, design-forward pages built to convert — no theme picker, no plugin store. It just works.
Four base templates with style variants; preset styling, no site-wide CSS, and some system pages are not editable.
Localized booking pages in up to 5 languages with per-language URLs and hreflang for structured indexing.
Standard site content in ~25 guest-facing languages; hosts translate their own property descriptions.
Native two-way connectors for Hospitable, Guesty, Lodgify, Hostfully, OwnerRez, and Track. Any other PMS — Hostaway, Hostex, Uplisting, Smoobu, Beds24, Avantio, Streamline, Escapia, CiiRUS, and essentially every Airbnb-connected system — syncs listing content, photos, prices, availability, and reservations through Haven’s direct Airbnb integration: the same data the PMS already publishes there. The only via-Airbnb difference: Haven bookings and manual blocks close dates via the Haven iCal feed added in the PMS, not a reservation-write API.
Channel manager with two-way sync to major OTAs (additional channels via iCal), plus property management tools.
Create and sell your own experiences and add-ons with 0% Haven commission — quantities with real inventory, time slots and event seats, party-size pricing, deposits, and quote requests — sold pre-booking, at checkout, and in the guest guide. AI-assisted setup and import from any website included.
Native booking extras (early check-in, late checkout, welcome baskets) at booking and in the guest app; richer storefronts via third-party partners. Inventory tracking, event seats, party-size pricing, and quote requests are not documented.
Turnover cleans and upsell jobs become tasks automatically, offered to your own cleaners and chefs by SMS, WhatsApp, or email — Y/N/DONE replies, a no-login job page, photo proof, backup escalation, and Stripe payouts.
Property management tools are part of its all-in-one platform, but no text-message task offers to your own contacts or contractor payout workflow is documented.
One grounded assistant on every property site, multi-unit site, guidebook, and custom domain (private stay details only after booking). Every reply graded, gaps grouped into insights with cited chats, one-click Add context fixes it across all sites; hosts train it by chatting with their own sites.
AI-generated reply suggestions in the unified inbox are documented; a public-site guest chatbot with per-reply grading, topic insights, or one-click cross-property fixes is not.
A blog on every site, plus Blog Autopilot: on a weekly to monthly schedule Haven runs a real research pass — the queries people search about your area, the pages that rank and what they miss — reads the organiser, park, venue, and tourism-board pages it will cite, writes only from those verified facts and your listing, has an editor check every claim, and drafts the post for your review or publishes it with a Sources list, sitemap entry, and IndexNow ping. Keeping your own website? Embed the same blog with a two-line widget.
No native blog engine; the help center documents a manual workaround using unlinked pages, or embedding a third-party blog tool via custom HTML. No AI or scheduled post generation documented.
AI social reels built from your own listing photos, clips and guest reviews, with a storyboard you approve before anything is spent; narrated property stories read by natural ElevenLabs voices; and custom one-minute instrumental soundtracks composed from the property’s photos, likely guests, location and brand. Download-ready MP4s for Instagram, Facebook and Meta ads.
No built-in tool for turning listing photos into social reels with voiceover or generated music is documented.
Opt-in loyalty points on every direct booking, spendable at any of your listings and applied automatically at checkout; four automatic rewards emails (points ready, reminder, expiring soon, last call) with the bookings they bring back; optional inactivity expiry with guest protections; and one program across teammates’ or agency clients’ listings, funded so their payouts stay whole. Included on every plan.
No built-in guest loyalty or points program documented; repeat-guest offers run through discount codes.
A 100-point SEO and AI-search score for every site with a checklist sorted by points gained, live Google Search Console and Bing data, weekly checks that the crawlers behind Google, Bing and Copilot, ChatGPT search, Claude, and Perplexity can read the page, a site llms.txt, IndexNow, image and Vacation Rentals sitemaps, Foursquare listings, and visits from AI assistants tracked as their own channel.
Search-engine basics for the booking site; an SEO and AI-search scorecard with Search Console data and AI crawler checks is not documented.
Your listings appear in Haven’s plain-language AI stay search and in its open search API and MCP server for ChatGPT, Claude, and other assistants — each result links travelers to book direct with you, with no commission or guest fee.
No traveler-facing search catalog or AI-assistant search API documented.
The Haven Assistant, pinned to every page of your dashboard, changes your sites and settings from a plain-language request — pages, copy, design, photos, domains, listings, rates and calendar, upsells, guest CRM and remarketing, and email settings — and you approve each change before it ships; for anything it does not change directly, it walks you there step by step. Or connect ChatGPT or Claude through Haven’s MCP server and work from there.
AI Co-Host (beta, opened by waitlist) answers from your account data and prepares suggestions; an MCP server is announced behind a waitlist.
Haven vs Lodgify
Configure your Haven site as long as you like — you only pay when you’re ready to publish and take bookings. No per-booking commissions.
Comparison based on publicly available information about Lodgify as of October 2026. Product features and pricing change frequently — check Lodgify’s public website for their latest details. Lodgify is a trademark of its respective owner; this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by Lodgify.