Booking Engine

With the Hostaway software, you will also have access to your own booking engine.

With this great tool, you can generate a website in minutes to promote your listings and have clients book directly with you.

You can find an example rental booking website generated by Hostaway.

Creating your own booking engine

The booking website can easily be created on the domain holidayfuture.com as a subdomain or you can as well set it using your own domain or subdomain (see more at Using a Custom Domain for the Booking Engine). The first step in creating a website for your account is to choose your subdomain name.

When you have selected the domain name, you can select the listings that you'd like to show on your new website.

Click on the listings so they turn green to make them active.

Then you can select if you would like to show your base price for the listing. This is the Base Rate you have set in listing > Edit > Price and Fees > Base Rate. 

In addition, you can also choose your website title and subtitle. These show up on the front page of your website.

You can upload a nice background image for the search box.

You can also add some content about who you are as a hosting/management company.

Also, you can add a disclaimer, address and social media contact information.

When you're done editing and filling in the information, you can save and publish the website. It will be immediately available on the domain name you have chosen.

Website advanced settings

Like with most websites, you might wish to add some advanced functions to the page.

When you have a Stripe account connected, you can collect credit card details from your website. Also, you can decide if your guests need to add the credit card details as a mandatory field or not.  You can add different scripts to the page so you can load chat windows, page trackers and more.

Tip:

As mentioned above, if you have a domain name already you might consider Using a Custom Domain for the Booking Engine

White label in the booking engine

If this option is not enabled, it will show some references for Hostaway in the footer.
If you wish to show your logo, you can go to "Settings" followed by "Edit profile" and there you can upload a company logo and after check, the option "Use company logo for guest portal".
If this is option is selected, it will show your company logo at the left side of the header (instead of the title, when set), and at the footer.