Direct Booking Sites and Turnaround Apps for Vacation Rentals
Mythex lets a vacation rental business build a direct booking website with a page per property, a guest arrival page with access instructions, cleaning jobs generated from check-outs, and owner statements for managed homes. Describe your properties and rules in chat and publish them with a real database.
What a vacation rental business needs from software
Most stays come through listing platforms that take a commission on each one, so every repeat guest who books direct is money kept. Behind each stay is a turnaround: check-out, cleaning, laundry, restocking and inspection before the next arrival, often on the same day. Peak weeks fill early while shoulder months need different minimum stays and offers. Cleaners are coordinated in a group chat and key handovers go wrong at 11pm. A rental business needs properties, stays and turnarounds that stay in sync, with the guest seeing only what is relevant to their dates.
- Property pages with exact bed setups, access and house rules
- Minimum stays, changeover days and gap-night rules by season
- Blocked dates for stays booked elsewhere
- Cleaning jobs created from check-outs with the time window
- Guest arrival instructions shown only for their stay
- Owner statements with commission and costs deducted
What you can build for vacation rental businesses
A property site that answers who sleeps where
Groups choose a rental by bed setup, not bedroom count. List each bedroom's beds exactly, plus parking, steep stairs, distance to the beach or town, check-in method and house rules. Show nightly rates and minimum stays that change by season, and a returning-guest note about booking direct.
Build a website for my vacation rental business with a page per property showing photos, each bedroom's bed setup, amenities, parking and access notes, house rules, check-in method, and nightly rates with seasonal minimum stays. Add an availability calendar and an enquiry or booking form.
Direct bookings with changeover rules
Set Saturday-to-Saturday changeovers in peak weeks, shorter minimum stays in shoulder months, and gap-night rules so one-night holes do not appear. Dates booked on other platforms are entered or imported as blocks. Guests add numbers, pets and cots, and the security deposit is recorded apart from the stay price.
Make a direct booking system for my rental properties. Each property has seasonal nightly rates, minimum stays and changeover days, with rules to prevent one-night gaps. Block dates booked on other platforms, capture guest numbers, pets and extras like cots, take a deposit and a balance before arrival, and record the security deposit separately.
Cleaning jobs that move with the booking
Generate a cleaning job from every check-out with the window before the next check-in, flag same-day turnarounds as priority, and schedule maintenance between stays. When a booking changes, the job moves, and no cleaner arrives while guests are still asleep.
Build a cleaning schedule app for my vacation rentals. Create a cleaning job from every check-out with the time until the next check-in, flag same-day turnarounds, assign cleaners, add linen pickups, and update jobs automatically when bookings change.
An arrival page instead of a long message
Before check-in, guests get a page with the address, a short video of the key safe or smart lock, wifi details, parking and a house manual for heating, appliances and bins. Codes show only during their dates. Owners of managed homes log in for statements and occupancy.
Create a guest portal for my rentals. Each booking gets an arrival page with directions, an access video, door code and wifi shown only from the day before arrival to check-out, and a house manual for the property. Property owners get a separate login with monthly statements and occupancy.
Direct share and revenue per available night
Chart occupancy and average nightly rate per property, revenue per available night for a fair comparison, bookings by channel, and the turnarounds per day coming up.
Make a dashboard for my vacation rental business showing occupancy, average nightly rate and revenue per available night per property, bookings by channel with the direct share by month, and turnarounds per day for the next two weeks.
A returning-guest page with a direct perk
Past guests already trust the place. Send them to a page with a modest direct perk, such as later check-out, and their favourite property's free dates.
Build a returning-guest landing page for my rentals offering a late checkout for direct bookings, showing each property's availability for next season and a quick booking form.
Calendars and double bookings
If you also list on booking platforms, the direct calendar must block their dates. Many platforms publish an iCal feed per listing; ask Mythex to import those feeds on a schedule if your platforms offer them, or enter blocks by hand while you test. Check that a direct booking blocks the dates on the platforms too, which usually means adding your app's calendar feed in each platform's settings.
Taxes, deposits and guest data
Tourist or occupancy taxes vary by town, so check the local rules and show them as a separate line on each direct booking. Payments and damage holds go through a payment provider on your own account. Guest details and access codes are sensitive; ask for login on staff and owner accounts and codes shown only during the stay.
- Tax as its own invoice line
- Deposit, balance and damage hold recorded separately
- Access codes time-limited to the stay
Questions
Can I take direct bookings without a platform commission?
Yes. Mythex builds a booking page on your own site, and payments go through a payment provider on your account, which charges its own fees. There is no per-booking commission from Mythex.
Can it sync with the calendars on booking platforms?
If your platforms provide iCal feeds, you can ask Mythex to import them and to publish a feed of your direct bookings. Test it with one property first, since sync timing depends on each platform.
Can cleaners see their jobs on a phone?
Yes. The schedule works in a phone browser, and on Pro you can get Android and iPhone apps that open your published app.
Do I need to code?
No. Describe your properties and rules and change them by chatting.
Is it free?
The Free plan needs no credit card and gives daily credits, enough to build and publish a first version. A custom domain needs Pro at $25/month.
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