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Directstay.guru helps you get bookings on your own website with property films, Google visibility and guest automation.

Your property film

01Cinematic film
02Direct-booking website
Local marketing.

Local marketing helps more guests find your website through Google, useful local content and campaigns that bring past guests back.

The Google result shown is an illustrative product demonstration. The property name, rating, review count and address are sample data, not a real listing, customer or result.

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Google holiday home Hahei

Tideline House 4.9★★★★★86 reviews Holiday home · Hahei, Coromandel Website Directions Save Hahei Beach Road, Hahei 3591Open 24 hours Check availability on yourplace.co.nz

03Local marketing
Step 04. Guest messaging. Messages from WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage and Gmail become one inbox, where you answer on the guest's original channel.
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Direct Stay

Kōwhai Collection

Home Dashboard Guests Stays Nudges Automations Settings

How it works RSReuben ScottOwner

Conversations
3 new

3 1

Marta Kowalski9:12amLanding now and cannot find the key. Needs an answer in the next hour.WhatsApp2 new

Reuben Scott8:47amAsking for a late checkout on the Sunday. Nothing is booked in after him.Telegram1 new

Hana NgataSunJust booked and asking whether there is parking for two cars.iMessage

Tom & Sarah WhitfieldTueThanking you for the stay and hinting they want the same week next winter.Gmail
04Guest messaging4 channels. 1 inbox.

Your direct channel

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One flat fee. No tax on the bookings you earn.

See the CRM

Four apps' worth of guests, one inbox.

Step 01
They message where they already are

A lost key and new questions arrive at once. Which needs you first?
Step 02
It lands in one list instead

Connect every channel. Each message lands in one inbox, labelled by the app it came from.
Step 03
Open one and the history is there

See the guest, their stay and every previous message in one thread.
Step 04
You answer from here

Write once. Your reply returns through the same app the guest used.

The Direct Stay guest inbox. Four conversations that arrived on WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage and email sit in one list, and Marta Kowalski's WhatsApp thread is open beside it with a reply written in the composer.

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Pick a conversation

Everything from WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage and email lands in the list on the left.

MK Marta Kowalski Kōwhai Cottage · 14 to 19 Aug WhatsApp

Morning Marta, everything is ready for you. Check-in is any time after 2pm.

WhatsApp · Yesterday, 4:40pm

Perfect, thank you. We land at 8:30 so should be with you around ten.

WhatsApp · Yesterday, 5:02pm

Hi! We are just landing now, where do we find the key?

WhatsApp · 9:12am

The key is in the lockbox by the front door, code 4821. I will stay on my phone until you are both inside.

Sending on WhatsAppChange Send

9:14

MK Marta Kowalski WhatsApp

Morning Marta, everything is ready for you. Check-in is any time after 2pm.

Perfect, thank you. We land at 8:30 so should be with you around ten.

Hi! We are just landing now, where do we find the key?

The key is in the lockbox by the front door, code 4821. I will stay on my phone until you are both inside. Send

Open the CRM

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Nothing gets switched off.

Your Airbnb and Booking.com listings keep running exactly as they are. No calendar goes dark, no review history is thrown away, and no guest who was going to find you stops finding you.

Modern timber Wānaka lake house facing the Southern Alps

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Lakeside lodge overlooking turquoise Lake Tekapo in clear daylight

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The other way in gets built beside them.

A property film, your own booking website and the search work that leads guests to it, added quietly alongside what you already run. You decide later how much weight each channel carries.

Get more direct bookings

Guests search by town, so every area gets its own plan. Thirty of them are written already.

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Common questions.

The short answers hosts ask for first. More on the questions page.

Do I have to leave Airbnb or Booking.com?

No. Every listing stays live while the direct channel is built beside it. You decide later whether to lean on marketplaces less, and nothing is switched off for you.

What does a direct booking channel include?

A property film, a booking website on your own domain, a Google Business Profile connected to it, and the guest messaging around a booking. You can take one layer or all of them.

What does it cost to start?

It depends on how many properties you have and how much of the channel you want built. The guest list runs on its own monthly subscription with a 14 day trial. The channel adds your film and your own booking website, either as a build fee plus a monthly on a twelve month term, or paid outright with no term. Local marketing sits on top as a monthly and the build fee is waived with it. Send us your property list and we will quote it.

Do I need to be technical to run it?

No. The site is handed over ready to run, and the parts that need doing regularly are either automated or simple enough to do from your phone.

Where do you work?

Across Australia and New Zealand. The place pages exist because guests search by town, not because we only build in those towns.