Does Lodgify Have a Direct Booking Website? What It Includes and What Haven Adds

Yes, and more directly than most property management systems. Lodgify began as a vacation rental website builder, and a booking engine on a template site remains the center of the product. As of October 2026 its pricing page lists four plans, from Basic at $14 a month billed annually to Ultimate at $68, and every one of them shows a 0% booking fee on direct reservations; the 1.9% fee that once applied to entry plans no longer appears. So the question for a Lodgify host is not whether a site is available. It is what the template leaves out, what those pieces cost to add, and whether the site should be tied to the backend you happen to run this year. This post covers the plans, the site, the gaps, and how Haven's native Lodgify connection fits beside it.

Key facts

• Lodgify's pricing page lists Basic from $14 a month for one property, Starter from $26 for up to two, Professional from $47, and Ultimate from $68, billed annually, with a 7-day free trial and no setup fee, as of October 2026. Monthly billing runs higher.
• Every plan shows a 0% booking fee. Lodgify's earlier booking-fee terms described a 1.9% fee on former Lite and Starter plans; the current pricing page no longer carries it.
• The website builder includes customizable templates, a built-in booking engine, hosting, and a custom domain, and Lodgify's builder page lists support for more than 30 guest-facing languages.
• Lodgify has no native guest-marketing CRM (email marketing runs through a Mailchimp integration) and no native blog engine; its guest portal and app sit on the top tier, and screening and damage protection come through partners such as Truvi and Safely.
• Haven connects to Lodgify natively with an API key. Listing content, photos, fees and taxes, discounts, nightly rates, availability, reservations, and guest messages sync in over webhooks within seconds, and Haven bookings are created in Lodgify immediately. Lodgify's Public API is not on every plan; hosts without it can connect through Airbnb.
• On top of Lodgify, Haven adds 0% commission on every plan with properties included, guidebooks that capture guest emails into a built-in CRM, AI guest chat with every reply graded, free screening with optional damage protection up to $50,000, native upsells, and multi-jurisdiction taxes.

Lodgify's plans, and what the site includes on each

Lodgify prices per property and sells the website on every tier. Basic, from $14 a month billed annually, is capped at one property; Starter, from $26, at two. Professional, from $47, is where Lodgify points hosts with three or more properties, and it includes Lodgify's dynamic pricing rather than a trial of it. Ultimate, from $68, adds team and operations tools such as task management and owner statements, and it is the tier where the guest portal and app live. The 7-day trial needs no card, and there is no setup fee.

The site itself is the part Lodgify built first and still does well. You pick a template, personalize it without code, attach a domain you already own or register one through Lodgify, and the booking engine takes reservations and payments on the page. Lodgify's builder page lists hosting, custom domains, mobile-responsive layouts, and support for more than 30 languages, with hosts translating their own property descriptions.

The booking fee is the detail that has changed most recently. Lodgify's older booking-fee terms described a 1.9% charge on reservations processed through former Lite and Starter plans. As of October 2026 the pricing page shows 0% on all four plans. If you are reading a comparison written earlier this year, check the live page; the entry-tier fee it describes may no longer be there.

What the Lodgify site leaves out

Three gaps come up most often, and none of them is about the template.

The first is marketing. Lodgify does not include a native guest CRM; its public roadmap lists one, and email marketing today runs through a Mailchimp integration.

The second is the guest's experience after booking. The guest portal and app are gated to Ultimate, and richer guidebooks come through third parties. On the lower tiers the stay itself, from arrival instructions to local recommendations, happens over email or in a separate tool.

The third is content. Lodgify's help center documents a workaround for a blog, using unlinked pages or an embedded third-party tool, rather than a blog engine. Local search is one of the three durable sources of direct traffic, and it rewards the host who publishes about the area month after month.

What hosts add beside Lodgify

Lodgify can stay exactly where it is, as the operations hub and channel manager. What hosts tend to add is the layer the guest sees: a design-forward site under their own brand, a guidebook and stay guide that capture the whole party's emails, an AI assistant on the property page that answers from the listing before the booking exists, remarketing that runs on its own, and tax handling for the direct bookings the OTAs no longer collect for. The economics of adding that layer, line by line, are in the direct booking website cost post, and the wider playbook is in the complete guide to direct bookings.

How the native Lodgify connection works

Haven connects to Lodgify through Lodgify's own API, not through a calendar feed. You copy the key from Settings → Public API in Lodgify, paste it into Haven once, and pick which properties to import. From there Lodgify remains the source of truth for content, pricing, and availability, and the synced fields lock in the Haven editor so edits happen in one place.

What syncs in: listing content and photos in Lodgify's order; cleaning and similar fees plus your tax rules; weekly and monthly promotions and extra-guest pricing; your cancellation policy and payment schedule, read from your rental policy, so a 50% deposit with the balance due before arrival behaves the same way in both systems; nightly rates, minimum stays, blocked dates, and booking window; and reservations from every channel in Lodgify, which block the Haven calendar within seconds through webhooks, with polling as a safety net.

What goes back: a Haven direct booking is created in Lodgify immediately, with the guest's details and a note showing what was charged, so the dates close on every channel Lodgify manages. Guest messages travel both ways, so a reply typed in Haven shows in the Lodgify conversation and a reply typed in Lodgify reaches the guest through Haven. Hosts who prefer to price in Haven can flip pricing per listing, and Haven then pushes rates and stay rules back to Lodgify.

Two limits are worth knowing. Reviews do not sync, because Lodgify has no reviews API, and some arrival content Lodgify does not expose, such as Wi-Fi details and directions, gets added once in Haven. Lodgify's Public API is also not included on every plan; if Settings → Public API is missing from your account, ask Lodgify about enabling it, or connect through Airbnb instead. Setup steps are on the Lodgify integration page, and the field-by-field detail is in the Lodgify sync and webhook reference.

Lodgify's site vs Haven on top of Lodgify

The full comparison, including upsells, tasks, and AI tools, is on Haven vs Lodgify.

Which to choose

If you are committed to Lodgify and want a functional site live this week, use the one you are already paying for, and spend the attention you save getting past guests to it. If presentation sets your rate, if you want a CRM and guidebooks without assembling integrations, or if you want the site to survive a change of backend, run Haven on top and let Lodgify keep doing what it does well.

FAQ

Does Lodgify charge a booking fee on direct reservations?

As of October 2026, Lodgify's pricing page shows a 0% booking fee on Basic, Starter, Professional, and Ultimate. Its earlier terms described a 1.9% fee on former entry plans; check the live page for the plan you are on.

Is the Lodgify website included or an add-on?

Included. The website builder and booking engine come with every plan; the plans differ by property cap, automation, and operations tools.

Does Haven sync with Lodgify natively, or only by iCal?

Natively, through Lodgify's API. Content, pricing, availability, reservations, and guest messages sync in, and Haven bookings are created in Lodgify in real time. iCal is not involved.

Which Lodgify plans work with the Haven connection?

Any plan that includes Public API access. If the Public API page is missing from your Lodgify settings, ask Lodgify about enabling it, or connect Haven through your Airbnb account instead.

Can I keep Airbnb and Vrbo with both?

Yes. Lodgify keeps managing those channels, and a booking from any of them blocks the Haven calendar within seconds.

Sources

• Lodgify — Pricing and plans
• Lodgify — Vacation rental website builder
• Lodgify — Basic plan and Starter plan
• Lodgify — Booking fee terms
• Lodgify — Frequently asked questions
• Haven's Lodgify integration, help, and comparison pages, linked above, with facts as of October 2026