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Compare direct booking website builders
Both help vacation rental hosts take commission-free direct bookings from a branded website instead of relying only on Airbnb and Vrbo. Here is how they differ.
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5.0on Capterra · 6 reviews, September 2026Book With Haven and Boostly both help short-term rental hosts and property managers reduce their dependence on online travel agencies (OTAs) by giving guests a branded website where they can book directly. Neither is a property management system (PMS) — both are designed to work alongside one.
Boostly pairs a done-for-you website build with host education: a team-built WordPress site, live coaching, the Boostly Academy training library, an active host community, and customer-success support, all backed by a direct-bookings results guarantee. Based on publicly available information as of October 2026, Boostly is sold as a quote-based, done-for-you program — a one-time setup fee (advertised in the $3,000–$6,000 range) plus an ongoing subscription of about $97/month or $800/year — and a previously advertised $297/month self-serve tier no longer appears on Boostly’s site. It is a higher-touch, coaching-led program.
Book With Haven is a self-serve, no-code platform. You can build your site free and only pay when you publish, and guest-experience tools — digital guidebooks and a mobile stay guide, local area guides, printable materials, guest retargeting, guest screening with damage protection, and taxes and accounting — are built in. This page compares the two on the capabilities hosts ask about most.
No-code branded site with property pages and built-in checkout.
Direct booking website for short-term rentals.
Build it yourself with no code; free to build before publishing.
A done-for-you team build with a dedicated project manager; a self-serve tier is not currently advertised.
Stripe-powered checkout built in.
Online booking; guests pay through the host’s own Stripe account.
Dedicated digital guidebooks and a mobile guest stay guide.
Supports local-guide and property mini-sites; no dedicated guidebook product documented.
Guest screening with up to $50,000 damage protection via Truvi.
No guest-screening or damage-protection product documented.
Beautiful, design-forward pages you build and change yourself, instantly — no code, no waiting on a team.
Sites are built for you by their team on a roughly 30-day timeline; design changes run through them.
Built-in guest CRM with smart remarketing — captures guests from every channel, including Airbnb and Vrbo bookers.
Its program bundles a guest-marketing CRM and email tools; some reviewers report the CRM is limited in practice.
Lodging taxes itemized on every booking and aggregated for filing — on every plan.
No tax and accounting suite documented.
Order branded business cards, welcome books, and QR materials — printed and shipped.
No printed-materials product documented.
Help Center and guided onboarding, but not a coaching program.
A core strength: live coaching, the Boostly Academy, and a large host community.
No money-back results guarantee offered.
Advertises a 65%-direct-bookings guarantee — a full refund plus $1,000 if not met within 12 months (subject to its terms).
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.
Real-time sync with 27+ PMS platforms.
Free to build; you pay only when you publish. No per-booking commissions.
Quote-based done-for-you program: a one-time setup fee (advertised $3,000–$6,000) plus about $97/month or $800/year. No self-serve free trial is advertised.
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.
Sites can display add-ons configured in the connected PMS booking engine; Boostly itself has no native upsell catalog. 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.
No task assignment or contractor payout workflow 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 marketing tools are named for the platform; a guest-facing chatbot on the booking site with reply grading, chat insights, or cross-property fixes is not documented.
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.
Sites are custom WordPress builds delivered as a service, so a blog is possible; AI agents for content are advertised, but no automated blog post generation or scheduling is 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.
Coaching includes templates for building your own retention offer; no built-in points program documented.
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.
WordPress sites with SEO coaching and ChatGPT-enabled copy tools; a built-in SEO and AI-search scorecard 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.
ChatGPT-enabled tools in the website dashboard write blogs and tweak copy; changing account settings from a request or an MCP server is not documented.
Haven vs Boostly
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 Boostly as of October 2026. Product features and pricing change frequently — check Boostly’s public website for their latest details. Boostly is a trademark of its respective owner; this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by Boostly.