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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.
Book 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 is known for pairing a done-for-you website build with host education: its flagship offering includes a team-built site, twice-weekly live coaching, the Boostly Academy training library, and an active host community, backed by a direct-bookings results guarantee. It now also sells a productized self-serve platform (advertised at $297/month after a 14-day free trial) that bundles the website, a guest-marketing CRM, email and AI marketing tools, and coaching. 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 self-serve AI-built tier exists; the flagship offering is a done-for-you team build with a dedicated project manager.
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.
Flagship sites are built for you by their team; design changes run through them.
Built-in guest CRM with smart remarketing — captures guests from every channel, including Airbnb and Vrbo bookers.
Its self-serve platform now 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-or-money-back guarantee.
Native two-way connectors for Hospitable, Guesty, Lodgify, OwnerRez, and theHostCo. Any other PMS — Hostaway, Hostfully, Hostex, 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.
Self-serve tier advertises a 14-day free trial (then $297/month); done-for-you offering is quote-based.
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 self-serve platform; a guest-facing chatbot on the booking site with reply grading, chat insights, or cross-property fixes 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 August 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.