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Crafted With Code alternative: Book With Haven vs Crafted With Code
Crafted With Code is a small remote web studio that designs and codes a custom direct booking site on top of the PMS you already pay for — a one-time build from $1,500 to $3,000 and up, with hosting, analytics setup and the source code sold separately. Book With Haven is the platform: a branded site generated from your listing in minutes, its own 0% commission checkout, guest CRM, guest portals, screening, upsells, SEO and AI-search scorecard, Blog Autopilot, and a Haven Assistant that changes the site from a sentence — on any PMS or none, free to build.
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5.0on Capterra · 6 reviews, September 2026Both put a bookable site on your own domain instead of renting every guest from a marketplace. One is a studio you commission; the other is a platform you run from the first minute.
Crafted With Code describes itself as “a specialist web studio that designs and builds custom, high-performance direct-booking websites exclusively for vacation rental companies and property managers”. Founded in 2021 as a two-person studio and run remotely, it built its first Guesty-connected site in 2022, added Hostaway and Hospitable integrations in 2023, and rebuilt its own site and client tooling on Next.js in 2026. Its published example prices are one-time: $1,500 for one property, $1,800–$2,000 for two to five, $2,500 for six to fifteen, $2,800 for sixteen to thirty, and from $3,000 above that, paid half up front and half at launch, with the final quote depending on integrations and custom features. Hosting and care is an optional $50 a month, analytics, Search Console and sitemap setup is $250, ownership of the source code is a separate $2,000 option, and SEO and ads are quoted separately. A supported PMS is required — Guesty, Hostaway, Lodgify, Hostfully or OwnerRez, with Hospitable built for live client sites — because the site’s calendar, quotes and checkout all come from the PMS’s API, and bookings are written back into it. Standard projects take about four to five weeks on one page of its site and six to eight on another, based on publicly available information as of November 2026.
Book With Haven is the direct booking platform itself. Connect Airbnb, your PMS, or an iCal feed and every place gets a free Haven site and a place in Haven’s plain-language AI guest search and the open catalog that ChatGPT and Claude read. Publish it and the same site runs Stripe checkout with 0% commission, a guest CRM with smart remarketing, guest portals with digital guidebooks, free screening with up to $50,000 damage protection on eligible bookings via Truvi, rental agreements, deposits, taxes, native upsells, turnover tasks and payouts, a 100-point SEO and AI-search scorecard, Blog Autopilot, AI reels, One Click Ads, loyalty points, and a Haven Assistant that changes the site from a sentence — on flat published plans, with no build fee, no hosting fee, and nothing to buy back when you leave.
The honest frame: Crafted With Code sells a custom-coded design on top of a PMS, approved as mockups before anything is built, and that craft is real. Haven generates the site from your listing data, has no design canvas, and will not look like a bespoke commission. Everything after the design — the checkout, the guest, the marketing, the money — is where the two part company. This page compares them on the capabilities hosts ask about most.
Haven vs Crafted With Code: what to weigh first
The practical differences, costs, limits and switching steps, before the full feature table. Crafted With Code facts as of November 2026.
The differences that decide it
- Crafted With Code will not run without Guesty, Hostaway, Lodgify, Hostfully or OwnerRez; it even suggests smaller portfolios start with their PMS’s own website builder instead. Haven runs on its own from an Airbnb listing, or on top of those PMSs and others.
- Crafted With Code is a one-time build of $1,500 to $3,000 and up, plus $50 a month to host it, $250 to set up analytics, $2,000 to own the code, and the PMS subscription underneath. Haven is from $15 a month, or $9 a month billed yearly, hosting, analytics and code included, with no PMS required.
- Crafted With Code stops at the booking, and the booking itself happens in your PMS’s checkout. Guest portals, guidebooks, messaging, screening, upsells, taxes, a guest CRM and remarketing stay in the PMS or in other tools. Haven includes them on every plan.
- Crafted With Code is the stronger design product: a custom-coded site from approved mockups, with a brand and identity service alongside. Haven generates the site from your listing data and has no theme picker or custom code.
- Crafted With Code publishes no case studies (“coming soon”), no testimonials, and no blog posts, and no review-site listing for it was found as of November 2026; it shows a portfolio of ten client sites. Haven’s dated Capterra rating is shown on this page.
- Time to live: Crafted With Code quotes four to five weeks on one page and six to eight on another, after you hand over content and PMS access. Haven builds the site in minutes from an Airbnb or PMS import and you publish when you are ready.
Where Crafted With Code is the better fit
- You want a custom-coded design built from mockups you approve, with a studio that reads your PMS’s API reference. Haven has no design canvas, no custom code, and no agency build.
- You want one named team to design the brand, the logo and the site together: Crafted With Code sells a brand and identity service by proposal. Haven’s brand kit is self-serve.
- You run a large Guesty, Hostaway or Streamline-style operation and want a bespoke front end written against that PMS with owner pages and a multi-home search that mirrors its structure exactly.
- You prefer a one-time project fee to a subscription and do not need anything after the booking.
| Scenario | Book With Haven | Crafted With Code |
|---|---|---|
| One property, first year | $15/month on Starter ($9/month billed yearly), 0% commission. | $1,500 one-time for the build, plus $600 for a year of optional hosting and care, plus $250 if you want analytics, Search Console and the sitemap set up — about $2,350 in year one, plus the PMS subscription the site requires. |
| Five properties, first year | $30.96/month on Starter with 4 add-on properties ($24.96/month billed yearly), 0% commission. | $1,800–$2,000 one-time for the build, plus $600 hosting, plus $250 analytics setup — about $2,650–$2,850 in year one, plus the PMS subscription for five properties. |
| Twenty properties, with the code yours to keep | $78.90/month on Growth with 10 add-on properties ($68.90/month billed yearly), 0% commission. | $2,800 one-time for the build, plus $2,000 for source-code ownership, plus $600 hosting and $250 analytics setup — about $5,650 in year one, plus the PMS. Without the $2,000 option you own the domain, content and approved design deliverables, not the code. |
Card processing applies to every direct booking on either platform. Haven prices come from the current plan catalog; see pricing.
Switching: what moves and what you redo
- Listings, photos, rates and calendars come into Haven from the same PMS Crafted With Code reads, or from Airbnb; nothing is re-typed.
- Connect the domain you already own and Haven scans the current site, builds a 301 redirect map from each old address to the matching Haven page, and suggests what to bring over (area guides, FAQs, blog posts). Pages and blog posts written in Crafted With Code’s CMS are copied over by hand or imported from the public URLs.
- Reviews import from your PMS, Airbnb, Vrbo or a file. If you did not buy the $2,000 source-code option, there is no code to move — only your content, which Crafted With Code’s terms say is yours.
- Leaving Haven: the domain is yours, so point DNS elsewhere; your guest list and booking reports export as CSV.
Book With Haven vs Crafted With Code, at a glance
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.
Builds your own site only; no traveler-facing search catalog or search API for AI assistants is documented.
Connect Airbnb, your PMS, or an iCal feed and every place gets a free Haven site in Haven’s AI guest search, the Haven app, and the catalog AI assistants read. No listing fee, no commission, no guest fee — guests send booking requests, Haven emails you each one, and you pay only to accept.
A paid build, not a listing: traffic comes from the SEO you do or buy afterwards.
A no-code branded site per listing or a group site for several, custom domain, and built-in Stripe checkout with instant book or request-to-book — the free Haven site becomes your direct booking site the moment you subscribe.
A custom-coded site on your domain whose quotes, availability and checkout come from your PMS: payment runs on the PMS’s payment provider or a tokenized Stripe form, and the booking is written into the PMS through its API. Instant book, request-to-book or inquiry per property.
Runs on its own from an Airbnb listing, or on top of any PMS: native connectors for Hospitable, Guesty, Lodgify, Hostfully, OwnerRez, Track, Hostex and Uplisting; every other PMS through Haven’s direct Airbnb integration.
Requires a supported PMS — Guesty, Hostaway, Lodgify, Hostfully or OwnerRez, with Hospitable built for live client sites — and your API credentials; other systems with a documented API are scoped on request. iCal is not accepted as a sync method.
Self-serve by design: Haven generates a branded site in minutes from your Airbnb listing or PMS, and the Haven Assistant makes changes from a sentence. No agency team or project fee; Haven’s team installs the booking widget on an existing site free of charge.
A genuine strength: discovery, full mockups approved before the build, custom code, QA and SEO checks, launch, and 30 days of post-launch support, with a brand and identity service alongside.
Build it yourself with no code, live in minutes from an Airbnb or PMS import; free to build before publishing.
A proposal within 48 hours, then about four to five weeks (one page) or six to eight weeks (another) after you supply content and PMS access; Hostfully builds start in its sandbox.
Your domain, your content, your guest list and your booking data; the site runs on Haven and exports as CSV, with nothing to buy back when you leave.
You own your domain, content and approved design deliverables; source-code ownership and transfer is a separate $2,000 option “subject to agreement”. What a client keeps without that option or the hosting plan is not documented.
Hosting, SSL, updates and support are part of every plan; nothing extra to run the site.
Optional hosting and care at $50 a month “as defined in your agreement”; 30 days of post-launch support included, ongoing maintenance optional; email and phone support, no documented SLA.
Keep your current site and embed Haven’s booking widget (a script and one div, works in WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, or React), blog widget, or group site search widget; guest portals, CRM, screening, upsells, and taxes all work alongside it.
Replaces the site rather than adding to it: a custom build on your existing domain, with a move from a Lodgify template site offered.
No per-booking commission and no guest service fee on any plan (standard Stripe fees apply).
Takes no commission on bookings; the PMS or Stripe processing fees still apply, and any per-reservation fee of the PMS’s booking engine is the PMS’s.
Search answers come from the calendar and rates you sync, checked against your own rules, and the total on the card is the total at checkout. Prices are never shown without dates.
Calendars are cached and refreshed on a schedule, instantly where the PMS sends webhooks; live prices are requested from the PMS after a guest picks dates.
Native two-way connectors for Hospitable, Guesty, Lodgify, Hostfully, OwnerRez, Hostaway, Track, Hostex, Uplisting, Host Tools, iGMS, Smoobu, Beds24, and Elina. Any other PMS — Avantio, Octorate, AvaiBook, Hosthub, Zeevou, Hostify, Smily (BookingSync), Resly, Homhero, ResNexus, Little Hotelier, SiteMinder, Cloudbeds, 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. ResNexus, Little Hotelier and SiteMinder import no calendar feeds, so a Haven booking is recorded there by hand instead.
Integrations written against each PMS’s API — Guesty, Hostaway, Lodgify, Hostfully (needs its paid API add-on) and OwnerRez, Hospitable for live clients; Uplisting, Smoobu, Beds24, Hostex and iGMS are not listed. It is not a PMS and is not a Hostaway marketplace partner.
Beautiful, design-forward branded pages built to convert — no theme picker. It just works.
A genuine strength: custom design from approved mockups, with pages, area guides, blog posts and SEO fields editable in its CMS afterwards; property content is edited in your PMS.
Guest portals with a built-in digital guidebook capture the booker’s and co-guests’ emails into Haven’s guest CRM with smart remarketing — local-event, gap-night, price-drop, and listing-updated campaigns.
No guest CRM, email capture, guest portal, guidebook, or automated gap-night, price-drop or local-event campaigns documented; the guest relationship stays in your PMS.
Free guest screenings on every plan, plus optional Screen & Protect damage protection of up to $50,000 on eligible bookings via Truvi ($8 per booked night, paid by the guest at checkout or by the host).
Not documented; handled by your PMS or third parties.
Guest identity verification, a rental agreement with digital signatures, and security deposit holds or charges, all run from the booking.
Not documented; a deposit appears in the quote only where the PMS puts it there.
Lodging taxes itemized on every booking and aggregated for filing, taxes shown before checkout, and a guest display currency picker.
Not documented; taxes and fees come from the PMS quote. On Guesty, extra fees cannot be added at checkout.
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 portal. AI-assisted setup and import from any website included.
No upsell product documented; what a site can sell depends on the PMS checkout behind it.
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.
Not documented.
Per-stay door codes and climate automation from the booking, with the code delivered through the guest portal.
Not documented.
One grounded assistant on every property site, group site, guest portal, 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.
Not documented; the site offers an inquiry form.
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.
No guest loyalty 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.
Clean technical SEO, structured data, fast pages with Core Web Vitals targets, and an “SEO & AEO optimised” structure are part of the build; analytics, Search Console and sitemap setup is a $250 option and ongoing SEO is quoted separately. No scorecard, AI-crawler checks or AI-assistant traffic reporting documented, and no measured results published.
Haven is software, not a retainer: the SEO and AI-search scorecard, Blog Autopilot, One Click Ads, AI reels, and CRM remarketing run from your dashboard; there is no account manager running campaigns for you.
SEO and ads are offered, “quoted separately”; no retainer prices, case studies or results are published.
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.
A blog and area guides you write yourself in its CMS; no automated research or publishing. Its own blog had no articles published as of November 2026.
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.
Social templates are part of the brand and identity service; no tool for turning listing photos into reels with voiceover or generated music is documented.
One Click Ads: Haven writes short-term-rental-tuned Google Search and ChatGPT ads, you set the daily budget, and Haven runs them for you (Meta rolling out) — no agency retainer.
Ads are quoted separately as a service; no self-serve ad product is documented.
A visits-to-booking conversion funnel with traffic-source attribution, plus first-party session replay with rage/dead-click detection.
GA4 and Google Tag Manager with search, quote, checkout-start, booking and inquiry events, set up for $250; no booking funnel view or session replay documented.
Import reviews from OwnerRez, Airbnb, Vrbo, or a file, collect testimonials, and link a Google Business Profile so guests are asked for reviews that show on your site.
Reviews display on property pages where the PMS’s API provides them; collecting new reviews is not documented.
Haven Communities: shared regional pages that list member stays and exchange reciprocal backlinks with your site.
Not documented.
Discount codes, weekly and monthly, early-bird, last-minute and direct-booking discounts with a “Saving $X booking direct” pill; branded e-gift cards sold in the guest portal and redeemed at checkout; stay credits instead of refunds.
Coupons are created in the PMS and honoured at its checkout; gift cards and stay credits are not documented.
Revenue, occupancy, ADR and RevPAR against last year, booking pace, pricing health, gap and orphan nights, booking sources, a report builder with CSV exports, and a weekly digest.
Not documented; reporting stays in your PMS.
Localized pages in up to 14 languages with per-language URLs and hreflang for structured indexing.
Not offered as a feature; multilingual is mentioned only as something that makes a project take longer.
Group sites with room types and property profile pages, custom domains, and professional email on your domain.
Multi-home sites with search and filters on your existing domain; domain registration and professional email are not documented.
Partner mode: manage clients’ listings and sites from one console, with client billing and a shared or separate PMS connection.
Builds for property managers, with owner pages on the site; a console for running client accounts is not documented.
PriceLabs dynamic pricing integration plus a Calendar AI assistant that changes rates, minimum stays, and blocks from a plain-language request.
Not documented; rates are set in your PMS.
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.
Not documented; edits run through its CMS or the studio.
Haven’s phone web app — bookwithhaven.com on a phone, added to the home screen, with nothing to install from an app store — runs the same plain-language stay search on the same API as bookwithhaven.com/stays.
Not documented.
Free to be listed and free to build your site for as long as you like; pay only when you publish or accept a booking request. Plan prices are published on the pricing page.
Publishes example build prices by portfolio size, but its terms say those prices “do not form a contract” and the final quote depends on integrations; no free tier or trial.
A dated, public Capterra rating shown under the hero of this page, published plan prices, and a help center that documents every feature claimed here.
A portfolio of ten client sites; case studies marked “coming soon”, no testimonials on the site, an empty blog, and no Capterra, G2, Trustpilot or Clutch listing found as of November 2026.
A free Document Builder turns each listing into a printable House Manual (cover, welcome note, house rules, local guide with QR codes, in-stay store), QR cards, rebooking signs, and business cards — the manual also appears as a tile in the guest portal — and you can order branded business cards, cards, and signs professionally printed and shipped.
A welcome book and social templates are named as brand and identity deliverables by proposal; printable QR cards, rebooking signs or business cards generated from the listing are not documented, as of November 2026.
The same grounded assistant answers guests who booked on Airbnb, Vrbo, or Booking.com inside their booking thread, through your connected PMS (Hospitable, Guesty, Lodgify, Hostfully, OwnerRez, Track, Hostex, Uplisting, Smoobu, Beds24, or Hostaway), in the guest’s language, usually within a minute. Per PMS you pick Draft for approval or Send automatically; refunds, date changes, discounts, damage, and anything broken are handed to you without a reply; every exchange is graded under Analytics → Chats, you teach it from what it missed, and it writes in your voice and learns from the drafts you edit.
Not documented; guest messaging stays in the PMS, as of November 2026.
Plan your stay opens before checkout: guests drag your experiences and add-ons onto the days of their trip, pick a slot or request a time, or tap Plan my stay and AI lays the trip out from your catalog with a reason per item — never inventing an offer, price, or time. The plan carries into checkout, the reservation, and the guest portal, and a returning guest opens it with your gift already on it.
A guest-side planner that places experiences and add-ons on the days of the stay before checkout is not documented, as of November 2026.
A deposit at checkout (20%, 30%, 50%, or any percent) and up to five later payments charged to the same card on the days you set before check-in; guests see “Pay 25% now, the rest later” before checkout and can pay in full instead; a declined card gets a pay-now link, a late payment flags or cancels the booking under your rule, and every notice is an automation you can reword or switch off. Or collect payments yourself by Zelle, Venmo, or bank transfer with Haven sending each request.
Depends on the PMS checkout behind the site, not on the studio, as of November 2026.
A guest journey per channel under Communication → Message automations — booking, pre-arrival (agreement, ID, door code), check-in, checkout, and post-stay messages by email, text, and WhatsApp, with steps you add and a visual automation editor — plus an inbox with a Needs-you filter and saved replies, guest chats by text and WhatsApp, and account-wide switches that show exactly what sends and when.
Not part of the build; guest messaging stays in the PMS behind the site, as of November 2026.
Tasks → History keeps every finished clean on every listing for good. Search notes, steps and problem reports; filter by listing, cleaner and dates; browse every photo in one grid; download full size or each clean as a zip with a timestamped manifest for an insurance or damage claim.
A searchable per-property history of every finished clean, with photos downloadable for a damage or insurance claim, is not documented, as of November 2026.
Paste an Airbnb, Vrbo, Evolve, or direct-site listing URL and Haven imports the title, photos, amenities, reviews, and starting price; paste a guidebook link (Touch Stay, BetterSTR, Everhost, an Airbnb guidebook, or a PDF) and Haven proposes the same sections; import your existing website, and your contacts from Mailchimp or a CSV. You review each item before it is saved, and your PMS or Airbnb connection keeps calendars and reservations in sync.
Property content comes from the PMS; moving a Lodgify template site is offered as a project; there is no self-serve importer for a website, guidebook or contact list, as of November 2026.
Choose Haven if…
- You want to be found by travelers — in AI guest search, in the Haven app, and by ChatGPT and Claude — without paying a build fee, a hosting fee, or a share of your revenue, and to pay only when a guest actually books.
- You want the booking site, checkout, and 0% commission in the same place, on a published flat plan instead of a quote, with no PMS required.
- You want a guest CRM with smart remarketing, guest portals, screening with damage protection, rental agreements, deposits, and taxes built in — not left in the PMS.
- You want to sell your own experiences and add-ons with 0% commission, and have the clean or the chef dinner dispatched and paid automatically.
- You want an SEO and AI-search scorecard that tells you the next step, Blog Autopilot, AI reels, One Click Ads on Google and ChatGPT, and session replay — running yourself, today, not quoted separately.
- You want to own everything from day one — domain, content, guest list, booking data — with no $2,000 option to buy the code and nothing to renegotiate when you leave.
- You want to be live in minutes, not after a proposal and a four-to-eight-week build.
Consider Crafted With Code if…
- You run Guesty, Hostaway, Lodgify, Hostfully or OwnerRez, want the booking to stay in that PMS’s checkout, and want a custom-coded front end written against its API.
- You want a studio to design the site from mockups you approve, and perhaps the brand and logo with it.
- You prefer a one-time project fee to a subscription and do not need guest tools after the booking.
- You manage a large portfolio and want owner pages and a multi-home search built to mirror your PMS’s structure exactly.
Haven vs Crafted With Code
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Comparison based on publicly available information about Crafted With Code as of November 2026. Product features and pricing change frequently — check Crafted With Code’s public website for their latest details. Crafted With Code is a trademark of its respective owner; this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by Crafted With Code.