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HomeToGo alternative for hosts: Book With Haven vs HomeToGo
HomeToGo is a vacation-rental metasearch and marketplace: list free and pay 15% per booking with no contact with the guest before the stay, or pay from €249 a year plus up to 1.7% and add Google Vacation Rentals for €159 more. Haven is the platform that runs your rental business — your own site and checkout with 0% commission, the guest relationship, your terms, upsells, loyalty and marketing — and gets your property found everywhere.
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5.0on Capterra · 6 reviews, September 2026HomeToGo, founded in 2014 and headquartered in Berlin, runs localized vacation-rental search sites and apps in more than 30 countries, gathering millions of offers from thousands of partners; it reported FY2025 revenues of €255.5 million (€394.3 million pro forma with Interhome, the European operator it bought in August 2025) and a Marketplace onsite take rate of 13.7%. For hosts it offers three plans, based on publicly available information as of October 2026: HomeToGo Flex at €0 a year with a 15% fee per booking and no additional guest fee, Google Vacation Rentals included, and no direct contact with the guest or phone-number display before the stay; HomeToGo Flat from €249 a year with host fees of 0% to 1.7% per booking, Google Vacation Rentals as a €159 (12 months) or €269 (24 months) add-on, and direct guest contact at the host’s choice; and HomeToGo Originals, a full-service model operated by Interhome and Kraushaar, priced on request. Its own worked example turns €15,000 of revenue into €12,750 on Flex and €14,751 on Flat.
That is the marketplace trade: it owns the introduction, sets the terms, and charges the same fee on the fifth stay as on the first. HomeToGo’s version is unusually explicit about the guest: on Flex the host cannot contact the traveler before the stay or show a phone number; on Flat that becomes the host’s choice. Payouts are always sent after check-in, host support is by email only on weekdays, and the only channel manager integrated for direct hosts is Smoobu, part of the HomeToGo group — through which Google Vacation Finder bookings cost 3% and other HomeToGo bookings 15%. Hosts in France, Austria and Australia cannot list directly, and US hosts list through a separate HTG US setup that cannot connect to Smoobu, per Smoobu’s own posts. Parity, cancellation and deposit rules are not documented on the pages Haven could reach.
Book With Haven is the Shopify of short-term rentals. It is not another marketplace competing with HomeToGo for your listing — it is the platform behind every channel you sell on: a branded booking site on your own domain with 0% commission, a guest CRM that knows every guest by their real email before, during and after the stay, the rental agreement, ID check and deposit you decide on, upsells, a loyalty program, automated remarketing, and the same guidebook for guests who booked on a marketplace or direct. Your property is found in Haven’s AI stay search, on Google, and by ChatGPT and Claude — and your HomeToGo listing keeps running through your PMS or calendar sync. One business, every channel, your rules.
Book With Haven vs HomeToGo, at a glance
The platform that runs a rental business across every channel: branded site and checkout, guest CRM, guidebooks, agreements and deposits, upsells, loyalty, marketing, tasks.
A vacation-rental metasearch and marketplace that sells your stay to its audience on its terms, with a subscription plan for hosts who want lower fees. Strong for reach across 30-plus countries; not built to run the business behind the listing.
No per-booking commission and no guest service fee on any plan (standard Stripe fees apply).
Flex: 15% per booking. Flat: from 0% per booking with host fees of up to 1.7%, on top of the subscription. Its hosts blog also describes a shared-fee option of 3% from the host plus a variable fee charged to the guest. Via Smoobu, Google Vacation Finder bookings cost 3% and other HomeToGo bookings 15%, as of October 2026.
Your price. Haven adds no guest fee, and you can show guests the real savings against the same stay on an OTA.
Your price with no additional guest fee on Flex listings; on the shared-fee structure a variable guest fee set by HomeToGo’s smart pricing, with no percentage published, as of October 2026.
Free to build for as long as you like; pay only when you publish.
Flex is €0 a year. Flat is from €249 a year, with Google Vacation Rentals as a €159 (12 months) or €269 (24 months) add-on. Originals is priced on request, as of October 2026.
Every guest’s real email, phone and profile in your own CRM, with every stay they have made with you — from direct bookings and, through the guidebook, from marketplace stays too.
On Flex, no direct contact with the guest before the stay and no phone-number display; on Flat, both at the host’s choice; on Originals, HomeToGo’s local teams handle the guest, as of October 2026.
Built-in guest CRM with smart remarketing — local-event, gap-night, price-drop and listing-updated campaigns — plus loyalty points that bring guests back direct, with no commission on the repeat stay.
A repeat stay booked through HomeToGo carries the same per-booking fee as the first; no host-run remarketing or loyalty program is documented, as of October 2026.
Your confirmation, pre-arrival and guidebook emails go from your brand to the guest’s real address from the moment they book, and the guest can message you on your own site.
Not on Flex — direct guest contact before the stay and phone-number display are both excluded; on Flat they are the host’s choice, as of October 2026.
Any cancellation policy you write, including non-refundable, plus payment schedules (deposit at booking, up to five later payments), instant book or request-to-book, and your own minimum-stay and advance-booking rules.
HomeToGo’s cancellation menu, deposit rules and parity policy are not documented on its listing page, and its help centre could not be reached, as of October 2026. On Flat, whether payments run through the platform is the host’s choice; on Flex they do.
E-signed rental agreement, Stripe Identity verification and a refundable security deposit hold, each on or off per listing — and optionally on your Airbnb and Vrbo stays through the guidebook.
HomeToGo verifies the host (KYC checks, repeated at €1,000 and €5,000 in cumulative bookings, with accounts blocked and bookings cancelled if incomplete) and files DAC7 reports; a host rental agreement, guest ID check and security-deposit feature are not documented, as of October 2026.
Your house rules as written, a checkout checklist shown per booking channel, and any fee or policy you choose to disclose and enforce on your own bookings.
House rules travel with the listing; HomeToGo’s own house-rule and checkout policies are not documented on the pages Haven could reach as of October 2026.
Any host, any country, any property — no geographic gate.
Hosts in France, Austria and Australia cannot list directly, and US hosts list through a separate HTG US setup that cannot connect to Smoobu, per Smoobu’s July 2026 post, as of October 2026.
Haven generates the Vacation Rentals sitemap Google reads from your own site as part of the SEO scorecard; it does not sell a Google Vacation Rentals feed.
Included on Flex; a €159 (12 months) or €269 (24 months) add-on on Flat — a genuine strength, and at 3% via Smoobu the cheapest way into HomeToGo’s distribution, as of October 2026.
Your own site on your own domain, a free place in Haven’s plain-language AI stay search, Google and Bing through the built-in SEO scorecard, and ChatGPT and Claude through Haven’s open search API and MCP server — alongside the marketplace listings you keep.
Found on HomeToGo’s sites and apps in 30-plus countries — “100M+ visits” standard, “200M+ visits” full, per its listing page — ranked by HomeToGo; the guest relationship begins on HomeToGo and, on Flex, stays there until check-in.
Design-forward branded pages on your own domain, with branded guidebooks, emails and printed materials — the guest remembers you.
Your stay appears inside HomeToGo’s brand; guests remember HomeToGo.
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.
No host add-on or experience catalog at checkout is documented on HomeToGo’s listing page as of October 2026.
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 host-run loyalty program, and no HomeToGo loyalty program is mentioned on its public pages as of October 2026.
Digital guidebooks and a mobile stay guide capture the booker’s and co-guests’ emails into a built-in guest CRM with smart remarketing — local-event, gap-night, price-drop, and listing-updated campaigns.
No guidebook product and no guest CRM are documented; on Flex the host has no contact with the guest before the stay, as of October 2026.
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).
Guest screening and damage protection are not documented on HomeToGo’s listing page as of October 2026; its KYC verification is of the host.
Haven is a direct-booking layer, not a 30+ OTA channel manager. Native two-way connectors for Hospitable, Guesty, Lodgify, Hostfully, OwnerRez, and Track. Any other PMS syncs listing content, photos, prices, availability, and reservations through Airbnb — the same data the PMS already publishes there. Haven bookings write back through native APIs, or via the Haven iCal feed added in the PMS for via-Airbnb connections.
HomeToGo is one channel, and Smoobu — part of the HomeToGo group — is the only channel manager integrated with it for direct hosts, as of October 2026.
Stripe pays out on its standard schedule (two business days in the US after a first payout of 7–14 days), scheduled payouts to your bank, and you can collect payment yourself if you prefer.
Payouts are always sent after check-in, and the account can be blocked with bookings cancelled while KYC verification is incomplete, as of October 2026.
The Haven Assistant pinned to every dashboard page, help docs, and in-app help chat.
Email only, Monday to Friday 8:00–18:00; no phone support for hosts, per its listing page as of October 2026.
A visits-to-booking conversion funnel with traffic-source attribution, plus first-party session replay with rage/dead-click detection.
No host-facing visitor funnel or session replay is documented on HomeToGo’s public pages, as of October 2026.
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 on HomeToGo’s host pages as of October 2026.
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.
HomeToGo’s AI is traveler-facing on its own site — AI Mode (GPT-based search, beta from May 2023) and, per trade press, an AI Filter (April 2025) and the Dash companion (February 2026), which Haven records as reported, not confirmed; no host-trained assistant on the host’s own site, as of October 2026.
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.
Not applicable to a marketplace listing.
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.
Not documented on HomeToGo’s host pages as of October 2026.
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 turnover or upsell task system is documented on HomeToGo’s host pages as of October 2026; Originals hands operations to Interhome or Kraushaar instead.
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.
Not documented on HomeToGo’s host pages as of October 2026.
Localized pages in up to 5 languages with per-language URLs and hreflang for structured indexing.
Localized sites and apps in more than 30 countries — a genuine strength of the marketplace.
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.
Your listing is indexed as part of HomeToGo’s sites, not as your own.
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.
A large metasearch audience across 30-plus countries, Google Vacation Rentals distribution, and HomeToGo’s own AI search features — a genuine strength; discovery happens on HomeToGo and ends there, as of October 2026.
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.
Flex lists free and takes 15% (plus VAT) of every booking. Flat is from €249 a year plus up to 1.7% per booking handled on the platform, or €448 a year for each property whose bookings you handle off the platform, with no per-booking cost — per its plan page, which says 20,000-plus hosts use the product, as of October 2026.
A no-code branded site per listing or multi-unit group, 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.
Your listing is a page across HomeToGo’s brands with HomeToGo’s checkout on Flex; on Flat you may handle bookings and payments off the platform yourself, but HomeToGo builds no site for you, as of October 2026.
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 multi-unit search widget; guidebooks, CRM, screening, upsells, and taxes all work alongside it.
On Flat, direct guest contact and showing your phone number on the listing are your choice — its plan page says “receive additional direct bookings” — so a traveler can reach the site you already run; nothing embeds on it, and on Flex contact before the stay is excluded, as of October 2026.
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.
Travelers book real availability with instant book or request-to-book, with payments handled by HomeToGo (your choice on Flat) and no guest fee on Flex, so the total is your price; on the shared-fee structure a variable guest fee is added, as of October 2026.
Native two-way connectors for Hospitable, Guesty, Lodgify, Hostfully, OwnerRez, and Track. Any other PMS — Hostaway, Hostex, Uplisting, Smoobu, Beds24, Avantio, Octorate, AvaiBook, Hosthub, Zeevou, Hostify, Smily (BookingSync), Elina, Resly, Homhero, 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.
Smoobu, part of the HomeToGo group, is the only channel manager integrated for hosts who list directly, syncing rates and availability in real time per its plan page; the wider inventory comes from thousands of partner feeds, and an iCal import for direct hosts is not documented, as of October 2026.
Beautiful, design-forward branded pages built to convert — no theme picker. It just works.
Every listing uses HomeToGo’s page layout across its brands; you choose the photos, description and prices, not the design.
Lodging taxes itemized on every booking and aggregated for filing, taxes shown before checkout, and a guest display currency picker.
HomeToGo files DAC7 reports for EU hosts and adds VAT to its own fee; tourist tax is the host’s to collect — in most cases from the guest on arrival, outside the total price — and remit, per its plan page. Localized sites in 30-plus countries show travelers local prices; a host-side currency setting is not documented, as of October 2026.
Per-stay door codes and climate automation from the booking, with the code delivered through the guest guide.
Not documented on HomeToGo’s host pages as of October 2026.
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.
Paid distribution instead of ads you run: full visibility across HomeToGo’s network and partner sites including Google Vacation Rentals is included on Flex and a €159 (12 months) or €269 (24 months) add-on on Flat; no per-listing ad product is documented, as of October 2026.
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.
Guests who booked through HomeToGo can review the offer with a “Verified guest by HomeToGo” badge, and the star rating is the simple average of the ratings HomeToGo holds for that offer, including reviews collected by providers, per its how-the-platform-works page; no export or display on a site of your own is documented, as of October 2026.
Haven Communities: shared regional pages that list member stays and exchange reciprocal backlinks with your site.
Not documented on HomeToGo’s host pages as of October 2026.
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 guidebook and redeemed at checkout; stay credits instead of refunds.
Not documented on HomeToGo’s host pages as of October 2026.
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.
Its list-your-property page promises “Keep an eye on your numbers: track your earnings, understand your occupancy”, and each booking’s details page shows the net payout and its date; no ADR, RevPAR or pace reporting is documented, as of October 2026.
Multi-unit and brand sites with room types and property profile pages, custom domains, and professional email on your domain.
Each property is listed and, on Flat, subscribed separately (€249 a year on the platform or €448 off it, per its plan page); no host profile site, custom domain or email on your domain is documented, as of October 2026.
Partner mode: manage clients’ listings and sites from one console, with client billing and a shared or separate PMS connection.
Business accounts verified with company documents, and HomeToGo Originals, which hands the whole operation to Interhome or Kraushaar — a genuine full-service option; a console for an independent manager to run client owners’ accounts with client billing is not documented, as of October 2026.
PriceLabs dynamic pricing integration plus a Calendar AI assistant that changes rates, minimum stays, and blocks from a plain-language request.
Dynamic pricing is run by its management brands across the Originals portfolio, and Smoobu-connected hosts sync their own rates; for self-managed Flex and Flat hosts “you set your own prices”, and no pricing tool or calendar assistant is documented, as of October 2026.
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.
The free HomeToGo app for iOS and Android — metasearch across millions of offers with map and filters and its AI Mode — a genuine strength, as of October 2026.
Starter includes 1 property, Growth 10, and Pro 50. Each additional property is $3.99/month.
Flex has no subscription and charges 15% per booking; Flat is from €249 a year, with how the price scales by property not stated on the listing page, as of October 2026.
Choose Haven if…
- You want to own the guest relationship from the moment of booking: real emails, a CRM, remarketing and loyalty that bring guests back direct at 0% commission.
- You want your own terms — the cancellation policy, rental agreement, ID check, deposit and house rules you decide — and a site on your own domain with no per-booking fee and no annual plan to pick.
- You want to be found everywhere, not on one marketplace: your own domain, Haven’s AI stay search, Google, ChatGPT and Claude — while your HomeToGo listing stays live.
- You sell more than the stay: early check-in, experiences, add-ons, gift cards, loyalty — sold at your checkout and in your guidebook with 0% commission.
- You are in France, Austria, Australia or the United States and HomeToGo’s direct listing does not reach you the way it reaches a German or Spanish host.
Consider HomeToGo if…
- You want HomeToGo’s reach — localized sites in 30-plus countries and Google Vacation Rentals distribution — and are starting with no audience; Haven is built to run alongside it, not instead of it.
- You do enough volume that the Flat plan’s €249 a year plus up to 1.7% per booking beats a percentage, and you already run Smoobu.
- You want a host-only 15% fee with no guest fee so the price the traveler sees is yours, and you are comfortable not contacting the guest before the stay.
- You want a full-service option — HomeToGo Originals via Interhome — and do not want to run the business yourself.
Haven vs HomeToGo
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Comparison based on publicly available information about HomeToGo as of October 2026. Product features and pricing change frequently — check HomeToGo’s public website for their latest details. HomeToGo is a trademark of its respective owner; this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by HomeToGo.