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Host Port alternative: Book With Haven vs Host Port
Host Port is a small Australian channel manager with a free plan and a direct booking page per listing — honest, by its own account, about having “no templates and no blog.” Haven is the direct booking site itself: free to build, 0% commission, with the guest CRM, guidebooks, screening, upsells, SEO, content, and AI tools behind it.
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5.0on Capterra · 6 reviews, September 2026Book With Haven and Host Port both let a short-term rental host take direct bookings without a marketplace taking a cut. One is a channel manager that includes a booking page; the other is a direct booking platform that sits on top of whatever manages your channels.
Host Port is a lightweight channel manager and PMS for hosts with 1 to 50 units, built by a small Australian team and pitched as “100% boomer proof.” Its free plan is genuinely free: unlimited listings, one-way iCal sync from Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, and any other iCal site, a unified calendar, manual bookings, iOS and Android apps, unlimited team seats, and a direct booking page on your own domain. Pro is US$10 per synced listing per month (with AUD, GBP, NZD, EUR, and CAD prices) and adds two-way API sync with Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, Expedia, Agoda, and one more channel through Channex, a unified inbox with OTA messages, scheduled messages, pricing rules, PriceLabs, webhooks, and Airbnb review automation, with a 90-day money-back guarantee once per account. There is no Host Port commission: guests pay into your own Stripe account at Stripe’s rates, with instant book or request-to-book, add-ons, a rental agreement to sign, a card deposit hold, promo codes, and gift cards, based on publicly available information as of October 2026.
The booking page is where Host Port stops. Its own blog says it has “no templates and no blog,” and SEO controls, multiple languages, taxes, guidebooks, task lists, smart locks, ID verification, damage protection, and revenue or occupancy reporting are not documented. The company publishes no host, listing, or country counts; its blog, FAQ, and terms all date from 2026.
Book With Haven is the direct booking site, and everything around it. Every place you connect from Airbnb, your PMS, or an iCal feed gets a free Haven site and a place in Haven’s AI guest search, with no listing fee and no commission on any plan. Behind the site are Stripe checkout, a guest CRM with smart remarketing, digital guidebooks that capture guest emails, free screening with up to $50,000 damage protection on eligible bookings via Truvi, native upsells, turnover tasks and payouts, taxes, an SEO and AI-search scorecard, Blog Autopilot, AI reels, loyalty points, and a Haven Assistant that changes your site from a sentence. Haven is not a channel manager; it connects to the one you run.
Book With Haven vs Host Port, at a glance
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 free booking page per listing, but no traveler-facing search or catalog: travelers find the page only through links you share or the channels Host Port syncs.
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 search, AI-search claims, or assistant API documented; its own blog lists AI and GEO features as “not publicly documented.”
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.
A booking page per listing — several homes can share one page that becomes “your own website” on a custom domain, on every plan, with About, Contact, and Things-to-do pages written in the dashboard. By its own description a booking page, not a site builder: “no templates and no blog.”
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.
You can link from an existing site to the booking page; an embeddable widget is not documented.
A standalone booking site — no PMS subscription required — that connects to the PMS you already run.
Host Port is the PMS and channel manager; it does not connect to another PMS.
No per-booking commission and no guest service fee on any plan (standard Stripe fees apply) — on bookings Haven actually processes.
A genuine strength: no Host Port commission on direct bookings on any plan; guests pay into your own Stripe account at Stripe’s card fee (about 2.9% + 30¢ in the US and Canada, 1.7% + 30¢ in Australia, 1.5% + 20p in the UK, per its FAQ).
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.
The booking page reads the unified calendar and pricing rules; request-to-book gives the host 24 hours to accept with no charge until accepted.
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.
It is the PMS: one-way iCal in on Free (read every 15 minutes); two-way OTA sync on Pro through Channex, with availability pushed every 2 minutes and a reconciliation every 15. No connection to another PMS.
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.
A genuine strength, on Pro: two-way API sync with Airbnb, Booking.com, Vrbo, Expedia, Agoda, and a sixth channel its pages variously name as Trip.com, Hipcamp, or Hostelworld, with 488+ more sites through the Channex marketplace and Google via Channex. Free is one-way iCal only.
Beautiful, design-forward branded pages built to convert — no theme picker. It just works.
A simple booking page with the listing’s photos and details; themes and templates are not documented (“no templates”). “100% boomer proof” is the homepage pitch.
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.
A guidebook, a guest CRM, and remarketing campaigns are not documented.
Automatic guest emails for every stage of a stay, each one a Message automation the host can edit or switch off, and direct-guest conversations in the dashboard. Haven is not a unified OTA inbox: Airbnb and Booking.com threads stay in your PMS or channel manager.
A genuine strength: a unified inbox (direct guests on Free; Airbnb, Booking.com, and Expedia on Pro; Vrbo, Agoda, and Trip.com arrive by email), scheduled messages per listing for confirmation, check-in, checkout, and review requests, saved replies, a “Suggest” draft button, and translation.
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).
A security deposit held on the guest’s card and charged only on a claim. ID verification and damage protection or insurance are not documented.
Guest identity verification, a rental agreement with digital signatures, and security deposit holds or charges, all run from the booking.
Rental-agreement signing and a card deposit hold on the booking page; ID verification is not documented.
Lodging taxes itemized on every booking and aggregated for filing, taxes shown before checkout, and a guest display currency picker.
Taxes, levies, and multi-currency checkout are not documented; Pro pricing is quoted in six currencies.
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.
Add-ons on the booking page. Finite inventory, time slots, event seats, party-size pricing, quote requests, and an upsell marketplace 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.
A Cleaner role sees the calendar and notes (four photos, no guest name), but by its own description “there is no task list or job sign-off”; cleaning scheduling and payouts are not documented.
Per-stay door codes and climate automation from the booking, with the code delivered through the guest guide.
Not 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.
A “Suggest” button drafts replies inside the inbox; a guest-facing AI chat is not 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.
Not 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.
SEO controls are not documented; its own blog lists them as “not publicly 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.
“No blog,” by its own description. Things-to-do pages can be written in the dashboard.
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.
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.
Not documented; Google Vacation Rentals distribution runs through Channex on Pro.
A visits-to-booking conversion funnel with traffic-source attribution, plus first-party session replay with rage/dead-click detection.
Not 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.
Channel reviews can show on the booking page, and Airbnb review automation is included — both on Pro.
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 guidebook and redeemed at checkout; stay credits instead of refunds.
Promo codes across listings and gift cards. Its own pricing page says there are no length-of-stay discounts and that “nothing spots the two-night hole”; 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.
Bookings, calendar, reviews, and earnings export as CSV or JSON to Sheets or Excel on every plan, but by its own description “no revenue dashboard, no occupancy or ADR reporting and no payout history.”
Localized pages in up to 5 languages with per-language URLs and hreflang for structured indexing.
Not documented; the inbox offers translation of guest messages.
Multi-unit and brand sites with room types and property profile pages, custom domains, and professional email on your domain.
Several homes can share one booking page on a custom domain, on every plan; room types 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.
Unlimited team seats with per-listing permissions (none, view, or full) across calendar, pricing, messages, details, connections, and revenue; client billing and owner statements are not documented.
PriceLabs dynamic pricing integration plus a Calendar AI assistant that changes rates, minimum stays, and blocks from a plain-language request.
Pricing rules (seasonal sets, weekend uplift, a last-minute ladder, per-channel markup) and a PriceLabs connection on Pro with your own PriceLabs account; no gap-fill or calendar assistant.
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.
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.
Its iOS and Android apps are for hosts; a traveler app is 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.
A genuine strength: a free-forever plan with unlimited listings and a booking page on your own domain, no trial, no contract, no setup fee, and a 90-day money-back guarantee on Pro, once per account.
Choose Haven if…
- You want an actual direct booking website — designed pages, a blog, SEO and AI-search tooling, multiple languages — not a booking page attached to a calendar.
- You want to be found: in Haven’s AI guest search, the Haven app, and by ChatGPT and Claude, with no listing fee.
- You want the guest CRM with smart remarketing, guidebooks that capture emails, free screening with damage protection, ID verification, taxes, and loyalty points built in.
- You want to sell your own experiences and add-ons with real inventory and quote requests, and have the clean or the chef dinner dispatched and paid automatically.
- You want revenue, occupancy, ADR, and payout reporting, a booking funnel with session replay, and a Haven Assistant that changes your site from a sentence.
- You already run a channel manager or PMS and want Haven to sit on top of it rather than replace it.
Consider Host Port if…
- You want a free-forever channel calendar with unlimited listings and a simple booking page on your own domain, and nothing more.
- You want two-way OTA sync, a unified inbox, and scheduled messages for a flat US$10 per synced listing with no commission and a 90-day refund.
- You want a product that is plain about what it lacks — no templates, no blog, no revenue dashboard — and a small team you can email.
- You run a handful of homes in Australia or New Zealand and like local-currency pricing from a local team.
Haven vs Host Port
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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 Host Port as of October 2026. Product features and pricing change frequently — check Host Port’s public website for their latest details. Host Port is a trademark of its respective owner; this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by Host Port.