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Compare direct booking sites
Hostex is a low-cost PMS with a commission-free booking site included. Haven is a purpose-built direct booking platform with the guest experience built in. Here is how the booking sites compare.
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5.0on Capterra · 6 reviews, September 2026Hostex is an AI-forward property management system for short-term rental hosts: a unified inbox with HostGPT replies, a multi-calendar and channel manager, automations, and a direct booking site — all at low per-property prices. Its booking site carries no commission, takes Stripe or PayPal, syncs to Google Vacation Rentals, and offers a guest booking flow in 13 languages.
Based on publicly available information as of October 2026, Hostex plans start at about $4.90 per property per month, with a booking website builder on entry plans, an advanced direct booking site on higher plans, and a 15-day free trial with no card. Guidebooks, in-stay upsells, and guest screening come through integrations such as BetterSTR, Truvi, and STRLY.
Book With Haven is a purpose-built direct booking site and guest experience platform: free to build — you pay only when you publish — with 0% booking commission on every plan, guidebooks that capture guest emails into a built-in CRM with smart remarketing, free guest screening with up to $50,000 damage protection via Truvi, native upsells, observable guest AI, and Blog Autopilot. Hostex hosts connect to Haven through Haven’s direct Airbnb integration, with Haven’s iCal feed added in Hostex to close dates on every channel.
A standalone booking site — no PMS subscription required — that connects to the PMS you already run.
The booking site is part of a Hostex PMS subscription.
No per-booking commission and no guest service fee on any plan (standard Stripe fees apply).
No booking fee or commission on direct bookings — a genuine strength.
Free to build for as long as you like; pay only when you publish.
15-day free trial with no card; then a per-property subscription.
Beautiful, design-forward branded pages built to convert — no theme picker. It just works.
Templates and themes with custom domains, promo codes, and Google tracking; the advanced direct booking site is on higher plans.
Localized pages in up to 5 languages with per-language URLs and hreflang for structured indexing.
Guest booking experience in 13 languages.
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.
Personalized guidebooks through the BetterSTR integration; no built-in guest CRM with remarketing campaigns documented.
Free guest screenings and up to $50,000 damage protection on eligible bookings via Truvi — included, not a separate add-on.
Available through Truvi (pay per booking) or STRLY integrations rather than included in the plan.
Haven is the branded booking and guest-experience layer, not a replacement operations PMS. Native two-way connectors for Hospitable, Guesty, Lodgify, OwnerRez, and theHostCo. Any other PMS — including Hostfully — 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 iCal added in the PMS for via-Airbnb connections.
A core strength: unified inbox with AI replies, multi-calendar, channel manager, and automations.
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.
Upsells such as early check-in, late checkout, and local experiences through the BetterSTR integration. Finite inventory, event seats, party-size pricing, and quote requests are not documented.
A visits-to-booking conversion funnel with traffic-source attribution, plus first-party session replay with rage/dead-click detection.
Google tracking-code support on the site; a built-in conversion funnel or session replay is not advertised.
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.
HostGPT drafts guest replies; changing site and account settings from a plain-language request is 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.
HostGPT drafts and sends guest replies in the inbox; a public-site chatbot with per-reply grading, chat insights, or cross-property one-click 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.
No scheduled, automatically researched blog content for the booking site is 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.
Cleaning scheduling and task automation inside the PMS; text-message task offers to your own contacts with contractor payouts are not documented.
Starter includes 1 property, Growth 10, and Pro 50. Each additional property is $2.99/month.
Priced per property per month, from about $4.90/property.
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 built-in guest loyalty or points program documented; repeat-guest offers run through discount codes.
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 support through Google tracking codes; a scorecard with Search Console data and AI crawler checks 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.
A Google Vacation Rentals connection; a traveler-facing search catalog or AI-assistant search API is not documented.
Haven vs Hostex
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 Hostex as of October 2026. Product features and pricing change frequently — check Hostex’s public website for their latest details. Hostex is a trademark of its respective owner; this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by Hostex.