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Compare direct booking sites
ProhostAI is AI guest messaging and operations software with a direct booking site that takes a commission. Haven is a purpose-built direct booking platform with 0% commission on bookings and upsells. Here is how the booking sites compare.
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5.0on Capterra · 6 reviews, September 2026ProhostAI is an AI layer for short-term rental operations: it connects to Airbnb or a PMS such as Hostaway, Hospitable, OwnerRez, or Guesty, then answers guests in your voice with AI Memory and Autopilot, schedules and pays for cleanings and tasks, builds AI guidebooks, and offers upsells. Its AI messaging and cleaning automation are genuine strengths, and it has a free-forever plan.
Its direct booking site is priced by commission. Based on publicly available information as of October 2026, direct bookings carry a 3% ProhostAI commission on the Free plan and 1% with the All-in-one plan ($15/property/month) or the Premium Direct Site module ($5/property/month), which also adds white-labeling; upsells carry 4% on Free and 2% on paid plans. Those commissions are on top of standard Stripe processing fees, and paid plans have a $30/month minimum.
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% commission on bookings and on upsells, on every plan. Guidebooks capture guest emails into a built-in CRM with smart remarketing, guest screening with up to $50,000 damage protection via Truvi is included, and the site comes with observable guest AI, a conversion funnel with session replay, and Blog Autopilot.
No per-booking commission and no guest service fee on any plan (standard Stripe fees apply).
3% ProhostAI commission per direct booking on Free; 1% on All-in-one or Premium Direct Site — plus Stripe processing fees.
No Haven commission on experiences and add-ons, on any plan.
4% commission on upsells on Free; 2% on paid plans.
Free to build for as long as you like; pay only when you publish.
A free-forever plan, with direct bookings and upsells paid through commission; All-in-one has a 14-day trial.
Beautiful, design-forward branded pages built to convert — no theme picker. It just works.
A drag-and-drop editor with your colors and logo; white-labeling is a premium feature.
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.
AI-generated guidebooks and guest profiles with stay history; remarketing campaigns to past guests are not documented.
Free guest screenings and up to $50,000 damage protection on eligible bookings via Truvi — included, not a separate add-on.
No guest-screening or damage-protection product documented.
Haven is not a unified inbox or OTA channel manager. It does natively two-way-sync with Hospitable (and with Guesty, Lodgify, OwnerRez, and theHostCo), and any other PMS connects through Airbnb with the same inbound listing, pricing, calendar, and reservation data the PMS already publishes there. Haven bookings close dates through native APIs, or via iCal added in the PMS on the via-Airbnb path.
A core strength: AI replies in your voice across channels, AI Memory, Autopilot, and AI workflows.
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.
Gap nights, early check-in, late checkout, and extra services offered in guest conversations, at a 4% or 2% commission. Finite inventory, 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.
Automatic turnover scheduling, auto-assignment to cleaners, timestamped photos, checklists, and cleanings & tasks autopay — a genuine strength.
A visits-to-booking conversion funnel with traffic-source attribution, plus first-party session replay with rage/dead-click detection.
Operations dashboards; a booking-site 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.
A genuine strength: an Ask AI agent that creates checklists, updates guidebooks, and manages tasks and cleanings, plus an MCP server, API, and webhooks.
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.
Strong AI messaging with confidence scores in the inbox; a public-site chatbot for visitors deciding to book, with per-reply grading and 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 blog or automatically researched content for the booking site is documented.
Starter includes 1 property, Growth 10, and Pro 50. Each additional property is $2.99/month.
Paid plans are priced per property ($15/property/month All-in-one, or modules from $5/property/month) with a $30/month minimum.
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.
Search-engine basics for the booking site; an SEO and AI-search 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.
No traveler-facing search catalog or AI-assistant search API documented.
Haven vs ProhostAI
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 ProhostAI as of October 2026. Product features and pricing change frequently — check ProhostAI’s public website for their latest details. ProhostAI is a trademark of its respective owner; this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by ProhostAI.