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Haven turns the photos and copy you already have into finished posts: single images, swipeable carousels, and short vertical reels. Everything is built from your own listing photos, and everything downloads as a file you post yourself. You will find it on Marketing → Creative. Finished files and anything you upload live in Marketing → Media Library. Logos you have already uploaded on a site, collection, or brand appear in Media Library → Logos, and every photo on your listings and sites appears in Media Library → Photos, filed by site.
Pick the property or collection you want to promote and press Generate. Haven writes the post copy for each platform, the short text that sits on the image itself, and a slide-by-slide story you can use for a carousel or reel. Nothing is posted anywhere — you get files and text to use however you like.
If the writing is not to your taste, Regenerate gives you a fresh pass. Every field stays editable either way.
Four controls shape the design, and the preview updates as you change them.
Layout decides where the words sit. Stack reads like a travel magazine cover, Duo splits the frame with a solid panel under the photo, Bold drives the click hardest, and Frame, Editorial, Banner, Spotlight, and Classic cover the range in between.
Typography picks the typeface your headline is set in. Modern is a tight sans, Editorial and Luxe are high-contrast serifs, Warm is softer, and Refined sets your headline in spaced capitals. This is a deliberate choice rather than something pulled from your site fonts, so a creative can look different from your website when that serves the post better.
Photo finish grades the photo itself — a light natural punch, a golden warm cast, a crisp cool one, a grainy film look, or black and white. None leaves the photo exactly as you uploaded it.
Accent colour drives the button, badge, and price chip. Your brand colour is offered first.
You can also choose your background photo, and switch off the logo, the price, or the guests-and-bedrooms line if you would rather the image stayed quiet.
Pick a platform tab to see its sizes. Facebook and Instagram cover feed, square, portrait, and story; Google covers landscape, square, and portrait. Every size is rendered at the exact pixel dimensions that platform wants, with the important words kept clear of the area platform buttons cover.
Download this size saves the one you are previewing. Download all saves every size for that platform.
The copy panel below holds the post text — headline, body, description, and a call to action — sized to each platform's limits. Copy one field or the whole block to your clipboard.
Switch to Carousel to build a swipeable set. Haven proposes a story: a hook to stop the scroll, a few slides on the space, an amenity, the location, and a closing ask to book direct.
Each slide has its own headline, supporting line, and photo. Drag the cards to reorder them, click the × on a card to remove one you do not need, or add your own. A carousel keeps at least two cards. Only the closing slide carries the button, so the set reads as a story rather than the same ad repeated.
Instagram shows every card in a carousel at the shape of the first one, so you choose the card size once for the whole set. Download all gives you a zip with the cards numbered in order.
Switch to Reel to turn the same slides into a short vertical video. Each slide becomes a scene with a slow camera move over the photo, and the scenes cross-fade into each other.
The right side of the editor is a gutter that stays on screen while you scroll the left side, and it has two tabs. Scene shows the scene you are currently editing, large, with its camera frames on top — that is where you drag the opening frame and click to set the focus. Preview plays the whole reel. That preview is the real thing, not a rough sketch: it uses the same photos, the same graded finish, and the same timing the finished file will have, so you can change a photo, retime a scene, or rewrite a headline and see the result immediately. Nothing is encoded while you are still deciding.
On the left, Scenes stays open — that is where the photo, words, and camera for each beat live. Drag a scene thumbnail to change the order; click the × on a thumbnail to drop that image from the reel. A reel keeps at least two scenes. Everything else (layout and type, accent colour, photo finish, overlays, music, transitions, sizes, and captions) starts closed, and each closed row carries a small preview of what it is currently set to: the layout schematic, the type sample, your accent swatch, a thumbnail in the current finish. You can read the whole setup down the page without opening anything, and open only the one you want to change.
The editor's left rail lists every property and multi-unit site. A badge on the left of each row shows whether that site already has creatives — a count when it does, None when it does not.
Scenes are not laid out identically. A scene's job in the story decides where its words sit and how big they are — the opening hook runs large across the bottom, an amenity reads as a small caption at the top, the location sits centred, and the closing ask is a centred lockup with the button. The words also arrive in order rather than all at once, and clear the frame before the cut to the next scene.
Per scene you can choose the move — push in, pull out, pan, drift, or hold still — and how long it holds, from just over a second up to eight. The transition style applies to the whole reel.
Camera focus decides where the move lands. Left alone, Haven finds the strongest part of each photo and moves toward it. To choose it yourself, click the spot on the scene preview. Drag the Start or End frame to move that end of the shot, and drag a corner of the selected frame — or use the zoom slider under the preview — to change how tight it is. A smaller frame is a closer crop; the difference between the two frames is the zoom the camera covers. Click Reset size to hand that frame's crop back to the move, or Reset to auto to hand the whole framing back. How far the camera can travel depends on how tight the shot is, so a subject right at the edge of a photo will be favoured rather than perfectly centred.
A reel is a tall frame and most photos are not, so before any of that Haven crops each photo down to the reel's shape — and the camera can only ever move inside that crop. Reframe, above the scene preview, is where you choose the crop yourself: it shows the whole photo, and you click to place the tall box, then drag it (or nudge it with the arrow keys) until it holds the part of the shot you want. Everything outside the box is what the reel throws away. Reset framing hands the choice back to Haven, which picks the busiest part of the photo. The Start and End frames stay where you put them, so reframing slides the picture underneath them rather than undoing your camera work.
The eyebrow field is the small line of capitals above a headline — "THE VIEW", "8 MIN TO TOWN". Leave it empty where it would only repeat the headline.
When the preview looks right, press Export MP4. The video is built in the background and usually takes under a minute — you do not have to wait on the page, and you can carry on editing while it runs.
Finished exports are kept under Saved reels, newest first, with their length and file size. Download any of them whenever you like, or remove one from the list. Because each export is saved separately, trying a bolder cut never overwrites a version you were happy with. Exporting the same reel twice without changing anything reuses the file you already have rather than making a duplicate.
Reels start silent. Open the Music row to pick a track from Haven's library, or Upload your own if you hold the rights. The track is mixed into the MP4 when you export, so the file you download already has music — ready to post to Instagram, Facebook, or Meta ads. Leave No music selected if you would rather add a trending in-app track when you post; that still reaches further on organic Reels.
On Marketing → Media Library, use New → Upload files for individual photos and videos, or Upload folder to bring in a whole folder at once. Dropping a folder or a .zip does the same thing. Haven names the new library folder after the folder you uploaded — or after the folder inside the zip — and keeps any subfolders. Photos can be up to 100 MB; videos can be up to 5 GB. Use Type → Videos to show only uploaded clips and finished reels.
Photos collects every photo you have already put on a listing or site — gallery photos, hero slides, section and page images, and the photos on blog posts and local-guide places published there — with one folder per site. A listing that belongs to a collection site sits inside that collection's folder, so a host with several brands sees one folder per brand. Photos still on the site are live references: replace the photo on the listing and the library updates, and you cannot delete that listing photo from here. A file you uploaded yourself stays in that site's folder after you remove it from the page — delete a hero slide or a gallery photo and you can still pick it from From library. Logos work the same way in the Logos folder. Rename or move a Photos folder and Haven stops renaming it for you; delete it and that site's photos stay out of the library.
Anything in the library can be downloaded. A single file saves as itself. A folder — the whole Photos tree, one listing's photos, a folder of uploaded videos — saves as one zip that keeps the folder structure: right-click the folder (or open it and use the menu on its name) and choose Download as zip. Select several files or folders and Download as zip in the selection bar packs them together. The zip starts downloading as soon as the first file is packed, so a large library does not make you wait for the whole thing to be prepared first. A reel that has not been rendered yet is listed in a README.txt inside the zip rather than silently left out.
Everything in the library is available everywhere Haven lets you add media. Next to any Upload control — listing photos, hero slides, collection-site sections, logos, promo videos, email images, blog posts, business cards — click From library to pick a file from here instead of your device. Reels and uploaded clips appear wherever a video is accepted; stills, site photos, and logos wherever an image is.
In list view, folders open the way they do on a Mac: the triangle beside a folder expands it in place so you can see what is inside without leaving the rest of the library. Drag a file onto another folder to move it. Hovering on a folder while you drag will open it after a moment. Double-click still opens the folder on its own, and Option-click on a triangle expands or collapses the whole branch.
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