Build your booking website

Screen /site · Roles: Admin

The Booking website screen builds your own public site from the inventory you already maintain - rooms, photos, occupancy, and policies come straight from your data, so the site can never advertise a room you have retired. It stays invisible until you publish.

1. Click “Create website” the first time you open the screen.

2. General tab - set the Web address (the slug in /s/your-slug and, where the deploy offers it, your-slug.staynhost.com), the Website name, tagline, introduction, and contact details. The Domain card on this tab is where a custom domain of your own attaches.

3. Properties tab - add the properties the site should show. Only listed and published properties appear, and they also define what the availability search spans. Each row has its own Publish / Hide switch and a cover photo picker.

4. Design tab - upload your logo (it is also the icon when a guest installs the site as an app), pick the four colors, a typeface, the hero style (Full bleed · Split · Minimal), and the hero image.

5. Add extra pages on the Pages tab if you want them - see Add pages to your website.

6. Click Publish. The header shows the live address; Unpublish takes the whole site down again.

Publishing makes it public and crawlable

A published site is world-readable, indexed by search engines (it serves its own sitemap and robots file), and reachable by anyone with the address. A draft is the opposite: the address returns “not found” until you publish, so nothing leaks while you are still arranging photos.

The site cannot publish empty

Publishing requires at least one property added and published on the Properties tab - an empty site would be an address with nothing behind it.

If your subscription is unpaid long enough to lock the workspace, the website is paused and the Publish button explains why; settle the balance and publishing turns back on with your content untouched - see Your subscription.

What’s next

• Add pages to your website.
• Direct bookings vs Airbnb bookings
  • why the site is worth the effort.