VacaBookly Set up your site

Your guests already know the way back.

Your own booking site, synced with your Airbnb and Vrbo calendars, so returning guests can book you directly.

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Larch Point Cabin lit up at dusk on a snowy lakeshore, with the cabin reflected in the still water

Larch Point Cabin

Whitefish Lake, Montana

Checking calendars

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The second booking is the one you keep.

  1. Log cabin in a pine forest, the kind of place a family finds on a big booking site the first time

    They find you on a big platform

    Airbnb and Vrbo do what they're good at: introducing you to new guests.

  2. Larch Point Cabin

    Coming back next summer? Book with us directly and save 10%.

    vacabookly.com/lindqvist

    They leave with your link

    A card on the counter, a page in the house guide. Your own address, ready to print.

  3. Welcome back, Graham. Your returning-guest rate is applied.

    4 nights$1,289

    Next year they book you

    Same house, live availability, and a request that lands straight in your inbox.

Calendar sync

No double bookings, no new channel manager.

Every major platform publishes your availability as an iCal link. VacaBookly reads those links, and gives you one of its own to paste back in.

  • Reads your platform calendarsAirbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, Google Calendar or any .ics link.
  • Shares your direct bookings backEach platform imports your VacaBookly link and blocks those nights.
  • You approve every requestPlatforms refresh imported calendars on their own schedule, sometimes hours apart. Approval closes that gap.
Living room of the example cabin listing, with a wood fireplace, grey sofa and vaulted ceiling

A listing page that sells the house

  • Live calendar with booked nights from every platform
  • "Next open stays" so guests pick a weekend in one tap
  • Your own pricing: weekends, seasons, holidays, pets
  • Personal welcome-back links for past guests
  • One page for all your homes, sorted by town, with a map
  • Guests save the stay straight to their calendar
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Questions owners ask

Do I have to leave Airbnb or Vrbo?

No. Keep your listings for new guests. VacaBookly is for the people who already know your place and would rather deal with you.

Can I message past platform guests my link?

Don't send it through the platform's messaging, since their terms don't allow steering guests off-platform there. Put a card in the house, add the link to your house guide, and share it with guests who reach out to you directly.

How fast does availability update?

Your site checks each platform's calendar link every few minutes. The platforms pull your direct bookings on their own schedule, which can take a few hours. That's why direct bookings arrive as requests you approve.

How do guests pay?

Once you accept a request, the guest gets a secure card checkout. Payouts go to your bank account. (Payments are not wired up in this prototype.)

Can I use my own domain?

Yes. Point a domain like larchpointcabin.com at your site, or use a vacabookly.com address.

Bring your calendar links. We'll do the rest.

Set up your site