DirectBook is a white-label vacation rental platform built for Airbnb & VRBO hosts who are tired of bleeding margin. One-time license. You own the code, the data, and the brand.
Airbnb takes a 3% host fee + ~12% guest fee on every booking. That's a combined 15% you're either eating yourself or pricing into the listing (which kills your conversion rate vs. cheaper competitors). On a $100K-revenue host, that's $15,000/year going to a platform that owns your guest relationship — not you.
Everything you need to run a direct-book operation. No SaaS subscriptions, no per-booking fees, no surprise upcharges.
Multi-property listings, real-time availability, guest portal, magic-link auth so guests never need a password.
Zelle (0% fee), Stripe (cards), ACH, wire. You pick. Guests pick. No platform dictating fee schedules.
Bookings, payments, refunds auto-sync to QuickBooks. Month-end close in 10 minutes, not 4 hours.
Every guest + investor contact in one place. Tag, segment, email. Your list, not Airbnb's.
Photo documentation tool for property condition and maintenance. Replaces CompanyCam (~$50/user/month).
Event inquiries, contracts, calendar holds — if you have a wedding venue or events space, it's built in.
37 pre-wired affiliate partners (food delivery, charters, tours). Earn kickbacks on every guest order.
Guests report issues from in-stay portal. Auto-assigns to your tech. Before/after photos. SMS notifications.
$50/$50 referral credit baked in. Every guest becomes a salesperson with their own shareable code.
The killer feature for venue + multi-bedroom bookings. Magic-link invites, split-pay across the group, RSVP, group chat, .ics calendar. See how it works →
Keith La Gala runs 12 rentals + 1 event venue across Florida and West Virginia. He's been running on DirectBook since 2026. The math worked out to ~$205,000/year in savings + new revenue (commissions saved, SaaS tools replaced, concierge kickbacks earned). He paid the $4K onboarding back in his first two bookings.
Airbnb takes a 15% combined cut (3% host fee + ~12% guest fee) on every booking. A host doing $100K/year in bookings loses ~$15K to Airbnb. Switching to direct-book recovers all of it — typically pays back the $4K onboarding in your first 1–2 bookings. Use our Savings Calculator to see your specific number.
Those are SaaS subscriptions that charge $300–$500/month forever. They also push you to keep listing on Airbnb because their revenue is tied to commission. We sell a ONE-TIME license — you own the code, your data, and your guest list permanently. No recurring fees, no Airbnb dependency.
No. You can keep your Airbnb listing live as a discovery channel and use our platform to recapture those guests for repeat bookings (where the real margin is). Most hosts use both: Airbnb for first-time guests, direct-book for repeats. Either way, the moment a guest books direct, you keep 100% of their email and stay history.
Working demo with your data in 6 weeks. Full go-live + handoff in 12 weeks. Migration includes property data, photos, calendar, and existing guest list (if exported from Airbnb/VRBO). After turnover you own the source code outright.
Direct-book makes sense at any scale, but the $4K onboarding + 3% is built for hosts with 5+ properties or 1 high-volume venue. For 1–2 properties, simpler tools like a Squarespace site + Stripe might fit better. We can advise on either path — no pressure.
Yes. Bookings, payments, and refunds auto-sync to QuickBooks. No more manual reconciliation at month-end.
Multi-payment: Zelle (0% fee), Stripe (cards), ACH, wire. You pick what to enable. Guests pick what they prefer. Default is Zelle for the lowest fees.
One demo call. We'll show you the K5 build live and tell you what your migration would look like. No deck, no slides — just the actual working system.