Started Vibing at the end of November
Hey, would love to hear what yall think!
I manage short term rentals so this was to initially to solve a problem with the free direct booking site my PMS offers. Started building on Replit at the end of November.
Launched beta on Feb 2nd and since then have onboarded 77 listings across 3 hosts. This has imported 1500 reservation, 15000 conversations and represents $1.65m in reservation (from all booking channels including competitors), and processed over 32000 webhooks with 100 success rate.
A little about StayThayer:
StayThayer.com is the first Multi-Host Direct Booking Platform where the host's PMS is the single source of truth. Hosts own the reservations, incur no commission on bookings, and guests get direct booking pricing. Guest payments are tokenized and sent via API call to the host's
payment processor within the Guesty alongside the reservation/guest info. This ensures the actual reservation is created within the PMS, avoiding double bookings.
I do not touch guest funds because hosts are the Merchant of Record (MoR) and fully own the guest relationship. Messages on stayThayer are shared via API calls/webhooks to the unified inbox in Guesty.
Any changes to listings in Guesty are typically sent via webhook to keep StayThayer accurate, all listing info however is on recurring scheduled api calls as some data does not have webhooks to properly update changes.
Onboarding:
Hosts copy their Guesty Open API ID/key to set up the authentication token, which is used to bidirectionally sync their listings to StayThayer.
After selecting the listings, the process imports and syncs everything from the listings selected:
Name
Pictures,
Descriptions,
Location (Shared listings map)
Reservations,
Blocks,
Dynamic pricing,
Dynamic minimum nights,
Messages,
Additional fees,
Taxes,
Payment processor id,
Establishes webhooks for live updates.
Once the auto import is complete if you use GuestyPay you are done, if you use Stripe hosts should go to the Payments tab and copy their Stripe publishable API keys to the applicable payment processor IDs imported
(ex: Breezeway: 16 attached listings, 1 key,
ReHive Development: 4 attached listings, 1 key.)
This will unlock the properties from being inquiry only. Users can import as many listings and their applicable payment processors as they would like!
This is by far the most seamless, and host friendly setup compared to any major OTA for listing units from Guesty.