A vacation rental website builder with the booking engine built in
A vacation rental website builder turns your photos, calendar and prices into a site guests can book from, without a developer. BnB Console builds one for every property you add: live availability, a quote from your own pricing rules, Stripe checkout, a choice of themes, and your own domain when you want it. Free to start, live the same day.
Free for unlimited properties · 2% only when a booking lands · Why take bookings direct
3 themes
light, warm or dark
4 typefaces
sans, serif, grotesque or editorial
Your domain
or a free address the moment you publish
2%
on Free, only when you're booked
Included on both plans
What you get with each property
A page guests can book from, a look of your own and the prices you actually charge. Below, each one at work in a demo business.
Property page
A complete property page, with booking on it
- Photos, description, amenities, sleeping arrangements, house rules and a map
- The guest picks dates, sees the real price with fees and taxes, and pays, on the page and not a link away
- Booked dates close on Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com through calendar sync
Design
Make it yours without touching code
- Three themes (light, warm or dark) and four typefaces (sans, serif, grotesque or editorial)
- Your headline and introduction, in your own words
- Change any of it in a setting, not a rebuild
- Your own domain: the console gives you the exact record to add and confirms when it's live
Live prices
Your real prices, not a rate typed into a page
- Seasons, weekends, last-minute and long-stay adjustments, applied for you
- Fees and taxes in the quote, so the guest sees the full price before paying
- The same pricing rules behind every quote in the console
Cedar Ridge A-Frame · nightly prices
One week in October
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A portfolio page for the whole business
Every property you publish in one place, searchable by dates, each with its own page underneath at its own address.
Or keep the site you have
Drop the booking widget into an existing website and use the builder only for the pages you don't have yet.
See the booking widgetWhy built for rentals
A general builder, or one built for rentals
A general-purpose builder gives you a handsome page with someone else's booking form inside it. The two never quite agree: a calendar updated by hand, a price that doesn't know it's a holiday weekend, a payment in a second dashboard. The difference isn't the design. It's whether the booking engine is the site or a guest in it.
| What a booking needs | General website builder | BnB Console |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | A calendar plug-in, kept in step by hand | Live, and synced two ways with Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com |
| Prices | A nightly rate typed into the page | Your own rules: seasons, weekends, last-minute, long stays, fees, taxes |
| Payment | A payment button from a second product, with its own fee | Stripe checkout to your own account, deposit now and balance before arrival |
| After the booking | An email notification, then it is up to you | Confirmation, house rules, arrival guide and review request, sent for you |
| Several properties | One page each, built and maintained separately | A portfolio page with date search, and a page per property underneath |
How it works
From sign-up to a live site
About ten minutes for the property and one switch to publish. Stripe and calendar sync can follow.
- 1
Add the property
Address, capacity, a nightly rate and photos. About ten minutes.
- 2
Make it yours
Choose a theme and typeface, write the headline and introduction, and set the house rules.
- 3
Publish
One switch. The site is live at its free address; add your own domain now or later.
- 4
Connect Stripe and sync your calendars
A few minutes each, and neither blocks going live.
Pricing
What it costs
Both plans include the builder, calendar sync, pricing rules, the guest inbox and payments, with unlimited team members.
Free
$0/ month
2% booking fee, only on bookings you receive
- Unlimited properties and team members
- Your booking site, calendar sync, pricing rules, guest inbox and automatic messages
- Online payments through Stripe; the fee collects itself
- Nothing to pay until you're booked
Pro
$29/ month · 2 properties
then $10 per additional property per month
- Everything in Free, with a 0% booking fee
- AI assistance: reply drafts, review replies and price changes in plain words, with 100 AI credits a month
- Approve each booking before the card is charged, or take bookings without upfront payment
- Record cash and bank-transfer payments by hand
- Hide the BnB Console credit on your booking pages, portfolio page and widget
- Pays for itself past $1,450 a month in direct bookings
Card processing is separate and goes to Stripe, not to us. Compare it against marketplace commission.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What is a vacation rental website builder?
A vacation rental website builder is a tool that turns a property's photos, description, calendar and prices into a website guests can book from, without hiring a developer. The part that separates it from an ordinary website builder is the booking engine: live availability, a quote that applies your own pricing rules, and a checkout that takes the guest's payment. Without those, the result is a brochure with a contact form.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. You add the property, upload photos, choose a theme and a typeface, write a headline and an introduction in your own words, and publish. There is no template to install, no plug-in to configure and no hosting to arrange. Changing the look later is a setting, not a rebuild.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes. Every property is live at a free address on our host the moment you publish, and you can point a domain you own at it whenever you are ready. The console tells you exactly which DNS record to add and checks it for you. Until then the free address works, and it keeps working afterwards.
How is this different from building on Wix or Squarespace?
A general-purpose builder makes a good-looking page but knows nothing about nights, seasons or deposits, so the booking part has to come from a second product embedded into it, with its own fee, its own calendar and its own login. Here the calendar, the pricing engine and the checkout are the same system as the rest of the console. A booking taken on the site blocks the dates on Airbnb and Vrbo through the same sync, and the guest's messages land in the same inbox.
Can one website cover several properties?
Yes. A business gets a portfolio page that lists every property you publish, lets a guest search by dates across all of them, and books any of them direct. Each property keeps its own page underneath, at its own address, so a guest who was sent a link to one cabin sees that cabin.
What does it cost?
The Free plan includes the website builder for unlimited properties, with live availability, your pricing rules and online payments, and charges 2% on each booking you receive through it. Pro removes that fee for $29 a month covering 2 properties, then $10 per additional property per month, and adds AI assistance and approving each booking before the card is charged. Card processing is separate and goes to Stripe, not to us.
Will guests find the site on Google?
Each page is a normal, crawlable web page with its own address, title and description, and a domain of your own helps. Be realistic about what that means: a new site takes months to rank for a destination search against the marketplaces. Where a direct booking site earns its keep straight away is with the guests who already know you: repeat stays, referrals, and anyone who searches your property by name.
Build it this afternoon
Adding a property takes about ten minutes and publishing is one switch. Nothing is charged until a guest books.