Your Direct Booking Website is a branded booking site where guests can book your properties directly, with calendar sync, secure payments, and guest data managed from your Holidu account. To create it, activate the Direct Booking Website channel in your Holidu Host account, choose your languages, domain, and properties, and then personalize the homepage, host profile, and design. This guide covers both steps.

Step 1: Access Your Direct Booking Website

You can reach your Direct Booking Website setup from either of two places in your Holidu account. Both lead to the same configuration, so use whichever you find first.

• Go to Direct Bookings and then My website & widget in the left-hand navigation menu.
• Go to Properties, select your property, open Distribution Channels, and then click My booking website. Click Activate channel if the channel is not yet active, or My booking website configuration if it already is.

Note: This feature is available to primary account holders only, not to secondary collaborators.

Step-by-Step: Creating Your Booking Website

When you open the Direct Booking Website for the first time, a setup wizard guides you through the process. You can choose one of two setup types:

• Create a new website: Builds a complete Holidu-hosted booking website from scratch.
• Add booking module to existing website: Embeds the Holidu booking engine into a website you already run.

To create a new booking website, follow these steps:

1. Activate the channel and accept the terms.

   1. Log in to your Holidu Host account.
   2. In the left menu, select Configuration and scroll down to Distribution Channels.
   3. Find My Booking Website and click Activate channel.
   4. Review and accept the terms and conditions.
   

2. Select your website languages. You can choose up to 8 supported languages, then set the default language for your site.

   

3. Enter your website name and domain. Choose a domain name and a website name. If you already own a domain, the setup instructions will guide you through connecting it so your brand stays consistent.

   

4. Choose your properties. If you have more than one property, select which ones to display and set their order on the site.

5. Click Finish to publish your website. Your personalized URL is ready to be copied and shared right away.

   

Understanding Your Website Address

Your website address has two parts that are combined:

• Subdomain name: A name you choose. Most hosts use their property name, for example "myproperty".
• Subdomain ending: An ending you pick from a list. Holidu offers general endings, such as holiduhost.com, and country-specific endings, such as ferienwohnungen.de.

Together, these form an address such as myproperty.holiduhost.com. This is the link your guests will use to find and book with you.

Tip: Choosing an ending that matches your guests' country can make your site feel more familiar and trustworthy. For example, use a German ending if most of your guests are German.

Important: You can change your address later under Settings in the Booking Website tool. Once you change it, the old address stops working, so update the link everywhere you have shared it, including booking confirmations, welcome guides, social media, and printed materials.

Customizable Features

After your website is live, you can personalize the following features at any time:

• Logo: Appears on your direct booking website.
• Title: Displayed over the header image.
• Welcome text: Displayed beneath the main header image.
• Header image: Shown as the main image of your website.
• Social media links: Add links to your social media accounts with the social media toggle.
• Property content: Customize the default images and text of each property. The property description is taken from your existing description text.
• Your host section: Introduce yourself to guests with a short text and a photo.