Earn More From Every Stay: What's New in StayBranch

If you already take direct bookings with StayBranch, you have done the hard part. Your guests book you straight, you keep the fees the big platforms would have skimmed, and the money lands in your own account. That is step one, and it is the step that pays for itself.

Step two is earning more from every stay you already have. Over the last few weeks we shipped a set of features aimed squarely at that, after looking hard at what the expensive property-manager tools do and keeping only the parts a solo owner really wants. Here is what is new, and how each piece puts more in your pocket without adding to your workload.

Rent by the month, not just the night

Some of the best bookings are the long ones. Snowbirds who want a place for the season, a family between homes, or an RV traveler parking for a month all want a monthly rate, not a nightly one multiplied out. StayBranch now handles that properly.

Set a separate monthly price on any property, and your listing shows a clean Nightly or Monthly toggle. Guests who pick Monthly see the flat rate and a green badge telling them exactly how much they save versus booking night by night. It works for a beach condo in the off-season just as well as it does for an RV lot, and short-stay guests can still book by the night, so you capture both markets from a single listing.

See every property on one calendar

If you have more than one place, flipping between calendars to work out what is free is a chore. The new portfolio calendar puts all of your properties on a single timeline: one row per property, one glance to see who is booked, who is open, and where your gaps are.

Direct bookings, synced Airbnb dates and jobs you have added by hand all show up together in their own colors, so the picture is always complete. When someone calls asking about next weekend, you have the answer in a second instead of a scramble.

Sell extras at checkout

This is the fastest way to lift the value of a booking you were already going to get. Add paid extras to any property, an early check-in, a mid-stay clean, a stocked fridge, a parking spot, firewood, whatever suits your place, and guests can add them right at checkout with a tick and a quantity.

The total reprices itself, the extras are charged with the booking, and they show up on the guest's trip page and your bookings list so nothing gets missed. A handful of small add-ons across a busy season quietly becomes real money, and your guests get a better stay for asking.

Give guests a guidebook that does the talking

The questions that fill your phone during a stay are almost always the same ones. Where do I park, how does the coffee machine work, what is the wifi, where should we eat. StayBranch now gives each property a structured digital guidebook you build once: tidy sections with categories for arrival, the house, the area and checkout.

Guests get it on their trip page, so the answers are in their pocket before they even ask. Fewer interruptions for you, a smoother stay for them, and the kind of polish that earns five-star reviews and repeat bookings.

Reviews that look as good as the big platforms

Trust is what turns a browser into a booking, and your reviews now show it off the way the major sites do. Each listing has a proper reviews section: a big overall rating with stars, a breakdown by score, category ratings for cleanliness, check-in, communication and more, and individual review cards with guest names, locations and your responses.

Moved over from Airbnb or VRBO? You can bring your history across and paste in your real overall numbers, so a guest sees your genuine track record, on your own site, working for you instead of for a platform that charges you for the privilege.

See it in action

Prefer to watch? Here is a quick welcome to StayBranch, and the full rentals tutorial that takes you from listing your first place all the way to getting paid.

All of it direct, all of it yours

None of these features cost your guests a booking fee and none of them take a cut of your stay. Monthly rates win you the long bookings, upsells lift the value of every stay, the guidebook cuts your admin, and stronger reviews close the next guest, all running on your own listings and paying into your own account.

That is the whole idea behind StayBranch: everything the big platforms do to earn their fees, given to you directly so you keep the money instead. If you are already hosting with us, these are live in your account now. If you are not yet, start your free trial at StayBranch and take your first direct booking this week.