Tools We Recommend for Short-Term Rental Hosts
These are the tools we trust for running a short-term rental smarter. Some run our own website, and they're the same ones we set up for the hosts we work with. Here's what each one does and why we picked it.
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Booking & Pricing
- OwnerRez — the booking system we build direct booking websites on. It syncs your calendar with Airbnb and VRBO, takes payments, sends guest messages automatically, and doesn't take a cut of your bookings.
- PriceLabs — dynamic pricing that adjusts your nightly rates for season, local events, and demand across every channel, so you're not underpriced in June or sitting empty in January.
Your Website
- Hostinger — fast, affordable WordPress hosting. It's what runs mistermoppin.com.
- Elementor — the page builder we design sites with. The free version covers most rental websites.
- WP Rocket — our pick for page speed. It took our own site's speed score up about 30 points, and faster pages mean fewer guests clicking away before they book.
- Wordfence — security for WordPress. We install it on every site we build, and we recommend Premium for any site that takes bookings, since it gets new threat protection in real time instead of 30 days later.
Want us to set this up for you?
We build direct booking websites for vacation rental owners and set up the tools above so they all work together. You own every account; we handle the setup.
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