# Your direct booking site

> A commission-free booking website on your own subdomain, paid into your own Stripe account.

Source: https://docs.santara.ai/setup/booking-site/

Every workspace can publish a direct booking site. Santara takes **no commission** on what it
sells, and the money goes to your Stripe account, not ours.

**Settings → Booking Site**. The left side is the setup; the right is a live preview.

## 1. Pick a subdomain

Lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens. It is what guests will type, so make it your business name.
Save the site details, and the preview starts working.

## 2. Choose a look

A **template** decides how each section looks; you decide which sections appear and in what order.
Pick a template and an accent colour, upload a logo (PNG, JPG, WEBP or GIF up to 5 MB, or a public
image URL), and set the currency prices are shown in.

## 3. Build the home page

Drag the sections into the order you want, or hide one without deleting what you wrote:

| Section | What it is |
| --- | --- |
| **Hero** | Headline, tagline, banner image |
| **Trust** | The three no-fees / best-price / direct-contact points |
| **Listings** | Your property and room cards. Always present |
| **About** | Free text and an optional photo |
| **Reviews** | Star ratings pulled from your synced channels |
| **Gallery** | A grid of your own images |
| **FAQ** | The questions guests ask before booking |
| **Blog** | Teaser cards linking to your posts |
| **Contact** | Your details and an enquiry form |
| **CTA** | A closing banner with a button |
| **Rich text** | Anything else, anywhere on the page |

## 4. Choose which properties appear

Pick the properties on the site and how guests can book each one — instantly, or by enquiry.

## 5. Connect Stripe

**Payments** connects your own Stripe account. You sign in to (or create) Stripe on Stripe's own
site. Santara never touches the money and never sees a card number.

You can optionally add a **service fee** on direct bookings, paid by the guest on top of the stay:

- Your payout is unchanged.
- It is shown as its own line before anyone reaches a card form.
- It applies to **new bookings only** — bookings already taken keep the fee they were quoted.

## 6. Publish

Until you publish, the site is fully disallowed to crawlers — nothing leaks before you are ready.
Publishing generates the sitemap and robots rules and keeps them in step with what you publish
afterwards.

## Pages and blog posts

Write posts and standalone pages in the content editor, from blocks: text, images, tables (one row
per line, columns separated by `|`), dividers. Inline `<strong>`, `<em>` and links are allowed.

**Drafts stay private until you publish them.** Each page has its own SEO summary — add one, or
search engines get whatever they can scrape.

## Contact details

Shown in the contact section and the footer. The address links to Maps; Santara never embeds a map
iframe you supply. Pick the language guests see first — they can still switch.

## What guests get

A site that lists your rooms with live availability and live prices from the same calendar the
channels use. A direct booking closes those nights everywhere, exactly like a channel booking.