Your direct booking site
A commission-free booking website on your own subdomain, paid into your own Stripe account.
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
Section titled “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
Section titled “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
Section titled “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
Section titled “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
Section titled “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
Section titled “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
Section titled “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
Section titled “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
Section titled “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.
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