Direct booking for Manila vacation-rental hosts
Keep the ~17% that booking platforms take, win back your repeat guests and grow a direct-booking channel in Manila — with your own branded website.
20,000+
active short-term listings in Manila
₱4,500
average nightly rate for rentals
~17%
lost to OTA fees on every platform stay
Why go direct in Manila?
Platforms add roughly 14–17% to the guest's total in service fees — and still take a host fee on top. On an average ₱4,500 night in Manila, that is a meaningful slice of your rate handed over with every booking.
Booking via a platform
- Guest pays ~14–17% service fee on top of your rate
- You pay a host fee on each booking
- You don't own the guest relationship or data
- Your listing lives under platform policies
Booking direct
- Guests pay your full rate — no service fee on top
- Zero booking commission for you
- Every guest and stay saved in your own records
- Calendar sync stops double bookings automatically
Your guests pay the same — or less — and you keep the difference. See everything included →
The Manila market
Manila's Makati and BGC business districts, along with the wider metro's condo stock, support a large short-term-rental market serving corporate and leisure travellers. Hosts here pay OTA commissions on a busy listing base. A direct-booking website helps Manila hosts capture repeat guests and keep more of every stay.
Short-term-rental rules
Manila and other metro cities apply business-permit and zoning rules for short-term rentals, and many condos restrict short stays. Requirements vary, so always verify the current local rules before listing.
Direct booking in Manila, answered
The questions Manila hosts ask us most — about rules, OTA fees and switching to direct bookings.
Yes, but you must typically hold a business permit for your city, and many condominium buildings restrict or ban short stays. Verify your building rules and the current requirements carefully.
Guests usually pay around 14–17% in service fees on top of the nightly rate, plus a host fee. Direct booking returns that margin to Manila hosts.
Use Stayolo to create a branded property website from your listing, connect your calendar and Stripe, then invite past guests to book directly.
Roughly ₱4,500 per night on average, with Makati, BGC and bayside properties commanding premium rates. Direct booking preserves those rates.
Hosts who took back their bookings
We stopped giving 17% away
“I had no idea how much we were handing to booking platforms until we switched. Now repeat guests book through our own site at our full rate, and the calendar sync means no double bookings.”
Sarah M.
Vacation-rental host · Lisbon, Portugal
Repeat guests now book direct
“The website looked like something a designer would charge thousands for. We send every past guest the direct link and around a third of our stays now come in commission-free.”
James T.
Vacation-rental host · Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Set up in an afternoon
“I expected a nightmare setting up payments and calendars. Stayolo did it all — Stripe, the iCal sync, guest confirmations — and I published my site before dinner.”
Elena R.
Vacation-rental host · Barcelona, Spain
Guests trust it instantly
“The secure checkout and clear policies made my guests comfortable booking directly. It took a season to build momentum, but direct bookings now pay better than any platform stay.”
Marco B.
Vacation-rental host · Tulum, Mexico
Build your Manila booking website.
Paste your listing, get a branded bookable site, and start keeping the ~17% the platforms take.
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