Direct booking for Paris vacation-rental hosts
Keep the ~17% that booking platforms take, win back your repeat guests and grow a direct-booking channel in Paris — with your own branded website.
95,000+
active short-term listings in Paris
€145
average nightly rate for rentals
~17%
lost to OTA fees on every platform stay
Why go direct in Paris?
Platforms add roughly 14–17% to the guest's total in service fees — and still take a host fee on top. On an average €145 night in Paris, 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 Paris market
Paris is one of the world's largest short-term-rental markets, with over ninety thousand active listings across the city's twenty arrondissements. Vacation-rental hosts face steep online-travel-agency commissions on every stay, making direct booking one of the smartest ways to keep more revenue. A branded direct-booking website helps Paris hosts stand out and turn repeat guests into private reservations.
Short-term-rental rules
Paris applies registration requirements for short-term rentals, and hosts may need a registration number for full-apartment rentals. Rules change and differ by district, so always verify the current local requirements before listing.
Direct booking in Paris, answered
The questions Paris hosts ask us most — about rules, OTA fees and switching to direct bookings.
Yes, but short-term rentals in Paris are regulated: hosts often need a city registration number and may face annual limits for letting a principal residence. Always check the current rules with the Mairie de Paris before listing.
Booking platforms typically pass roughly 14–17% of the stay total to guests as service fees, plus a host fee on top. A direct-booking website via Stayolo keeps that margin in your pocket.
Paste your existing listing into Stayolo to generate a branded property website, connect your calendar and Stripe, then send past guests a direct booking link. Repeat guests book again at your full rate.
Approximately €145 a night across the city, with higher rates in central arrondissements and during fashion week or summer peaks. Direct booking lets you hold these rates without platform fees on top.
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 Paris booking website.
Paste your listing, get a branded bookable site, and start keeping the ~17% the platforms take.
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