Direct booking for São Paulo vacation-rental hosts
Keep the ~17% that booking platforms take, win back your repeat guests and grow a direct-booking channel in São Paulo — with your own branded website.
45,000+
active short-term listings in São Paulo
R$380
average nightly rate for rentals
~17%
lost to OTA fees on every platform stay
Why go direct in São Paulo?
Platforms add roughly 14–17% to the guest's total in service fees — and still take a host fee on top. On an average R$380 night in São Paulo, 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 São Paulo market
São Paulo's corporate travel, design districts and nightlife support Brazil's largest short-term-rental market. Hosts here pay OTA commissions on a high volume of business and leisure stays. A direct-booking website helps São Paulo hosts capture repeat corporate guests and keep more revenue.
Short-term-rental rules
São Paulo requires short-term-rental hosts to register with the city and comply with municipal rules. Requirements change, so always verify the current local rules.
Direct booking in São Paulo, answered
The questions São Paulo hosts ask us most — about rules, OTA fees and switching to direct bookings.
Yes, but you must typically register your short-term rental with the city. Verify the current requirements before listing your property.
Guests typically pay around 14–17% in service fees on top of the nightly rate, plus a host fee. Direct booking keeps that margin with São Paulo hosts.
Generate a branded booking site from your listing with Stayolo, connect calendar sync and Stripe, and route repeat corporate guests to your direct link.
Approximately R$380 per night on average, with Itaim, Pinheiros and premium districts commanding more. 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 São Paulo booking website.
Paste your listing, get a branded bookable site, and start keeping the ~17% the platforms take.
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