Your guests, booking with you.
Booking sites are good at finding guests. Your own website is where you keep them. We build direct booking sites for serviced apartments, short lets and holiday homes, with live availability, the full price up front and card payments straight to your account.
Everything a guest needs to book.
A direct booking site has one job: make booking with you as easy and trustworthy as booking anywhere else. Here is what goes into it.
Dates read from your channel manager or property management system, so the calendar on your site matches every other channel.
Nightly rate, cleaning and any other compulsory charges added up before checkout, so the price a guest sees is the price they pay.
Guests pay by card into your own payment account. We never hold guests' money, and refunds are handled from the same place.
Minimum stays, seasonal rates, long-stay prices and discount codes, set where you already manage them and shown correctly on your site.
Confirmation, arrival details, check-in instructions and a thank you after checkout, sent from your own address at the right moments.
Arrival, wifi, house rules, checkout and your local tips in one place, so the same questions stop arriving at midnight.
If you manage homes for owners, each one can see their bookings, occupancy and statements without asking you for a spreadsheet.
Separate enquiry routes for companies, contractors and relocation stays, which rarely suit a standard booking form.
Nights booked counted each calendar year for London's 90-night limit, and your licence number shown where Scottish rules ask for it.
From booking site to your own site.
You keep the channels that bring you guests. Your website becomes the place they come back to.
We link the site to the channel manager or property system you already use, so availability and rates have one source.
Your photos, your words and your brand, laid out so guests can picture the stay and book in a few taps.
Card payments into your own account, with deposits, refunds and receipts set up the way your house rules need.
Real test bookings from start to finish, on phones and laptops, before the first guest arrives.
We host it, keep it secure and make your changes, from new homes to new seasonal offers.
Who it is built for.
Works with the system you already run.
We do not ask you to move your calendar. The site plugs into what you have.
Your channel manager or property system
Availability and rates are read from the system that already updates the booking sites. MHU Stays, for example, runs on Hospitable.
Your payment account
Guests pay into your own account with a card provider such as Stripe, which MHU Stays uses. The money never passes through us.
Your email address
Confirmations and guest messages go from your own address, so replies come straight back to you.
Your existing listings
Photos, descriptions and house rules brought across from your current listings, then rewritten to read well on your own site.
The rules short-let hosts work under.
Short lets are regulated differently in each nation. A few of the rules a direct booking site can help you keep track of.
London's 90-night limit
A home in Greater London can be let as short stays for up to 90 nights in a calendar year without planning permission, as long as the person providing it pays council tax on it. Beyond 90 nights, planning permission is needed.
Short-term let licences in Scotland
Every short-term let in Scotland needs a council licence, and the licence number must appear in every listing and advert. Edinburgh is a control area where turning a whole second home into a short let needs planning permission, and its 5% visitor levy began on 24 July 2026.
Source: Scottish Government, Short-term lets: regulation information
Wales: visitor register and levy
Anyone taking bookings of 31 nights or less in Wales must register with the Welsh Revenue Authority by 31 March 2027. Councils can then choose to charge a visitor levy of £1.30 per person per night from 1 April 2027 at the earliest, and a licensing scheme is expected from 2029.
A short-term let register for England
The law allows a national register of short-term lets in England, and GOV.UK now expects the scheme to begin in March 2027. The regulations have not yet been laid, so fees and listing rules are still to be confirmed.
Source: GOV.UK, Letting out a self-catering holiday home in England
Fire safety for paying guests
The fire safety law for businesses applies as soon as you charge someone to stay in a home that is not theirs, even for one night. In England, the official guide for small paying guest accommodation explains what is expected, and fire risk assessments must be recorded in full.
Source: GOV.UK, Making your small paying guest accommodation safe from fire
Furnished holiday lettings regime abolished
The special tax treatment for furnished holiday lets ended on 6 April 2025 for Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax, and on 1 April 2025 for Corporation Tax. Holiday lets are now taxed like other property businesses.
Source: HMRC, Abolition of the furnished holiday lettings tax regime
A summary to show where software helps, not legal advice. Checked against the sources shown on 23 October 2026.
Good questions.
Anything else, ask us on the call.
Will direct bookings clash with bookings from other sites?
Who receives the guest's money?
Will guests really book direct?
Can you take a damage deposit?
My apartment is in London. What about the 90-night rule?
Do we need a new web address?
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- Built around your process, not a template
- Hosted, looked after and improved by us
- One UK studio from first call to launch
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