Your Direct Booking Website lets you accept bookings under your own brand, with calendar sync, secure payments, and guest data managed from your Holidu account. You can create it in the setup wizard, then personalize its content, layout, and colors at any time from the same area.

Step 1: Access your Direct Booking Website

You can reach your Direct Booking Website setup from two places in your Holidu account. Both lead to the same configuration, so use whichever one you find first.

• Direct Bookings, then My website & widget, in the left-hand navigation menu
• Properties, then select your property, then Distribution Channels, then My booking website. Click Activate channel if the channel is not yet active, or My booking website configuration if it is already active.

Only primary account holders can access this setup. Secondary collaborators do not have access.

Step-by-Step: Creating Your Booking Website

When you open the Direct Booking Website for the first time, a setup wizard guides you through the process. First, choose your setup type:

• Create a new website: builds a complete Holidu-hosted booking website from scratch.
• Add booking module to existing website: embeds the Holidu booking engine into a website you already run.

To create a new booking website, follow these steps:

1. Activate your Direct Booking Website.

   1. Log in to your Holidu Host account.
   2. In the left menu, select Configuration and scroll down to Distribution Channels.
   3. Find My Booking Website and click Activate channel.
   4. Review and accept the terms and conditions, then continue through the onboarding prompts.
   

2. Select your website languages. You can choose up to 8 supported languages for your website. Then set the default language that visitors see first.

   

3. Enter your website name and domain address. Your website name is shown to guests. For the domain, choose a name and a subdomain ending. If you already own a domain, the setup instructions guide you through connecting it so your brand stays consistent.

   

4. Choose your properties. If you have more than one property, select which ones to display on your website and set their order.

5. Click Finish to publish your booking website. Your personalized URL is ready right away. You can copy it and share it immediately.

   

Understanding your website address

Your website address has two parts that are combined:

• A name you choose (subdomain name): Most hosts use their property name, for example "myproperty".
• An ending you pick from a list (subdomain ending): Holidu offers general endings, such as holiduhost.com, and endings for specific countries, such as ferienwohnungen.de.

Together, these form an address such as myproperty.holiduhost.com. Guests use this link to find and book with you.

Tip: Choosing an ending that matches the country of most of your guests can make your website feel more familiar and trustworthy.

You can change your address later under Settings in the Booking Website tool. Your old address stops working after you change it, so update any links you have already shared.

Customizable Features

After your website is live, you can personalize the following features:

• Logo: Appears on your website.
• Title: Displayed over the header image.
• Welcome text: Shown beneath the main header image.
• Header image: The main image of your website. It must be no larger than 8 MB.
• Your host section: A short introduction about you, with a photo, that guests can read.
• Social media links: Links to your social media accounts, which you can enable with a toggle.
• Property listings: Default images and text that you can edit. Your property description comes from your existing description text.
• Layout and theme: The page layout, the way the header image is displayed, the color theme, and the filter bar that lets guests search for available dates.

Only upload images that you own. Do not use images from Google or other image platforms, because this can cause copyright infringement. All content except your website name is automatically translated for visitors who use another language.

Step-by-Step: How to Customize Your Booking Website

To customize your website, go back to the Holidu Host page using either access path in Step 1. Then follow these steps:

1. Open the homepage editor. Once your website is live, you see your homepage settings. Here you can add a logo, title, welcome text, and header image. To add social media links, enable the social media toggle at the bottom of the page and add the link to each account one by one. Select Homepage to customize the look of your website.

   

2. Review your property listings. Your properties appear with default images and