Your direct booking site
Every company gets a branded public booking site: published listings on a list and a map, an inquiry form, online rental applications, and — for listings you enable — nightly stays with instant book or request-to-book and card payment. Manage it, its branding, hero, URL, listings and first-party analytics from the Direct Booking Site page.
Your booking site is your own corner of the internet: listings guests can browse without an account, an apply flow that feeds your leasing pipeline, nightly booking where you want it, and no marketplace commission.
What's on it
- Your published listings — on the homepage (with your featured listings first) and on a map with price pins. Each listing page has its photo gallery, amenities, description and a small location map.
- An inquiry form that feeds your Leads inbox.
- The Apply flow — it creates the applicant's account as they submit, so they can follow their application from the start.
- Nightly stays on listings you turn them on for — instant book with card payment, or request-to-book. See Short stays on your booking site.
Managing it (the Direct Booking Site page)
- Status row — your site's address with Copy URL, how many listings are published ("Auto-published · updates in seconds"), and the last 30 days of visits, inquiries and bookings. View live site opens it.
- Site performance — first-party analytics, no Google Analytics needed: visits, inquiries, applications and bookings, the conversion funnel, traffic sources, top pages and top performing listings.
- Branding — brand name, tagline, brand accent color, logo mark, an optional full logo and a social share image (without one, Nexxus generates a branded link preview).
- Hero section — headline, sub-headline, the two button labels, a display font, and up to six hero photos picked from your listings. They rotate on the homepage, each linking to its listing.
- Booking URL — your site's subdomain. Changing it provisions a new address, and the old one stops working.
- Listings — publish or unpublish each listing, star it to Feature on homepage, and set a Public display name and Public URL (your internal property name stays as is).
- Live preview — your site in a desktop or mobile frame.
Branding, the hero, the booking URL and custom domains are managed by your owner-admin (or a teammate they grant website access). Everyone else can still publish and feature listings.
Getting listings on it
Click Publish on the property's tile on the Properties page, use the Direct Booking Site toggle on the property's Channels tab, or publish from the Listings list here — they all flip the same switch. Unpublish any time; no data is touched. Details in Photos & publishing.
Branding and your domain
The site runs on your Nexxus subdomain out of the box, wearing your logo and accent color. If your plan includes custom domains, you can point your own domain (like book.yourbrand.com) at it — see Custom domains & branding.
Why it matters
Marketplaces rent you their audience. The booking site is the asset you own: every lead and every direct stay is commission-free, and its funnel shows where your guests and applicants actually come from. Your prices and calendar are shared with Airbnb, so a direct booking closes those dates there too.
Related guides
Short stays on your booking site: instant book, requests and guest payment
Yes — guests can book nightly stays directly on your own booking site. Set a listing's Booking mode to nightly stays (or both stays and applications), choose Instant book (guests pay by card on the spot) or request-to-book (you approve, the guest gets a pay link), and the stay lands in Bookings with its ledger and closes the dates on Airbnb.
Property photos and publishing to your booking site
Add photos on the property's Listing tab — upload (big files and iPhone HEIC are optimized automatically), import them from your existing website, reorder or let AI arrange them; the first photo is the cover. Publish with the Publish button or the Direct Booking Site toggle. Photos and descriptions don't sync to or from Airbnb.
Leads and inquiries
Inquiries from your booking site land in Leads, and whoever is routed for leads is alerted instantly. Move each lead through New, Contacted, Converted or Closed, email or call it from the lead's panel, and log phone or walk-in prospects with Add lead.
From application to move-in: the leasing pipeline
Prospects apply on your booking site and land in Leasing on a New → Screening → Approved board. You approve on the application page, generate the lease from your own template, collect e-signatures and countersign, then Move to Tenant creates the tenant, booking, and ledger.
Branding, white-label, and custom domains
Upload your logo and set your brand name and color under Direct Booking Site → Branding; they flow to the booking site, both portals, emails and PDFs. Settings → Customization adds the interface theme, a separate dashboard color, your logo inside the admin app, and your own domains for the resident and owner portals; the booking site's domain is set on Direct Booking Site.
Connecting Airbnb: live two-way sync for your listings
Yes — Nexxus connects to Airbnb directly. On the Channels page you sign in with Airbnb (no password shared), pick which Airbnb listing each unit is, and activate: upcoming reservations come in, then bookings, changes, cancellations, requests and guest messages flow in while availability, rates, fees and booking settings push out. Listing text, photos and reviews stay on Airbnb.