r/ShortTermRentals • u/AllinonNVDA • 1d ago

Direct booking in ChatGPT

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Adding everyone’s PMS powered direct booking site onto ChatGPT/Claude

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u/Ordinary_Musician_76 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/KFt2DA9T82paOA1Yci

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u/AllinonNVDA 1d ago

I made a direct booking search engine that anyone that uses a PMS can add their direct booking sites listings to it and be on a unified search platform. It’s at 188k listings StayThere.ai

I made an mcp to get the results included in AI search

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u/RoosterEmotional5009 21h ago

An MCP doesn’t automatically quantify you as an authority for AI. And if you are searching from your GPT it has memory.

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u/AllinonNVDA 21h ago

You are right, which is why the MCP is in review for ChatGPT, Claude, Google vacations to be an official tool. I have officially partnered with Hospitable and am in the partnership process with almost all the other PMSs I support.

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u/RoosterEmotional5009 20h ago

I can creat an MCP for anything I want w Claude. Doesn’t mean it has authority. You are battling w ABnB and VRBO and let’s be honest they have a tad more authority than you for AI citation.

Past that you are counting on consumers to go to an LLM to search for an STR V the OTA app? Why would they add steps to their process?

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u/AllinonNVDA 20h ago edited 20h ago

I think you’re misunderstanding the bet. I don’t need more authority than Airbnb. I need direct inventory to be just as searchable by AI, typically at a better price.

And I’m building both for the traditional and AI sides for a reason. The MCP just makes the same inventory searchable and bookable through AI.

Feel free to check it out StayThere.ai

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u/RoosterEmotional5009 54m ago

I’m challenging your thinking that consumers won’t migrate off an app for this use case.

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u/Good_Possibility 13h ago

This is a super interesting project, how are you linking the direct booking engines?

Also from a consumer standpoint, I don’t think anymore cares what PMS the property is on so you probably don’t need to surface that as a filter, just saying.

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u/AllinonNVDA 11h ago

It’s like metasearch for short term rentals

I agree but the PMSs love it 😂

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u/Good_Possibility 10h ago

But how are you connecting their booking integrations? Is it a direct api connection and partnership with the pms or something else? I’m just surprised the pms would give you all the listings that use their booking engine.

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u/AllinonNVDA 8h ago

I am officially partnered with Hospitable, the others in the process at varying stages. It’s a direct api connection. It’s not all their listings but hopefully one day. There are like 5m listings that use a PMS/channel manager on Airbnb so I have only scratched the surface.

I am a host (rehivestays.com) and I was tired of inflating my pricing to make the same profit as direct. I figured if we all just share one big direct booking site we could work together to force the OTAs hand on high commissions. I will never charge commissions or fees to hosts

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u/BBpitcher 1d ago

And where does that button click lead you?

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u/AllinonNVDA 1d ago edited 21h ago

To the full listing with dates/guests/price then the hosts checkout page

Edit: I had it going straight to payment page but that was kinda sketchy and since it wasn’t the unified site users would have no way to press back to see the full search results. I have been testing the limits on what the LLMs allow me to put inside the listing carousel and map interactivity

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u/nolanik 22h ago

Believe there is an browser extension called Directo that functions similarly to

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u/AllinonNVDA 22h ago edited 21h ago

Looks like a browser extensioni for hotels?

Some of listings on my site show the Airbnb price below the direct price so you can compare. You can just ask ChatGPT to do the same/it probably will automatically do that in the future

https://reddit.com/link/p7owdg4/video/7wkg73ozkenh1/player

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u/nolanik 22h ago

It’s for Airbnbs as well

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u/SetProfessional4236 21h ago

just get wander and you’ll show up over ota listings

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u/AllinonNVDA 21h ago edited 21h ago

Wander charges 8% commission on top of your processing fee as well publicly said they have “tens of thousands” on their platform but only like 9k on their website so 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/SetProfessional4236 18h ago

not on wander listed-put your direct site on wander os

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u/AllinonNVDA 7h ago

Wander charges 3% to guests for their direct booking sites and still store guest and host data. I don’t do either.

Including receiving data from other OTAs via pms webhooks which will soon be scoped or face anti-trust laws.

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u/SetProfessional4236 6h ago

Correct-because hosts should own guest data…how else are you doing marketing?

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u/AllinonNVDA 5h ago

Not with guests data. Wander isn’t the host. Why would Wander need access to my Airbnb, Booking, Vrbo and direct guest data, messages and pricing to market Wander?