See exactly how much you'll save with your own direct booking page
Keep Airbnb and Booking.com for visibility, but take commission-free direct bookings through CasaLinking
Manage your bookings, calendar and payments from your phone
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Vrbo
- Guests also pay a separate service fee
- Smaller audience outside North America
- Annual subscription plan can add extra cost
Airbnb
- The algorithm controls your visibility
- Instant-booking pressure
- Strict platform rules
Booking.com
- No control over your brand
- Competing with hundreds of listings
- Guest data stays with them
CasaLinking
Estimate: Stripe's card fee plus our 0.5% handling fee, about 2% if every guest pays by card. No booking commission.
Subscription free for life for the first 1,000 listings — no card required. €199/year per property from listing 1,001.
- Your brand, your control
- No commission — payments via Stripe carry a 0.5% (1% for Canadian accounts) payment handling fee plus Stripe's own fee
- You own your guest data
- Guests pay securely via Stripe, straight to your bank account
Total Savings
€11,543
per year by switching to commission-free direct bookings
Guests pay online by card — funds go directly to your own bank account. CasaLinking never holds or touches your money.
See the fee comparison for a single bookingPrice direct, keep more
Platforms keep raising their fees. Price your direct booking a little under your platform price: your guest pays less and you still earn more.
The simple rule
Price your direct booking about half the platform's fee below your platform price. The guest saves half the fee, and you keep the other half.
You could earn up to €84 more every week
and your guest saves up to €84 a week
Based on a 7-night stay at €150 a night
| Platform | Fee | You keep there | Your direct price | Guest saves per week | You earn extra per week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vrbo | 12% | €132.00per night | €141.00per night | €63€9.00 per night | +€63+€9.00 per night |
| Airbnb | 15.5% | €126.75per night | €138.38per night | €81€11.63 per night | +€81+€11.63 per night |
| Booking.com | 16% | €126.00per night | €138.00per night | €84€12.00 per night | +€84+€12.00 per night |
Fees used: Vrbo 12% (announced for early November 2026, up from 8%, plus a guest service fee), Airbnb a single 15.5% host fee, and Booking.com about 16% all-in (commission plus payment and programme fees; it varies by country and account). Check your own payout statements.
Platforms tell hosts to raise their prices. You can lower yours.
Vrbo has told its hosts they may want to raise their rates by 4.5% to keep their payout after its commission rises to 12%. With a direct booking page you can do the opposite: charge your guest less and still earn more.
Three quick rules
- 1Don't set your direct price equal to the platform price: guests need a reason to book with you.
- 2Don't set it higher either: guests compare.
- 3Use the same rule for every season: set your seasonal prices, then take off the same percentage.
Examples for illustration. Your results depend on your platform, its fees and your bookings.
How It Works
Simple steps to start getting direct bookings
List Your Property
Complete our simple 5-minute form with photos and details about your property
Connect with Stripe
Once your listing is approved, link your Stripe account from your dashboard — just a few minutes, and it's how guests pay you directly and securely.
Connect With Guests
Guests contact you directly, or book instantly through your connected Stripe account — you own the relationship and the data, not us.
Get paid directly
No commissions and no hidden fees. Guests pay securely via Stripe and the money goes straight to your own bank account. The only costs are Stripe's own processing fee and CasaLinking's 0.5% (1% for Canadian accounts) payment handling fee, and only on payments made through Stripe.
See how easy it is to list your property
Watch the step-by-step guide to listing in minutes by importing your Airbnb listing.
No Commission, Ever
We never take a booking commission. Payments made through Stripe carry a 0.5% (1% for Canadian accounts) payment handling fee plus Stripe's own processing fee.
Secure Direct Payments
Guests pay online by card via Stripe Checkout — funds land straight in your own bank account, and CasaLinking never touches your money
Professional Listing
Beautiful, optimized property pages that showcase your rental
Live Calendar Sync
Real-time availability linked to your Airbnb, Booking.com, and other platforms
Fast Approval
Your property goes live within 24 hours after our due-diligence checks
Global Exposure
Reach travelers from around the world looking for unique stays
Social Media Coverage
Your property featured on our social channels for extra visibility
Direct Contact Options
Guests can reach you by email, phone, or WhatsApp — you choose
Why Founding Members Get It Free
Building Together
We're creating a game-changing platform, and we need real properties to test, refine, and perfect our system. Your listing helps us build something great.
Your Feedback Matters
As an early adopter, your experience and feedback directly shape our platform's features and improvements.
As one of our first 1,000 founding members, your annual subscription is free for life, for as long as your property stays listed and compliant — it never converts to the standard €199/year plan, even after the founding member allocation is filled. No card required.
Got a question before you sign up?
Ask about pricing, Stripe, or how listing works — answered from real CasaLinking info.
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For property owners only. To book a stay, contact the owner from the listing page. AI can make mistakes, so please confirm anything important with our team.
Who We Are and Why You Can Trust Us
We're part of Canarias Property Solutions SL, a real estate group with deep roots in the property industry. As real estate agents and holiday rental owners ourselves, we've felt the frustration of high platform fees firsthand.
Many of our clients were turning to Facebook and social media to avoid these fees, but their efforts were scattered and ineffective — we saw a chance to bring it all together.
Our vision is simple: a centralized advertising platform that drives direct bookings — not another booking platform with fees, but a showcase that sends guests straight to you.
We're not here to take bookings or charge fees. We're here to help owners like us advertise effectively and connect directly with guests.
Let's Be Honest
We won't promise a flood of bookings in the first few days — that wouldn't be realistic. We're building this from the ground up, and growing an audience takes time.
But here's our plan: we're committed to building the site where both owners and guests save money — no booking commission for owners, better prices for guests. It's a win-win that grows naturally as more people discover it.
This is exactly why we need your listing now — real properties, not empty pages, are what make this platform worth using. It's also why founding members get it free: you're not just a customer, you're helping us build the thing.
Managing multiple properties?
If you manage a portfolio of properties, you don't need to submit them one by one. Send us your property details in a simple spreadsheet, along with photos, and we'll get every property live for you.
Property manager offer
Property managers with 5 or more properties who join while our Founding Member allocation is open get the subscription free for life on every property they list, now and in future, for as long as the listings stay active and compliant. Once the allocation is filled, new property managers join at standard pricing. No card required.
Already have your spreadsheet ready? Email it to us at admin@casalinking.com along with your photos and we'll take it from there.