<p>The question is often asked, "how can it cost nothing for holiday owners to list and take bookings on <a href="https://www.searchandstay.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Search and Stay</a>?" While there are no costs for owners, <a href="https://www.searchandstay.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Search and Stay</a> charges a very minimal booking fee to the guest per booking and also offers optional products and services to owners who would like to further promote their holiday homes. </p><p><a href="https://www.searchandstay.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Search and Stay</a> <span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">is a private accommodation rental platform, proudly founded and operated in Australia. </span><a href="https://www.searchandstay.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Search and Stay</a> was founded by holiday property owners, who self-managed their own holiday accommodation and put an enormous amount of effort into managing their homes, cleaning and maintaining their holiday property, as well as decorating their holiday houses and creating a fantastic holiday guest experience.</p><p>However, there were few options to list and book a holiday home without paying large commissions and/or per-booking-fees. </p><p>While there is generally the option for property owners to add these fees into the cost of the booking or include it in the rates of their holiday home, and this is a completely acceptable way of reducing your loss, however, it does inflate the cost of your property and could be off-putting to guests.</p><p>Search and Stay built the company philosophy around what would work best for property owners, so to reduce the cost to owners instead charges a booking fee of around 3% to the guest per booking </p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">Listing a holiday property is simple and bookings are secure and free for owners. </span>The system was built to include <span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">complimentary, automated tools that will manage guest communication, booking payments and check-in and check-out notifications.</span></p><p><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">It can easily synchronise the booking calendars from other platforms like Airbnb, VRBO, Stayz, Booking.com, Google and Expedia, by add iCalendars from another platform to the holiday property listing.</span></p><p>There are additional products and services that <a href="https://www.searchandstay.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Search and Stay</a> offers, such as a Channel Manager to <span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">sync to 60+ top listing sites via a direct connection (charges apply), </span>which holiday home owners can include should they choose.</p><p><a href="https://www.searchandstay.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Search and Stay</a><span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)">'s team of marketing specialists promote the platform and the properties listed, through traditional advertising, marketing, digital and social media. </span></p><p><a href="https://www.searchandstay.com/?origin=list-your-property" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">List your property now on Search and Stay</a> or we are happy to do it for you, <a href="https://www.searchandstay.com/publish-my-property" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">click here</a>.</p>