The question is often asked, "how can it cost nothing for holiday owners to list and take bookings on Search and Stay?" While there are no costs for owners, Search and Stay 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.

Search and Stay is a private accommodation rental platform, proudly founded and operated in Australia. Search and Stay 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.

However, there were few options to list and book a holiday home without paying large commissions and/or per-booking-fees.

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.

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

Listing a holiday property is simple and bookings are secure and free for owners. The system was built to include complimentary, automated tools that will manage guest communication, booking payments and check-in and check-out notifications.

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.

There are additional products and services that Search and Stay offers, such as a Channel Manager to sync to 60+ top listing sites via a direct connection (charges apply), which holiday home owners can include should they choose.

Search and Stay's team of marketing specialists promote the platform and the properties listed, through traditional advertising, marketing, digital and social media.

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