Your own direct booking website, with 0% commission.Build a branded booking website for your Traverse City rentals in app.revenuenaire.com: designer templates, your own domain, and listings, calendars and prices synced from your PMS. $75 a month plus $7 per published listing, or done for you for $245.
Revenuenaire provides a short-term rental website builder for Airbnb hosts, vacation rental owners and property managers in Traverse City, United States, remotely and in Eastern Time (UTC-5). In Traverse City, rates peak July to August and soften November to April, so the work is built around that calendar. The Revenuenaire short-term rental website builder costs $75 a month for the platform plus $7 per published listing, with 0% booking commission. You can set the website up yourself in your account, or have our team build and launch it for you for $245 one-time.
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A short-term rental website builder is software that lets Airbnb hosts, vacation rental owners and property managers run their own booking website, with property pages, a live availability calendar, a booking engine and online payments, without a developer. The Revenuenaire website builder is part of app.revenuenaire.com: pick a designer template, import properties, photos, calendars and prices from your PMS, connect payments and publish on your own domain. Guests book direct and pay you, and Revenuenaire takes 0% booking commission.
Who the website is designed for in Traverse City: Midwestern families on weekly summer stays, couples on wine weekends. What brings them: National Cherry Festival; Sleeping Bear Dunes and wine trails; Mackinac Island travel; Boyne and Crystal Mountain ski weekends. The channels they already book on: Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com.
Short-term rental revenue management in Northern Michigan rests on the summer week. We run Saturday-to-Saturday or seven-night minimums on lake and bay homes from late June to mid-August, release gap nights inside two weeks, and price waterfront, dock and beach access as separate premiums. Cherry Festival week gets its own tier. Outside summer we shift to two-night weekends and monthly winter rates for remote workers and seasonal skiers.
The full service is described on our short-term rental website builder page; this page covers how it applies in Traverse City.
Designer templates made for vacation rentals, with photo-led property pages and a booking flow that works on a phone. Add your logo, colours and your own domain, and every property gets its own page.
Connect Hospitable, OwnerRez, Guesty, Hostaway, Beds24, Lodgify, Smoobu or Cloudbeds once. Listings, photos, availability and prices import automatically and stay in sync, so a direct booking never lands on a night already sold elsewhere.
Guests choose dates, see the full price and pay you directly through the payment account you connect. Revenuenaire takes no booking commission, ever: you pay a flat monthly platform fee and a small fee per published listing.
Promotions, packages and an OTA price comparison show guests what they save by booking with you, which is what turns returning guests and Google searches into direct bookings instead of OTA ones.
A direct booking website earns most in Traverse City from guests who already know the property: returning visitors, referrals, and travelers who find your brand on Google after seeing the listing on Airbnb. Peak demand runs July to August, the Cherry Festival in early July, and October colour tours, which is when commission-free bookings are worth the most, and the softer period, November to April outside ski weekends, is when your own promotions to past guests matter most.
A property in Downtown Traverse City and Front Street should say so in the first line of its page, with the photos that match why guests choose that part of Traverse City. Walkable to restaurants, the bay beaches and Cherry Festival events.
Long quiet season. Ski weekends near Crystal Mountain and Boyne, holidays and winter getaways carry most bookings, so price weekends separately.
Morel season, graduations and early lake trips. Weekend demand grows steadily; open nightly stays before summer weekly blocks begin.
Vineyards and water views on both bays. Wine weekend couples and summer families pay premiums for views and private frontage.
The full Traverse City calendar, areas, rules and pricing moves are in the Traverse City revenue management market guide.
A direct booking website has one job: turn a guest who already knows your property, from a past stay, an OTA listing or a Google search, into a booking that pays you without commission. Good short-term rental website design starts from that job, not from decoration. The guest should see the property, the price and the available dates within a few seconds, on a phone, and be able to book without creating an account or leaving the site.
Photos carry the decision, so the hero image and the first five photos should be the ones that sell the stay: the view, the main living space, the best bedroom and the feature guests talk about in reviews. Each property needs its own page with a clear title, the sleeping arrangement, the amenities that matter for that market, the house rules and the cancellation policy, written in plain language. A live availability calendar and an all-in price, with taxes and fees shown before the last step, remove the two reasons guests go back to an OTA to check.
Trust is the other half of the design. Guests booking direct for the first time look for reviews, a real contact, your licence or registration number where one is required, secure payment and a policy page they can read. The site should look like a business, on your own domain, with your brand colours and logo, not like a template that was never finished.
Most booking websites fail for a revenue reason, not a design one: the calendar drifts out of sync with the OTAs, or the direct price is higher than the Airbnb price after an update. The Revenuenaire website builder reads your calendars and prices from your PMS, so the website always shows the same availability and a competitive direct price. Promotions, packages and an OTA price comparison give guests a reason to book direct, and a flat monthly fee with 0% booking commission means every direct booking keeps its full value.
In Traverse City, that means a site that is live and synced before July to August, and property pages and photos written around what brings guests here: National Cherry Festival and Sleeping Bear Dunes and wine trails.
You pay commission on repeat guests
Guests who loved their stay book again through an OTA, and you pay a fee on a guest you already earned.
You have a brand but no booking site
Your properties have a name, a social following or a logo, but nowhere guests can book them directly.
Your current website is out of sync
The calendar or the prices on your site drift from your PMS and OTAs, so you avoid sending guests to it.
You manage several properties
Owners and guests expect one professional site that shows the whole portfolio with live availability.
Sign up at app.revenuenaire.com with your email or Google. Monthly billing, no contract.
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Connect your PMS or channel manager. Properties, photos, calendars and prices import automatically and stay in sync.
Pick a template, add your logo, colours and domain, and review every property page before it goes live.
Publish when you are happy. From $75 a month plus $7 per published listing, or have our team build it for $245.
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$75 a month for the platform plus $7 per published listing. 0% booking commission, monthly, no contract.
| Option | What you get | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Website platform | Your branded booking website on your own domain, with booking engine and payments | $75/mo |
| Published listings | Each property live and bookable on the website | +$7/mo each |
| Done-for-you onboarding | Our team designs, builds and launches the site after a 45-minute kickoff call | $245 one-time |
| Booking commission | On every direct booking, for as long as you use the website | 0% |
Drag to the number of listings you will publish and see your monthly price, with no commission on bookings.
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Set it up yourself in your account, or have our team build it for $245 one-time.
One flat price wherever your rentals are: a monthly platform fee and a fee per published listing, and never a commission on bookings. Set the website up yourself, or have our team build it for $245 one-time.
Do it yourself
Create your account, connect your PMS, pick a template and build the site yourself. Properties, photos, calendars and prices import automatically, and you preview everything before you publish.
$245 one-time
Prefer not to build it? Our team designs and launches your direct booking website: properties, photos, content, booking engine, payments and branding, after a 45-minute kickoff call. You own it and keep full editing access.
From $70
Optional. A specialist connects Hospitable ($70, 30 minutes) or OwnerRez ($145, 45 minutes) with you on a short call, so calendars and prices sync from day one. Other PMS connections are self-serve.
| Published listings | Monthly cost |
|---|---|
| 1 listing | $82/mo |
| 3 listings | $96/mo |
| 5 listings | $110/mo |
| 10 listings | $145/mo |
| 25 listings | $250/mo |
$75 a month for the platform plus $7 per published listing. Prices in USD, billed monthly, no contract, 0% booking commission.
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“Within 3 months of working with Revenuenaire, our ADR went up by 42% and occupancy hit 94%. Their dynamic pricing strategy is exceptional.”
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Boutique Hotel, Abu Dhabi
“We went from struggling Airbnb listings to fully optimized properties generating 3x the revenue. The team genuinely cares about your results.”
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Answers written for Traverse City & Northern Michigan, United States.
Start from who books in Traverse City. Midwestern families on weekly summer stays, couples on wine weekends. What brings them: National Cherry Festival and Sleeping Bear Dunes and wine trails. The hero photos and the first lines of each property page should speak to that trip, with the distance to Old Mission Peninsula and what is nearby. Then show live availability and the all-in price with taxes and fees before the last step, your licence number where Traverse City requires one, reviews and a cancellation policy guests can read.
For a short-term rental website builder, the template, photo order, copy and booking flow are chosen for these guests, so the site answers their questions before they book. Midwestern families on weekly summer stays, couples on wine weekends. Demand is driven by Sleeping Bear Dunes and wine trails and Mackinac Island travel.
Airbnb, Vrbo and Booking.com. com supports hotels and smaller rentals. We keep parity, use Vrbo and Airbnb weekly discounts only for shoulder weeks, and keep summer weeks at full rate. For a short-term rental website builder, the website runs alongside those channels: availability and prices sync from your PMS, so a direct booking never lands on a night sold elsewhere, and the OTA price comparison shows guests what they save by booking with you.
For a short-term rental website builder, your website should be published, with photos, rates and availability synced, well before these windows open for booking, so returning guests and search traffic can book direct at peak rates. Peak demand in Traverse City: July to August, the Cherry Festival in early July, and October colour tours. September to October: Wine harvest and colour tours across Leelanau and Old Mission. Two-night weekend minimums and a strong premium on peak colour weekends. July to August: The Cherry Festival in early July and the full family summer. Weekly minimums, top rates for waterfront homes and few discounts.
Leelanau County and Glen Arbor: Gateway to Sleeping Bear Dunes and the Leelanau wine trail. Weekly family stays dominate in summer, with colour-tour weekends in autumn. Downtown Traverse City and Front Street and Old Mission Peninsula behave differently and are treated separately. For a short-term rental website builder, each property page names its area and what is nearby, so a guest looking for that part of Traverse City recognises the right home straight away.
For a short-term rental website builder, a direct booking website helps in the soft months: you can offer your own promotions, packages and longer stays to past guests without paying OTA commission on those nights. Softest period in Traverse City: November to April outside ski weekends. May to June: Morel season, graduations and early lake trips. Weekend demand grows steadily; open nightly stays before summer weekly blocks begin. November to April: Long quiet season. Ski weekends near Crystal Mountain and Boyne, holidays and winter getaways carry most bookings, so price weekends separately.
The City of Traverse City limits where short-term rentals are allowed and requires a licence, while the surrounding townships in Grand Traverse and Leelanau counties each set their own zoning and permit rules. Check current local requirements for your address and confirm how state and local lodging taxes are collected on each platform. For a short-term rental website builder, the website shows your licence or registration number, taxes and house rules on each property page, and the booking engine charges taxes and fees as you configure them, so a direct booking follows the same rules as an OTA booking.
Outside summer we shift to two-night weekends and monthly winter rates for remote workers and seasonal skiers. Short-term rental revenue management in Northern Michigan rests on the summer week. This is the context a short-term rental website builder is built around in Traverse City.
For a short-term rental website builder, you get a website platform built by revenue managers and synced with your PMS and pricing, at a flat monthly fee with 0% booking commission, instead of an agency build that drifts out of sync with your calendar. Revenuenaire has optimized 100+ properties in and around Traverse City and works remotely in Eastern Time (UTC-5). Locally, that knowledge shows up in decisions such as this: add a colour-tour premium for peak foliage weekends in October across Leelanau and Old Mission listings.
The Revenuenaire short-term rental website builder costs $75 a month for the platform plus $7 per published listing, with 0% booking commission. You can set the website up yourself in your account, or have our team build and launch it for you for $245 one-time. The price is the same in every market; what changes in Traverse City is the timing. Aim to have it live well before the strong dates. July to August: The Cherry Festival in early July and the full family summer. Weekly minimums, top rates for waterfront homes and few discounts. To start, create your account at app.revenuenaire.com and connect your PMS, or ask us anything in the chat or by email.
Self-serve onboarding has no separate fee: create the account, connect your PMS and the Traverse City listings, photos and calendars import automatically, so a host near Downtown Traverse City and Front Street can preview the full site the same day. Done-for-you onboarding is $245 one-time: our team builds and launches the website after a 45-minute kickoff call scheduled in Eastern Time (UTC-5). Either way, the monthly platform and listing fees apply once the site is published.
Yes. Short-Term Rental Website Builder in Traverse City is delivered remotely and scheduled in Eastern Time (UTC-5), and 100+ properties in and around Traverse City have been optimized by Revenuenaire, including in areas such as Downtown Traverse City and Front Street. You can build the website yourself in app.revenuenaire.com, or have our team build and launch it for $245 after a 45-minute kickoff call. Start in the chat or by email and tell us what you run in Traverse City.
Everything else Revenuenaire offers in Traverse City, for hotels and for Airbnb and short-term rentals. Each service has its own page for this market.
Back to revenue management in Traverse City, or read the national page for short-term rental website builder.
If you also run properties outside Traverse City, the same services are available in these markets, each page written for that market's own seasons, areas and rules.
Create your account, connect your PMS and build your Traverse City website from $75 a month plus $7 per listing. Or tell us about your rentals in the chat or by email and our team builds and launches it for you for $245.
