In 30 seconds: your channel manager keeps doing what it does today. Amplistay sits alongside it: your website can send guests to your usual booking engine, and also sell extensions to any guest, wherever they booked. Nothing to migrate, and no day when your listings go dark.
Two questions that get mixed up
- "How does a new guest book?" Your channel manager already handles this: calendar, Airbnb, Booking.com, pricing.
- "How does a guest who's already here pay for one more night?" Almost no channel manager handles this well.
Most tools make you switch everything to get the second one. With Amplistay, you don't.
How it fits
Under Bookings & payments, you choose separately what your website does with each:
- New bookings → "Another platform handles them". Your website's "Book" button takes guests to AvaiBook, Lodgify or whatever you use. Everything stays the same.
- Extensions → on. Early check-in, late check-out and extra nights, charged through Stripe or your bank's card terminal.
A real example: Casa Hechizo has its website on Amplistay (www.casahechizo.com) and its bookings still come in through the AvaiBook widget.
What doesn't change
- ✅ Your Airbnb and Booking.com listings.
- ✅ Your prices and rules in your channel manager.
- ✅ Your existing bookings: not one of them moves.
What you gain
- 🌐 Your own website, with your domain, your photos and your guide.
- 💶 Extensions that sell themselves, for guests from any channel.
- 📋 A "Your stay" page for every booking: house guide, rental agreement and online check-in.
- 📅 All your bookings in one dashboard, read from your channel manager's iCal. See the iCal guide.
And if you ever want to take the next step
Whenever you like, flip a switch and your website takes new bookings itself, with no commission. Not before, and not as a requirement for any of the above.
Quick questions
Do I pay for two tools? Amplistay is one subscription of $19 / €19 per month per website, tax included. If your channel manager is still worth it to you, keep both.
How does Amplistay know which dates are free to extend? It reads your channel manager's iCal and keeps a cleaning buffer before the next check-in. More in how to automate booking extensions.
Setting it up and trying it is free, without touching anything you already have.