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Hosthub Website Builder - Product Specs

What to expect when you purchase a direct booking website built by Hosthub

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Written by Alex
Updated over a year ago

Hosthub’s website builder is a custom Wordpress website that our team builds, deploys and delivers to you in full working order and has the following features and specs:

  1. Fully operational direct booking website that accepts payments for direct bookings or requests for reservations to be validated by the host

  2. Synchronization with other platforms (Airbnb. Vrbo, Booking.com etc) in two ways:

    1. Via Hosthub’s channel manager (offered separately, more here). This option offers real time availability sync and rate sync.

    2. Via iCal synchronization - 30-60 minute delay availability sync

  3. Multilingual capability (translation not included)

  4. Adding content for the first 2 rentals, as well as 1 hour training to show you how to add more rentals if needed is included in the price. Any additional rentals will have to be added by you, or you can commission our partner developers to add them for you for an extra fee of $35 per hour.

  5. Any additional development or features (eg. extra content pages, adding more languages, changing the site theme, changing colors or icons, etc) is directly discussed and agreed with the Wordpress developer that built your site and charged at a fixed price of $35/hour.

  6. The deadline for providing necessary materials for the website, such as photos and descriptions, as well as completing any required actions on your part (such as setting up a Stripe account), should not exceed one month. We will provide clear instructions in a timely manner. If the one-month deadline passes without the required materials and actions, the initial advance payment will be retained as a fee for the time and effort spent on our part, and you will be required to submit a new application and make a new payment if you still wish to proceed with the Website Builder process.

    In the event of unforeseen circumstances beyond your control, which we fully understand and appreciate, you will be provided with 2 options: Either receive back your advance and not continue with the website builder process, or get a 30 day extension to deliver the materials and actions requested on your part.

You can see several examples of websites built with our website builder here: https://www.hosthub.com/products/website-builder/

Additional notes / what is NOT included in the price:

It is important to note the following:

  1. You are responsible to purchase the domain that the website will use. Our team can guide you through the process and offer some suggestions for the name to purchase and where to purchase it from, but the actual purchase and payment of the domain name has to be done by you (approx. $10 per year)

  2. You are responsible to select and purchase the hosting plan for the website. Our team can guide you through the process and offer some suggestions for selecting the hosting platform, but eventually it is your responsibility and any issues you have with the hosting provider will have to be sorted out with them directly. Our team can help you through this process if needed, but it will be charged at the fixed hourly rate of $35/hour. Please note that some hosting platforms have known issues with our calendar sync process so it’s important to discuss the options with our Website Builder developer.

  3. The booking engine of the website is based on 3rd party plugins that we have pre purchased and included in the price and build onto your website, but we cannot guarantee their 24/7 reliable operation since we have not built them. However, we have spent hundreds of hours trying them out in real life scenarios and we have selected the ones that work best and more reliably.

  4. Our Booking Engine supports the following Payment Gateways

    • Stripe

    • PayPal

    • Braintree

    • 2Checkout

    • Beanstream/Bambora

  5. If you select the ical sync option, we cannot guarantee it’s operation and reliability since ical sync is notoriously unreliable, so we strongly suggest you use Hosthub’s channel manager to sync rates and availability with your website.

  6. Although the website is fully SEO enabled and has all the tools to support modern and effective SEO, the price does not include the content needed to attract visitors to your website or the work needed to create those pages. You can do that on your own, hire a 3rd party, or hire our web builders to do it for you for the preset price mentioned below.

Process

The process to build your website is the following:

  1. You prepay the first installment (half of the product cost) by clicking the “Buy Now” button here: https://www.hosthub.com/products/website-builder/

  2. Our team will assign a Wordpress developer to your application who will reach out to you with instructions

  3. You send all the content needed to your assigned WP dev

  4. The dev begins building the website and reaches out if they need more information

  5. As soon as the website is finished, they reach out to setup a 1 hour delivery and training call

  6. After the training call is done and the site is delivered, the remaining amount is charged to your card. And the project is considered complete.

  7. If, after the above step, you still need support, training or development on your website, it can be offered at an extra cost of $35/hour, directly agreed, discussed and charged by the WP dev that built your site.

Congratulations! You are now the proud owner of your own direct booking website! Please see below for more information and resources on attracting visitors and direct bookings to your new website:

Happy bookings!

The Hosthub Team

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