Airbnb's new 15.5% host fee · September 15
Airbnb's 15.5% fee lands September 15.
Here's what Hawaii hosts are doing about it.
Keep more of what you earn with your own direct-booking page, plus the full backend to run your rentals, for less than a website costs. Built by a Hawaii host, for Hawaii hosts.
No card charged for 60 days. Cancel anytime.
On September 15, Airbnb starts taking 15.5% off every booking. Your nightly rate, your cleaning fee, all of it.
You can't control Airbnb's fees. But you can control how much of your business runs through Airbnb.
Stay Hawaii gives you your own branded booking page where guests book you directly, 0% commission, ever, plus a full backend to actually run your properties. All for less than you'd pay for a plain website with none of the tools.
Your options, side by side
| Build your own website | List on an old directory | Stay Hawaii | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly cost | $25+ plus booking tools | ~$10/mo ($119/yr) | From $14.99/mo |
| Direct booking page | You build it | Inquiry only | Branded, ready to go |
| Take real payments | Only with extra tools | Stripe & PayPal built in | |
| Commission | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| Unified calendar (all OTAs) | |||
| Guest messaging | Full tier | ||
| Cleaner coordination | Full tier | ||
| Finance & reporting | Full tier | ||
| Maintenance | All on you | On them | On us |
| Part of a Hawaii marketplace | You're alone | Aging, low-traffic | Modern, Hawaii-only |
A website gets you a page you have to build and maintain. A directory gets you a listing and nothing else. Stay Hawaii gives you the page, the payments, and the whole backend, for less.
Hosting shouldn't mean checking four apps before coffee
Airbnb here. VRBO there. A guest asking about early check-in, a cleaner running late. The mistakes happen in the gaps. Stay Hawaii runs on Navi, the backend built by a host who was drowning in exactly this.
One calendar
Every booking, every platform, one view. Stop app-hopping.
Messages that draft themselvesFull tier
Reply in seconds, in your voice.
Cleaner coordinationFull tier
Assign, track, done. No more group texts.
Finances that organize themselvesFull tier
No shoebox come tax season.
You host. We handle the rest.
Alone, you're invisible. Together, you're found.
Here's the honest truth: build your own standalone site and, sitting out there by yourself, almost no one finds it. You can't outspend Hawaii's hotels for attention, and Google doesn't surface a lone rental site.
Hawaii hosts on one platform are a different story. As more hosts join, the marketplace grows into the kind of destination that can reach travelers and qualify for placements no individual host site ever could.
We don't promise you guests. Anyone who does is lying. What we promise is this: you'll be positioned where discovery becomes possible, instead of invisible and alone.
Simple pricing. No commission. No surprises.
60 days free on either plan. No card charged during your trial.
Listing
$14.99 /month, first property
+$8.99/month each additional
- Your own branded direct-booking page
- Unified calendar across all your OTAs
- Real payments (Stripe & PayPal), money straight to you
- Bookings & earnings dashboard
- Per-platform performance view
- A spot on the Stay Hawaii marketplace
Full Navi
Everything$24.99 /month, first property
+$14.99/month each additional
- Everything in Listing, plus:
- Guest messaging across all OTAs, drafted for you
- Cleaner & team coordination
- Full finance & reporting
No card charged for 60 days. Cancel anytime.
I'm not a software company. I'm a host.
I run four short-term rentals on the Big Island. When Airbnb's fees hit, I couldn't find software built for a host my size. Everything was either a spreadsheet or a $100-per-listing platform made for property managers with fifty units.
So I built the tool I actually needed. Stay Hawaii is that tool, opened up to every Hawaii host who's tired of watching platforms take more and give less.
Built here. Built for us.
Sidra · Big Island
Your rate. Your guests. Your money.
Airbnb's fee lands September 15. Your first 60 days are free.
No card charged for 60 days. Cancel anytime.
Questions? Get in touch. A real host answers.