Channel management that puts your property everywhere guests book

Distribution only pays if the channels do different jobs. Four platforms chasing the same guest is four times the admin for one booking.

• Airbnb. Short city stays. Couples and small groups, weekend breaks, booked on a phone in ten minutes. Photos and reviews do the selling.
• Booking.com. Last-minute and international. The guest arriving on Thursday who has not booked yet. It fills the midweek gaps you would write off.
• Vrbo and Expedia. Whole-property family holidays. Longer stays, booked further ahead, a week rather than two nights.
• The Flexiestays booking platform. Our own channel, and the only one where the guest books you directly.

A central Bournemouth flat lives on the short-stay channels. A larger house in wider Dorset earns its keep on the family-holiday ones. Most properties need both, in different months.

One listing on one platform means you only meet the guests that platform sends you. For everyone else you are not competing badly. You are absent.

Our estimator publishes an indicative model, not measured results and not a promise. It compares a well-distributed, actively priced calendar at 68% occupancy with a limited-channel one at 47%. Take the model's indicative base rate for a two-bed, £142 a night, apply the central Bournemouth multiplier of 1.10, and you get roughly £156. On those assumptions the gap between the two lines is about 77 nights a year, or near £12,000 of gross booking revenue.

Those are assumptions, not measurements. But the shape holds: a second channel fills the shoulder-season and midweek nights. Run your own figures through the estimator on the holiday let management page.

On Fully Managed (15%), distribution is done for you. We build and maintain the listings on each major channel, connect them to one calendar, set the rate strategy, manage minimum stays and changeover gaps, watch for sync failures, answer enquiries through 24/7 guest communication, and report bookings by channel so you can see which window earns. The Flexiestays listing is included, with no separate distribution charge.

On List on Flexiestays (5%), be clear about what you are buying. That plan is distribution only. Your property joins the Flexiestays platform and its guest audience, and your calendar stays in sync with the channels you already run. It does not include us managing those channels: your Airbnb and Booking.com listings, your pricing, your guests and your standards stay in your hands. Plenty of owners run a good operation and are short of nothing but bookings in February. Those owners should not hire a manager. The honest version of that decision is in managed versus self-managed Airbnb, and both fees are set out on the pricing page.

At building scale the same machinery runs behind a rota, and serviced accommodation and aparthotels need it more than a single flat does: an empty unit in a block of twelve is invisible until the month ends. That work is not block management and not leasehold management. Send us the address and we will say honestly which of the two plans fits.