Nine chapters. Each one a real feature, shipped, tested, and held together by the assumption that you have better things to do than wrestle a SaaS.
We import your photos, room description, beds, baths, amenities and address from your existing listing — once, at onboarding. From then on the listing lives on your side, in your dashboard, under your control. Edit anything. Add your own photos. Tell the story the way you wanted to before Airbnb asked you to summarise it in 500 characters.
Two-way iCal sync with Airbnb, Booking.com, VRBO, Agoda and MakeMyTrip. Block a date in one place, it blocks everywhere. We refresh inbound feeds every 30 minutes and expose your direct bookings on an outbound iCal you can paste back into each OTA.
Set a base nightly rate. Add a weekend uplift. Define seasons (Diwali, Christmas, monsoon). Discount stays over 7 nights. Override individual dates when your sister is visiting. The pricing engine layers them in the right order and shows guests a single, transparent price.
UPI, cards, netbanking, wallets, EMI — all the methods your guests already use. Money flows directly into your Razorpay account, not through us. We never touch a rupee of guest money. GST invoices are generated automatically with the correct 12% or 18% split based on tariff.
Minimal, Boutique, Tropical, Heritage, Modern. Each theme has a different typographic voice, layout grammar, and energy — so a Goa villa and a Jaisalmer haveli don't end up using the same template. Customise the primary colour. Pick one of 10 Indian languages. Switch themes with a click.
Connect villabymaria.com in 30 seconds — we point you at the right DNS records, attach the domain to Vercel, provision an SSL certificate, and you're live on your own URL. Or use our domain-buy flow at Vercel's wholesale rates: we don't mark them up.
Booking confirmations, check-in instructions, the morning-after review request — all sent via WhatsApp using Interakt's verified Business API. Email also goes out (for those who like a paper trail). Templates per-host, with merge tags for guest name, property, address, map link.
Meta Pixel, Google Tag Manager, Google Ads, GA4 — paste your IDs once in /settings/pixels and we inject the scripts on every page of your site. Run retargeting from week two. Conversion ads from week four. We don't try to be your ads dashboard. We just don't get in the way.
Connect with other verified hosts. After a mutual handshake, contact details unlock — phone, email, the works. Either party can offer a cross-listing: your property, on their site, with an agreed uplift. Razorpay Route splits the payment automatically — origin host gets their share, selling host gets the uplift, both bank in minutes.
The unglamorous truth is most of this software is plumbing. We just made the plumbing for India, not for California.