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Book Direct. Sync Everywhere.
More direct bookings. Fewer marketplace fees. Stronger guest relationships.
1Melo helps vacation-rental owners and property managers accept direct bookings, keep availability organized, and build lasting relationships with their guests.
- Direct booking tools A hosted Direct Listing or an embeddable form per property
- Calendar synchronization iCal feeds in and out, both directions
- Built for owners and managers One property or a whole portfolio
Two ways to book direct
Book direct with or without a website.
Already have a website? Add the 1Melo booking calendar to it. Don’t have one? Publish a 1Melo Direct Listing with your photos, property details, availability and booking experience already built in.
No website required
Use your 1Melo Direct Listing
No website needed. Publish a professional property page hosted by 1Melo with your photos, description, amenities and live booking calendar already included.
1melo.com/direct/your-property
Use your website or use ours. Either way, your guests get a direct path to book with you — and both options run on the same availability, pricing, rental terms and booking system.
How it works
From listing to direct bookings in three steps
No migration project and no new website required. Add what you rent, connect the calendars you already use, and start taking bookings of your own.
1. Add your property
Set up the listing details, stay rules and nightly rates once. Each property gets its own direct booking page.
2. Connect your calendars
Paste the iCal feed from each marketplace you list on, and publish 1Melo’s own feed back to them.
3. Accept direct bookings
Publish a Direct Listing or embed the booking form on a site you already have. Availability, guests and messages stay in one place.
Unified availability
Imported marketplace dates, direct bookings and your own blocks on one calendar.
More direct bookings
A booking page per property, plus a form you can embed on a site you already own.
Better guest communication
A thread opens with every booking, so you can send arrival details before you are asked.
Owner control
Your rates, your stay rules, your guest relationships — and your own booking channel.
Why a channel of your own
Marketplaces bring guests. A direct channel keeps them.
1Melo is designed to sit alongside the marketplaces, not to replace them. Keep the listings that fill your gaps, and give returning guests somewhere to book that belongs to you.
Marketplace listings on their own
- The marketplace controls the booking channel and much of the payment and communication framework.
- Service fees may be charged to you, the guest, or both, depending on the platform and its fee structure.
- Placement depends on ranking rules you do not control.
- Repeat guests have to go back through the platform to rebook.
- Each calendar lives in a different account.
A direct channel with 1Melo alongside them
- The booking, the guest and the conversation are yours.
- No marketplace commission on a direct reservation.
- Your rates, your stay rules, your cancellation terms.
- Returning guests rebook on a page you can share directly.
- One availability view across every channel you connect.
1Melo is an independent product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or partnered with any marketplace.
What you control
Build a business — not just a listing
A marketplace listing rents out your property. A channel of your own changes how the business behind it runs — who guests pay, whose policies apply, and who they come back to.
Control your cash flow
Direct guests pay through your own payment setup, not a marketplace's payout schedule. Your payment provider still has its own rules, holds and dispute processes — but the account the money lands in is yours.
Handle guest issues on your terms
Your rental agreement, your cancellation and refund policies, your house rules. When something comes up, the starting point is what you and the guest agreed — not a one-size-fits-all marketplace process.
Own the guest relationship
A direct guest is your customer. The contact details, the conversation and the next stay belong to your business, with nobody sitting permanently in between.
Turn first stays into repeat direct bookings
A guest who already knows your property does not need to be convinced — they need an easy way back. A booking page of your own is exactly that.
Stop paying to reacquire your own guests
Marketplaces earn their fee by finding you new guests. Once somebody has stayed with you, a direct channel gives them another way to return.
Your property. Your brand.
Returning guests should remember your place and your name, not just the platform they found it on. Every direct booking builds recognition for your business, not somebody else's.
Airbnb and Vrbo can still be valuable discovery channels, and 1Melo is built to work alongside them. Use the marketplaces when they help you — just do not let them be the only way you can take a booking.
Ready to take control of your bookings?
Create your account, add your first property, and see how a direct channel fits alongside the listings you already run.
Get StartedFAQ
Common questions from owners
Can I keep my Airbnb and Vrbo listings?
Yes. 1Melo is designed to sit alongside the marketplaces rather than replace them. You keep listing wherever you like, and 1Melo gives you a direct channel of your own plus one place to see the availability behind all of it.
How does 1Melo keep my calendars in step?
Through iCal. You paste the iCal feed each marketplace gives you, and 1Melo imports those reserved dates on a schedule. 1Melo also publishes an iCal feed of its own, covering direct bookings, imported events and any dates you block by hand, which you add back to the other platforms.
Is calendar sync instant?
No, and no iCal-based tool is. iCal is a polling format: each platform fetches the other side on its own interval, so changes propagate in minutes to hours rather than instantly. 1Melo re-checks availability inside the booking transaction, so a direct booking cannot double-book dates it can see.
Do I need a website or technical skills?
No. If you already have a website, you can embed the 1Melo booking form into it. If you do not, you can publish a Direct Listing for each property — a hosted page with your photos, description, amenities and booking calendar — and share its 1Melo link. Both use the same availability, pricing and booking settings, and setting it up is filling in a form, not writing code.
Can guests pay when they book?
Yes, where you have connected a PayPal business account. Card details never touch 1Melo — the payment is completed on PayPal, and 1Melo records the result against the reservation. You can also take bookings without online payment and settle separately.
How do I talk to guests?
Every direct booking opens a message thread automatically, so you can send arrival instructions before a guest ever writes to you. Guests reply on a secure page of their own, and your whole team sees the same conversation.
What does 1Melo cost?
1Melo is free for the first 30 days for up to two properties. After the trial, the first two properties are $59 per month. Each additional property is $45 per month. 1Melo does not charge a per-booking fee or take a percentage of your reservation value. Payment-provider processing fees are separate.