Direct booking
A marketplace listing rents your property. A direct channel builds your business. 1Melo gives every property a booking page of its own — and an embeddable form for the website you may already have.
Two ways to book direct
Use the website you already have, or use ours. You do not need both.
No website required. Publish a Direct Listing for a property — your photos, description and amenities, with the booking calendar already built in — and share the link anywhere: an email signature, a card in the property, a QR code in the welcome book, a social profile.
1melo.com/direct/your-property
Already have a website? Embed the 1Melo booking widget straight into it. You control exactly which websites are permitted to embed it, so nobody else can put your booking form on their page.
The booking engine underneath is the same. Your availability, pricing, rental terms and payment flow stay connected in 1Melo whichever route a guest arrives by.
The reservation lands in your list with the guest's details, the dates, the guest count and the exact charges they agreed to. Those charges are stored as a snapshot: change your rates next month and a past booking still reads exactly as it was quoted.
The dates close immediately on your calendar and go out on your outbound iCal feed, so the marketplaces you have connected pick them up on their next fetch.
Not every booking arrives through a form. You can enter one directly and record whether it came by phone or was arranged some other way. It runs through the same availability and pricing rules, so an entry you make cannot conflict with a booking you already hold.
Why it matters
Your rates, your seasons, your minimum stays, your fees. The offer a guest sees is the one you designed, not one shaped by a platform's rules.
The guest's details and the conversation stay with your business, so a good first stay can become a direct booking next year instead of another commission.
Cancellation terms, refund rules and house rules are the ones you publish, accepted at booking and stored word for word with the reservation.
The booking page, the confirmation and the message thread all lead with your property — the business a guest remembers dealing with is yours.
Questions
No. If you do have a website, you can embed the 1Melo booking widget into it. If you do not, you can publish a Direct Listing — a property page hosted by 1Melo — and put its link in an email signature, a QR code in the property, or a social profile. The booking engine underneath is the same either way.
Two things. Imported iCal dates block your booking page, and availability is re-checked inside the booking transaction itself rather than only when the page was loaded. A stay that conflicts is refused at the moment of booking, not afterwards.
Yes, where you have connected a PayPal business account. The payment is completed on PayPal, so card details never reach 1Melo, and the outcome is verified against the booking total before anything is marked paid.
Yes. You can enter a booking yourself and mark it as taken manually or by phone. It goes through exactly the same availability and pricing checks a guest booking does, so it cannot create a conflict.
Yes, per property, and it is optional. If you publish terms, a guest must accept them to complete a booking, and the exact wording they accepted is stored with that reservation — so later edits to your template never change what a past guest agreed to.
