Your short-term let. Your rules. Your revenue.
Stop handing 15 to 25 percent of every booking to a management company.
Be first to try SelfLet Stays.
No card needed. We'll email you once when SelfLet Stays is ready.
Your short-term let. Your rules. Your revenue.
Stop handing 15 to 25 percent of every booking to a management company.
No card needed. We'll email you once when SelfLet Stays is ready.
Airbnb takes the bookings. Nobody looks after the licence. SelfLet Stays is the compliance layer for UK hosts: STL licensing conditions tracked per jurisdiction, guided fire and legionella risk assessments, changeover checklists, iCal sync with Airbnb and VRBO, commission-free direct bookings, and per-channel finances that show what the platforms really cost you.
UK short-term lets are getting more regulated. Fast.
Your management company may or may not be keeping up. You need to know for yourself.
STL licensing since October 2022
Three licence types, mandatory fire safety conditions, public liability insurance required. Edinburgh has an STL control area that needs separate planning permission.
A national registration scheme is coming
London enforces the 90-day rule. Article 4 directions are spreading to Bath, York, Brighton and the Lake District.
Statutory licensing since 2024
A 182-day occupancy threshold. Councils can charge up to a 300 percent council tax premium on second homes and holiday lets.
Add your property.
Address, rates, check-in and check-out times, Wi-Fi, key safe code, listing URLs. One form, everything captured.
Get compliant.
16 compliance items seeded for your jurisdiction. Traffic-light status, penalty warnings, step-by-step guidance with official source links.
Sync your calendar.
Import your Airbnb and VRBO calendars via iCal. Add direct bookings. One calendar across every channel.
Manage everything.
Changeover checklists, guest database, booking finances, occupancy tracking, and an AI assistant for compliance questions.
Four steps from signup to fully managed.
Add your property
Address, rates, check-in and check-out times, Wi-Fi, key safe code, listing URLs. One form, everything captured.
Get compliant
16 compliance items seeded for your jurisdiction. Traffic-light status, penalty warnings, step-by-step guidance with official source links.
Sync your calendar
Import your Airbnb and VRBO calendars via iCal. Add direct bookings. One calendar view across all channels.
Manage everything
Changeover checklists, guest database, booking finances, occupancy tracking, and an AI assistant for compliance questions.
Everything you need to self-manage.
STL compliance engine
16 items tracked per property, seeded by jurisdiction: STL licence, planning permission, gas safety, EICR, EPC, fire safety, smoke and CO alarms, PAT, legionella risk assessment, public liability insurance, ICO registration, and more.
- Scotland STL licence conditions built in
- Guided self-assessment forms for legionella and fire
- Document upload per item, penalty warnings and guidance
Calendar and iCal sync
A visual month calendar with colour-coded bookings per property. Import from Airbnb, VRBO and Booking.com via iCal, and export the other way. One view across every channel.
- iCal import and export
- Blocked dates for maintenance or personal use
- Check-in and check-out arrows on each day
Guest management
A guest database with contact details, booking history and stay count. Returning guests linked automatically by email. Your own guest list, not the platform's.
- Guest profiles with full stay history
- Direct booking enquiries land in your inbox
- Your data, not the platform's
Changeover checklists
A 12-item default checklist per changeover, from strip beds to test alarms, customisable per property.
- Click-to-tick completion tracking
- Pending, in progress and completed status
- Today and overdue badges on the dashboard
Finances and revenue
Income tracked automatically from bookings. Per-property and per-channel breakdowns, nights booked, average nightly rate, and net figures after platform fees.
- Airbnb against VRBO against direct
- Platform and cleaning fees broken out
- Month, year, tax year and all-time filters
Your own property page
Every property gets a public page on SelfLet Stays: one link that shows guests your property, links to your platform listings, and offers direct booking with zero commission.
- Direct booking enquiry form
- STL Licensed badge for trust
- Listed in the SelfLet Stays browse index
Keep the platforms. Cut the commission on direct bookings.
Airbnb and VRBO are brilliant at getting guests through the door. But when a guest comes back, or finds you by word of mouth, why pay 15 percent? Your SelfLet Stays page links to every listing and offers direct booking. Guests choose. You keep the revenue.
Every listing on one page
Airbnb, VRBO and Booking.com links beside a direct enquiry form with zero commission.
Calendars stay aligned
iCal sync keeps every channel in step, so a direct booking never double-books a platform stay.
Trust built in
The STL Licensed badge shows guests you are the real thing, and your page sits in the browse index at stays.selflet.co.uk/browse.
Your brand, your guests
Your property, your name, your guest relationships. Not the platform's.
Most STL tools are built for the US market.
SelfLet Stays is built for UK compliance from day one.
| Feature | Management company | Airbnb, VRBO, Booking | SelfLet Stays |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK compliance tracking | Varies | None | 16 items, jurisdiction-aware |
| Scotland STL licence support | Some | No | All three licence types, plus conditions |
| Changeover checklists | They handle it, at a cost | No | Built in, customisable |
| Guest database | In their system | Platform owns it | Yours, with full history |
| Financial tracking | Monthly statement | Payout summary | Real time, per property and per channel |
| AI compliance assistant | No | No | Built in, trained on UK STL law |
| Direct bookings | Through them, with commission | Not possible | Your own page, 0 percent commission |
| Commission per booking | 15 to 25 percent of revenue | Airbnb 3 percent plus 14 percent guest, VRBO 15 percent, Booking 15 to 20 percent | Flat monthly fee, 0 percent |
Simple pricing. No commission.
One flat monthly fee. No percentage of your bookings, no hidden costs. Every plan starts with a 30-day full-access free trial. Cancel any time. Your records are always yours.
Subscribe as one of the first 200 and you'll pay a third less than standard on any plan, for as long as you're a member. From £9.99 a month.
- Full compliance engine
- Calendar and iCal sync
- Bookings and guests
- Changeover checklists
- Finances and reporting
- AI compliance assistant
- Public property page
- Everything in Starter
- Portfolio dashboard
- Multi-property calendar
- Cross-property reporting
- Everything in Growth
- Up to 10 properties
All features included on every plan. Pricing is by property count only. No commission on bookings. Cancel any time. Managing more than 10 holiday lets? That's Enterprise territory, talk to us.
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Use SelfLet Stays on any device.
SelfLet Stays runs in your browser. No download, no app store. If you want an icon on your desktop or home screen, install it as an app in two taps.
Desktop
- Open stays.selflet.co.uk in Chrome or Edge.
- Click the install icon in the address bar, or the menu, then Install SelfLet Stays.
- Launch from your Dock, taskbar or Applications folder.
iOS
- Open stays.selflet.co.uk in Safari.
- Tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
- SelfLet Stays now lives on your home screen like a normal app.
Android
- Open stays.selflet.co.uk in Chrome.
- Tap Install app when prompted, or the menu, then Install app.
- Launch from your home screen or app drawer.
SelfLet Stays is a web app, so you always have the latest version with no updates to install and no App Store review delays. Works offline for the bits that don't need live data.
