Custom OwnerRez websites, with your calendar and checkout built in

Three ways to get an OwnerRez website

OwnerRez gives you more than one route to a site of your own. Its support pages describe three.

An OwnerRez hosted website is built inside your account and served from OwnerRez’s system, on your own domain. Widgets for calendars and booking are part of it by default.

The OwnerRez WordPress plugin connects a WordPress site to your account. OwnerRez built it in-house, and says it syncs your properties, rates and rules to the site. It is used together with the widgets. The comparison of WordPress vacation rental plugins sets it beside the standalone options.

An integrated website is any other site of your own, connected with OwnerRez widgets or its API. OwnerRez says this route is for users with the technical skills to build it, or a designer who has them.

A custom build is the third route. The OwnerRez website your guests see is your own design, and the booking steps inside it are still OwnerRez’s.

What OwnerRez charges for each

OwnerRez prices by the number of properties, with premium features billed on top. These figures are from its pricing and costs pages on November 10, 2026.

Item	First property	Second property	Properties 3 to 9
Base subscription	$40 a month	$15 a month	$15 for the third, $10 for the fourth, then $8 each
Hosted Websites	$15 a month	$5 a month	$3 each
WordPress Plugin and Integrated Websites	$10 a month	$5 a month	$3 each

On that scale the base subscription for five properties is $88 a month. Adding the integrated websites feature for five brings it to $112.

OwnerRez’s pricing page says there are “No commissions, no guest fees, or per-booking fees.” It also lists no setup fee, no contract and a 14-day free trial.

Card processing is separate. OwnerRez says it is not a card processor itself. You connect your own, such as Stripe, and pay that processor’s fees under your agreement with it.

Damage cover is separate as well. OwnerRez runs card holds, refundable deposits and an optional damage protection product, all covered in the guide to the vacation rental security deposit.

What that means on one booking

Because OwnerRez takes no percentage, the cost of a direct booking is mostly the card fee. Take a $1,000 booking paid through Stripe at its standard US rate of 2.9% plus 30 cents.

Where the guest books	What comes out of $1,000	What you keep
Your site, through OwnerRez and Stripe	About $29.30 in card fees	About $970.70
A listing on Vrbo, at the 12% commission	$120	$880
A listing on Airbnb, on the 15.5% single fee	$155	$845

Each company applies its fee to a slightly different base, so treat these as round figures. Your OwnerRez subscription is a fixed monthly cost on top. The Host Fee Calculator runs the same comparison at your own rate.

OwnerRez website examples, and what they show

OwnerRez keeps a support page of live customer sites. It sorts its OwnerRez website examples into five groups.

• Hosted websites, including some for a single property.
• WordPress sites that use the plugin together with the widgets.
• Hybrid sites, where the owner’s own front end hands off to the hosted site for property pages.
• Custom sites with OwnerRez widgets embedded.
• Hosted sites customized through WebAssist, OwnerRez’s paid customization service.

The page is worth an hour before you decide. Open one site from each group on your phone and try to check dates. You will see quickly which approach looks like the brand you want.

Where the hosted site stops

A hosted website is the fastest way to a working booking page, and the monthly cost is low. If your guests already know you, it may be all you need.

In my view the limit shows up when the site has to win guests who have never heard of you. That takes area pages, guides and a structure shaped around local searches. A custom site is built for that from the first page.

The guide on how to get more direct bookings covers where those guests come from.

What I build on top of OwnerRez

OwnerRez is one of the two systems I build on. Serenity Lodge, the first site I built, runs on it: one cabin in Hocking Hills, Ohio, live since October 27, 2026. The Serenity Lodge case study shows the result.

Every site is custom, and the build covers the same ground each time.

• A design made for your properties, on your own domain.
• A page for each property, with live availability, rates and a way to get a quote and book.
• Property search by date for portfolios.
• Area and guide pages written around what guests search for near you.
• Owner pages, if you manage for others. See property management website design.
• Titles, headings, structured data and analytics done properly from the first page.

Your calendar, rates, guest messages and payments stay in OwnerRez. Your listings stay live, and nothing on the site is set up to move a platform guest across.

What you need before we start

• An OwnerRez account with your properties, rates and rules set up.
• A card processor connected, so the site can take payment.
• Your domain, or the name you want to register.
• Photos and the facts about each property.

If you are still choosing a system, the booking software integrations page lists the others I work with. OwnerRez vs Hospitable compares the two I build on.

A custom OwnerRez website costs from $2,000 for the site, with full SEO from $1,500 as a one-time total. OwnerRez’s subscription and any premium features are separate and go to OwnerRez. See vacation rental website design for what the build includes.