01 — Marketrail for stays
Open a stays marketplace for your region.
Marketrail for stays runs the whole marketplace: hosts list places and sync their calendars, guests see the exact total and book instantly, and every dollar moves on schedule — your commission at payment, the host's payout 24 hours after check-in.
Demo · Hearthwood · 7 US regions · 63 places · USD · Stripe test mode
[ ) check-out 10:00 AM, check-in 4:00 PM — same day, no overlap
A two-week calendar for Larch Hollow A-frame: a confirmed four-night stay ends on the check-in day of the stay two guests race for. One request gets a 30-minute hold; the other is refused with a 409 and told when the nights free up. After payment the hold becomes a confirmed stay. An owner block and an imported calendar block follow later in the strip.
- Fri, Oct 30 (weekend rate)
- $280.00
- Sat, Oct 31 (weekend rate)
- $280.00
- Sun, Nov 1
- $240.00
- Cleaning
- $120.00
- Occupancy tax, Catskills
- $108.10
- Total
- $1,028.10
Drawn, not a screenshot: the quote is live; the other stays and the timestamps are illustrative.
02 — Today at Hearthwood
| 3:00 PM | Tahoe City cabin | Lake Tahoe | 3 guests | Arriving |
| 4:00 PM | Overlook A-frame | Catskills | 2 guests | Arriving |
| 11:00 AM | Woods Hole shingle house | Cape Cod | 2 guests | Departing |
| 11:00 AM | Montford cottage | Asheville | 4 guests | Departing |
Arrivals 2 · Departures 2 · In-house tonight 54 · Next 30 nights 13% booked
Live from the demo database, seeded relative to today. Guests are never named here.
03.1 — Guests
Find a place for the dates you have.
- Search by area, dates and party; results show the exact total.
- A map with approximate pins until you book.
- Reserve instantly; the nights are held for 30 minutes while you pay.
- Your trip unlocks the address at once and check-in details 48 hours before arrival.
03.2 — Hosts
Run the calendar, not the inbox.
- One calendar across all your places, synced with other sites by iCal.
- Weekend, seasonal and long-stay prices; the quote does the math.
- Flexible, moderate or strict cancellation, kept with every booking.
- Every payout scheduled, released 24 hours after check-in.
03.3 — Operators
Curate the places. Keep the commission.
- Approve hosts and places; handle reports and reviews.
- Set areas and occupancy tax; tax passes to hosts, never into your commission.
- Tune the three cancellation policies for your market.
- One console for occupancy, refunds, payouts and calendar conflicts.
04 — The line every booking runs
Larch Hollow A-frame, Fri, Oct 30 → Mon, Nov 2.
Mon, Oct 19
7:12 PM
Reserved
the nights are held for 30 minutes
Mon, Oct 19
7:20 PM
Paid
the commission is taken at payment
Mon, Oct 19
7:20 PM
Address revealed
to this guest only
Sun, Oct 25
4:00 PM
Free cancellation ends
moderate: 5 days before check-in
Wed, Oct 28
4:00 PM
Check-in details
48 hours before arrival
Fri, Oct 30
4:00 PM
Check-in
Sat, Oct 31
4:00 PM
Payout released
24 hours after check-in
Mon, Nov 2
10:00 AM
Check-out
reviews open for 14 days
Mon, Nov 16
10:00 AM
Reviews revealed
both at once, or when the window closes
Every booking runs this line. Each station is a rule in the code, not a promise in the copy. Times are local to the place (Catskills).
05 — Where the dollars go
One receipt, three parties.
The quote is computed on the server and locked with the hold. Tax is never commissioned. The host is paid after the guest arrives.
| Before Sun, Oct 25 · 4:00 PM | $1,028.10 back |
| Later, before check-in | $228.10 backcleaning and tax |
| After check-in | by the host or the operator only |
Larch Hollow A-frame · Catskills · Fri, Oct 30 → Mon, Nov 2 · 3 nights · 2 adults
- Fri, Oct 30 (weekend rate)
- $280.00
- Sat, Oct 31 (weekend rate)
- $280.00
- Sun, Nov 1
- $240.00
- Cleaning
- $120.00
- Stay
- $920.00
- Occupancy tax, Catskills (11.75% of the stay, demo rate)
- $108.10
- Guest pays
- $1,028.10
- Your commission, 12% of the stay
- $110.40
- Occupancy tax, passed to the host
- $108.10
- Host receivesreleased Sat, Oct 31 · 4:00 PM
- $917.70
Check: 920.00 + 108.10 = 110.40 + 917.70
06 — What the code guarantees
- 1
One night, one guest.
Every occupied night lives in one table under one database constraint, so a race has exactly one winner.
6 simultaneous requests → 1 hold · 5 × 409 · 0 × 500
- 2
The price on screen is the price charged.
The quote is computed on the server and locked with the hold; if a rule changes mid-checkout, the guest sees the new total first.
total ≠ displayed → 409 + new quote
- 3
Cancellations keep their promise.
Each booking keeps a copy of the policy it was made under; editing a policy never rewrites a past booking.
refund = policy(snapshot, booked_at, check_in, now)
- 4
Hosts are paid after the guest arrives.
Payouts leave 24 hours after check-in, once per booking.
release_at = check_in + 24 h · one release per booking
- 5
Check-in details stay private.
The address unlocks on confirmation and check-in details 48 hours before arrival, for that guest only.
1 guest-side reader · gate-tested
07 — AI proposes. People book.
Twenty-one AI features across three surfaces, under one rule: no AI writes a price, a booking, a refund or a listing — a person's click does. Without an AI key, every AI surface disappears and the marketplace works the same.
Guests7
Hosts9
Operators5
08 — Live in the demo
- 01Dated search with exact totals
- 02Map search, approximate pins
- 03Instant book with 30-minute holds
- 04Weekend, seasonal and long-stay pricing
- 05Occupancy tax per area, passed through
- 06Three cancellation policies, kept per booking
- 07Payouts 24 hours after check-in
- 08Address on confirmation, check-in details 48 hours before
- 09One calendar for all your places
- 10iCal import and export, conflicts flagged
- 11Double-blind reviews with category scores
- 12Host plans and billing
- 13Listing review, reports and moderation
- 14Guest–host messaging
- 15Operator console: occupancy, refunds, payouts
- 16Discoverable by AI agents; booking on-site
09 — One spine, three marketplaces
Marketrail for physical goods · Marketrail for digital assets · Marketrail for stays — the same accounts, money and moderation; a different slot for what's sold.