Get your own branded booking webpage, take payments direct by M-Pesa, and appear on the Short Stays Kenya umbrella — all on a flat subscription, not a 15–20% commission.
Every booking through the global platforms shaves 15–20% off your revenue, holds your money until checkout, and keeps your guests as theirs, not yours. For a Kenyan host, that's real money leaving the country every month.
Short Stays Kenya flips it: you keep your pricing, get paid directly by M-Pesa, and own the guest relationship. We charge a flat subscription and give you distribution — not a cut of every night.
A public page on your own subdomain (yourbrand.shortstayskenya.com) showing only your listings, with your logo, photos and prices — live in under a minute.
Configure your Daraja till and guests pay you directly by STK push. We never hold your money.
Your listings also appear on the shortstayskenya.com marketplace — extra discovery at no extra cost.
Your webpage at yourname.shortstayskenya.com becomes a page Google can list. Add at least one unit, 3+ photos and a short description, and it goes live in search automatically — travellers searching your area find you directly, commission-free.
We don't just publish your page — we optimise it for search. Each listing gets a tuned title, meta description and structured data, and we submit it to Google in our sitemap so travellers searching your town or property type find you. That's marketing you'd normally pay an agency for, included free with your subscription.
When a guest checks out, we auto-compose a vacancy message with your photos and a booking link to share to your groups in one tap.
Check a guest out and the unit reappears as bookable on both your page and the umbrella; check in and it locks — no manual updates.
KES pricing, M-Pesa, WhatsApp-first guest comms and statutory reporting — powered by the TENari PMS, not a translated foreign tool.
Business name (becomes your webpage), contact, property type and unit details — a few minutes on the form or over WhatsApp.
5–10 photos per unit and your nightly rates. We review, lightly polish and publish within 24 hours.
Add your Daraja till to take online payments, or start with “contact direct” and add it once Safaricom approves.
Your branded webpage and the umbrella listing publish together — share your link on WhatsApp, Instagram and your business card.
A flat TENari subscription — no per-booking commission, no separate listing fee. Tiers scale from small operators to large multi-property. Ask us on WhatsApp for current pricing.
No — you can start with “contact host directly” and take bookings by WhatsApp while your Daraja application is processed (~2–3 weeks). Online payments switch on automatically once approved.
You do. Guests pay you direct and contact you direct. We provide the software and the distribution, not a wall between you and your guest.
No 15–20% commission, direct M-Pesa payment, your own branded webpage, and it's built for Kenya. You keep more and own more.
Under 30 minutes from sign-up to your first listing live. Keep your pricing, get paid by M-Pesa, own your guests.