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A B&B website that shows each room
and takes direct stay requests.

Describe your inn and Netiva’s AI agent builds a site with room pages, stay requests checked against booked nights, a local guide and your house policies — all in a live preview.

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Starter prompt

Build a website for a five-room bed and breakfast in a coastal village. Each room page shows a photo, the bed setup, how many guests it sleeps, whether the bathroom is en suite or private across the hall, access details such as stairs and grab bars, and weeknight and weekend rates. Guests send a stay request with dates, party size, arrival time and dietary needs. Refuse dates that overlap a confirmed or blocked stay, parties larger than the room sleeps and one-night Saturday stays. Add a local guide by category, a house policies page and a signed-in innkeeper desk to confirm or decline requests.

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Overview

Who this B&B website is for

Many guests find an inn on a booking site, then look up its own website to ask what the listing doesn’t say: is the garden room free on the 14th, is the bathroom en suite, are there stairs, where should we eat? A bed and breakfast website built with Netiva answers most of that before anyone writes. Rooms come from a collection with photos, beds, bath and access details. The request form checks the nights you’ve already confirmed or blocked, your house policies sit beside it and a local guide shares the places you’d recommend at breakfast.

Key features

What your B&B website can do

  • Room pages from one collection

    Each room is a record with its photo, bed setup, bathroom arrangement, capacity and rates, so the rooms page and every room’s own page change as soon as you edit the grid.

    • En suite, private detached or shared bath shown on every room
    • Weeknight and weekend rates side by side
    • Access details such as stairs, step-free entry and grab bars
    • A request button that carries the room into the form

  • Stay requests that respect your calendar

    Guests choose a room and dates on the request form. The app checks those nights against confirmed stays and nights you’ve blocked, then saves a request for you to confirm or decline.

    • Weekend minimum-stay and room capacity rules on the form
    • Saved views for requested, confirmed and declined stays
    • A confirmation or decline email when you change the status
    • Nights sold on booking sites entered as blocked stays

  • A local guide in your own words

    The places you recommend at breakfast become guide entries with a category, a drive time and your note, published as a guide guests can filter and linked from each confirmation.

    • Categories such as dinner, coffee, trails, beaches and rainy days
    • Seasonal places hidden in the months they’re closed
    • Entries drafted from your notes by the collection assistant, and translated when you ask
    • An optional map drawn from a maps provider’s API

  • House policies and the innkeeper desk

    Check-in times, cancellation terms, children, pets and breakfast hours are policy records, shown on the request form and repeated in the emails guests get before they arrive.

    • Chosen policies shown above the request form’s send button
    • A scheduled pre-arrival email with check-in and parking directions
    • A breakfast list of tomorrow’s in-house guests, party sizes and dietary notes
    • A private desk you and your staff sign in to
Data model

The collections behind it

Netiva keeps your records in built-in collections. Here’s a starting structure — the agent adapts it to your prompt, and you can change it any time.

Rooms

Every guest room, with the details people compare before they send a request.

  • Name (required) Text
  • Main photo (required) Image
  • Description (required) Bed setup, view, fireplace, which floor Paragraph
  • Sleeps (required) Most guests allowed; the request form checks it Number
  • Bathroom (required) En suite, private detached or shared Text
  • Weeknight rate (required) Sunday to Thursday nights, including any mandatory fees Number
  • Weekend rate (required) Friday and Saturday nights, including any mandatory fees Number
  • Access details (required) What’s really there: stairs, step-free route, doorway widths, grab bars, shower or tub Paragraph

Stays

Direct stay requests, plus nights sold on other channels or closed.

  • Guest name (required) Or a label such as Owner hold for blocked nights Text
  • Email Needed for website requests and guest emails Text
  • Room (required) Relation to Rooms
  • Arrival (required) Date
  • Departure (required) Checkout day; the room is free again that night Date
  • Guests (required) Number
  • Status (required) Requested, confirmed, declined, cancelled or blocked Text
  • Notes Arrival time, dietary needs, occasion, or where a blocked stay was booked Paragraph

House policies

The rules guests agree to, written once and reused on the site and in emails.

  • Topic (required) Check-in and checkout, cancellation, children, pets and service animals, breakfast Text
  • Policy (required) Paragraph
  • Show on request form (required) Yes or no Text
  • Display order Number
  • Last reviewed Date

Local guide

Places you send guests, with the tips you’d otherwise repeat over coffee.

  • Name (required) Text
  • Category (required) Dinner, coffee, trails, beaches, shops, rainy day Text
  • Photo Image
  • Innkeeper’s note (required) Why you recommend it and what to order or bring Paragraph
  • Drive time Minutes from the inn Number
  • Address Text
  • Open season Year-round, or the months it’s open; used to hide closed places Text
  • Website The place’s own site Text

Required field. Types are Netiva collection field types.

Screens

Pages and screens to start with

A typical first version. Ask the agent for more, or annotate the preview to change any of them.

  • Rooms

    Every room as a card with its photo, capacity, bath type and weeknight rate, linking to the room’s own page.

    Public

  • Room detail

    The photo, description, access details and both rates for one room, with the nights already taken this month and a button to request it.

    Public

  • Request a stay

    Room, arrival and departure dates, party size, arrival time and dietary needs, with the chosen house policies shown before the guest sends it.

    Public

  • Local guide

    Guide entries grouped by category and limited to places open this month, each with a drive time and your note.

    Public

  • House policies

    All policies in display order, each with the date it was last reviewed.

    Public

  • Innkeeper desk

    New requests to confirm or decline, blocked nights, tomorrow’s arrivals and the breakfast list, for signed-in staff.

    Your team
How it works

From prompt to a live B&B website

  1. Describe your inn

    Tell Netiva how many rooms you have, how the bathrooms are arranged, your check-in window and any weekend minimum stay. The agent drafts the room, stay, policy and guide collections and the public pages.

  2. Fill in rooms, policies and places

    Upload room photos and enter rates in the spreadsheet-like grid. Describe your favorite local spots to the collection assistant and check the guide entries it drafts before they go live.

  3. Test a request in the preview

    Try a one-night Saturday or a party too big for the room and watch the form refuse it. Annotate anything that reads wrong in the live preview and the agent fixes it.

  4. Publish before the season

    Publish in one click, connect your own domain on the Starter plan or higher and block the nights you’ve already sold. Checkpoints let you roll back if a rate or policy edit goes wrong.

Why Netiva

Netiva vs a traditional build

Building a B&B website with Netiva compared with a traditional build
Criterion With Netiva Traditional build
Availability questions A request form that checks confirmed and blocked nights before the request reaches you Guests email to ask whether a room is free, and you check the reservation book before replying
Local recommendations A local guide collection published on the site and linked from every confirmation A binder in each room and the same restaurant list retyped into emails
Getting started Describe what you need in chat and watch it take shape in a live preview Hire developers, or stitch together templates, plugins and a hosting plan
Content and data Built-in collections with nine field types, bound straight to your pages Set up and connect a separate database or CMS
Making changes Ask the agent; every change is checkpointed and reversible File a ticket, wait for a sprint, redeploy
Hosting and domain Global hosting and automatic SSL; connect a custom domain from the Starter plan Buy hosting, then install and renew SSL certificates yourself
Code ownership Clean production code you own and can export Locked into a template, plugin or agency setup
Examples

Ways teams use it

  • A four-room B&B in the owners’ home

    Two innkeepers handle everything from breakfast to check-in. Requests wait on the desk until one of them confirms, and the breakfast list tells the cook how many guests are in house and who asked for no eggs.

  • A 12-room country inn listed on booking sites

    The front desk enters each booking-site reservation as a blocked stay, so the website only takes requests for nights that are still open. A policy record explains the two-night minimum on wedding weekends.

  • A seasonal guesthouse near a national park

    Open May to October, with many visitors from abroad. Trail and outfitter entries carry their open months, and the collection assistant translates the guide and room descriptions into Spanish and French for the owner to review.

Good to know

Before you build

  • It isn’t a channel manager

    Netiva doesn’t sync with booking sites or your property management system. Enter nights sold elsewhere as blocked stays, or ask the agent to connect your channel manager if it offers a REST API. Until then, treat each request as a request, not a booking.

  • Describe access honestly

    Under the ADA, an inn is a public accommodation unless the owner lives there and it has five or fewer rooms for rent. Covered inns must describe accessible features in enough detail for guests to judge a room and generally allow service animals despite a no-pets rule.

  • Show the full nightly price

    The FTC’s fee rule, in effect since May 2025, covers inns and other short-term lodging. Any price you show must include mandatory fees such as a cleaning fee. Taxes can be shown separately but must be disclosed before payment, so keep room rates all-in.

  • Keep card numbers out of the form

    Don’t ask guests to type card numbers into the request form or send them by email. Take a deposit through the store’s hosted checkout, or keep taking payment the way you do today.

FAQ

Questions about building a B&B website

Can guests book a room instantly, or only send a request?

The site takes requests. A guest picks a room and dates, and the form checks them against confirmed and blocked nights, the room’s capacity and your weekend minimum. The request lands on your desk, you confirm or decline, and the guest gets an email either way. Because the site doesn’t sync with booking sites, confirming by hand keeps you from double-booking a room sold elsewhere.

Will my B&B website sync with booking sites or a channel manager?

Not on its own. Netiva doesn’t include a channel manager or calendar sync, so most innkeepers enter reservations from other channels as blocked stays, which takes those nights off the request form. If your channel manager or property management system offers a REST API, you can ask the agent to connect it, with your API key stored securely. Check the provider’s API documentation first.

Can guests pay a deposit for their stay online?

Yes, through Netiva’s store. Ask the agent for a deposit product for each room and have the confirmation email link to it. Guests pay in a hosted one-page checkout that takes cards, and PayPal is available alongside Stripe from the Pro plan. A deposit product doesn’t check dates, so send the link only after you confirm, and never ask for card numbers in the request form.

How should an inn describe accessible rooms on its website?

Give every room an access details entry that says what’s really there: the floor and whether stairs are the only way up, a step-free route from parking, doorway widths, grab bars and the shower or tub type. Covered lodging must describe accessible features in enough detail for guests to judge for themselves, and photos of the entrance and bathroom help. The site shows what you enter; it doesn’t check it.

Can I keep the local guide current as places open and close?

Yes. Guide entries sit in a spreadsheet-like grid you can filter and sort, and each has an open season field the guide page uses to hide places that are closed this month. When a café changes its hours or a new trailhead opens, edit the row or ask the collection assistant to draft an entry for you to review. The guide page and the links in guest emails read the same records.

Which Netiva plan do I need to run a guesthouse website on my own domain?

You can build and test the whole site on the free plan, using the live preview and preview links. Connecting your own domain is available from the Starter plan, and higher plans add capacity and features, such as PayPal alongside Stripe from Pro. Compare the current plans on Netiva’s pricing page before the season starts. The code is yours, and you can export it at any time.

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Drafted with AI assistance from Netiva’s product pages and reviewed by the Netiva team. Example data models, screens and prompts are illustrative starting points, not customer projects.

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