How to accept direct bookings on your Wix vacation rental website
Wix can publish a clean, conversion-friendly booking page without a full PMS or a custom app. The most dependable setup uses the RentalBeam iframe embed inside a Wix Embed Code element, placed next to your availability calendar. You decide whether guests submit an inquiry, get a secure payment link after host approval, or pay inline with Stripe Connect - all with no commission and no RentalBeam booking fee on your direct bookings.
Why add a direct-booking form to your Wix site?
Guests who reach your own website are your highest-intent traffic. Letting them request or book a stay without leaving the page, and without paying an OTA service fee, is the most underused conversion lever in vacation rentals. A direct-booking form on Wix turns the page from a brochure into a booking surface.
- Take booking requests directly from your own website
- Keep Airbnb, VRBO, and Booking.com synced so the form never sells double-booked dates
- Offer coupon codes, seasonal pricing, custom fields, and booking rules
- Choose between inquiry-only, secure pay-later link, or inline Stripe Connect card payment
- Zero RentalBeam commission on direct bookings - hosts keep 100% of their booking revenue
What you need
- A Wix page in the Editor
- A RentalBeam Pro plan with a booking-ready calendar
- At least one connected OTA or iCal availability source
Pro plan required
The booking widget is part of RentalBeam Pro, which takes no commission and no RentalBeam booking fee on your direct bookings. When a guest pays by card, only the standard Stripe card-processing fee applies, paid to Stripe rather than RentalBeam.Setup steps
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Create a booking-ready RentalBeam calendar
- Open your RentalBeam dashboard and create or open a calendar.
- Connect at least one iCal source (Airbnb, VRBO, Booking.com, Google Calendar) so the booking widget never offers double-booked dates.
- Set your nightly pricing, optional seasonal rules, minimum stay, advance notice, and prep time.
- Decide whether bookings should be inquiry-only, host-reviewed with a secure pay-later link, or paid inline with Stripe Connect.
Choose payment flow at any time
You can start with inquiry-only or pay-later requests today and switch to inline card payments later without rebuilding the page. The widget URL stays the same. - 2
Copy the right booking widget embed for Wix
RentalBeam recommends the iframe embed for Wix. Use the matching code format below as your reference.
html<iframe src="https://rentalbeam.com/embed/booking/your-calendar-id" width="100%" height="780" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" style="border: none; border-radius: 8px; display: block;"></iframe>The Wix Embed Code element renders the iframe booking form reliably on any plan with clean placement and no setup. A paid Wix site with a connected domain can alternatively load the script through Settings, then Custom Code.
Wix publishing reminders
- Keep the booking form in its own Wix section so surrounding columns or strips do not squeeze the form.
- Advanced: a paid Wix site with a connected domain can load the script through Settings, then Custom Code, but the iframe Embed element is the more predictable placement.
- Use the live published URL for your test inquiry, not only the editor preview, so you are testing the same environment guests will use.
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Paste the booking widget into Wix
Builder-specific install steps
Use these steps to place the RentalBeam booking widget exactly where guests are ready to book.
Recommended: IframeWix
Use the Embed Code element with the iframe snippet. Advanced: paid sites with a connected domain can load the script via Settings, then Custom Code.
The Wix Embed Code element renders the iframe booking form reliably on any plan with clean placement and no setup. A paid Wix site with a connected domain can alternatively load the script through Settings, then Custom Code.
Use the Iframe tab for this builder.
- Edit the page where guests should submit booking requests
- Add an Embed Code element
- Paste the booking widget iframe snippet - including the small script that follows the iframe
- Publish and run a test inquiry on desktop and mobile
Before you publish
- Keep the booking form in its own Wix section so surrounding columns or strips do not squeeze the form.
- Advanced: a paid Wix site with a connected domain can load the script through Settings, then Custom Code, but the iframe Embed element is the more predictable placement.
- Use the live published URL for your test inquiry, not only the editor preview, so you are testing the same environment guests will use.
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Publish and submit one live test inquiry
Where to place the booking widget on the page
- Keep the booking form in its own Wix section so surrounding columns or strips do not squeeze the inputs.
- Run your test inquiry against the live published URL, not just the editor preview, so you replicate the real guest environment.
- When you update RentalBeam booking settings, replace the iframe snippet in Wix and republish the page so the public site reflects the newest setup.
Treat the booking form as the page's primary CTA
High-converting direct-booking pages put the booking form directly next to or under the availability calendar so guests can check dates and request a stay in a single visual area.No commission on your direct bookings
RentalBeam Pro takes no commission and adds no RentalBeam booking fee on your direct bookings - your booking revenue is 100% yours. When a guest pays by card through RentalBeam, the only deduction is the standard Stripe card-processing fee, which is paid to Stripe, not RentalBeam.
- No commission - RentalBeam never takes a cut of your booking revenue.
- No RentalBeam booking or application fee on guest card payments.
- Card payments carry only the standard Stripe card-processing fee; inquiry-only and pay-later bookings have no per-transaction cost.