Map widget
A map widget is an embeddable map that shows a rental's exact or approximate location on the host's own website, separate from the availability calendar and booking form. It typically supports a designed visual style, host-set privacy (exact pin or an approximate area), and pins for one rental or a set of rentals shown together.
A map widget answers a different guest question than a calendar or booking form: not which dates are open, but where the rental actually is, which matters when a guest is comparing listings by neighborhood, drive time to an airport, ski lift, or beach.
Privacy is the main design decision behind a map widget. Some hosts are comfortable showing an exact pin at the property's address; others prefer an approximate area (a shaded zone offset from the real point) until a guest has actually booked, a common pattern across short-term rental platforms for standalone homes.
Why it matters for hosts
RentalBeam's Map Widget can be built and live-previewed in a rental's Map section on every plan, with five curated themes, three pin styles, and a choice of exact-pin or approximate-area privacy. Embedding it on the host's own website requires Plus or Pro; on Free it renders only on RentalBeam's own surfaces. Host-curated nearby highlights (points of interest with icons and notes) can be added around an exact-mode map.
Further reading More detail on how this works with RentalBeam.
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See the map widget docs