Connecting and configuring domains and subdomains to your Guesty Booking Website

Connecting a domain in Guesty

To connect a domain to your Booking Website, follow the steps below:

Step by step:

1. Sign in to your Guesty account.
2. In the top navigation bar, click Channels, then select Booking website.
3. Clicknext to the relevant Booking Website, and select Edit Booking Website.
4. Under "Custom Booking Website custom domain (web address)" section, add the relevant address to the textbox. Note that the custom domain must start with "www". for example: www.livethebest1.com.
5. Under "Guesty Booking Website domain (web address)", copy the full domain name (in the example below: mycompany.guestybookings.com). Do not copy the custom domain.
6. Navigate to "Languages (optional)" by clicking it in the side menu, or by clicking Next a few times at the top right of your screen.
7. Click Save Booking Website.

Connecting a domain in your domain host account

Update CNAME Record

To integrate the Booking Website, users only need to configure a CNAME record in their DNS settings.

Step by step:

1. Sign in to your domain host account.
2. Access the domain's settings. 
3. Edit the existing CNAME record.
4. Select the host/name as "www".
5. Set the "value" to your Guesty Booking Website URL address (copied above).

Set up forwarding/redirect

Step by step:

1. Set up a URL for redirect/forwarding from http://yourdomainname.com to http://www.yourdomainname.com
2. If needed, select Permanent redirect (301) in your domain hosts settings.

Next steps

Please allow several hours for the SSL certificate to update. If your website does not show as secure after 24 hours, contact us.

Configuring a subdomain

A subdomain is a domain that is a part of another domain. It is an added prefix to the site's domain URL, to mark a separate section of your website.

For example:
www.test.com - Main website.
book.test.com- A site where visitors can book properties.
blog.test.com- A site where visitors can see your company blog.

In this case, book.test.com, and blog.test.com are subdomains for the www.test.com domain.  Also, the root domain (or Value) is "www.test.com", while the first section before the root domain ( "book") is known as the host name.

Setting up a subdomain

To set up a subdomain to point to your Booking Website (Booking Website for Lite users), you need to retrieve your Booking Website/Website domain, and then set up a CNAME record in your domain provider. For example, add the custom domain: "book.test.com" to your Booking Website/Website domain: "www.test.com"

Adding a custom subdomain to Guesty

Step by step:

1. Sign in to your Guesty account.
2. In the top navigation bar, click Channels, then select Booking website. 
3. Click next to the relevant Booking Website, and select Edit Booking Website.
4. Under "Custom Booking Website custom domain (web address)" section, add the relevant subdomain to the textbox. Note that the custom subdomain cannot start with "www". For example: rosie.livethebest1.com.
5. Under "Guesty Booking Website domain (web address)", copy the full domain name (in the example below: mycompany.guestybookings.com). Do not copy the custom subdomain.  
6. Navigate to "Languages (optional)" by clicking it in the side menu, or by clicking Next a few times at the top right of your screen.
7. Click Save Booking Website.

Adding a CNAME record to your domain host provider

Step by step:

1. Sign in to your domain host account.
2. Click the domain settings.
3. Click on Add a CNAME record.
4. Type in the host/name (For example: "book").
5. Set the "Value" (or "Data" in the Google Domains example below) to your Guesty Booking Website/Website main URL.

After configuring the CNAME record for your subdomain, you should have the following CNAME record in your DNS settings: