# StayHive > StayHive is an Australian holiday-rental platform. Hosts publish a direct-booking Property Page, keep their calendars in sync across Airbnb, Stayz, VRBO and other iCal feeds, and take guest payments through Stripe. StayHive charges hosts a subscription and takes no commission on direct bookings. Every bookable StayHive property — its location, capacity, nightly rate in AUD and minimum stay — is listed in the catalogue linked under **Properties** below. Start there to find a property. For AI agents: StayHive provides public APIs to discover holiday rentals, check date-specific availability, obtain an exact quote, and hand the guest a browser checkout. The guest pays in the browser via Stripe. StayHive never holds the money. Hosts remain the merchant. StayHive does not support agent-initiated booking or agent-initiated payment. No API key. Public GETs send `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *`. Do not invent a quote token and do not log `quote_id`. Live dates and an exact stay total come from the public APIs. HTML and Markdown are descriptive and may be cached. `nightly_rate_aud` on property JSON is an indicative from-rate, not a stay total. `priceRange` is stay-page JSON-LD only. Quote a stay: GET `https://stayhive.com.au/api/public/quote/{slug}?check_in=YYYY-MM-DD&check_out=YYYY-MM-DD&guests=N` (20 requests per IP per minute, no-store). A bookable response includes booking_url with dates and a 15-minute quote token. Booking URL template (RFC 6570): `https://stayhive.com.au/stay/{slug}{?check_in,check_out,guests,quote}`. Substitute named parameters. Do not invent a quote token — only use one returned by the quote API. OpenAPI: [Public API specification](https://stayhive.com.au/api/public/openapi.json). Agent handoff notes: [AI booking](https://stayhive.com.au/ai-booking). Availability is point-in-time. If checkout returns 409 (dates taken), call quote again with new dates — do not retry the same stay. `availability_fresh` is true or false after that check, and null when the quote failed earlier (for example MIN_NIGHTS_NOT_MET) before availability was checked — do not treat null as stale. Fresh means we trusted current database availability (a recent sync, or no iCal feeds to refresh); it is not a guarantee that OTA calendars were just checked. Published rate limits: catalogue and property JSON 60/IP/min; availability 60/IP/min; quote 20/IP/min. Per-property URLs follow a fixed scheme — substitute any slug from the catalogue: `/stay/{slug}` for the guest page, `/stay/{slug}.md` for Markdown, `/api/public/properties/{slug}` for JSON, `/api/public/availability/{slug}` for booked date ranges, and `/api/public/quote/{slug}` for an exact total. Guests book and pay on the property page; there is no StayHive booking fee and no Airbnb or Stayz service fee on a direct booking. Host subscriptions in AUD: Starter A$39/month or A$390/year (1 property); Plus A$69/month or A$690/year (5 properties, 30-day free trial); Pro A$99/month or A$990/year (unlimited properties). Annual plans are two months free. Guests never pay these fees. ## Properties - [Property catalogue](https://stayhive.com.au/stay/llms.txt): Markdown index of every published StayHive property, with location, capacity and from-rates. - [Holiday rental directory](https://stayhive.com.au/stay): The same catalogue as a guest-facing web page. ## Property data for agents - [Property JSON list](https://stayhive.com.au/api/public/properties): Published, agent-readable properties: location, capacity, nightly rate in AUD, amenities, coordinates, and direct booking URL. Supports `?limit=` and `?updated_since=`. - [OpenAPI 3.1](https://stayhive.com.au/api/public/openapi.json): Machine-readable contract for the public catalogue, property, availability, and quote APIs. - [AI booking notes](https://stayhive.com.au/ai-booking): How assistants quote a stay and hand the guest a checkout link. - [AI booking notes (Markdown)](https://stayhive.com.au/ai-booking.md): The same handoff notes, examples, and reason codes as /ai-booking. ## About StayHive - [StayHive home](https://stayhive.com.au/): What StayHive does for hosts, pricing, and frequently asked questions. - [Help and support](https://stayhive.com.au/help): Common host and guest questions. - [StayHive blog](https://stayhive.com.au/blog): Guides for Australian holiday rental hosts. - [About StayHive](https://stayhive.com.au/about): Who StayHive is and how pricing works. - [Airbnb 15.5% host fee calculator](https://stayhive.com.au/tools/airbnb-fee-calculator): Payout maths for the Australian host-only fee, using published rates. ## Blog - [Airbnb's 15.5% host fee starts 15 September: what Australian hosts need to do](https://stayhive.com.au/blog/airbnb-15-5-host-fee-australia-september-2026): Airbnb's 15.5% host-only fee starts 15 September 2026. Repricing maths, what guests see, and the mistake most hosts will make. - [Direct booking vs Airbnb and Stayz: what actually changes](https://stayhive.com.au/blog/direct-booking-vs-airbnb-stayz): What a direct-booking page does and does not do for an Australian holiday rental, and how it sits alongside your Airbnb and Stayz listings. - [How to get direct bookings for your holiday rental in Australia](https://stayhive.com.au/blog/how-to-get-direct-bookings-holiday-rental-australia): Where Australian hosts actually get direct bookings, a typical 10–30% share to aim for, and the eight things that move the needle — in order. - [How to stop double bookings when you list on more than one site](https://stayhive.com.au/blog/stop-double-bookings-calendar-sync): Why double bookings happen when a holiday rental is listed in several places, how iCal calendar sync prevents them, and the gap sync cannot close. ## Optional - [Terms of Service](https://stayhive.com.au/legal/terms) - [Privacy Policy](https://stayhive.com.au/legal/privacy) - [Refund and cancellation policy](https://stayhive.com.au/legal/refunds)