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The All-in-One Host OS

1 November 2026

Whether a host operates one designer studio or 20 serviced apartments, the fundamental challenge is identical: managing multiple platforms, avoiding double-bookings, and keeping your hard-earned profits. Feels Like Home (registered company: Feels Like Home Smart Stays) runs feelslikehomebnbs.com, a direct-booking marketplace and host operating system built to solve these exact problems.

The Problem with Fragmented Hosting

Traditional hosting often comes with heavy roadblocks:

  • High commissions: Major booking platforms take large cuts and keep guest data walled off.
  • Fragmented direct channels: Hosts promote stays on Instagram, TikTok, and WhatsApp, but manage those bookings in scattered spreadsheets or paper notebooks.
  • Double-booking anxiety: Juggling multiple calendar tabs risks overlapping dates.
  • Disjointed operations: Managing cleaning, expenses, invoicing, receipts, and marketing takes four different apps.

Feels Like Home solves this by acting as your central operating system. We charge 0 percent booking commission, meaning hosts keep 100 percent of every booking.

What You Get Inside Host OS

When you manage your properties through the Host OS, you gain a complete suite of professional tools suited for this very challenges:

  • Daily AI insight and a health score per property to guide your management.
  • Revenue Coach to help maximize your nightly earnings.
  • Reservations and inquiries management in one unified feed.
  • Calendar with iCal sync for Airbnb and Booking.com to prevent double-bookings.
  • Finance tracking with expenses and receipt scanning.
  • Digital guidebooks complete with an AI concierge for your guests.
  • Marketing tools including campaign links, QR codes, promo codes, and a bio link.
  • AI Studio featuring a flyer studio for WhatsApp Status and Instagram.
  • Growth Network to refer overflow guests to other hosts.
  • Professional guest invoices.

How to List Your Stay in Minutes

Getting started on our Kenyan direct-booking marketplace is straightforward. Every new host gets a 30-day free trial.

  1. Tap List your stay or go to auth.
  2. Choose Host and sign up with Google or email to land directly in Host OS.
  3. Navigate to Listings, then add your unit name, location, nightly price, maximum guests, bedrooms, and amenities.
  4. Upload at least 8 quality photos of your property.
  5. Publish your listing so guests can browse published stays or search by area like Westlands, Kilimani, CBD, or Ngara.

Transparent Subscription Plans

After your 30-day free trial, you can choose a subscription plan that fits your portfolio, viewable on our pricing page:

  • Pro Host: KES 999 per month or KES 9,990 per year.
  • Business: KES 2,999 per month or KES 29,990 per year.
  • Enterprise: Custom solutions for larger portfolios.

Subscriptions are conveniently paid via M-Pesa Till 3500504 and verified by our team.

Ready to Grow Your Short-Stay Business?

Take control of your properties, eliminate platform commissions, and run your business from a single dashboard. For any questions, reach out to our team at inquiries@feelslikehomebnbs.com.

List your property today and experience the power of an all-in-one operating system.

Ready to try it?