About Direct Stay
Direct Stay gives premium New Zealand accommodation operators a direct-booking channel they control, built beside the listings and systems already working for them.
A booking that arrives through someone else's platform is rented. The listing works. The guest arrives. The commission leaves. The relationship stays with them. We build the other channel. The one that is yours afterwards.
Your existing listings keep running the whole time. Nothing gets switched off to make room for what we build.
A short film and real media give a guest the movement, scale and atmosphere a static listing gallery cannot.
A focused website and a live local search presence create a direct path people can actually find and trust.
Availability, payment and guest communication work as one system instead of four tools you hold together yourself.
The channel, the guest data and the ability to welcome someone back all stay with you.
Design & engineering
Reuben leads the design and engineering of Direct Stay. Every website, booking flow and integration is built by him, and he is the one accountable for whether the whole thing feels clear to a guest and genuinely useful to a host.
Builds it. Ships it. Answers for it.
Strategy & growth
Gray brings two decades of operational experience across digital, marketing and business strategy. He grounds every build in the reality of running a business, and leads the strategy, growth and host side of Direct Stay.
Knows the market. Knows the maths.
Your listings keep running while the direct channel is built, tested and made ready to go live. Nothing is taken away to make room.
Media, discovery, booking and follow-up are designed together, not assembled afterwards out of separate tools that half-talk to each other.
What you are left with is a channel and a guest relationship you can keep building on, not another audience you have to keep renting.