The Nomad Stays Model

No. We don't require Stays or Partners to put a physical signature on a paper or pdf contract. Nomad Stays is a modern traveltech business. You create a contract when you signup online for our services and agree to the terms and conditions. As a supplier or advertiser, you state in your signup that you are legally authorized to create contracts on behalf of your business. This is the standard arrangement used by almost all online businesses around the world. You have probably already created ...

'Full Payment' - Coming Soon In the near future Nomad Stays will be making its new 'Full Payment' system widely available. Full Payment is where the guest pays Nomad Stays for their booking in full at the time of booking. Nomad Stays then transfers the agreed rate to your business at, or shortly after, the guest checks in. Why Do You Need Full Payment Full Payment was initially rolled out to Experience operators to ensure they could more easily meet certain laws like the EU Package T...

What Do You Mean by 'Free Sale'? Free Sale refers to you allocating us a certain range and quantity of rooms to sell for a particular period, without us checking with you first. We are effectively 'free' to sell these rooms without asking first We use this 'Free Sale Quantity' to book your rooms up to the limit of what you allocate us. We don't overbook more than you've allocated to us as our system automatically reduces the quantity available after we take bookings. Every bookin...

Important Things to Know About Partnering with Nomad Stays All travel booking platforms are different. Even with lots of apartments we are not Airbnb. Even with lots of houses we are not VRBO/HomeAway. We have hotel rooms but are not Booking.com. Because digital nomads are not leisure travelers, Nomad Stays operate more along business travel lines. Here's some of the more important things to know about the Nomad Stays model. Typical Bookings 1. One (1) week is the smallest booki...

Can I charge Resort Fees, Cleaning or Electricity charges to guests separately? No. Not if they're mandatory fees. To meet world wide standards the Net Fees must be total net costs inclusive of internet costs, adequate electricity, required Resort Fees, cleaning fees, city taxes, tourist taxes, VAT as well as other obligatory taxes and charges for a typical person or family. Optional Resort Fees, extra electricty or value-added services that guests may choose after they arrive are acceptib...

Commission Free - How does it work? Unlike many, major leisure based Online Travel Agents (OTAs) Nomad Stays do not charge Stays a commission. Instead, we charge nomads a Booking Fee to lock in your room and deal. The Booking Fee is usually calculated as a markup to your Wholesale price of around 12%. We add these together to show the nomads a total fee to them. If your Stay business is new or not used to dealing with the wider travel industry, then you may be unfamiliar with wholesal...

Boutique or Commercial Management Model? Nomad Stays caters for both large and small Stay operators. We have a choice of 2 different methods of managing your availability. - Hotel style (named 'Commercial'), where you have a standard configuration for a number of rooms, and - Individual room style (named 'Boutique'). where each room is configured differently to others. - If each of your rooms are different from your other rooms, it's likely that you'll use the 'Boutique' model. - Each Boutiq...

How do I contact you? Our Stay Partners should use our priority email innovate@nomadstays.com (mailto:innovate@nomadstays.com) or send us a Whatsapp message to +33 6 95 33 05 48 This is a corporate WhatsApp number our whole support team spread around the world can access. Please note it only handles limited message types like text and photos. Other attachments may not send properly.

Do you integrate with Channel Managers, PMS & Reservation Systems Yes, some. We integrate in 2 ways with Channel Managers, as well as having our own extranet system: - iCal integration - API integration iCal iCal is a one-way pulling of your room availability from your Channel Manager, PMS, Res system, or other channels like Airbnb. iCal tends to be used by smaller Stays who manage each room individually. Each calendar in an iCal system is for a single room. We have a lis...

Do you have MFN clauses? No. We do not have Most Favored Nation (MFN) clauses. We do not force you to keep rates the same for all booking sites (price parity).