You can connect your own domain to the Guesty Booking Engine to improve your branding. When visiting the domain, your visitors will be accessing the Booking Engine. Follow the instructions below to connect your domain to Guesty. Please note that you will have to sign in to both your domain host account and Guesty.
Note:
You can also set up a custom domain for your Guesty Advanced Website. See more information here. Please note that your Guesty Booking Engine's custom domain should be different than your Guesty Advanced Website’s custom domain.
1. In Guesty
Step by step:
- Sign in to your Guesty account.
- In the top navigation bar, click the mode selector and select Growth mode.
- Click Distribution.
- Click the Guesty Booking Engine thumbnail.
- Click Edit next to the relevant engine.
- Next to Engine address, type in the name for your engine.
- Next to Custom domain, add your domain name. It must contain "www" before it, for example, www.domainname.com. See example below.
- Click Save.
2. In your domain host account
2.1 Update CNAME Record
Step by step:
- Sign in to your domain host account.
- Click the domain settings.
- Edit the existing CNAME record.
- Select the host/name as "www".
- Set the "value" to your Guesty Engine URL, for example, tahoecabins.guestybookings.com.
Tip:
Here are GoDaddy instructions and Google instructions for editing the CNAME.
2.2 Set up forwarding/redirect
Step by step:
- Set up URL redirect/forwarding from http://yourdomainname.com to http://www.yourdomainname.com.
- If relevant, select Permanent redirect (301) in your domain hosts settings.
Tip:
Here are GoDaddy instructions and Google instructions for redirecting a URL.
Note:
Please allow several hours for the SSL certificate to update. If your engine does not show as secure after 24 hours, contact our support team.
