Let's get your site started

So a booking anywhere blocks the dates everywhere. Each listing has a private calendar link only you can see; we need that link, never your login.

1. Airbnb: open the app or airbnb.com → Calendar → pick the listing → Availability (the settings icon) → Connect calendars or Sync calendars → Export calendar → copy the link. It ends in .ics.
2. Vrbo: owner dashboard → Calendar → Import / Export → Export calendar → copy the link.
3. The wording moves around. If you can't find it, a screenshot of your Calendar screen is enough and we'll point to it.

Cloudflare is where your domain name lives and where the site's address records are. It's free, and it's in your name.

1. Go to dash.cloudflare.com/sign-up and create an account with the email you gave us above.
2. Once you're in, click your account name at the top left, then Manage Account → Members → Invite.
3. Type lanternhousedigital@gmail.comCopy, leave the scope on All domains, switch on the Administrator role only, click Create policy, then Invite members.
4. That's it. We register the domain there in your name (or move the one you have) on a short call, with you watching.

Guests pay on your site by card and the money goes straight to your bank. Stripe is in your name; we never touch your money. We set up the payment page, deposits and balance invoices for you.

1. Go to stripe.com and click Start now. Use the same email. For the business details, your own name and home address are fine for a rental; Stripe asks for your bank account and the last four of your Social Security number to pay you out.
2. Once you're in: the gear icon (Settings) at the top right → Team and security → Team members → + New member.
3. Email lanternhousedigital@gmail.comCopy, role Administrator, then Send invite. Administrator lets us build your payment page and invoices; it never lets us move money to anywhere but your bank.

With the dashboard, six emails go to every direct guest on their own: confirmation, getting ready, check-in details with the door code, checkout, thank-you. They come from stay@yourdomain, which is why they land in inboxes instead of spam. Resend sends them; it's free for a single rental.

1. Go to resend.com and sign up with the same email.
2. Settings → Team → Invite → lanternhousedigital@gmail.comCopy, role Admin.
3. Done. We connect your domain from there (Resend talks to your Cloudflare; nothing for you to paste).

So your place shows up on Google Maps and in search, with your site as the link. If you don't have one, we create it with you; Google mails a postcard to the house to verify it.

1. Go to business.google.com and sign in with the Google account that owns the profile.
2. Open the profile → the three-dot menu → Business Profile settings → People and access → Add.
3. Email lanternhousedigital@gmail.comCopy, role Manager, then Invite.

No accounts, just a few things only you know.

1. Guidebook: WiFi name and password, check-in and checkout times, how guests get in, house quirks (the thermostat, the trash day), and five to ten local favorites: groceries, restaurants, the beach access, urgent care.
2. Song: three words that describe the place, and any style you love or hate. We write it; you approve it.
3. Drone-style tour: your best ten photos at full size, wide shots first. A Google Drive or Dropbox link, or text them.

If you take the keys, the finished site moves into a hosting account in your name at handoff, so it's yours outright. Nothing to do now; at handoff we create it with you in ten minutes and walk you through the one screen that matters.