🏆 Founding Member Pricing
Simple, low-risk pricing.
Built for owners.
No commissions. No booking fees. Direct guest inquiries. Try it monthly, or lock in Founding Member rates for life with annual billing.
Monthly: cancel anytime. Annual: Founding Member rate locked in for life while your subscription remains active.
Paste your existing Airbnb, Vrbo, Booking.com, or direct listing link to speed up setup.
Not sure what your current channels cost? Use the booking cost calculator to see your effective acquisition cost and a break-even scenario.
🏆 Founding Property — 12 months free
The first 200 approved properties join as Founding Properties: 12 months free from the day your listing goes live, no credit card, and no automatic billing — plus permanent Founding Property recognition. Properties are reviewed and verified before publishing, so applying does not guarantee approval or reserve a slot.
198 of 200 Founding Property slots remaining
Plan the trip, not just the stay
Guests search the waterfall, festival, or trail — we match them to a stay nearby so they book the experience and the room in one decision.
Keep the revenue OTAs quietly take
No commissions. No guest fees. No algorithm change wiping a season. Inquiries and clicks go straight to your booking site.
Get found without a marketing team
We do the experience-page SEO for you — without asking you to hand over your brand, your photos, or your guest relationship.
Already listed? Claim your listing for free.
Claim, verify, and correct the basics — free basic directory presence. No payment required.
🏡 Basecamp
Get found on Google without a marketing team — and keep every direct booking.
$290 / year
Save $58 vs. monthly · 🏆 Founding Member rate
- Listed on Stay Near — no commissions, no guest fees
- Property page with details + photos (up to 3)
- Auto-linked to nearby attractions & experiences guests are already searching
- Direct booking button — inquiries go straight to you, not us
- Indexed around trip-intent keywords small operators usually can't rank for alone
🥾 Trailhead
Own the searches guests already type — so they book the experience and the stay in one decision.
$590 / year
Save $118 vs. monthly · 🏆 Founding Member rate
- Everything in Basecamp
- Enhanced profile — up to 10 photos
- Custom SEO Experience Blog — we pair your stay with its most-searched experience
- Featured on matching attraction & region pages (Anna Ruby Falls, Helen, Blue Ridge…)
- Targeted SEO we run for you — no agency, no ad spend, no giving up your brand
- Search Performance dashboard so you see what's actually driving inquiries
⭐ Destination Partner — Own the Experience
Be the go-to stay for a signature experience — the trip planner, the ranking, and the guest all yours.
$1290 / year
Save $258 vs. monthly · 🏆 Founding Member rate
Exclusive placement — limited to 1 property per host to protect featured visibility.
- Everything in Trailhead
- Up to 15 photos
- Priority placement on attraction & region pages guests land on first
- Featured badge on every card
- Dedicated SEO push around your signature experience — the kind corporate cabin brands buy ads for
- Area performance insights vs. peer benchmarks so you know where the revenue is really coming from
- Early access to new features + future sponsorship priority
The Stay Near edge
Featured beside the experiences your guests are already searching for.
Stays on Trailhead and above appear on pages for the attractions, events, and regions that bring travelers to the Blue Ridge in the first place. Click any of these to see exactly where your listing could show up:
What's included
A side-by-side look at every plan.
| Feature | Free Claim | Basecamp | Trailhead | Destination Partner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claim and verify listing | ||||
| Correct basic listing info | ||||
| Basic directory presence | ||||
| Photos | 3 | 3 | 10 | 15 |
| Enhanced profile | ||||
| Verified host/property badge | ||||
| Prominent direct booking CTA | Text link | |||
| Booking-link click tracking | ||||
| Experience matching | Basic | Basic | Expanded | Premium |
| Expanded discovery paths | Premium | |||
| Appears on attraction & region pages | ✓ | Priority | ||
| Performance reporting | Teaser | Snapshot | Full | Full + benchmarks |
| Experience-page referral reporting | ||||
| Seasonal visibility eligibility (reviewed each season) | Priority | |||
| Cross-site visibility eligibility | Where relevant | ✓ | ||
| Featured placement eligibility (limited) | ||||
| Priority review | ||||
| Multi-property savings (Outfitter — matches per-property tier) | Outfitter | Outfitter | Outfitter |
Featured, seasonal, and cross-site placements are eligibility, not guarantees. Featured placements are limited by region, town, and experience category to keep Stay Near curated and useful for travelers. We never guarantee bookings or search rankings.
- Claim and verify listing
- Free
- Basecamp
- Trailhead
- Partner
- Correct basic listing info
- Free
- Basecamp
- Trailhead
- Partner
- Basic directory presence
- Free
- Basecamp
- Trailhead
- Partner
- Photos
- Free
- 3
- Basecamp
- 3
- Trailhead
- 10
- Partner
- 15
- Enhanced profile
- Free
- Basecamp
- Trailhead
- Partner
- Verified host/property badge
- Free
- Basecamp
- Trailhead
- Partner
- Prominent direct booking CTA
- Free
- Text link
- Basecamp
- Trailhead
- Partner
- Booking-link click tracking
- Free
- Basecamp
- Trailhead
- Partner
- Experience matching
- Free
- Basic
- Basecamp
- Basic
- Trailhead
- Expanded
- Partner
- Premium
- Expanded discovery paths
- Free
- Basecamp
- Trailhead
- Partner
- Premium
- Appears on attraction & region pages
- Free
- Basecamp
- Trailhead
- ✓
- Partner
- Priority
- Performance reporting
- Free
- Teaser
- Basecamp
- Snapshot
- Trailhead
- Full
- Partner
- Full + benchmarks
- Experience-page referral reporting
- Free
- Basecamp
- Trailhead
- Partner
- Seasonal visibility eligibility (reviewed each season)
- Free
- Basecamp
- Trailhead
- Partner
- Priority
- Cross-site visibility eligibility
- Free
- Basecamp
- Trailhead
- Where relevant
- Partner
- ✓
- Featured placement eligibility (limited)
- Free
- Basecamp
- Trailhead
- Partner
- Priority review
- Free
- Basecamp
- Trailhead
- Partner
- Multi-property savings (Outfitter — matches per-property tier)
- Free
- Basecamp
- Outfitter
- Trailhead
- Outfitter
- Partner
- Outfitter
Featured, seasonal, and cross-site placements are eligibility, not guarantees. Featured spots are limited by region, town, and experience category.
No commissions. No booking fees. Direct guest inquiries.
Every dollar from a booking goes to you — not a platform.
More than 10 properties?
Stay Near is built for small operators. For more than 10 properties, please request an Enterprise Listing review so we can confirm fit, quality, and placement.
Request Enterprise ReviewAdmin review required. We'll follow up within 2 business days.
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Why our launch pricing is so low
StayNear is new, and we believe early partners shouldn't take a big financial risk while we build regional traffic, SEO pages, attraction guides, event pages, and owner analytics.
The 6-month launch rate is intentionally discounted because we're building this with owners — not extracting from them.
This is not a commission model. This is not a guest-fee model. This is not a percentage-of-revenue model. It's simple launch-term or annual visibility built around the places guests already want to visit.
One good booking can cover your annual listing.
Read the founder story →